topic Re: ABAP CDS unit conversion in Application Development and Automation Discussions

ABAP CDS unit conversion

madhu21vari — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 11:08:24 GMT

Hi,

i am executing the standard View demo_cds_unit_conversion, i gave to converted unit as 'USD'. But the view is not displaying converted quantity and it is displaying 000000.

Please help me why the conversion is not happening.

Re: ABAP CDS unit conversion

pfefferf — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 11:49:46 GMT

As you can see within the CDS view, the error handling is configured, that in case of any error, the result is set to null/the initial value.

In case you wanna find out the reason, copy the view and change the error handling to "FAIL_ON_ERROR" (check the documentation here).

But my "assumption" would be that you wanna do a currency conversion and not unit conversion, because you are trying to pass "USD" (which I interpret as currency) to the unit conversion functionality. For currency conversion you should check CDS View demo_cds_curr_conv.

Regards,
Florian

Re: ABAP CDS unit conversion

madhu21vari — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 08:19:21 GMT

Thank you for your response.

one more question please do you have any predefined function like conversion exit alpha output / input.

Thank you,

Madhavi

Re: ABAP CDS unit conversion

retired_member — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 09:59:12 GMT

These are no standard views.

They are defined in encapsulated package SABAPDEMOS.

Those are demos for purposes of the ABAP documentation only.

You must not use them productively.

Re: ABAP CDS unit conversion

madhu21vari — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 10:14:41 GMT

Thank you, i am trying to convert the field ( to conversion exit_alpha _ouput) in the select while creating a view .

is there any functions available to convert the data .

Regards,

Madhavi

Re: ABAP CDS unit conversion

retired_member — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 14:57:57 GMT

Why don't you simply look into the documentation?

Re: ABAP CDS unit conversion

madhu21vari — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 05:55:53 GMT

Thank you Keller, i went through all the demo programs, but the cast function is not working for my logic.

i have field1 in the table 1 with character length of 20, but this field is compared to the field1 in table 2 which is 10 characters for the same data. Traditionally i am using conversion_exit_alpha_output for conversion .is there any function that replace this functionality in CDS . please assist me .