SAP ABAP Data Element ROF4TYPE (F4 Type for a DataSource Field)

Hierarchy

☛ PI_BASIS (Software Component) Basis Plug-In
   ⤷ BC-BW (Application Component) BW Service API
     ⤷ RSUM (Package) BW Service API: Metadata

Basic Data

Data Element	ROF4TYPE
Short Description	F4 Type for a DataSource Field

Data Type

Category of Dictionary Type	D	Domain
Type of Object Referenced		No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type	ROF4TYPE
Data Type	CHAR	Character String
Length	1
Decimal Places	0
Output Length	1
Value Table

Further Characteristics

Search Help: Name
Search Help: Parameters
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	6	F4 Typ
Medium	19	F4 Field Type
Long	28	F4 Type for a DS Field
Heading	36	F4 Type for a DataSource Field

Documentation

Definition

The type of F4 help on a field for a DataSource can be displayed using the following functions:

• ' ': DDIC help (domain fixed values, search help, and so on)
• '1': Matchcode
• '2': Values are extracted using a text DataSource that contains a field of the same name (for this, the text DataSource must be entered into the 'F4EXTRACT' field)
• '3': No F4 help is supported

History

Last changed by/on	SAP	20080415
SAP Release Created in