Answer / jyothirmaikaza

Domain - Specifies the technical attributes of a data
element - its data type, length, possible values, and
appearance on the screen.Each data element has an
underlying domain. A single domain can be the basis for
several data elements. Domains are objects in the ABAP
Dictionary.
Data Element - Describes the business function
of a table field. Its technical attributes are based on a
domain, and its business function is described by its field
labels and documentation.

Answer / kiran

Domain: describes the data type .
Data element: Nothing but the semantic representation of
fields (ex: Label names)

Answer / bun's

IN ADDITION TO ABOVE....

IN DOMAIN SCREEN U CAN GIV VALUE TABLE NAME....

IN DATAELEMENT SCREEN U CAN ASSIGN PARAMETER id N SEARCH-
HELP FOR A PERTICULAR FIELD...

THIS IS IMPORTANT FROM DEFINATION....

THANKS

Answer / madalam yasaswini

TO UNDERSTAND SIMPLY.....
CONSIDER FIELD 'NAME'
HERE CHAR AND LENGTH etc OF THE NAME REFER TO DOMAIN WHERE
AS
DATA ELEMENT REFERS TO 'name of what?'
eg: name of a person or name of a Product etc
data element has a description...

Answer / naveen padhmanaban

It is a semantic characteristics of a table field Data elements appear as objects in the dictionary. Because they are objects
in their own right, you can
reuse data elements within the same table or among fields in several tables.
It contains:
- Domain name
- Field label
- F1 documentation : TCODE – SE61.
Type name of document and select document class & language. Use this document name as a reference to
link with another document in which you have selected a text which is to be hyperlinked. Insert -> link -> document
class, name.

Domain:
It is a technical characteristics of a field.
A domain specifies information like data type , length & decimal places.
Like data elements, domains are stored as objects in the Dictionary.
You can reuse domains just as you can reuse data elements.
•Conversion

Answer / sasikala

While creating a table,
Domain is used to specify the data type and size of a field
where as using data element we can give the label to that
field

Answer / vihari

domain:domain is technical object.they have
data type ,length,value range..

datelement:dataelement is business object they
field label like label..

Answer / waseem

same 'Domain' can be basis for many data elements
Vs
Where as same 'Data Element' cannot have more than one
Domain.

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