What is Cross Client?

[jignesh_mehta3]

I understand this is related to Basis, but just form the understanding from Functional side, I am presenting this simple explanation for Cross Client.

We all know that Cross Client Request impact all the Cilents in a particular server. Whenreate a new Object & we get a pop-up message that Table is Cross Client. Why does this happens?

Tables which are having MANDT field are called as Client dependent tables.

Tables which are NOT having MANDT field are called Client independent tables.

Go to T-Code SE16N & explore Table VBAK, VBRK, VBAP, KONV,etc.. & you will see that the First Field in these Tables is MANDT i.e. Client. These are Client Dependent Tables, means all the changes in these Tables will impact only a particular Client.

Now, Explore Table TTXID (Valid Taxt ID's) & you will see that MANDT feild is not present in this Table. This means this Table is Cross Client & changes in this Table will impast all the Clients in the Server. As we all know that when we create a new Text Id, we get a Cross Client message. Same is true for Access Sequence.

Most of the Repository Tables in SAP are Cross-client. The changes made in ABAP Work-Bench are placed in Repository Tables so they are Cross-client.

Hope this helps,

Thanks,

Jignesh Mehta

[Former Member]

beautiful analysis. ty for sharing.

[Former Member]

but how do we relate mandatory to cross clientness?

[sridhar_v]

Hello Jignesh,

Liked it, good one.

Sridhar

[Former Member]

A good article.

It would have been much better if explained the reason/purpose of this cross client concept, especially from functional perspective. As an example...why the Access Sequence is made cross client and not the condition tables or condition types. Similarly why calendars are cross client objects? Please add this info also in your article.

Regards,

Ravi Sankar

[bsivasankarreddy_reddy]

hi

it very help full.

regards

reddy

[Former Member]

Really informative.

regards

Vijay

[Former Member]

Thanks

[former_member190778]

Dear Jignesh,

This is very informative document. shortly & well explained :smile: . Keep posting such information.

Regards,

Suhaib Bin Aziz

[deep_khanra]

Dear Jignesh,

It is really appreciated which way you are understanding SAP ..Thanks for sharing your understand.

Regards,

Deep

[adithya_velide]

got some extra information from you. thanks

[former_member193854]

Good one, Mehta.

[jignesh_mehta3]

Thank you Karthik V

[jignesh_mehta3]

Thank you Suhaib Bin Aziz

[jignesh_mehta3]

Thank you Deep

[jignesh_mehta3]

Thank you Adithya

[jignesh_mehta3]

Thank you GT SAP.

[Former Member]

Hello Jignesh..

Good document your posted..

:smile:

Regards,

Harish.B

[jignesh_mehta3]

Thank you Harish

[Former Member]

Easy to Understand. Thank You.

[jignesh_mehta3]

Thank you Ananth

[Former Member]

jignesh.mehta3

ravi.sankar9Ravi Sankar's suggestion is a good one. Please explain the purpose of having some client specific and some cross client tables.

Every thing could be made cross client because ultimately the configuration or coding will go to all clients in a system.

Thanks!

TW

[Former Member]

Thank you for giving nice inputs

[Former Member]

thank u for sharing

[Former Member]

Hi Jignesh,

Thank you for sharing the document,few days back we had a discussion on the same subject .Thank you for shedding some light on the subject. :smile:

Regards

Thomson

[Former Member]

Cross client and client dependent table concept exist when you think a bit more on configuration data and user application data.

[jignesh_mehta3]

Thank you Thompson

[former_member183501]

jignesh.mehta3

Very nice blog for understanding Client Independent versus Client Dependent Tables.

However, posting why any particular Table is Client Independent or Dependent could have been much better for us to learn more and clear concept. :wink:

By the way learning is also there in shared blog.

Regards

Kamlesh

[former_member209900]

Very Simple explanation for better understanding. Thanks a lot !!!

[Former Member]

Thank you for sharing your valuable insights! Much appreciated.

Best regards,

Waqaar.

[Former Member]

Thank you it is very useful information.

[former_member603231]

Hi TW,

 

Client specific : client specific data means data such as user master and application data which belong to a specific client only

Cross client : cross client data is not specific to any client. It is the data that belongs to all clients. It means data such as cross client customizing and all repository objects which affects the whole SAP system.

For a simple understanding let consider one example -

suppose there are 2 clients one client with 'A' business and another client with 'B' business

so the 'B' user client wants some customization (He wants some changes in his business portals are something else) Now in this case we use client specific,

In this case we cant use cross client if we use means it will effect to Client 'A' also.

so that why we use client specific and cross client.

Hope the answer for your question,

Regards,

Shaik

[former_member361791]

Thank you jignesh.mehta3 .

The way you have been explained is very useful for beginners!

Regards,

Ashok Baral

[former_member246738]

Informative Document

[former_member671970]

Thank you Mr. Jignesh Mehta. Very informatory and Excellent  way of explanation

[former_member692117]

Hi Shaik,

What if B client wants some customization in the objects that are cross clients, like access sequence for example ?