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created by Dibyendu Patra on 13-Jan-2014 06:52, last modified by Dibyendu Patra on 02-Aug-2014 11:31
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Hello Friends.
As we know about the tables and fields.
We also know all information are stored in a table and a particular field. It's very difficult to memorize all tables and all
fields.
We can get this from F1 - Technical Information for table and field.
The fields names are always shown correct. But for table name, sometime its shows the structure name instead of
table name.
For an example
When we press F1 on field Short Text on screen ME51N. We can see as well the Short Text field name, but in table
portion we can see a structure name not a table name.

As we know the field Short Text (TXZ01) is stored in EBAN table, but we can't find this from F1 screen.
Its shown a structure name as MEREQ3211GRID.
In that situation, we have to find the original table name for this field.
Here I am giving the 3 way to find the original table for any field.
Way 1:
When the above pop-up comes, double click on the "Data Element".

Now you can see a screen of Display Data Element.

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Now you can see the data element screen for the field Short Text.

Now Press Where-Used List. This is on application menu bar

You can see another pop-up screen will come, which is like below screen.

As we need the table name, so remove the all tick without Table Fields.
Now press enter or continue.
After pressing enter, you will find a list.

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This list shows you on which table the field is used.

It means in the listed tables, you can find the field Short Text (TXZ01)
We can see 15 Hits comes on the screen.
It means the field TXZ01 is used in 15 tables.
Now we can find the table as per our requirement. We need the table for ME51N (Purchase Requisition).
We can see Purchase requisition is also listed in the list.

And we can also see the table name for Purchase Requisition.
If you have found a many number of hits, then you can search for your table with given description.
Like as if you want to know the table for PR, then you can search as purchase requisition

In that way we can find the original table name for this particular field.
(Note: I know I have given an easy field and tab le name, But I am just sharing the procedure to see the original tab le
name for a particular field)
Way 2 :
This is a similar way as way one.
Just first step is little different.
If you know the field name, then we can enter it directly in SE11 screen and we can get the Table name.
In SE11 screen, on the field Database Table, give the field name (Where usually we give the table name)

Now press display.

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You can see the Display Data Element screen.

You can do the further process which we have already discussed in the Way 1 section.
Way 3 :
This is little different way.
Use t-code SE84 or SE15.

You can see an initial screen is appearing for Object Navigator.

Now from here select the option
ABAP Dictionary-Fields-Table Fields.

Now Double click on Table Fields.

You can see a screen is will come on right side of the screen.

Here give the field name as TXZ01.

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Then Press execute.

Now you will get the all table list for the field TXZ01.

Here you also use the search option which I have discussed in way 1.
In these above 3 ways, you can find the original table name for a particular field.
So don't worry when you see a structure name in table field, just use one option from above and you will get the table
original table name.
Thanks and Regards
Dev Patra.

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Products: sap_erp_logistics_materials_management Topics: abap, enterprise_resource_planning Tags: table, field,
materials_management, mm, purchasing, data_element, se84, se15

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shiva mc 13-Jan-2014 09:04

Good Doc Dev

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Jitendra Yadav 13-Jan-2014 13:10

Hi Dev,
Really good document to find the table.
Your way is alway exellent.
Thanks
Jitendra
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Gaurav Choudhary 13-Jan-2014 13:16

Hi Dev,
The article is awesome as in our day to day activity we suffer this problem while development.
Now i got the solution and i dont want to spend my time on searching a table for the fields.:):)
Thank u so much Dev:):):)
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Dibyendu Patra 13-Jan-2014 13:22 (in response to Gaurav Choudhary)

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Gaurav Choudhary
I am very very very very happy to hear this comment from you.....
I feel very proud for that....
Thank you soooooo much.....
SCN rocks......
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Gaurav Choudhary 16-Jan-2014 10:14 (in response to Dibyendu Patra)

hey DEV please dont say thank u to me dude.. We all will say THANK U to u for ur
article...
THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Jrgen L 16-Jan-2014 10:39 (in response to Gaurav Choudhary)

Sorry to interrupt, but this is a professional forum and we should use

proper English language and no SMS speak as it is stated in rule 4
Please avoid slang and SMS Text Speak. of our
The SCN Rules of
Engagement
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Gaurav Choudhary 20-Jan-2014 11:16 (in response to Jrgen L)

Ok Boss.... I will take care hereafter

Thanks for your suggestion to me
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Karen Jhonson 13-Jan-2014 13:32

Impressive and quite handy. Great job

KJ
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Leo Thilak M.S 13-Jan-2014 13:37

good job dev

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PREETI KASHYAP 14-Jan-2014 11:02

Earlier I knew the only one way - first one but now i have three.
Thanks.
Good Document Sir.
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Lakhya Pratim Baruah 14-Jan-2014 12:51

Bang!!!! All newbies and experienced who have a tussle with ABAP Consultants to find the Table
Name by themselves can now be more specific by providing the exact Table Names not Structures
as we do

sometimes.
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subburam v 16-Jan-2014 12:28

Hi Dev,
Excellent post...Keep Rocking..
Regards
Subbu.
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vinod bokade 16-Jan-2014 23:53

Nice document, thanks for sharing

Regards,
VB
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Sagnik Chakravarty 20-Jan-2014 13:31

Thanks for sharing this Dev! Very very useful document!

Regards,
Sagnik
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Ravishankar Venkat Ramanan 22-Jan-2014 06:08

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Great work as always Dev :-)
Can't stop saving this doc, the doc is definitely a best practise to be shared among many

.
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Nisha Sharma 03-Feb-2014 08:32

Very Nice document

Dibyendu Patra.I will use this in my team as a best practice.

Regards
Nisha
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manu m 03-Feb-2014 09:25

Good one Dev.

I almost forgot this , refreshing feeling
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h w d 05-Feb-2014 09:23

Great one Dev,

Given a good info once again.
reg,
BHG
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Sharan G S 05-Feb-2014 10:04

Hi Dev,
Thanks for sharing the details. It's really useful.
Best Regards,
Sharan
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Keerthi varman jain M R 06-Feb-2014 16:04

Nice document Dev.

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Bhanu Chandra 09-Feb-2014 10:25

Good document, thanks for sharing

Regards,
Bhanu
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Sumit Kaushik 10-Feb-2014 07:19

Nice Document , thanks for posting such good Articale.

Regards
Sumit
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Devendra F 10-Feb-2014 12:36

Hi,
This is definitely five star document,
Devendra
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Ranjit Kumar 10-Feb-2014 12:48

Hi Dev,
Its a helpful document.
Thanks for sharing the tips.
Ranjit
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Ranu Eugene 10-Feb-2014 13:07

Hi Dev,
Very nice document and very useful.

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Keep up the good work.
Best of Luck.
Regards
Eugene
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Erw in Leitner 10-Feb-2014 22:20

Hello
Thank you very much
Be erwin
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SRS KANNAN 17-Feb-2014 05:29

hi, really useful. thanks. at times we are struck at this,,, now refreshed,,
regards
SRS Kannan
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juan gonzalez 17-Feb-2014 16:51

Thank You!!!
Good Job!!!!
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Mohsin Abbasi 17-Feb-2014 20:26

Dear Dev,
you shared nice info bro.....:D

Best Regards
Mohsin Abbasi
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Sandy Du 20-Feb-2014 08:31

Dear Dev,
Your sharing is very useful to me and save time .
Thanks and Best Reagards
Sandy
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Siva Prasad Vasireddy 22-Feb-2014 05:32

Hi,
This Helps us a Lot
Thankyou for sharing
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Naresh Krishnamoorthy 22-Feb-2014 10:23

Very useful one...Many Thanks.

Best Regards,
Naresh K.
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Ashish Kaple 25-Feb-2014 08:50

Hi,
Really helpful blog. Keep it up.
Regards,
Ashish
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Ankita Chhabra 28-Feb-2014 08:26

Hi Dev,
Thanks for sharing. Good document.
Regards,
Ankita
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Yongyi Cao 03-Mar-2014 04:25

Dear Dev
Really thank u very much.
Best Regards
Jason
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Abhishek Jain 04-Mar-2014 13:41

Good Document
I learned a new thing from this one
Thanks
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Siva Prasad Vasireddy 05-Mar-2014 12:50

Hi,
Very Informative
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Jaydip Hapliya 07-Mar-2014 18:39

Dev,
Its really nice informative documents, Thanks for the explanation !!
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Siddharth Dharmadhikari 10-Mar-2014 07:39

Very nicely written and helpful document, thank you.

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KIRAN DAHIWADAKAR 11-Mar-2014 11:55

Hi
Really nice and well documented ...
Thanks a lot
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padma sai 12-Mar-2014 10:21

Hi Dev,
Its a very nice document and helpful as well, But I have got some doubts could you please clarify.
I opened a purchase order using ME23N and then I pressed F1 key on Delivery date,For the Delivery
date the data element is EEIND ,I tried the three ways but could not able to find the table name for the
delivery date (i.e.EKET).
Regards,
Sai
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Dibyendu Patra 12-Mar-2014 10:22 (in response to padma sai)

Because the field is different..

When you press F1 in ME23N, you will see the field is EEIND.
But in EKET table the field name changed as EINDT.
So it can't find the relation..
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Pravat Sahoo 20-Mar-2014 11:50

Thanks
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Dibyendu Patra 20-Mar-2014 13:31 (in response to Pravat Sahoo)

Hi
Pravat,
Thanks for why ??
you should write your review/feedback on this document..
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Mehmet Ozgur Unal 21-Mar-2014 21:20 (in response to Dibyendu Patra)

Hi all ;
Impressive document , i want to add '' F1 technical data why get different fields
where different tcode ?
I hope that structure must be defined with details.

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Regards.
M.Ozgur Unal
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Dibyendu Patra 22-Mar-2014 11:34 (in response to Mehmet Ozgur Unal)

Do you want to say that WERKS for plant in PO.. But the field name is
different for different t-code ???
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Mehmet Ozgur Unal 22-Mar-2014 13:51 (in response to Dibyendu Patra)

Hi;
I want to say that there must be a trick between structere and
table. If you go to ME21N after that select material master and
run F1 , you will get details in technical data.
Table : MEPO1211
Field : EMATN
But, material master in MARA , WRONG PATH
I thought , your document has to inform for the difference.
Regards.
M.Ozgur Unal
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Dibyendu Patra 23-Apr-2014 10:22 (in response to Mehmet

Ozgur Unal)

Actually my document represent that, when you find a

structure name while pressing F1, then you can find
the original table..
And about your query..
If you check EKPO table, then you can also find
MATNR, which will also contain the material number..
That is for table and if you are asking about table, then
yes, table name is always change for almost every
transaction (Instead of some integrated transaction)
Regards
Dev
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Avirat Patel 29-May-2014 13:10

Bookmarked
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lakshmi p 25-Jun-2014 13:20 (in response to Avirat Patel)

Hi Dev,
You only my first SCN guru still i can remember your words and thanks to u we get such a
wonderful documents from you keep posting in SCN it helps a lot who eagerly looking for
learning new things like me.
Thanks
Lakshmi
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Onur SENTURK 03-Jul-2014 09:03

I needed TXZ01 stored table and i found it. Thank you. That's a great job.
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Sathishkumar Seetharaman 02-Aug-2014 14:48

Hi Dev,
Thanks for the document which helps to find the Table name from the field Name.
Regards,
Sathish
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Jeyaseelan Singaraja 27-Aug-2014 09:11

Hi Dev,
Thanks for your useful information.
But, I not able to find Picking Quantity table from delivery document(VL02N).
I found below info. from F1 help.
Structure : LIPSD

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Field

: PIKMG

Please teach me any way for finding picking quantity.

Regards,
Jai
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Dibyendu Patra 27-Aug-2014 09:32 (in response to Jeyaseelan Singaraja)

The field is not used in any table. It is just used in some structures and some function
modules.
You will find these by select all option in Used in.
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Jeyaseelan Singaraja 27-Aug-2014 09:48 (in response to Dibyendu Patra)

Thanks for your quick response.

Ok. I understand.
So, How can I find picked quantity field and table.
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Dibyendu Patra 27-Aug-2014 10:00 (in response to Jeyaseelan Singaraja)

I am not able to find the field at table level.

You can consult with your SD consultant for more details about that.
Have a look into the discussion
Exact field name and table name for
Picking quantity
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Jeyaseelan Singaraja 27-Aug-2014 10:22 (in response to Dibyendu

Patra)

Thanks for your response.

I found picked quantity table name and field name in below link.
table where picking quantity is
Thanks for your nice article.
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mohamed amar 27-Aug-2014 10:37

Thanks for sharing

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Vijay Kumar 02-Sep-2014 21:13

Informative!!
Thanks for Sharing :-)
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S Ramaraju 28-Oct-2014 04:27

Good Document.
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Mayank Vishnoi 14-Nov-2014 03:35

Nice Doc.
Where step 1 and 3 are working completely fine.
But for me step 2 is not producing desired output.
e.g. WERK is a field name which is used in many tables, but when entering the name in Database
table field (SE11) it says "WERK does not exist".
May be it just works on data element, not all field names.
Thanks for your help.
Regards,
Mayank.
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Dibyendu Patra 14-Nov-2014 06:22 (in response to Mayank Vishnoi)

Are you sure the field name is WERK ? Is it WERKS (Plant) ?

Can you tell me a table which contain the WERK field.
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Mayank Vishnoi 17-Nov-2014 12:53 (in response to Dibyendu Patra)

I found the WERK field in the table : QALS (3rd row in the image).
But the first and third method are working just fine. And I am able to use SQVI
tcode to find the relations between tables to filter out unwanted tables.
Thanks.

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Dibyendu Patra 25-Nov-2014 18:32 (in response to Mayank Vishnoi)

Mayank Vishnoi
Sorry for late reply as I am not able to answer this question. I don't know
why SAP makes the field as WERK (instead of WERKS) in this table. But
the field represent the same field WERKS.
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kumar sp 14-Nov-2014 06:14

HI,
Thank you for sharing this document.....
regards,
kumar.
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Thangam Perumal 14-Nov-2014 14:00

Really helpful...

Thanks for this Documents.....

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Joseph Brow nfield 14-Nov-2014 22:25

Good article, thanks!

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Bo Liu 15-Nov-2014 08:26

Good share.Thanks. Recall my memory, I made similar article in Chinese when I was a new SAPer.
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Sergio De La Pea 25-Nov-2014 18:20

Thanks for sharing, good article.

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Lakshmi Sama 26-Nov-2014 14:49

Hi Dibyendu Patra,
This is really a nice document to save our time without wasting for seraching a t code. Thanks for
sharing your knowledge and keep sharing.
Regards,
Lakshmi S
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Dibyendu Patra 27-Nov-2014 07:07 (in response to Lakshmi Sama)

Thanks Lakshmi.
Yes you can also find the t-code which is associated with a program.
A field can't be associated direct to t-code. So you can't find the t-code with regards to a
field. You can find t-code with regards to the program from SE38 - Where used list.
The where used list is very important to find the relation.
Regards
DP
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Ishara Weerasinghe 27-Nov-2014 11:35

Hi Dibyendu,
This makes me to love SCN even more....:)...I have been working in SAP Industry since 2012 but I
have been learning hell of a lot through SCN..:)
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Eric Li 28-Nov-2014 06:44

thanks, it's helpful.

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pranaya ranjan sahu 17-Jan-2015 14:11

Good One. Thanks for sharing.

Regards,
Pranay.
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prathamesh lonkar 19-Jan-2015 07:29 (in response to pranaya ranjan sahu)

Hi,
nice document
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