Long Text in SAP
Long text is used in various components to store comments or additional text freely. It is stored in ITF (Interchange Text Format) format and comprises of text header and text lines.
The text header contains all administrative information on a long text. Below diagram shows some important fields in the text header.
Text name (TDNAME): Customer-defined name of a text. It can be a maximum of 70 characters in length.
Language (TDSPRAS): The language key is an abbreviation for the language of the object being processed.
Text ID (TDID): The text ID defines the various types of texts related to a text object. The text ID must be defined in table TTXID together with the text object.
Text Object (TDOBJECT): It contains the name of the text object to which the text is allocated. This object must be defined in table TTXOB.