Video Lesson 4.6: How to create ABAP Structures

In this lesson you will learn how to create ABAP structures and nested structures in the dictionary.

A structure (structured type) comprises components (fields). Types are defined for the components A component can refer to an elementary type (via a data element or by directly specifying the data type and length in the structure definition), another structure or a table type. A structure can therefore be nested to any depth.

You should now be able to:

• Define structured data objects (structure variables)
• Use basic ABAP statements for structured data objects
• Create a structure in the ABAP Dictionary