Field description in roles

[Former Member]

Hi All,

We are developing a custom application where we need to pull the field description e.g. ACTVT = Activity, BERGRU = Authorization group etc. I need to know how to link the technical name of the field to its description and get the output in a report (e.g as in report USR030 where the field description appears). Any pointers?

Many thanks

Vijaya

[Former Member]

TOBJ - which you could have found via searching a bit or using F1 as well...

Cheers,

Julius

[Former Member]

TOBJ gives the authorization object description. We are looking for the field description. Please let me know if I'm missing something

Thanks

Vijaya

[Former Member]

Sorry, I misread your question.

This is indeed a bit trickier because it depends of the field type of the authorization field. You can find this in table AUTHX, but as there are many you cannot reasonably do any download or joining of tables, but would need to do it programmatically.

See this thread for your options:

There is an easy way and a hard way

Cheers,

Julius

[Former Member]

Many thanks for the quick responses. Really helped.

Cheers!

Vijaya