PAPL SAP table for – Applicant master data

Here we would like to draw your attention to PAPL table in SAP. As we know it is being mainly used with the SAP PA-RC (Recruitment in PA) component which is coming under HR (HCM) PA module (Personnel Management). PAPL is a SAP standard transp table used for storing Applicant master data related data in SAP. If you want to download PDF material about SAP HR PA click here. It comes under the package PAPL.

SAP PAPL table

Table PAPL technical data

TablePAPL
Data storingApplicant master data
ModulePA
Sub ModulePA-RC
SAP PackagePAPL
Delivery ClassA – Application table (master and transaction data)
ComponentSAP_HRRXX
Table CategoryTRANSP

SAP PAPL Table Fields

Here is the details of each fields in this SAP table. You can find the discription, data type and assigned lenth of each of the fields in PAPL table.

  • MANDT : Client
    Its a key field. Its data type is CLNT (Character with length 3) with field length 3
  • PERNR : Applicant number
    Its a key field. Its data type is NUMC (Character String with Digits Only) with field length 8
  • INFTY : Infotype
    Its a key field. Its data type is CHAR (Character String) with field length 4
  • SUBTY : Subtype
    Its a key field. Its data type is CHAR (Character String) with field length 4
  • OBJPS : Object Identification
    Its a key field. Its data type is CHAR (Character String) with field length 2
  • SPRPS : Lock Indicator for HR Master Data Record
    Its a key field. Its data type is CHAR (Character String) with field length 1
  • ENDDA : End Date
    Its a key field. Its data type is DATS (Date (Date: YYYYMMDD)) with field length 8
  • BEGDA : Start Date
    Its a key field. Its data type is DATS (Date (Date: YYYYMMDD)) with field length 8
  • SEQNR : Number of Infotype Record With Same Key
    Its a key field. Its data type is NUMC (Character String with Digits Only) with field length 3
  • AEDTM : Last Changed On
    Its data type is DATS (Date (Date: YYYYMMDD)) with field length 8
  • UNAME : User Name
    Its data type is CHAR (Character String) with field length 12
  • HISTO : Historical Record Flag
    Its data type is CHAR (Character String) with field length 1
  • ITXNR : Text Module for Infotype
    Its data type is NUMC (Character String with Digits Only) with field length 8
  • PREAS : Reason for Changing Master Data
    Its data type is CHAR (Character String) with field length 2
  • DATA1 : HR master data field
    Its data type is RAW (Byte string) with field length 250
  • DATA2 : HR master data field
    Its data type is RAW (Byte string) with field length 250
  • DATA3 : HR master data field
    Its data type is RAW (Byte string) with field length 250
  • DATA4 : HR master data field
    Its data type is RAW (Byte string) with field length 178