What is I_PurchasingCategoryValueHelp in SAP S/4HANA?

I_PurchasingCategoryValueHelp is a composite CDS view in SAP S/4HANA. Purchasing Category It contains 3 fields.

What VDM layer is I_PurchasingCategoryValueHelp?

I_PurchasingCategoryValueHelp is classified as a Composite view that combines data from multiple basic views.

I_PurchasingCategoryValueHelp

DDL: I_PURCHASINGCATEGORYVALUEHELP SQL: IPUCVH Type: view COMPOSITE

3 Fields

Purchasing Category

I_PurchasingCategoryValueHelp (Composite)

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Sourcing & Procurement

I_PurchasingCategoryValueHelp is a Composite CDS View (Dimension) that provides data about "Purchasing Category" in SAP S/4HANA.

SAP Help Documentation

Category	Purchasing Categories
Status	Released

Purpose
This view provides value help for PurchasingCategory . This view should be used for value help purposes only. If you intend to select the entire business data, use the view I_PurgCatAPI01 instead.

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SAP API Hub

State	C1
Line of Business	Sourcing & Procurement
Application Component	SLC-CAT
Capabilities	Data Provider for Value Help, Analytical Dimension, Association Target for Defining CDS Entities
Package	Sourcing & Procurement 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 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

Annotations (18)

Name	Value	Level
AbapCatalog.sqlViewName	IPUCVH	view
EndUserText.label	Purchasing Category	view
AbapCatalog.preserveKey	true	view
AbapCatalog.compiler.compareFilter	true	view
AccessControl.authorizationCheck	#MANDATORY	view
ClientHandling.algorithm	#SESSION_VARIABLE	view
VDM.viewType	#COMPOSITE	view
VDM.lifecycle.contract.type	#PUBLIC_LOCAL_API	view
Search.searchable	true	view
Consumption.ranked	true	view
ObjectModel.representativeKey	PurchasingCategory	view
Analytics.dataCategory	#DIMENSION	view
Metadata.allowExtensions	true	view
ObjectModel.usageType.serviceQuality	#C	view
ObjectModel.usageType.sizeCategory	#M	view
ObjectModel.usageType.dataClass	#MIXED	view
ObjectModel.dataCategory	#VALUE_HELP	view
Metadata.ignorePropagatedAnnotations	true	view

Fields (3)

Key	Field	Description
KEY	PurchasingCategory	id
	PurgCatName	Medium-Size Name
	PurgCatDescription	Description

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_PurchasingCategoryValueHelp.
-- 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: IPUCVH

CREATE VIEW I_PurchasingCategoryValueHelp AS
SELECT
  cast(I_PurchasingCategory.PurchasingCategory as /srmsmc/generic_id preserving type) AS PurchasingCategory,
  cast(I_PurchasingCategory.PurgCatName as /srmsmc/medium_name preserving type) AS PurgCatName,
  cast(I_PurchasingCategory._PurchasingCategoryDesc[1: Language = $session.system_language].PurgCatDescription as /srmsmc/description_char60 preserving type) AS PurgCatDescription
;

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I_PurchasingCategoryValueHelp view