Hierarchy of the Search Help Call 

Search helps can be attached to screen fields in different ways. Several search helps can thus be assigned to one screen field. Conflict situations when calling the input help are resolved with a hierarchy of different types of search help attachment.

When you call the input help for a screen field, there is first a check if an input help is defined for the field on the screen. There are three cases here. If there is a programmed help with PROCESS ON VALUE-REQUEST , it is executed. If there is no programmed help, the system tries to call the search help assigned to the field on the screen. If no search help is assigned to the field on the screen, the help defined with FIELD SELECT or FIELD VALUES is offered.

If no input help is defined for the field on the screen, the system tries to call the search help attached to the table field. If there is no search help here, it tries to display the check table help. There are two cases here. If a search help is attached to the check table, it is displayed. Otherwise only the key values of the check table are displayed. If there is a text table for the check table, the text for the key value is added in the user’s logon language.

If there is no check table for the field, the system tries to call the search help from the data element. If there is no search help for the data element either, existing domain fixed values are displayed. The calendar help and time help are automatically provided for fields with data type DATS and TIMS.