I_AddressCommunicationMethod

DDL: I_ADDRESSCOMMUNICATIONMETHOD Type: view_entity BASIC
2 Fields 1 Data Sources 1 Associations

Communication Method

I_AddressCommunicationMethod (Basic)

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CommunicationMediumType · Cross Applications

I_AddressCommunicationMethod is a Basic CDS View (Dimension) that provides data about "Communication Method" in SAP S/4HANA. It reads from 1 data source (tsac) and exposes 2 fields with key field CommunicationMediumType. It has 1 association to related views.

SAP Help Documentation

CategoryCDS Views for Business Address Service
Purpose
This CDS view returns the communication medium type. This CDS view provides the data to answer the following business questions: What is the address communication method? To help you decide which CDS view to use for your purposes, SAP has introduced the annotation ObjectModel.supportedCapabilities that indicates the most appropriate use cases for each CDS view. To find out what use cases are best supported by this CDS view, access the entry of the CDS view in the View Browser app and find the values for this annotation under the Annotation tab. For more information, see Supported Capabilities for CDS Views .

Prerequisites
Authorizations Users who want to use this CDS view don't need any special authorization.

Structure
Important Fields Important fields in this view include the following: Field Name Description CommunicationMediumType Communication Method Key

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StateC1
Line of BusinessCross Applications
Application ComponentBC-SRV-ADR
CapabilitiesAssociation Target for Defining CDS Entities, Data Source for Defining CDS Entities, Data Source in SQL Select
PackageCross Applications for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition

Documentation

Data Sources (1)

SourceAliasJoin Type
tsac tsac from

Associations (1)

CardinalityTargetAliasCondition
[0..*] I_AddrCommunicationMethodText _Text $projection.CommunicationMediumType = _Text.CommunicationMediumType

Annotations (11)

NameValueLevelField
AccessControl.authorizationCheck #NOT_REQUIRED view
EndUserText.label Communication Method view
Analytics.dataCategory #DIMENSION view
Analytics.dataExtraction.enabled true view
ObjectModel.representativeKey CommunicationMediumType view
Analytics.technicalName IADCOMMMETHOD view
ObjectModel.sapObjectNodeType.name CommunicationMediumType view
ObjectModel.usageType.dataClass #CUSTOMIZING view
ObjectModel.usageType.serviceQuality #A view
ObjectModel.usageType.sizeCategory #S view
VDM.viewType #BASIC view

Fields (2)

KeyFieldSource TableSource FieldDescription
KEY CommunicationMediumType comm_type Communication Method (Key) (Business Address Services)
_Text _Text

Derived SQL interpretation, reconstructed from the parsed view metadata (data sources, associations, and field mappings). SAP annotations are omitted and the structure is reformulated as SQL — this is a functional approximation, not the verbatim SAP source.

-- Derived SQL interpretation of CDS view I_AddressCommunicationMethod.
-- Reconstructed from parsed metadata (data sources, associations, fields).
-- SAP annotations are omitted and the structure is reformulated as SQL;
-- this is a functional approximation, not the verbatim SAP source. Some join
-- conditions may be unavailable and a few CDS constructs are kept as-is.

CREATE VIEW I_AddressCommunicationMethod AS
SELECT
  comm_type AS CommunicationMediumType
FROM tsac
LEFT OUTER JOIN I_AddrCommunicationMethodText AS _Text ON CommunicationMediumType = _Text.CommunicationMediumType  -- association [0..*]
;

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