BRFplus Amounts and Quantities from SAP and DB Lookup

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Background

• The book BRFplus - Business Rule Management for ABAP(TM) Applications page 199-200 briefly describe challenges about import and export of amount and quantity DDIC elements.
• Several SAP notes regarding quantities and amounts in BRFplus reveal the significance of the topic.
• "External reference fields for amount or quantity and amount are not supported", says BRFplus message FDT_CORE409.

Message FDT_CORE409 suggests customized SAP structures as a workaround.

Problem

The expression "DB Lookup":

• looks up directly in tables, not in structures. Therefore the workaround doesn't work.
• processes slowly. To prevent redundant lookups, it is often optimal keeping the whole result structure/table in BRFplus.

Example

Question

Can you describe the opportunities of keeping the DDIC reference in the BRFplus structure for DB lookups in tables with amounts and/or quantities?

[carsten_ziegler · Accepted solution]

Instead of table lookup can you create a view that fits?