Difference Between Domain Vs Data Element

Difference Between Domain Vs Data Element.

Domain

Domain – It is used to define the technical properties of a field such as data type or the number of positions in a field.

In the domain, you will set multiple features – case-sensitive, conversion routine, the decimal place, sign, and give value range which works as F4 help.

Also, you can give a table range in the domain that helps in establishing foreign keys.

How does case-sensitive work in the domain?

Case Not Checked – It will store in Capital format by default.

Case Checked – It will store in which format you enter, if entered in lowercase it will store in lowercase format and if you enter in capital so , it will store in uppercase.

Data element

The data element is contain a field label and domain characteristics.

In the data element, you use pre-define a data type, and also use a custom build data type(domain).

field labels (short, medium, long ) can be displayed later on the screen or selection screen to explain the field content.

In the data element, you can add search help by simply goto-> further characteristics->search help.

you need to add the search help name and parameter that you defined in the search help(DDIC).