Generic lookups
I'm new to SAP generally and RFC/BAPIs/SAP-Tables specifically and I'm also not an ABAP Developer, so I apologize in advance if I'm using the wrong terminology, however, after a good experience in this forum, it seems like people here have the right knowledge/expertise that I need to accomplish what I'm trying to achieve.
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I'm trying to figure out a generic way to get lookup values + text for fields in SAP programatically.
I already started implementing something based on domain names which can be found under DD03L and it does work well for short list domain names.
For longer lists however, I came across couple of challenges, querying CheckTable/CheckField does allow us to get to some correct values however:
1. It seems like from the SAP Windows client we are getting shorter list of values (potentially filtered) then what I'm getting from querying the table with the right language.
2. I can't seem to find a generic way to get the text description (the label of the value). For instance Exp_Type field in BAPITRMAIN table of BAPI_TRIP_CREATE_FROM_DATA which creates a Travel Expanse, points to check-table T706B1 and check-field MANDT, which returns the values, yet in this check-table there's no text description for the values. Furthermore, I couldn't find a clue on where to look for the text neither.
Any help in understanding how to create a generic lookup mechanism that would bring filtered values and text description would be highly appreciated!
Thanks,
Itzik
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Here are the steps to get the texts table
1. Go to SE 11 and give the original table name: T706B1
2. Click on Display
3. Click on Goto->Text Table
If you want to get programmatically here is the query:
select single tabname fieldname
from DD08L
into (lv_tname, lv_fname)
where checktable = 'T706B1'
and frkart = 'TEXT'
and as4local = 'A'.
Chandra Indukuri replied