topic Re: Reference type? in Application Development and Automation Discussions

Reference type?

Former Member — Sun, 20 May 2007 15:25:23 GMT

Hi,

What is reference type?

When we try to create a structure in se11, we will have a checkbox against the field name that we have to give. What happens if we give that check box and what happens if we doesn't give it?

Re: Reference type?

Former Member — Sun, 20 May 2007 17:17:35 GMT

Data elements have a business meaning (field label, help text, and so on). Up to and including Release 4.0, it was only possible to specify the technical attributes of a data element by specifying a domain. Each domain had to have a predefined Dictionary type assigned to it. This is still possible. However, it is now possible to enter a predefined Dictionary type directly. If you want to ensure that the technical attributes of a group of data elements can only be changed centrally, you should

continue to use domains.

As part of ABAP Objects, you can now designate a data element a reference type and declare global types for references to global classes or interfaces. Note that, in this case, the type of the data element is no longer elementary, but nested. The same applies when you use the predefined types string and rawstring.

Regards

Vadi

Re: Reference type?

Former Member — Mon, 21 May 2007 04:35:55 GMT

HI Vijay,

For Reference Type.

Check this URL.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/1a/42923ae53dca62e10000000a11402f/content.htm

For more info check this one.

http://www.ask.com/web?q=Whatisreferencetypein+ABAP&qsrc=1&o=333&l=dir

Reward if it useful.

Thanks.

Re: Reference type?

dev_parbutteea — Mon, 21 May 2007 04:37:31 GMT

HI,

you need to give a reference type for fields of type currency or quantity. if not given, you will get error messages !