Support of CDS Views
What are CDS Views?
CDS (Core Data Services) views are a key technology in SAP’s data modeling approach, providing a powerful way to define and consume structured data in SAP systems. CDS views allow developers to create semantically rich, reusable, and optimized database views that enhance performance and simplify application development. They are widely used in SAP S/4HANA, SAP BW/4HANA, and other SAP landscapes to expose data efficiently for analytical and transactional applications.
Supported types of CDS views
Classic CDS Views
Classic CDS Views are supported in the following Scenarios:
- As ‘Extraction View’ for Outbound interfaces
- As a source ‘Table’ in ASAPIO Payload Designer
CDS View Entities
- As of Release April 2025 (9.32504) CDS View Entities are supported as data source for outbound interfaces.
- As of Release October 2025 (9.32510), you can now create custom CDS view entities directly in ASAPIO Event Studio, and link them to a trigger event
- Please note: CDS view entities are NOT supported in the Classic SAP GUI-based ASAPIO Payload Designer. Please use ASAPIO Event Studio.
How to use a CDS view entity as data source
Interface configuration
In Event Studio
Please follow ASAPIO Event Studio documentation.
In classic SAP GUI customizing
To use CDS View Entities, please configure an outbound object with the following settings:
- Extraction Func. Mod: /ASADEV/ACI_GEN_VIEW_EXTRCT_S4
- Format Function: /ASADEV/ACI_GEN_VIEW_FRM_CB_S4
- Extraction View Name: the name of your CDS View Entity (Note: please be aware that the search help does not find CDS Entities, you can enter the value here anyway and it will work, but it can’t be selected via the search help)
