What is I_Region in SAP S/4HANA?

I_Region is a basic CDS view in SAP S/4HANA. Region It contains 4 fields.

Which tables does I_Region read from?

I_Region reads data from: t005s.

What VDM layer is I_Region?

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

I_Region

DDL: I_REGION SQL: IREGION Type: view BASIC

4 Fields 1 Data Sources 2 Associations

Region

I_Region (Basic)

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Region · Cross Applications

I_Region is a Basic CDS View (Dimension) that provides data about "Region" in SAP S/4HANA. It reads from 1 data source (t005s) and exposes 4 fields with key fields Country, Region. It has 2 associations to related views.

SAP Help Documentation

Category	CDS Views for Business Address Service
Data Category	Dimension

Purpose
This CDS view returns information about the region of a postal address. The regional information varies with countries. For example, in Australia or Canada, region would refer to a province; in Brazil or Germany, it would refer to a state; in Great Britain, to a county, in Switzerland, to a canton, and so on. This CDS view provides the data to answer the following business questions: What is the region where the address is located? 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 .

Prerequisites
Authorizations Users who want to use this CDS view don't need any special authorization.

Structure
Important Fields Important fields in this view include the following: Field Name Description Country Country or Region Key Region Region (State, Province, County)

Data Extraction
Data Extraction Type This CDS view is enabled for data extraction in full mode.

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SAP API Hub

State	C1
Line of Business	Cross Applications
Application Component	BC-SRV-ADR
Capabilities	Data Source in SQL Select, Association Target for Defining CDS Entities, Data Source for Defining CDS Entities
Package	Cross Applications for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition

Documentation

Analytics with CDS Views — Build Analytics for S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition ABAP CDS views replicated to SAP Cloud Platform
CDS Views on SAP Business Accelerator Hub — Explore SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition CDS Views on SAP Business Accelerator Hub
Create CDS View as API — Create CDS views in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition and consume them as APIs
Custom CDS Views — Access data using a Custom Core Data Service view (Custom CDS view)
Key User Extensibility Tools — The Key User Extensibility Tools of S/4HANA
SAP Extensibility Explorer for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition — Explore SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition Extensibility options by leveraging the sample scenarios from SAP
SAP S/4HANA Extensibility — SAP S/4HANA Extensibility Tutorial
VDM View Types — The Virtual Data Model in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition
View Browser — Search, browse and tag CDS Views

Data Sources (1)

Source	Alias	Join Type
t005s	t005s	from

Associations (2)

Cardinality	Target	Alias	Condition
[0..*]	I_RegionText	_RegionText	`$projection.Region = _RegionText.Region and $projection.Country = _RegionText.Country`
[1..1]	I_Country	_Country	`$projection.Country = _Country.Country`

Annotations (16)

Name	Value	Level
ClientHandling.algorithm	#SESSION_VARIABLE	view
ObjectModel.representativeKey	Region	view
ObjectModel.sapObjectNodeType.name	Region	view
ObjectModel.usageType.dataClass	#CUSTOMIZING	view
ObjectModel.usageType.serviceQuality	#A	view
ObjectModel.usageType.sizeCategory	#M	view
AbapCatalog.sqlViewName	IREGION	view
AbapCatalog.preserveKey	true	view
AbapCatalog.compiler.compareFilter	true	view
EndUserText.label	Region	view
Analytics.dataCategory	#DIMENSION	view
Analytics.dataExtraction.enabled	true	view
AccessControl.authorizationCheck	#NOT_REQUIRED	view
VDM.viewType	#BASIC	view
Search.searchable	true	view
Metadata.ignorePropagatedAnnotations	true	view

Fields (4)

Key	Field	Source Table	Source Field	Description
KEY	Country	t005s	land1	Country/Region Key
KEY	Region	t005s	bland	Region (State, Province, County)
	_RegionText		_RegionText
	_Country		_Country

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_Region.
-- 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.
-- SQL view name: IREGION

CREATE VIEW I_Region AS
SELECT
  t005s.land1 AS Country,
  t005s.bland AS Region
FROM t005s
LEFT OUTER JOIN I_RegionText AS _RegionText ON Region = _RegionText.Region AND Country = _RegionText.Country  -- association [0..*]
LEFT OUTER JOIN I_Country AS _Country ON Country = _Country.Country  -- association [1..1]
;

Depth:

I_Region view

t005s