.INCLUDE Vs .APPEND

[Former Member]

HI all,

I am really confused with this .include and .append in my extract structure. I have a .include there with no fields and now i have to append a field to the extract structure but i dont want to write in user exit as- can i fetch the data from the .include structure...?its for costcenter master data standard 0costcenter_attr .

Please advice.

tina

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi tina,

0costcenter_attr has an include CI_CSKS. CI stands for Customer include, SAP implemented them before the append technology has been developed. For compatibility reason they still exist.

For BW you can use both: append and include. If you need to add new fields, you should prefer the append.

Stephan