SAP ABAP Data Element WAGECOMPEXT_AMOUNT (Amount of External Wage Component)
Hierarchy
☛ SAP_ABA (Software Component) Cross-Application Component
   ⤷ CA-HR (Application Component) Cross-Application Objects in HR
     ⤷ BPCAL (Package) Cross-Application Objects for International Payroll PY
Basic Data
Data Element WAGECOMPEXT_AMOUNT
Short Description Amount of External Wage Component  
Data Type
Category of Dictionary Type D   Domain
Type of Object Referenced     No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type BAPICURR    
Data Type DEC   Counter or amount field with comma and sign 
Length 23    
Decimal Places 4    
Output Length 30    
Value Table      
Further Characteristics
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Parameter ID   
Default Component name AMOUNT   
Change document    
No Input History    
Basic direction is set to LTR    
No BIDI Filtering    
Field Label
  Length  Field Label  
Short 10 Amount 
Medium 14 Amount 
Long 20 Amount 
Heading 10 Amount 
Documentation

Definition

Use

The amount can only be interpreted with a currency. Every currency has a specific number of valid decimal places. Additional decimal places in excess of this number must be filled with zeros for WAGECOMPEXT_AMOUNT.

A currency's decimal places are stored in the CURRDEC field of table TCURX (Decimal Places in Currencies).

If no currency is specified, the system assumes that the amount was entered in a currency with two decimal places.

The system converts the amount to an HR-internal format with exactly 13 predecimal places and 2 decimal places. Therefore, you must ensure that you use no more than 15 places for your amount. These 15 places are calculated by adding the number of decimal places (0 to 4 places) that are valid in your currency to the number of predecimal places (15 to 11 places).

Dependencies

Example

The following table illustrates how amounts from the external application and in different currencies are interpreted in the SAP HR System depending on the number of decimal places (DecP) and then displayed internally:

DecP     Curr.     Amount     HR Interpretation    Internal HR Disp

two     DEM     123.4500    123,45 DEM    123.45

zero     ITL     123.0000    123 ITL    1.23

three     KWD     123.4560    123,456 KWD    1234.56

An amount with more than 15 places, such as 12345678901234.5600 DEM, causes an error because it includes too many places (16 in this example).

History
Last changed by/on SAP  20020827 
SAP Release Created in 50A