In the context of my SAP Application I added a column to an existing table and would like to define a default value for it, so that old code working with the table (code that is inserting lines especially) doesn't have to care about the new column - rather I want it to be filled with a predefined default value automatically (only if no value is specified of course).
The DB-system that lies behind is an Oracle-DB, though I have only access to it through the SAP-GUI and the ABAP-SQL.
As our company expert for SAP did not know if this is possible I thought maybe someone here would. So - is this possible and if it is - how?
Edit - Requested Scenario details: The scenario is actually very simple: We have a users-table for our application containing the standard user stuff (name, some setting, Ids, division, a bunch of flags and so on), and I added a column to store a simple setting (the design the user has chosen for his webinterface). It contains simply a name (char 40). That's the column I talked about above and I want the default value for it to be let's say "Default Design".