What is I_ProductCategoryText in SAP S/4HANA?

I_ProductCategoryText is a basic CDS view in SAP S/4HANA. Product Category Type - Text It contains 4 fields.

Which tables does I_ProductCategoryText read from?

I_ProductCategoryText reads data from: dd07t.

What VDM layer is I_ProductCategoryText?

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

I_ProductCategoryText

DDL: I_PRODUCTCATEGORYTEXT Type: view BASIC

4 Fields 1 Data Sources 1 Associations

Product Category Type - Text

I_ProductCategoryText (Basic)

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ProductCategoryText · Database & Data Management

I_ProductCategoryText is a Basic CDS View that provides data about "Product Category Type - Text" in SAP S/4HANA. It reads from 1 data source (dd07t) and exposes 4 fields with key fields Language, ProductCategory. It has 1 association to related views.

SAP Help Documentation

Category	CDS Views for Product Master
Status	Released

Purpose
This CDS view ...

SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) Extraction
Note The corresponding DataSource (Extractor) and this CDS view may have different functionalities. In case you are interested in the details of the DataSource, see the related documentation on the SAP Help Portal at https://help.sap.com/viewer/p/BI_CONTENT_757 under Application Help SAP Library BI Content . For more information on extraction, see Extracting Data Through CDS Views to SAP BW/4HANA .

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State	C1
Line of Business	Database & Data Management
Application Component	LO-MD-MM
Capabilities	Data Source in SQL Select, Data Source for Defining CDS Entities, Association Target for Defining CDS Entities, Language-Dependent Text, Data Source for Search, Data Source for Data Extraction
Package	Database & Data Management for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition
Description	<p>This CDS view ...</p>

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Data Sources (1)

Source	Alias	Join Type
dd07t	dd07t	from

Associations (1)

Cardinality	Target	Alias	Condition
[0..1]	I_Language	_Language	`$projection.Language = _Language.Language`

Annotations (19)

Name	Value	Level
AbapCatalog.sqlViewName	IPRODCATTXTV	view
AbapCatalog.preserveKey	true	view
AbapCatalog.compiler.compareFilter	true	view
AbapCatalog.buffering.status	#ACTIVE	view
AbapCatalog.buffering.type	#GENERIC	view
AbapCatalog.buffering.numberOfKeyFields	1	view
EndUserText.label	Product Category Type - Text	view
Search.searchable	true	view
VDM.viewType	#BASIC	view
ObjectModel.dataCategory	#TEXT	view
AccessControl.authorizationCheck	#NOT_REQUIRED	view
ObjectModel.representativeKey	ProductCategory	view
ObjectModel.usageType.serviceQuality	#A	view
ObjectModel.usageType.sizeCategory	#S	view
ObjectModel.usageType.dataClass	#META	view
ObjectModel.sapObjectNodeType.name	ProductCategoryText	view
ClientHandling.algorithm	#SESSION_VARIABLE	view
Metadata.ignorePropagatedAnnotations	true	view
Analytics.dataExtraction.enabled	true	view

Fields (4)

Key	Field	Source Field	Description
KEY	Language		Language Key
KEY	ProductCategory		Product Category
	Name		Product Category Text
	_Language	_Language

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_ProductCategoryText.
-- 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_ProductCategoryText AS
SELECT
  cast( ddlanguage as spras preserving type ) AS Language,
  cast ( domvalue_l as articlecategory ) AS ProductCategory,
  cast ( ddtext as articlecategorytext preserving type ) AS Name
FROM dd07t
LEFT OUTER JOIN I_Language AS _Language ON Language = _Language.Language  -- association [0..1]
;

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I_ProductCategoryText view

dd07t