What is I_PaymentMethodText in SAP S/4HANA?

I_PaymentMethodText is a basic CDS view in SAP S/4HANA. Payment Method - Text It contains 6 fields.

Which tables does I_PaymentMethodText read from?

I_PaymentMethodText reads data from: P_PaymentMethodText.

What VDM layer is I_PaymentMethodText?

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

I_PaymentMethodText

DDL: I_PAYMENTMETHODTEXT SQL: IFIPAYTMETHTEXT Type: view BASIC

6 Fields 1 Data Sources 2 Associations

Payment Method - Text

I_PaymentMethodText (Basic)

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Financial Operations

I_PaymentMethodText is a Basic CDS View that provides data about "Payment Method - Text" in SAP S/4HANA. It reads from 1 data source (P_PaymentMethodText) and exposes 6 fields with key fields Country, PaymentMethod, Language. It has 2 associations to related views.

SAP API Hub

State	C1
Line of Business	Financial Operations
Application Component	FI-AP-IS
Capabilities	Language-Dependent Text, Association Target for Defining CDS Entities, Data Source in SQL Select, Data Source for Defining CDS Entities, Data Source for Data Extraction
Package	Financial Operations for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition
Description	<p>This CDS view specifies which payment methods are to be used for payment transactions in which country.</p>

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
P_PaymentMethodText	P_PaymentMethodText	from

Associations (2)

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

Annotations (13)

Name	Value	Level
EndUserText.label	Payment Method - Text	view
AbapCatalog.sqlViewName	IFIPAYTMETHTEXT	view
ObjectModel.representativeKey	PaymentMethod	view
ObjectModel.dataCategory	#TEXT	view
VDM.viewType	#BASIC	view
Analytics.dataExtraction.enabled	true	view
ClientHandling.algorithm	#SESSION_VARIABLE	view
Metadata.ignorePropagatedAnnotations	true	view
AccessControl.authorizationCheck	#NOT_REQUIRED	view
ObjectModel.usageType.serviceQuality	#A	view
ObjectModel.usageType.sizeCategory	#M	view
ObjectModel.usageType.dataClass	#ORGANIZATIONAL	view
Search.searchable	true	view

Fields (6)

Key	Field	Source Table	Source Field	Description
KEY	Country	P_PaymentMethodText	Country	Country/Region Key
KEY	PaymentMethod	P_PaymentMethodText	PaymentMethod	Payment Method
KEY	Language	P_PaymentMethodText	Language	Report Text Language
	PaymentMethodDescription	P_PaymentMethodText	PaymentMethodDescription	Description of Payment Method in Logon Language
	_Country		_Country
	_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_PaymentMethodText.
-- 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: IFIPAYTMETHTEXT

CREATE VIEW I_PaymentMethodText AS
SELECT
  P_PaymentMethodText.Country AS Country,
  P_PaymentMethodText.PaymentMethod AS PaymentMethod,
  P_PaymentMethodText.Language AS Language,
  P_PaymentMethodText.PaymentMethodDescription AS PaymentMethodDescription
FROM P_PaymentMethodText
LEFT OUTER JOIN I_Country AS _Country ON Country = _Country.Country  -- association [0..1]
LEFT OUTER JOIN I_Language AS _Language ON Language = _Language.Language  -- association [0..1]
;

Depth:

I_PaymentMethodText view

P_PaymentMethodText view