SAP ABAP Data Element LRM_FIELD_POSITION (Position of a Field)

Hierarchy

☛ SAP_BASIS (Software Component) SAP Basis Component
   ⤷ BC-ILM-IRM-RT (Application Component) IRM Run Time
     ⤷ S_LRM_OBJ_CAT_INDEPENDENT (Package) Information Retention Manager - Cross-Object Category

Basic Data

Data Element	LRM_FIELD_POSITION
Short Description	Position of a Field

Data Type

Category of Dictionary Type	D	Domain
Type of Object Referenced		No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type	LRM_FIELD_POSITION
Data Type	NUMC	Character string with only digits
Length	4
Decimal Places	0
Output Length	4
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Field Label

	Length	Field Label
Short	10	Position
Medium	15	Field Position
Long	20	Field Position
Heading	20	Field Position

Documentation

Definition

In the context of available condition fields, the field position is not important in itself, rather the highest number of fields for which conditions can be formulated. The order of conditions for a rule is not important since the conditions are joined by an AND operator.

However, the field position does determine the following:

• The order of the fields as columns in the policy viewer (the sequence is visually significant)
• The structure of archive paths (URIs) while storing data in the archive hierarchy (selection and sequence of collections for arranging in order in the storage hierarchy)

The structure of the archive paths differs for ILM object AL_DOCUMENTS and AL_PRINTLISTS: Due to the special significance of these two ILM objects, their archive paths are composed according to a fixed pattern independently of the selected fields.

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History

Last changed by/on	SAP	20130604
SAP Release Created in	712