BasicText for a Material

Hello Arun,

The various texts for the material (as well as the other objects in SAP) are all sroted in a cluster table in the database.

The concept of a text-object comes into play here. If you go to the table TTXOT and search for the 'Material texts, sales', you will see that the text-object for the sales-text of the material is <b>MVKE</b>.

Now go to the table STXL, where the material text is actually stored in various languages ( obviously those that are maintained for that material ). Now this STXL is a cluster table and the data can only be intelligibly retrieved through a IMPORT statement.

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parameters p_matnr type matnr.

data: temp_text type table of tline with header line,

      where_cond(20) type c.

data : begin of text_id ,
         tdobject(10) value 'MVKE',
         tdname(70),
         tdid(4)      value '0001',
         tdspras   value 'D',
       end of text_id.

start-of-selection.

concatenate '%'
            p_matnr
            '%'
       into where_cond.


select single tdname
  from stxl
  into text_id-tdname
 where relid   = 'TX' and
       tdspras = 'E'  and
       tdname like where_cond.

import tline = temp_text[]
  from database stxl(TX) id text_id.

write: / sy-subrc.

loop at temp_text.
  write : / temp_text-tdline.
endloop.

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The above code fetches the Sales text for a material from the database and displays it on the list.

Hope this is clear enough.

Regards,

Anand Mandalika.