Creating Maintenance Dialogs

Procedure

With the maintenance transaction to generate table maintenance dialogs ( Start of the navigation path Tools Next navigation step ABAP Workbench Development Other Tools Change Documents End of the navigation path ) you can provide the following maintenance components:

Generated Objects

All maintenance modules required to call the maintenance dialog.
Table or View Definition in the Dictionary

You can edit the definition of the current table or view. You can specify access authorizations at table and field level, in the definition. You can specify whether entries in the overview screen have a detail screen.

Note

This is necessary for two-step procedures, and for tables or views whose entries cannot be shown completely in the overview screen, because of their number or the length of their fields. It can also be useful if input fields in complicated maintenance procedures need longer explanatory texts, e.g. by showing data from foreign key tables.
Authorization Groups

You can create authorization groups for tables or views. The activities defined for the authorization group apply while a maintenance dialog is being used for the tables or views of the authorization group.
Authorization group assignment

You can group tables or views.

To be able to call the maintenance dialog, you must generate the table and view-specific maintenance modules. Proceed as follows:

Choose Tools ABAP Workbench Development Further Tools Gen.Tab.Maint. Dialog. You go to the initial screen of the maintenance transaction
Enter the name of the table or view.
Select the Generated Objects option.
Choose Create/Change.
Confirm in the next dialog window that the maintenance modules are to be created.

Note

Alternatively for steps 1-5, you can call the function Utilities Gener. Maint. Dialog for the table or view in the Dictionary (Workbench Development Dictionary). You go directly to the maintenance screen for the current table's generated objects.
Enter the data required for the generation:
- Function group to which the maintenance modules are to belong
  
  Note
  
  You can put maintenance modules for several tables or views in a function group.
- Authorization group
- Maintenance type (one or two-step)
- Number of maintenance screen (one-step maintenance), or screens (two-step maintenance)
- Recording routine (standard/individual or none)
Choose Create. All required maintenance modules are now generated.

Note

If you want to make changes later, you must then call the function Change, to regenerate the maintenance modules affected.

Then you can call the standard maintenance dialog or the maintenance function modules for the table or view.