What is I_FinancialPosition in SAP S/4HANA?

I_FinancialPosition is a basic CDS view in SAP S/4HANA. Financial Status Financial Position It contains 5 fields.

Which tables does I_FinancialPosition read from?

I_FinancialPosition reads data from: ftr_fp_def.

What VDM layer is I_FinancialPosition?

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

I_FinancialPosition

DDL: I_FINANCIALPOSITION Type: view_entity BASIC

5 Fields 1 Data Sources

Financial Status Financial Position

I_FinancialPosition (Basic)

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Financial Position · Financial Operations

I_FinancialPosition is a Basic CDS View (Dimension) that provides data about "Financial Status Financial Position" in SAP S/4HANA. It reads from 1 data source (ftr_fp_def) and exposes 5 fields with key field FinancialPosition.

SAP Help Documentation

Category	CDS Views for Master Data
Data Category	Dimension
Status	Released
Data Extraction Type	Full (physical deletions are possible in source tables)
Corresponding DataSource	IFSFINPOS

Purpose
This CDS view provides the prerequisites for answering the following business questions for financial positions: What are the data sources of financial positions? What are the names of financial positions? To which financial position group belongs a financial position? Does the financial position represent assets or liabilities?

Structure
Measures and attributes Some important measures and attributes are: Financial position Financial position name Data source Financial position group Asset/Liability code

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 .

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SAP API Hub

State	C1
Line of Business	Financial Operations
Application Component	FIN-FSCM-TRM
Capabilities	Analytical Dimension, Data Source for Defining CDS Entities, Data Source in SQL Select, Association Target for Defining CDS Entities, Data Source for Data Extraction
Package	Financial Operations for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition
Description	<p>This CDS view provides the prerequisites for answering the following business questions for financial positions:</p> <ul> <li><p>What are the data sources of financial positions?</p></li> <li><p>What are the names of financial positions?</p></li> <li><p>To which financial position group belongs a financial position?</p></li> <li><p>Does the financial position represent assets or liabilities?</p></li> </ul>

Documentation

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Data Sources (1)

Source	Alias	Join Type
ftr_fp_def	FinancialPositionDef	from

Annotations (13)

Name	Value	Level
AbapCatalog.entityBuffer.definitionAllowed	false	view
ObjectModel.representativeKey	FinancialPosition	view
Analytics.technicalName	IFSFINPOS	view
ObjectModel.usageType.dataClass	#MASTER	view
ObjectModel.usageType.serviceQuality	#A	view
ObjectModel.usageType.sizeCategory	#M	view
ObjectModel.modelingPattern	#ANALYTICAL_DIMENSION	view
AccessControl.authorizationCheck	#NOT_REQUIRED	view
VDM.viewType	#BASIC	view
Analytics.dataCategory	#DIMENSION	view
Analytics.dataExtraction.enabled	true	view
EndUserText.label	Financial Status Financial Position	view
Metadata.ignorePropagatedAnnotations	true	view

Fields (5)

Key	Field	Source Table	Source Field	Description
KEY	FinancialPosition	ftr_fp_def	fin_pos	Financial Position
	FinancialPositionName	ftr_fp_def	fin_pos_name	Financial Position Description
	FinancialPositionGroup	ftr_fp_def	fin_pos_grp	Financial Position Group
	FinancialPositionDataSource	ftr_fp_def	datasource	Data Source
	FinPositionAssetLiabilityCode	FinancialPositionGroupDef	FinPositionAssetLiabilityCode	Assets or Liabilities

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_FinancialPosition.
-- 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_FinancialPosition AS
SELECT
  FinancialPositionDef.fin_pos AS FinancialPosition,
  FinancialPositionDef.fin_pos_name AS FinancialPositionName,
  FinancialPositionDef.fin_pos_grp AS FinancialPositionGroup,
  FinancialPositionDef.datasource AS FinancialPositionDataSource,
  FinancialPositionGroupDef.FinPositionAssetLiabilityCode AS FinPositionAssetLiabilityCode
FROM ftr_fp_def AS FinancialPositionDef
;

Depth:

I_FinancialPosition view_entity

ftr_fp_def