SAP ABAP Data Element CMAP_ATTPID (Attribute Type ID)
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Basic Data
Data Element CMAP_ATTPID
Short Description Attribute Type ID  
Data Type
Category of Dictionary Type D   Domain
Type of Object Referenced     No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type CMAP_ID    
Data Type CHAR   Character String 
Length 10    
Decimal Places 0    
Output Length 10    
Value Table      
Further Characteristics
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Parameter ID   
Default Component name    
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No Input History    
Basic direction is set to LTR    
No BIDI Filtering    
Field Label
  Length  Field Label  
Short 10 AttrTypID 
Medium 15 Attr. Type ID 
Long 20 Attribute Type ID 
Heading 10 AttrTypID 
Documentation

Definition

Key that identifies the type of an attribute.

Use

The attribute type specifiesthe technical properties of the attribute.

It determines the property of an object can be determined from the data model of the target and source system (such as material type, material number of a material).

  • The identification of the attribute type informs you whether it concerns a table field or a STEP property for example. The attribute type specifies from which and how many components an attribute of this type consists.

You manage the property of an object as an attribute. If you define an attribute, you produce the reference to an attribute type.

  • The components of an attribute type determine which data from the data model (such as database, STEP model and so on) is used to describe an attribute.
  • The information, namely which data from the database describes a concrete attribute (for example, material type), is managed as an attribute component.

Example

Attribute: Material type

Target system

In the target system (SAP System) a material, among other things, is described by a material type. The material type is defined as an attribute and the necessary information is managed in the form of attribute components.
A material type is determined in the following way in the data model for the SAP System:

  • Database table (MARA for amterial master records)
  • Field in the database table (MTART for material type)

In the activity set up model for semantic mapping, the following activities are required:

  • You maintain attribute type MB (Member), which summarizes the following components:
    • Object Name (for the database table)
    • Attribute Name (for the fields in the database table)
  • You maintain attribute R3-MTART with reference to attribute type MB. You create the following attribute components relevant to this attribute type:
    • Object Name: MARA (Object name for the database table for the material master records)
    • Attribute Name: MTART (Field name from the table MARA for the material type)

Source system

In the source system, this information is shown by two attributes: item_type.name (Item Type's Name) and item_type.process (Item Type's Process).

The attributes item_type.name and item_type.process are described in the data model of the source system in the following way:

item_type.name    item_type.process

item    item

classification    classification

name    process

For attributes, this information is managed in the form of attribute components. For this, you maintain the attribute type R1 (Directly referenced objects attribute), which, for this example, cumulates the following components:

  • Object Name
  • Reference Name
  • Attribute Name

If you maintain both attributes with reference to the attribute type R1, enter the following components relevant to this attribute type:

Component        item_type.name        item_type.process
of the attribute type

Object Name        item        item

Reference Name        classification        classification

Attribute Name        name        process

Dependencies

You determine the rules for the conversion of attributes and attribute values in the mapping context.

History
Last changed by/on SAP  20020107 
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