Using the Search Help for Applicant Numbers

Use

You want to find an applicant number. In this case, you call up the input help in the Applicant number field and execute the appropriate search help. This finds the desired applicant number in the system.

Procedure

  1. Call up the input help in the Applicant number field.
  2. Select the desired tab strip (personal data, for example). Each tab strip represents a different search help.

    3. The dialog box for the search help you selected appears. The system displays the maintainable fields for the selected search help, you can make entries accordingly.

    Note that you do not have to make entries in all the fields in the selected search help. You also have the option of making generic (e.g. M*) or masked (e.g. M++er) entries.

    Note that for most search helps, you also have the option of restricting the number of values suggested by the system. The system provides a default value. You can overwrite this value.

  3. Choose .

    4. The system displays a list of values that are assigned to the selected search path.

  4. Select the desired applicant number in the list displayed, and choose .

The system then writes this applicant’s applicant number to the Applicant number field.

Result

You have displayed a value list using search help and have selected the desired applicant. The system has written this applicant number to the Applicant number field.