What is I_BusinessArea in SAP S/4HANA?

I_BusinessArea is a basic CDS view in SAP S/4HANA. Business Area It contains 3 fields.

Which tables does I_BusinessArea read from?

I_BusinessArea reads data from: tgsb.

What VDM layer is I_BusinessArea?

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

I_BusinessArea

DDL: I_BUSINESSAREA SQL: IFIBUSAREA Type: view BASIC

3 Fields 1 Data Sources 2 Associations

Business Area

I_BusinessArea (Basic)

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BusinessArea · Accounting and Financial Close

I_BusinessArea is a Basic CDS View (Dimension) that provides data about "Business Area" in SAP S/4HANA. It reads from 1 data source (tgsb) and exposes 3 fields with key field BusinessArea. It has 2 associations to related views.

SAP API Hub

State	C1
Line of Business	Accounting and Financial Close
Application Component	FI-GL-GL-A
Capabilities	Association Target for Defining CDS Entities, Data Source for Defining CDS Entities, Data Source for Data Extraction, Data Source in SQL Select
Package	Accounting and Financial Close 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 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
tgsb	tgsb	from

Associations (2)

Cardinality	Target	Alias	Condition
[0..*]	I_BusinessAreaText	_Text	`$projection.BusinessArea = _Text.BusinessArea`
[0..*]	I_BusinessAreaHierNode	_BusinessAreaHierNode	`$projection.BusinessArea = _BusinessAreaHierNode.BusinessArea`

Annotations (20)

Name	Value	Level
EndUserText.label	Business Area	view
Analytics.dataCategory	#DIMENSION	view
Analytics.dataExtraction.enabled	true	view
Analytics.dataExtraction.delta.changeDataCapture.automatic	true	view
VDM.viewType	#BASIC	view
AbapCatalog.sqlViewName	IFIBUSAREA	view
ObjectModel.representativeKey	BusinessArea	view
AbapCatalog.buffering.status	#ACTIVE	view
AbapCatalog.buffering.type	#FULL	view
ObjectModel.usageType.sizeCategory	#S	view
ObjectModel.usageType.dataClass	#MASTER	view
ObjectModel.usageType.serviceQuality	#A	view
ClientHandling.algorithm	#SESSION_VARIABLE	view
Metadata.ignorePropagatedAnnotations	true	view
AbapCatalog.buffering.numberOfKeyFields	1	view
AccessControl.authorizationCheck	#CHECK	view
Metadata.allowExtensions	true	view
Search.searchable	true	view
AbapCatalog.preserveKey	true	view
ObjectModel.sapObjectNodeType.name	BusinessArea	view

Fields (3)

Key	Field	Source Field	Description
KEY	BusinessArea	gsber	Business Area
	_Text	_Text
	_BusinessAreaHierNode	_BusinessAreaHierNode

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_BusinessArea.
-- 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: IFIBUSAREA

CREATE VIEW I_BusinessArea AS
SELECT
  gsber AS BusinessArea
FROM tgsb
LEFT OUTER JOIN I_BusinessAreaText AS _Text ON BusinessArea = _Text.BusinessArea  -- association [0..*]
LEFT OUTER JOIN I_BusinessAreaHierNode AS _BusinessAreaHierNode ON BusinessArea = _BusinessAreaHierNode.BusinessArea  -- association [0..*]
;

Depth:

I_BusinessArea view

tgsb