Search Helps in Plant Maintenance and Customer Service (SAP Library - Master Data in Plant Maintenance and Customer Service)

Search Helps in Plant Maintenance and Customer Service

In this step, you learn how to revise or redefine the available search helps (previously known as matchcodes).

You can find information about the functions for search help maintenance in the R/3 Library under Basis -> ABAP Development Workbench -> ABAP Dictionary -> Search Help.

Recommendation

To maintain the search help functions, technical knowledge of the ABAP Dictionary is required. The search help functions should be maintained by the system administration.

Standard Settings

The search helps provided in the standard system will suffice in many cases.

Activities

1. Check whether the search helps in the standard system are sufficient for your requirements.

2. If necessary, add the search helps for the relevant search help objects.

Further Notes

Search helps are created for all clients.

Note that having a large number of search helps can impair system performance. Check which search helps you want to use for your work area. You can deactivate search helps that you do not use.

To improve performance, it may be necessary to structure indices for the new or changed search helps.

From Release 4.0, the conventional matchcode search has been replaced by an improved search help. The maintenance transaction AD20 is now used for search help objects. Transaction AD21 can now be used to maintain the conventional matchcode objects.