Question Re: I_BillingDocumentTextTP : field LongText is empty in Technology Q&A

I_BillingDocumentTextTP : field LongText is empty

hans_segers — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 12:13:36 GMT

Dear All,

Product : SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud

I need to access the Header Texts of an Invoice :

I'm querying the CDS entity I_BillingDocumentTextTP.

The field LongText is empty :

Is there a different way of accessing the Header Texts of a Billing document ?

Many thanks

Hans

Re: I_BillingDocumentTextTP : field LongText is empty

Chuma — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 23:13:50 GMT

Hello @hans_segers

The CDS view I_BillingDocumentTextTP only provides the keys BillingDocument, Language, LongTextID. The LongText field consistently appears blank because the actual long-text content is not exposed through that CDS.

The recommended way to read invoice header texts in Public Cloud is via the released Billing Document API.

Service: API_BILLING_DOCUMENT_SRV
Entity: A_BillingDocumentText → contains the LongText field

Example OData call:

/sap/opu/odata/sap/API_BILLING_DOCUMENT_SRV/A_BillingDocumentText

? $filter=BillingDocument eq '0090000122'

and Language eq 'E'

and LongTextID eq 'TX06'

This will return the header text content TEXT EXAMPLE FOR XML in your screenshot.

In Public Cloud, you cannot access STXH/STXL or use READ_TEXT. Use the Billing Document API instead.

Refer to the helpful SAP Documentation below.

Business Accelerator Hub- Billing Document - Read, Cancel, GetPDF

SAP Help-Billing Document

KBA 3282990 - CDS View for Sales Order Long Text not available in S/4HANA Cloud

Let me kow if it was you needed

With best regrads

Chum

Re: I_BillingDocumentTextTP : field LongText is empty

hans_segers — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 13:58:03 GMT

Thanks Chum for this confirmation.

As an alternative solution, I'm trying to consume the API API_BILLING_DOCUMENT_SRV in my ABAP Class, as described on the Business Accelerator Hub : https://api.sap.com/api/API_BILLING_DOCUMENT_SRV/cloud-sdk/ABAP

No luck so far, I have posted a new question for this : https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-q-a/api-quot-billing-document-read-cancel-getpdf-quot-how-to-consume-in-abap/qaq-p/14229768

Re: I_BillingDocumentTextTP : field LongText is empty

Juwin — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 01:11:25 GMT

You can use the I_BillingDocumentTP to read texts.

Re: I_BillingDocumentTextTP : field LongText is empty

hans_segers — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 07:18:59 GMT

Thanks Juwin,

Indeed but the field "LongText" is not populated :

Re: I_BillingDocumentTextTP : field LongText is empty

Chuma — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 11:15:05 GMT

Hello @hans_segers

The CDS view I_BillingDocumentTextTP only includes the keys (document, language, text ID); the LongText field is not filled. To access the actual text content, you must use the published OData API API_BILLING_DOCUMENT_SRV, entity A_BillingDocumentText, which returns the LongText.

You can check these SAP Documentation below for your references

SAP Business Accelerator Hub - Billing Document - Read, Cancel, GetPDF

SAP Help-Billing Document

SAP Help-Extensibility in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition explains why direct access to table or text objects is not available, and APIs must be used.

Let me know how it goes

With regards

Chuma

Re: I_BillingDocumentTextTP : field LongText is empty

erickgoulardt — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 19:17:42 GMT

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