Additional Information (SAP Library - Introduction: Overview)

Additional Information

You can display the following additional information for every key figure in the list:

Documentation (on the report, program, transaction, or table which is used to call up the key figure)

Retrieval path

Technical information

You can also display a selection log with the function Display retrieval path when a key figure list is used that results from a key figure search via text strings and classification.

Displaying Documentation

This is how you view the documentation on the program, report, or transaction with which the key figure is called up:

Position this cursor on the desired key figure in the list.

Select Details ® Documentation.

Displaying Technical Information

Select Details ® Technical information to display the following technical information on a key figure:

General data:
Internal number of key figure; description; application from which the key figure is derived

LIS reference (only for key figures that are integrated into the Logistics Information System):
Name of the table that was generated for the information structure; field name of the key figure in the information structure

Execution:
Name of the program, report, transaction, or table with which the key figure is called up

Statistics:
Number of times the key figure has been called up, name of the last person to change it, date of this change

Displaying Classifying Attributes

Select Edit ® Classification to view a window showing the classifying attributes assigned to this key figure.

Displaying the Retrieval Path

Note

This function can only be executed when using a key figure list, which was created as a result of a key figure retrieval via the retrieval options text string and classification.

Select Details ® Display retrieval path to view the selection log.

This log gives you the following information:

Selection type
The option (info sets, classification, text retrieval) via which the key figures list was created.

Internal number and short description of the selected info set
This information is only displayed if the key figure was retrieved via the info sets option.

Number of key figure selected (that is, how many were selected)

List of the key figures selected
An internal number, description, and name of the report/program/transaction code/table used to call up the measure is listed for each key figure.