Personalizing the Possible Entries Help

Use

The possible entries help is a standard function available in the SAP system. You can display the list of all possible input values for a screen field with the input help.

For example, the possible entries help for the Sold-to party field in transaction Create Sales Order (VA01) would be displayed as follows:

You can adjust a list. You can save settings that

Modify the behavior of all possible entries helps

Modify the behavior of a single possible entries help

Procedure

To adjust a possible entries help, proceed as follows:

Call the possible entries help for any field.

Click the right mouse-button or choose the Ctrl-F4 key combination. Choose Personalize from the context menu.

The Personalize option of the context menu is only available in the hit list.

The following dialog box appears.

Make your settings for the current possible entries help or for all possible entries helps. Note the following information:

Settings you can make globally for all possible entries helps or for the current possible entries help:

Display the personal value list: You can specify if an existing personal value list should be displayed immediately or not.

Behavior when exactly one hit: If the system finds one hit only for the possible entries help, you can either display this hit on the hit list or have it returned directly to the screen.

Maximum width of hit list: You can determine the maximum width (number of characters) of the hit list in order to adjust the possible entries help to small monitors.

Maximum number of displayed hits: You can determine the maximum number of lines that the hit list should contain when called for the first time.

Settings you can make additionally for a single possible entries help only:

Hiding and exchanging of rows: The user can hide rows of the hit list. The list of hidden columns is saved. These columns will not be displayed the next time you call up the possible entries help. This allows you to hide columns that you do not need and makes the hit list easier to read. You can also swap columns in the hit list.

Skipping the selection popup: You can specify if the hit list is to be displayed immediately or if a selection screen should be displayed where you can further restrict the values.

Setting you can make globally for all possible entries helps only:

Display: You can determine whether the entries help is to be displayed in a search help control, in a dialog box, or in accordance with the system default.

For more information about how your settings affect the behavior of the possible entries help, see the F1 help for the individual parameters.