Assigning Short Names (Biblioteca SAP - Sistema de información de personal)

Assigning Short Names

Use

You are able to assign a short name to every field that is made available by an InfoSet. Short names are used when the value of a field is displayed in a header (see Changing Headers) or when a field is used to calculate a local field (see Defining Local Fields).

Nota

Only in these cases do you need to assign a short name.

Prerequisites

You are in the Field Selection screen and want to create a new query or change an existing query.

Procedure

Use the

and

functions to navigate in the Field Selection screen.

If the input fields, in which you type the short names, do not appear automatically, choose the Edit ® Short Names ® On/Off function.

Type the short names into the appropriate input fields.

Atención

A short name has a maximum of 10 characters. It must always begin with a letter, and contain only letters, numbers, and underscores (‘ _ ‘).

Extra Functions

If you want to know whether a short name is needed, place the cursor on the field in question or on the short name and select Edit ® Short Names ® References. You get a list of all the places in the query definition where the short name is used.

Nota

This function returns a where-used list for the short names only . It does not indicate which sublists of the query use the associated field.

Example

The section on defining local fields, tells you how to determine a local field that uses the fields Distance and Flight Time. Short names are assigned to these two fields.

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