What does it do? Field of a data source> entity> of the current CDS view entity>. field> expects the actual name of the element. Any alternative element names defined using AS> > cannot be used, with the exception of the ON> condition of a CDS association>. If the view entity makes use of multiple data sources> by using join expressions, then all fields must be prefixed with the name of their data source separated by a period (.). The prefix is required in all cases, even if the field names are unique. For fields that are included via associations, special rules apply. See topic CDS DDL - CDS View Entity, path_expr>>.