Maintenance views enable a business-oriented view on data, while at the same time, making it possible to maintain the data involved. Data from several tables can be combined in a maintenance view and maintained collectively with this view. That is, the data is entered with the view and then distributed to the underlying tables by the system.

A standardized table maintenance transaction is provided for this (SM30), permitting you to maintain the data from the base tables of a view at one time. The data can often also be maintained with customizing transactions.

Maintenance mechanisms, like screens and processing programs, must be created from the view definition with a special transaction (SE54). This makes it possible to generate comfortable maintenance user interfaces in a simple manner.