What is I_CurrencyRole in SAP S/4HANA?

I_CurrencyRole is a basic CDS view in SAP S/4HANA. Currency Role It contains 5 fields.

Which tables does I_CurrencyRole read from?

I_CurrencyRole reads data from: finsc_curtype.

What VDM layer is I_CurrencyRole?

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

I_CurrencyRole

DDL: I_CURRENCYROLE SQL: IFICURRENCYROLE Type: view BASIC Package: FINS_CURRENCY_TYPE_VDM

5 Fields 1 Data Sources 1 Associations

Currency Role

I_CurrencyRole (Basic)

Package: Explore, extend and adapt the SAP S/4HANA Public Edition with built-in and side-by-side extension capabilities.

Currency Role · Accounting and Financial Close

I_CurrencyRole is a Basic CDS View (Dimension) that provides data about "Currency Role" in SAP S/4HANA. It reads from 1 data source (finsc_curtype) and exposes 5 fields with key field CurrencyRole. It has 1 association to related views. Part of development package FINS_CURRENCY_TYPE_VDM.

SAP Help Documentation

Category	CDS Views for Master Data

Purpose
This CDS view provides the prerequisites for answering the following business questions: How many currency roles are defined? To help you decide which CDS view to use for your purposes, SAP has introduced the annotation ObjectModel.supportedCapabilities that indicates the most appropriate use cases for each CDS view. To find out what use cases are best supported by this CDS view, access the entry of the CDS view in the View Browser app and find the values for this annotation under the Annotation tab. For more information, see Supported Capabilities for CDS Views .

Structure
Further important fields Important fields in this view include the following: CurrencyRole

View on SAP Help Portal →

SAP API Hub

Category	Basic
State	C1
Line of Business	Accounting and Financial Close
Application Component	FI-GL-GL-A-2CL
Capabilities	Data Source for Data Extraction,Data Source for Defining CDS Entities,Association Target for Defining CDS Entities
Extensible (Key User)	No
Extensible (Developer)	No
Release State (Key User)	Released
Release State (Developer)	Released
Package	Accounting and Financial Close for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition
Description	<p>This CDS view provides the prerequisites for answering the following business questions:</p> <ul> <li> <p>How many currency roles are defined?</p> </li> </ul>

Documentation

Analytics with CDS Views — Build Analytics for S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition ABAP CDS views replicated to SAP Cloud Platform
CDS Views on SAP Business Accelerator Hub — Explore SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition CDS Views on SAP Business Accelerator Hub
Create CDS View as API — Create CDS views in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition and consume them as APIs
Custom CDS Views — Access data using a Custom Core Data Service view (Custom CDS view)
Custom Communication Scenarios — Create custom communication scenarios to configure custom communication arrangement
Key User Extensibility Tools — The Key User Extensibility Tools of S/4HANA
SAP S/4HANA Extensibility — SAP S/4HANA Extensibility Tutorial
VDM View Types — The Virtual Data Model in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition
View Browser — Search, browse and tag CDS Views

Data Sources (1)

Source	Alias	Join Type
finsc_curtype	finsc_curtype	from

Associations (1)

Cardinality	Target	Alias	Condition
[0..*]	I_CurrencyRoleText	_Text	`$projection.CurrencyRole = _Text.CurrencyRole`

Annotations (14)

Name	Value	Level
EndUserText.label	Currency Role	view
Analytics.dataCategory	#DIMENSION	view
Analytics.dataExtraction.enabled	true	view
VDM.viewType	#BASIC	view
AbapCatalog.sqlViewName	IFICURRENCYROLE	view
AccessControl.authorizationCheck	#NOT_REQUIRED	view
ObjectModel.representativeKey	CurrencyRole	view
ClientHandling.algorithm	#SESSION_VARIABLE	view
Metadata.ignorePropagatedAnnotations	true	view
ObjectModel.usageType.dataClass	#CUSTOMIZING	view
ObjectModel.usageType.serviceQuality	#A	view
ObjectModel.usageType.sizeCategory	#S	view
ObjectModel.modelingPattern	#ANALYTICAL_DIMENSION	view
ObjectModel.sapObjectNodeType.name	CurrencyRole	view

Fields (5)

Key	Field	Source Table	Source Field	Description
KEY	CurrencyRole	finsc_curtype	curtype	Currency Type
	LegalCurrencyRole	finsc_curtype	legal_curtype	Plain Currency Type (Without Valuation Aspects)
	AccountingValuationView	finsc_curtype	valutyp	Valuation View (for Transfer Prices)
	AccountingValuationSubview	finsc_curtype	valusubtyp	Subtype of Valuation View (for Transfer Prices)
	_Text		_Text

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_CurrencyRole.
-- 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: IFICURRENCYROLE

CREATE VIEW I_CurrencyRole AS
SELECT
  finsc_curtype.curtype AS CurrencyRole,
  finsc_curtype.legal_curtype AS LegalCurrencyRole,
  finsc_curtype.valutyp AS AccountingValuationView,
  finsc_curtype.valusubtyp AS AccountingValuationSubview
FROM finsc_curtype
LEFT OUTER JOIN I_CurrencyRoleText AS _Text ON CurrencyRole = _Text.CurrencyRole  -- association [0..*]
;

Depth:

I_CurrencyRole view

finsc_curtype

P_CurrencyRoleForLedger view_entity
P_LegalCurrencyRole view_entity