SAP ABAP Data Element N2_XTYP (External Data Type (Display))
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Basic Data
Data Element N2_XTYP
Short Description External Data Type (Display)  
Data Type
Category of Dictionary Type D   Domain
Type of Object Referenced     No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type N2_XTYP    
Data Type CHAR   Character String 
Length 4    
Decimal Places 0    
Output Length 4    
Value Table      
Further Characteristics
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Parameter ID   
Default Component name    
Change document    
No Input History    
Basic direction is set to LTR    
No BIDI Filtering    
Field Label
  Length  Field Label  
Short 10 X type 
Medium 14 Ext. data type 
Long 20 External data type 
Heading Xtyp 
Documentation

Definition

Definition

External data format that appears on the user interface.

Permitted data categories and fields in which they are used, are:

ACCP

Posting period YYYYMM

CHAR node change converted. A length of up to 255 characters is allowed. Longer strings must be defined with the help of the data category LCHR.

CLNT

Client in the key. This involves an SAP format. If a table is to be created as a client-specific table, then a client field is assigned to this format. The client field must take the first position.

CUKY

Field that contains the permitted currencies.

CURR

Currency field. Corresponds to an amount field DEC, and refers to a field of type CUKY.

DATS

Date whose output is determined according to runtime. It is reproduced in CHAR(8) in the database.

DEC

Calculation or amount field with decimal point, and if relevant, +/- prefix and commas for thousands.

FLTP

Floating point number

INT1

1 byte integer up to 254

INT2

2 byte integer up to 65,535

INT4

4 byte integer up to 536,870,991

LANG

Language key. SAP field format for special functions.

LCHR

User-defined length for character strings. The character set is ASCII or EBCDIC and is automatically converted when there is a node change. Fields of this type must have a prefixed length field of type INT4. LCHR is functional as of release 3.0.

LRAW

Uninterpreted byte sequence of user-defined length. Fields of this type must be placed in transparent tables at the end. In addition, it must also have a prefixed length field of type INT4. LRAW is functional as of release 3.0.

NUMC

Field of user-defined length, in which only numbers can be entered. No calculation operations can be performed with the entries that are made in a field of this type. It only serves as a category for a numerical key field (e.g.: Personnel number).

PREC

States the precision of a QUAN field.

QUAN

Field in which quantities are entered. A field with this format refers to a field of the type UNIT.

RAW

Uninterpreted byte sequence with a maximum length of 255. Longer sequences must be defined with the help of type LRAW.

TIMS

Field that contains a time with the format hhmmss.

UNIT

Field that contains the permitted units of quantity.

VARC

Variables character field. This type is no longer supported as of release 3.0.

Further information on the data types can be found in Appendix A of the SAP Data Dictionary documentation.

History
Last changed by/on SAP  20050409 
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