The extended table maintenance offers a convenient standard maintenance dialog for processing table contents, which can be modified for use in applications.

The maintenance dialog can be used for table views as well as for pure tables (without view definitions in the Dictionary) of type "C" (maintenance) or "H" (help).

It will therefore gradually replace the existing table maintenance, which only remains valid for tables which were created before Release 3.0. Such tables often do not yet contain the maintenance modules which are required for the extended table maintenance. For such tables, the maintenance modules can be generated later, so that the extended table maintenance can also be used for them. Other tables have individual modifications in the maintnance logic which must first be integrated in the extended table maintenance logic. Such old tables are currently being converted by SAP.

The maintenance dialog has comprehensive user interface functionality, which guarantees that maintenance procedures are comprehensible and transparent.

The extended table maintenance dialog can be called via the menu or be integrated into applications.