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Append Structure

Former Member — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:17:42 GMT

Hi All,

Wat is Append Structure nd wat is the use of it in SE11.

I want to know the procedure of Creating Append Structure in SE11 step-by-step.

Thanks & Regards,

Anil Kumar

Re: Append Structure

Former Member — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:22:41 GMT

Hi,

Please refer to the links below.

Append Structures

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/cf/21eb61446011d189700000e8322d00/frameset.htm

Customizing Includes

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/cf/21eb61446011d189700000e8322d00/frameset.htm

Customizing includes are provided by SAP to be used in Various Customizing Transactions. As Convention the include name start with "CI_" and are available in Various Enhancements accessible using SMOD and CMOD Transactions. E.g., CI_EKPO, CI_EKKO etc. These Includes are accessible to all the tables related to that particular area.

Append Structures are created by any Customer(Developer) for any of the table. Append structures can be included by the Developer to Any of the Custom tables -table other than having few restrictions. there naming convention start with 'ZA' or 'ZZ', depending on the context.

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Thanks,

Manjunath MS

Re: Append Structure

Former Member — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:24:18 GMT

hi anil,

using append structure we can add fields to standard SAP tables.

to create append structure:

go to SE11

give any standard SAP table

click on the APPEND structure button which is available on the Application toolbar.

provide any name for the structure by starting with Z.

add the fields of ur wish to this structure.

activate the structure.

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chandra

Re: Append Structure

Former Member — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:27:40 GMT

enter SE11

menu-extra-enhancement catogory--choose can be enhanced

then click append structure,input a structure name, double click the structure name to add field, data element...at last active it

Re: Append Structure

Former Member — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:46:40 GMT

Hi,

using append we can insert a structure to a Z table at the same time we can insert a structure to a Standard table also. If u open the standard table in right handside you find the append structure button. Using this we can append the structure to a standard table.

Re: Append Structure

Former Member — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 06:00:24 GMT

Enhancing dictionary elements

Enhance tables using Append structures.

Enhancement using Append structures

Append structures allow you to attach fields to a table without actually having to modify the table itself. You can use the fields in append structures in ABAP programs just as you would any other field in the table.

1)Click on the append structure tab and opt to create new

structure.

Append structures allow you to enhance tables by adding fields to them that are not part of the standard. With append structures; customers can add their own fields to any table or structure they want.

Append structures are created for use with a specific table. However, a table can have multiple append structures assigned to it

2)Customers can add their own fields to any table or structure they want.

The customer creates append structures in the customer namespace. The append structure is thus protected against overwriting during an upgrade. The fields in the append structure should also reside in the customer namespace, that is the field names should begin with ZZ or YY. This prevents name conflicts with fields inserted in the table by SAP

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Re: Append Structure

Former Member — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:10:15 GMT

Hello Anil...

Append structure is a table enhancement.Using append structures we can add fields to a table with out altering it.

We can use an append structure only for one table.

You can create append structure for a particular table by taking the table in se11 and then click the append structure tab.

Appu

Re: Append Structure

Former Member — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:13:41 GMT

Hi Anil,

Need to create an Append structure: For instance, in an standard table if you need to add few fields in order to get some logic in your coding. The way yo can add those fields is through appending the fields to the standard tables. through .APPEND

to create append structure: Go to SE11

Give your standard SAP table/ Customized table name.

click on the APPEND structure button which is available on the Application toolbar.

provide the stucture name for the structure by starting with Z.

add the fields of ur wish to this structure.activate the structure.

The other way is Goto SE11. Click on the structure.

Create the structure , with all the fields, what ever you need. Silillary how you create an table.

Activate it. Go to the standard table/Customized table. Click on the append structure in the application tool bar. And do the same as mentioned above.

Important : Only at the end of the all fields only you can append your structure. You will not be having acccess to create an field in the standard table expect the option to append the fields.

Thanks

Manju.

Re: Append Structure

Former Member — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:29:53 GMT

Append structure are used mainly enhancing a standard table or structure as per requirement. This will create a structure with .append at the last part of the table. This you need to perform in se11 transaction.

For example for enhancing a data source of BW extractor for custom fields you need to append to existing structure.

From se11 transacion: provide the table name.

then press display (F7)

then goto menu --> append structure (F5)

If no append structure is available system will give a popup for the name. else it will display the list of append structure available in the table/structure and as per the fucntionality you can select an existing one or can choose a new one.

the add Zfields to the append structure.

note: use only z(field) naming convention in append structure as in future SAP can provide the field in next version and this will create ambiguity in upgrade.

Hope this will help you.

Re: Append Structure

Former Member — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 06:17:55 GMT

Hi , Samy here,

The main purpose of Append Structure is to add (append) extra fielkds to the SAP Standard tables. It works out te same as include structure except there a few very important differences.

1. Append Structure is done by clicking on the APPEND STRUCTURE tab on the screen of the respective table and then provide the field names and data elements.

It is recommended that the names of the fields should start with zz.

2. Append structure can be used for one and only one standard table only where as in include sructure the same structure can be added to any number of custom tables.

STEP BY STEP:

1.Open the standard table of your choice for which you ant to APPEND a few fields.

2. Once table is opened Press APPEND STRUCTURE tab on the right hand side of your screen.

3. Then the screen is similar to include structure so enter the fields which you want to be present in the standard table and make sure the field names start with zz. (recommended). Save check and activate it.

4. Then check it out. And your tructure is added to the existing fields in the standard table.

Re: Append Structure

mahaboob_pathan — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:21:24 GMT

Append structure: For instance, in an standard table if you need to add few fields in order to get some logic in your coding. The way yo can add those fields is through appending the fields to the standard tables. through .APPEND

to create append structure: Go to SE11

Give your standard SAP table/ Customized table name.

click on the APPEND structure button which is available on the Application toolbar.

provide the stucture name for the structure by starting with Z.

add the fields of ur wish to this structure.activate the structure.

The second way is Goto SE11. Click on the structure.

Create the structure , with all the fields, what ever you need. Silillary how you create an table.

Activate it. Go to the standard table/Customized table. Click on the append structure in the application tool bar. And do the same as mentioned above.

Only at the end of the all fields only you can append your structure. You will not be having acccess to create an field in the standard table expect the option to append the fields.

Re: Append Structure

Former Member — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:36:23 GMT

Hi Anil,

Append structures are used for enhancements that are not included in the standard. This includes special developments, country versions and adding customer fields to any tables or structures.

An append structure is a structure that is assigned to exactly one table or structure. There can be more than one append structure for a table or structure.

The following enhancements can be made to a table or structure TAB with an append structure:

· Insert new fields in TAB,

· Define foreign keys for fields of TAB that already exist,

· Attach search helps to fields of TAB that already exist,

These enhancements are part of the append structure, i.e. they must always be changed and transported with the append structure.

U can follow the below link for the step-by-step process to create append structure.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/cf/21ebc9446011d189700000e8322d00/content.htm