Deprecated
This CDS view is deprecated in S/4HANA. Use I_ProductBrand instead. View all deprecated CDS views →

I_Brand

DDL: I_BRAND Type: view BASIC
2 Fields 1 Data Sources 1 Associations

Brand

I_Brand (Basic)

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Product Brand · Database & Data Management

I_Brand is a Basic CDS View (Dimension) that provides data about "Brand" in SAP S/4HANA. It reads from 1 data source (wrf_brands) and exposes 2 fields with key field Brand. It has 1 association to related views.

SAP Help Documentation

CategoryProducts
Data CategoryDimension
Purpose
This CDS view helps to read the defined labels for retail articles. The articles used in retail are mainly manufacturer or private labels. During article master maintenance, you can categorize articles by assigning them to a label. You can also use this categorization for reporting purposes. This CDS view provides the data to answer the following business question: What are different brands available in the system that are used to categorize retail articles? 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
Important Fields Important fields in this view include the following: Field Name Description brand_id (Key) Brand BRAND_DESCR Brand name

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StateC1
Line of BusinessDatabase & Data Management
Application ComponentLO-MD-MM
CapabilitiesData Source in SQL Select, Data Source for Defining CDS Entities, Association Target for Defining CDS Entities, Data Source for Search, Data Provider for Value Help, Analytical Dimension, Data Source for Data Extraction
PackageDatabase & Data Management for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition
Description <p>This CDS view helps to read the defined labels for retail articles. </p> <p>The articles used in retail are mainly manufacturer or private labels. During article master maintenance, you can categorize articles by assigning them to a label. You can also use this categorization for reporting purposes.</p> <p>This CDS view provides the data to answer the following business question:</p> <p>What are different brands available in the system that are used to categorize retail articles?</p> <p>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.</p>

Documentation

Data Sources (1)

SourceAliasJoin Type
wrf_brands wrf_brands from

Associations (1)

CardinalityTargetAliasCondition
[0..*] I_BrandText _Text $projection.Brand = _Text.Brand

Annotations (24)

NameValueLevelField
AbapCatalog.sqlViewName IBRAND view
AbapCatalog.compiler.compareFilter true view
AbapCatalog.preserveKey true view
AbapCatalog.buffering.status #ACTIVE view
AbapCatalog.buffering.type #FULL view
VDM.lifecycle.status #DEPRECATED view
VDM.lifecycle.successor I_ProductBrand view
EndUserText.label Brand view
AccessControl.authorizationCheck #NOT_REQUIRED view
ClientHandling.algorithm #SESSION_VARIABLE view
Analytics.dataCategory #DIMENSION view
VDM.viewType #BASIC view
ObjectModel.compositionRoot true view
ObjectModel.representativeKey Brand view
ObjectModel.sapObjectNodeType.name ProductBrand view
ObjectModel.usageType.serviceQuality #A view
ObjectModel.usageType.sizeCategory #M view
ObjectModel.usageType.dataClass #CUSTOMIZING view
ObjectModel.dataCategory #VALUE_HELP view
Search.searchable true view
Metadata.ignorePropagatedAnnotations true view
Consumption.ranked true view
ObjectModel.modelingPattern #VALUE_HELP_PROVIDER view
Analytics.dataExtraction.enabled true view

Fields (2)

KeyFieldSource TableSource FieldDescription
KEY Brand brand_id Brand
_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_Brand.
-- 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_Brand AS
SELECT
  brand_id AS Brand
FROM wrf_brands
LEFT OUTER JOIN I_BrandText AS _Text ON Brand = _Text.Brand  -- association [0..*]
;

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