What is I_BillingControlCategory in SAP S/4HANA?

I_BillingControlCategory is a basic CDS view in SAP S/4HANA. Billing Control Category It contains 2 fields.

Which tables does I_BillingControlCategory read from?

I_BillingControlCategory reads data from: dd07l.

What VDM layer is I_BillingControlCategory?

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

I_BillingControlCategory

DDL: I_BILLINGCONTROLCATEGORY SQL: IBILLGCTRLCAT Type: view_entity BASIC

2 Fields 1 Data Sources 1 Associations

Billing Control Category

I_BillingControlCategory (Basic)

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Billing Control Category · R&D Engineering

I_BillingControlCategory is a Basic CDS View (Dimension) that provides data about "Billing Control Category" in SAP S/4HANA. It reads from 1 data source (dd07l) and exposes 2 fields with key field BillingControlCategory. It has 1 association to related views.

SAP Help Documentation

Category	CDS Views for Project Billing
Data Category	Dimension

Purpose
This view provides supported values for BillingControlCategory. This CDS view provides the data to answer the following business questions: What are the available billing control categories? How can these billing control categories be described or labelled? 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. These restriction types are edited in the Maintain Business Roles app.

Structure
Important Fields Important fields in this view include the following: Field Name Description BillingControlCategory This field indicates costs that are billable or non-billable.

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SAP API Hub

State	C1
Line of Business	R&D Engineering
Application Component	PS-REV
Capabilities	Analytical Dimension, Association Target for Defining CDS Entities
Package	R&D Engineering 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 Private Edition CDS Views on SAP Business Accelerator Hub
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SAP S/4HANA Extensibility — SAP S/4HANA Extensibility Tutorial
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Data Sources (1)

Source	Alias	Join Type
dd07l	dd07l	from

Associations (1)

Cardinality	Target	Alias	Condition
[0..*]	I_BillingControlCategoryText	_Text	`_Text.BillingControlCategory = $projection.BillingControlCategory`

Annotations (11)

Name	Value	Level
VDM.viewType	#BASIC	view
AccessControl.authorizationCheck	#NOT_REQUIRED	view
EndUserText.label	Billing Control Category	view
ObjectModel.usageType.serviceQuality	#C	view
ObjectModel.usageType.sizeCategory	#S	view
ObjectModel.usageType.dataClass	#MASTER	view
ObjectModel.representativeKey	BillingControlCategory	view
ObjectModel.sapObjectNodeType.name	BillingControlCategory	view
VDM.lifecycle.contract.type	#PUBLIC_LOCAL_API	view
Analytics.dataCategory	#DIMENSION	view
Metadata.ignorePropagatedAnnotations	true	view

Fields (2)

Key	Field	Source Table	Source Field	Description
KEY	BillingControlCategory
	_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_BillingControlCategory.
-- 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.
-- SQL view name: IBILLGCTRLCAT

CREATE VIEW I_BillingControlCategory AS
SELECT
  substring( domvalue_l, 1, 8 ) AS BillingControlCategory
FROM dd07l
LEFT OUTER JOIN I_BillingControlCategoryText AS _Text ON _Text.BillingControlCategory = BillingControlCategory  -- association [0..*]
;

Depth:

I_BillingControlCategory view_entity

dd07l