What is I_EquipmentBOMLink in SAP S/4HANA?

I_EquipmentBOMLink is a basic CDS view in SAP S/4HANA. Equipment to BOM Link It contains 7 fields.

Which tables does I_EquipmentBOMLink read from?

I_EquipmentBOMLink reads data from: eqst.

What VDM layer is I_EquipmentBOMLink?

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

I_EquipmentBOMLink

DDL: I_EQUIPMENTBOMLINK Type: view_entity BASIC Package: CS_MODEL

7 Fields 1 Data Sources 1 Associations

Equipment to BOM Link

I_EquipmentBOMLink (Basic)

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R&D Engineering

I_EquipmentBOMLink is a Basic CDS View that provides data about "Equipment to BOM Link" in SAP S/4HANA. It reads from 1 data source (eqst) and exposes 7 fields with key fields BillOfMaterial, BillOfMaterialVariant, Equipment, Plant, BillOfMaterialVariantUsage. It has 1 association to related views. Part of development package CS_MODEL.

SAP Help Documentation

Category	CDS Views for Bill of Material
Status	Released

Purpose
This CDS view provides the prerequisites for answering the following business questions: What is the BOM number associated with the equipment number for an equipment BOM? What is the plant assigned to the equipment BOM? What is the BOM alternative, BOM usage, and BOM category for the equipment BOM?

Prerequisites
You have authorization to access the equipment BOM.

Structure
Attributes Some important attributes are: Equipment Number Plant BOM Variant BOM Variant Usage BOM Category Bill of Material

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Category	Basic
State	C1
Line of Business	R&D Engineering
Application Component	LO-MD-BOM-2CL
Capabilities	Data Source in SQL Select,Association Target for Defining CDS Entities,Data Source for Defining CDS Entities
Extensible (Key User)	No
Extensible (Developer)	No
Release State (Key User)	Released
Release State (Developer)	Released
Package	R&D/Engineering 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>What is the BOM number associated with the equipment number for an equipment BOM?</p> </li> <li> <p>What is the plant assigned to the equipment BOM?</p> </li> <li> <p>What is the BOM alternative, BOM usage, and BOM category for the equipment BOM?</p> </li> </ul>

Documentation

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Data Sources (1)

Source	Alias	Join Type
eqst	eqst	from

Associations (1)

Cardinality	Target	Alias	Condition
[0..1]	I_BillOfMaterialUsage	_BillOfMaterialUsage	`$projection.BillOfMaterialVariantUsage = _BillOfMaterialUsage.BillOfMaterialVariantUsage and _BillOfMaterialUsage.Language = $session.system_language`

Annotations (7)

Name	Value	Level
AccessControl.authorizationCheck	#CHECK	view
VDM.viewType	#BASIC	view
ObjectModel.usageType.serviceQuality	#B	view
ObjectModel.usageType.sizeCategory	#L	view
ObjectModel.usageType.dataClass	#TRANSACTIONAL	view
EndUserText.label	Equipment to BOM Link	view
Metadata.ignorePropagatedAnnotations	true	view

Fields (7)

Key	Field	Source Field	Description
KEY	BillOfMaterial	stlnr	Bill of Material
KEY	BillOfMaterialVariant	stlal	Alternative BOM
KEY	Equipment	equnr	Equipment Number
KEY	Plant	werks	Receiving Plant
KEY	BillOfMaterialVariantUsage	stlan	BOM Usage
	BillOfMaterialCategory		BOM category
	_BillOfMaterialUsage	_BillOfMaterialUsage

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_EquipmentBOMLink.
-- 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_EquipmentBOMLink AS
SELECT
  stlnr AS BillOfMaterial,
  stlal AS BillOfMaterialVariant,
  equnr AS Equipment,
  werks AS Plant,
  stlan AS BillOfMaterialVariantUsage,
  cast ('E' as stlty preserving type) AS BillOfMaterialCategory
FROM eqst
LEFT OUTER JOIN I_BillOfMaterialUsage AS _BillOfMaterialUsage ON BillOfMaterialVariantUsage = _BillOfMaterialUsage.BillOfMaterialVariantUsage AND _BillOfMaterialUsage.Language = $session.system_language  -- association [0..1]
;

Depth:

I_EquipmentBOMLink view_entity

eqst