Call And Operation
The maintenance dialog can be called in the following ways:
When calling the maintenance transaction, you can restrict the records which will be read from the database for display and processing. The menu call selection path is System
If the records read from the database were restricted, you can also only maintain, including create, records which satisfy the restrictions.
This restriction is not the same as selecting among records for particular processing (e.g. delete or copy) during processing.
The application can control maintenance processing. This control could be e.g. a restriction of the work area which is read in from the database, or a data consistency check before writing to the database.
An overview (list) screen for the table or view which is to be processed is displayed first. For two-step procedures, or tables or views whose records contain more fields than can be displayed in one screen line, a detail screen can be called for the individual overview screen records.