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The Quick Assist view supports you when executing refactorings and ABAP quick fixes, or when generating ABAP source code.

It interacts directly with the ABAP source code editor. At every position where a quick assist can be applied, the content of the Quick Assist view is therefore automatically updated according to the selection made.

As an alternative to the Quick Fix (Ctrl 1) menu, the Quick Assist view (Ctrl Shift 1) provides a permanent view of the available quick assists.

The layout of the Quick Assist view is divided into the following areas:

  • Proposal overview. This provides a list of possible quick assists at the current cursor position in the source code editor.
  • Description per proposal This provides details about the operating steps of the quick assist that you can do next.
    Note The display depends on the entry that you have selected in the Proposal overview.
  • Previous Result Displaysing the changes performed by the recently applied quick assist. If the quick assist cannot be applied, an error message is displayed.
From the integrated toolbar, you can do the following:
  • Apply the selected proposal.
  • Disable link with editor to turn off automatic proposal calculation.
  • Rearrange the Quick Assist view layout setup to horizontal, vertical, or automatic to your selected perspective.
  • Delete the displayed Previous Result content.
  • Display or clear the history of the executed quick assists.
  • Enable a preview of changes to be performed.
Note To open the Quick Assist view, choose Start of the navigation path Window Next navigation step Show view Next navigation step Other... End of the navigation path from the menu. In the Show view dialog, select Quick Assist from the ABAP tree.
Example

Before Exececution

You want to change the visibility of method drive. When you select the method name, the possible quick assists are displayed in the Proposals area. If you select one of these, additional information is displayed in the area below.

Quick assist view setup before executing a quick assist
Figure 1: Quick assist view setup before executing a quick assist

After Exececution

After double-clicking the proposal or selecting Apply Proposal from the context menu, the method definition is moved to the private section of the ABAP class.

The tree in the Proposals area is updated to the quick assists that are now available at the selected cursor position.

If the quick assist is applied without any errors, the Previous Result area is highlighted in green for two seconds. Here, also the status with the last execution date and the insertion result of the performed changes are now displayed. You can navigate from here directly to the positions where changes have been performed in the source code editor.

Quick assist view setup after executing a quick assist
Figure 2: Quick assist view setup after executing a quick assist