Field description in roles

Hi All,
We are developing a custom application where we need to pull the field description e.g. ACTVT = Activity, BERGRU = Authorization group etc. I need to know how to link the technical name of the field to its description and get the output in a report (e.g as in report USR030 where the field description appears). Any pointers?
Many thanks
Vijaya

Sorry, I misread your question.
This is indeed a bit trickier because it depends of the field type of the authorization field. You can find this in table AUTHX, but as there are many you cannot reasonably do any download or joining of tables, but would need to do it programmatically.
See this thread for your options: Authorisation Field Texts - Where are they defined?
There is an easy way and a hard way
Cheers,
Julius

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