Attaching to Screen Fields

Attaching to Screen Fields

A search help can be directly allocated to a screen field. In this case, the input help is only available for this screen. If the same field is used on several screens, the search help should generally be attached to the table field or structure field (see Attaching to Table Fields).

You can attach a search help directly to a screen in the following ways.

The name of the search help must be entered in the Screen Painter in the Attributes for the field in the field Search help.

The name of the search help can be defined in ABAP reports in the PARAMETERS or SELECT-OPTIONS statement directly following the supplement AS SEARCH PATTERN.

In both cases this allocates the first parameter of the search help to the screen field. As a result, it is only possible to return one value from the hit list to the screen template.