To find a field value from a table

Question

i want to get some field value from a data dictionary table.
for eg Tragr from Mara. in Fields list it shows the field is in Mara table. but in content screen it does not showing the field at all. Actually of 220 fields of mara table only 99 fields are shown. how to view all the fields of a particular field. is there any setting is there.

Answer 1

Hi Deva,
When we execute any table by default SAP will display only few columns.(90 i guess) If we want to view all the columns of the table then do like this after executing the table i.e in ur table output.
Menupath->Settings->User parameters->choose radiobotton
Grid display Here u can see all the fields.
If u don't want to see all the fields then do like this.
Settings->listformat->Choosefields->Deselectall->Select what
ever fields u want using the search button in bottom and press enter. It will display only selected fields.
Some times we will come up with strange situations.
EG: In the field list some field will be there. But if u select that field from that table in select query it will give u syntax error saying field xxx does't exist in table yyy. This field is nothing but text table field. If u want to select this field then u have to select it from the text table. U can find the text table exist for some table or not in
Menupath->goto->text table. (In this case makt is text table for mara)
Just check below code for ur reference.
DATA: wa_mara TYPE  mara.
SELECT SINGLE * INTO wa_mara FROM MARA .
Here if u go to mara table u have field MAKTX But above select will not return the field maktx even we are refering wa_mara to data base table mara. We have to explicitly select it from MAKT.
Hope this clarified all ur doubts.
Thanks,
Vinod.