What is I_BusPartCategory in SAP S/4HANA?

I_BusPartCategory is a composite CDS view in SAP S/4HANA. Business Partner Category It contains 3 fields.

Which tables does I_BusPartCategory read from?

I_BusPartCategory reads data from: dd07l.

What VDM layer is I_BusPartCategory?

I_BusPartCategory is classified as a Composite view that combines data from multiple basic views.

I_BusPartCategory

DDL: I_BUSPARTCATEGORY SQL: IBPCATEGORY Type: view COMPOSITE

3 Fields 1 Data Sources 1 Associations

Business Partner Category

I_BusPartCategory (Composite)

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BusinessPartnerCategory · Database & Data Management

I_BusPartCategory is a Composite CDS View (Dimension) that provides data about "Business Partner Category" in SAP S/4HANA. It reads from 1 data source (dd07l) and exposes 3 fields with key field BusinessPartnerCategory. It has 1 association to related views.

SAP Help Documentation

Category	CDS Views for Business Partner
Data Category	Dimension

Purpose
This CDS view is designed to retrieve and display the business partner's category. The supported categories are Person , Organization , and Group . It facilitates the categorization of business partners and associating them with descriptive texts. This CDS view provides the data to answer the following business questions: What are the different categories of business partners available in the system? For example, Person , Organization , and Group . What descriptive texts are associated with each business partner category for better understanding and reporting? How can business partner categories be efficiently searched and filtered within the system?

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

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SAP API Hub

State	C1
Line of Business	Database & Data Management
Application Component	AP-MD-BP-RAP
Capabilities	Data Source in SQL Select, Data Source for Defining CDS Entities, Association Target for Defining CDS Entities, Analytical Dimension, Data Source for Data Extraction
Package	Database & Data Management 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
Create CDS View as API — Create CDS views in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition and consume them as APIs
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
View Browser — Search, browse and tag CDS Views

Data Sources (1)

Source	Alias	Join Type
dd07l	dd07l	from

Associations (1)

Cardinality	Target	Alias	Condition
[0..*]	I_BusPartCategoryText	_Text	`$projection.BusinessPartnerCategory = _Text.BusinessPartnerCategory`

Annotations (19)

Name	Value	Level
AbapCatalog.sqlViewName	IBPCATEGORY	view
AbapCatalog.compiler.compareFilter	true	view
AbapCatalog.preserveKey	true	view
AccessControl.authorizationCheck	#NOT_REQUIRED	view
VDM.viewType	#COMPOSITE	view
Search.searchable	true	view
ObjectModel.usageType.sizeCategory	#M	view
ObjectModel.usageType.serviceQuality	#A	view
ObjectModel.resultSet.sizeCategory	#XS	view
ObjectModel.usageType.dataClass	#META	view
EndUserText.label	Business Partner Category	view
ClientHandling.algorithm	#SESSION_VARIABLE	view
ObjectModel.sapObjectNodeType.name	BusinessPartnerCategory	view
ObjectModel.representativeKey	BusinessPartnerCategory	view
Analytics.dataExtraction.enabled	true	view
Analytics.dataCategory	#DIMENSION	view
ObjectModel.modelingPattern	#ANALYTICAL_DIMENSION	view
Analytics.internalName	#LOCAL	view
Metadata.ignorePropagatedAnnotations	true	view

Fields (3)

Key	Field	Source Field	Description
KEY	BusinessPartnerCategory		Business Partner Category
	DomainValue	domvalue_l	Values for Domains: Single Value/Lower Limit
	_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_BusPartCategory.
-- 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: IBPCATEGORY

CREATE VIEW I_BusPartCategory AS
SELECT
  cast ( cast ( substring( domvalue_l, 1, 1 ) as abap.char( 1 ) ) as bu_type ) AS BusinessPartnerCategory,
  domvalue_l AS DomainValue
FROM dd07l
LEFT OUTER JOIN I_BusPartCategoryText AS _Text ON BusinessPartnerCategory = _Text.BusinessPartnerCategory  -- association [0..*]
;

Depth:

I_BusPartCategory view

dd07l

C_BusPartCategoryVH view