What is I_AddressCommunicationUsage in SAP S/4HANA?

I_AddressCommunicationUsage is a basic CDS view in SAP S/4HANA. Usage of Communication Data It contains 7 fields.

Which tables does I_AddressCommunicationUsage read from?

I_AddressCommunicationUsage reads data from: adru.

What VDM layer is I_AddressCommunicationUsage?

I_AddressCommunicationUsage is classified as a Basic (interface) view providing a 1:1 representation of a database table.

I_AddressCommunicationUsage

DDL: I_ADDRESSCOMMUNICATIONUSAGE Type: view_entity BASIC

7 Fields 1 Data Sources

Usage of Communication Data

I_AddressCommunicationUsage (Basic)

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Cross Applications

I_AddressCommunicationUsage is a Basic CDS View that provides data about "Usage of Communication Data" in SAP S/4HANA. It reads from 1 data source (adru) and exposes 7 fields with key fields AddressID, AddressPersonID, CommunicationMediumType, CommMediumSequenceNumber, CommunicationMediumTypeUsage.

SAP Help Documentation

Category	CDS Views for Business Address Service

Purpose
This CDS view returns the communication usages for each communication type, such as phone number, fax number, and email address, linked to an address. This CDS view provides the data to answer the following business questions: What is the communication usage for a communication type? 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 need to access it via another CDS view (privileged mode).

Structure
Important Fields Important fields in this view include the following: Field Name Description AddressID Address Number AddressPersonID Person Number CommunicationMediumType Communication Method Key CommMediumSequenceNumber Sequence Number CommunicationMediumTypeUsage Communication Usage Key Field

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SAP API Hub

State	C1
Line of Business	Cross Applications
Application Component	BC-SRV-ADR
Capabilities	Association Target for Defining CDS Entities, Data Source in SQL Select, Data Source for Defining CDS Entities
Package	Cross Applications for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition

Documentation

Analytics with CDS Views — Build Analytics for S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition ABAP CDS views replicated to SAP Cloud Platform
CDS Views on SAP Business Accelerator Hub — Explore SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition CDS Views on SAP Business Accelerator Hub
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Custom CDS Views — Access data using a Custom Core Data Service view (Custom CDS view)
Key User Extensibility Tools — The Key User Extensibility Tools of S/4HANA
SAP Extensibility Explorer for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition — Explore SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition Extensibility options by leveraging the sample scenarios from SAP
SAP S/4HANA Extensibility — SAP S/4HANA Extensibility Tutorial
VDM View Types — The Virtual Data Model in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition
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Data Sources (1)

Source	Alias	Join Type
adru	adru	from

Annotations (8)

Name	Value	Level
AccessControl.authorizationCheck	#PRIVILEGED_ONLY	view
EndUserText.label	Usage of Communication Data	view
Metadata.ignorePropagatedAnnotations	true	view
ObjectModel.usageType.serviceQuality	#C	view
ObjectModel.usageType.sizeCategory	#XXL	view
ObjectModel.usageType.dataClass	#MIXED	view
VDM.viewType	#BASIC	view
VDM.lifecycle.contract.type	#PUBLIC_LOCAL_API	view

Fields (7)

Key	Field	Source Field	Description
KEY	AddressID	addrnumber	Address Number
KEY	AddressPersonID	persnumber	Person Number
KEY	CommunicationMediumType	comm_type	Communication Method (Key) (Business Address Services)
KEY	CommMediumSequenceNumber	consnumber	Sequence Number
KEY	CommunicationMediumTypeUsage	comm_usage	Communication Usage: Key Field
	datsendasValidityStartDate
	datsendasValidityEndDate

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_AddressCommunicationUsage.
-- 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_AddressCommunicationUsage AS
SELECT
  addrnumber AS AddressID,
  persnumber AS AddressPersonID,
  comm_type AS CommunicationMediumType,
  consnumber AS CommMediumSequenceNumber,
  comm_usage AS CommunicationMediumTypeUsage,
  case valid_from when '' then '00010101' else cast( substring( valid_from,1,8) as abap.dats) end as ValidityStartDate AS datsendasValidityStartDate,
  case valid_to when '' then '99991231' else cast( substring( valid_to,1,8) as abap.dats) end as ValidityEndDate AS datsendasValidityEndDate
FROM adru
;

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I_AddressCommunicationUsage view_entity

adru