Maintaining table entries

Editing the rows of a custom or customising table through a generic or generated screen, with value helps, checks and a transport for what changed, so that no maintenance application is written per table. Looking at what a table holds is browsing table data, even where one transaction does both.

Overview

SAP SHIPS

SM30 and SM31 edit tables through maintenance dialogs created in SE54. In ABAP for Cloud Development the Generate ABAP Repository Objects wizard builds a draft-enabled RAP business object from a table, whose entries are edited in the Custom Business Configurations app with changes recorded on a customising transport.

Not covered: Both are generated per table. SE54 writes a dialog for one table, and the wizard accepts only client-dependent tables of delivery class C and cannot overwrite objects it has already created.

How the generated dialogs and the community editors came to be present side by side has not been assessed.

SourceABAP Keyword Documentation 7.51 — Displaying and Editing Database Tableschecked 2026-09-14

THE COMMUNITY ADDS

Editors that open a table without a generation step, some adding change documents and per-table extensions, one that runs in the browser on classic and cloud releases alike (table-maintenance), and a low-footprint one served over HTTP for a single table named in its code (open-table-maintenance).

table-maintenance ZABAP_TABLE_EDIT open-table-maintenance cute

Artifacts4

4 of 4 artifacts

ArtifactSignals

Apps3

cuteCustom Table Editor editing table rows in an editable ALV grid

Signals

Quiet

table-maintenanceBrowser-based table maintenance UI built on abap2UI5

Signals

Functional boundary

ZABAP_TABLE_EDITGeneric ABAP table editor writing its own change documents

Signals

none

Packages1

open-table-maintenanceTable maintenance over HTTP for a table fixed in code

Signals

Functional boundary

Details

Coverage

statecore and community, ABAP

assessed2026-09-14

relationshipunassessed

domainData & Persistence

SourceABAP Keyword Documentation 7.51 — Displaying and Editing Database Tableschecked 2026-09-14SourceSAP BTP documentation — Generating a Business Configuration Maintenance Object with the Generate ABAP Repository Objects Wizardchecked 2026-09-14SourceSAP BTP documentation — Custom Business Configurations Appchecked 2026-09-14

For your agent

Ref: capability:table-maintenance
JSON: /capabilities/table-maintenance.json
MCP: Connecting an agent