Finding a Document via Text Elements (SAP Library

Finding a Document via Text Elements

Prerequisites

You can only find a document using text elements if you know a text string from the descriptive text. The system reads the short and long texts that describe the document and searches for a character string that you enter.

Procedure

Choose Document ® Find.

You see the Find Document: Selection criteria.

Select the Texts tab page.

Enter the language you want the system to use to search for the text string.

Enter a search term or text string in the first line. Capitalization is not important because all characters are converted to capitals.

The following special characters can be used as wild cards within the string:

* an unspecified number of characters or no character

+ An individual character.

You have six lines for variants that you can set as AND links or OR links.

If you know character strings that do not occur in the description of the document you are looking for, you can enter them in the last three text lines (BUT NOT). Document info records that contain these negative search criteria do not appear in the search result.

The class data remain even when you repeat a search. You can recognize text elements by their tab page. The title Texts is indicated by the character (*).

Confirm your entries. Choose another tab page or start the find function with Execute.

Result

You see the search result in the form of a list containing all the documents that meet the search criteria you entered.

From this list, you can change and display documents and display original application data.