Structure and Table

[Former Member]

Hi,

I have been told that while on screen in SAP you can press F1 on any field of screen and will get technical information such field name and table name, I am very interested to see data in table. But when I use that table name it say it is a structure so data can not be displays using data browser.

Like when i press F1 on purchase order number field it say field = EBELN and table name = MEPO_TOPLINE. My questions are

How to identify table name from structure or how to see data in tables.

[marilyn_pratt]

You'll find a great deal of help on this subject in the ABAP forums .

What I often tell folks is to use the "where used" to see where a structure is used in a table or a data element is used in a field of a table. F1 Technical help can also be used to navigate to the repository view (takes you to the Object Navigator where you will find all the objects, including tables in the same package or development class). This can give some insight into the data and you can link directly. But these kind of answers are readily found in the ABAP area....

[Former Member]

Manmohan,

Another way is to use the SQL trace (ST05) there you can run the tranbsaction and see which tables use the data from the tables..

Arun

P.S As Marilyn mentioned - this would be more relevant to the ABAP forum.... Moving the same to the ABAP Forum

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Arun Varadarajan

[Former Member]

Hi,

it is true that u can find the fields and table name by hitting F1 on the display.

please note that if the data is stored in an internal table then u can go to SE11 and u can choose 'contents' and see the values inside the internal table.

if the data is stored in the structure then u can see the fields in the structure from SE11 but the values can only be seen by debugging.

go to the report program and do a global search for the particular structure name, put a break point and u can see that the structure is populated by appropriate select queries.

Hope this is helpful.

bye.