Name of Element

Explanation

Object name

The name of the application you are logged on to, for example, Campaign Management or Account Management.

Message

Displayed directly under the object name. The seriousness of the message is shown by a traffic light icon.

Click the List link to display all error messages.

Click the Details link to display the details of a particular error message.

Search area

This area allows you to search for data, such as sales documents or customer data.

Using the search, you can search for your data records using the Show and Get fields (for explanations of these fields, see below).

In the advanced search, you can search for data according to more specific search criteria.

Show

In the Show field, the search profile My Favorites is the default setting. If you have created additional search profiles, you can call them up by clicking the arrow to the right-hand side of the field. As soon as you have made your selection here, the system starts the search.

Get

In the Get field, you can select an individual criterion by clicking the arrow to the right-hand side of the field. In the second input field, you can enter a particular search condition.

Start

Click the Start pushbutton to start your Get search.

Advanced search

Click the Open Advanced Search pushbutton to go to the Advanced Search screen, which is described in more detail under Performing an Advanced Search.

The search fields and search conditions in the Advanced Search screen vary, depending on the application.

Here you can also save a search template and give it a descriptive name. You can then later display the saved search template in the Show field.

Help

Click this link to access help information about the current application. For more information about this function, see Calling Help.

Search result

Area that displays the data records in a list or form. The top of this area has its own toolbar that provides various functions for processing the objects displayed and for viewing the table (see Search result toolbar below).

Search result toolbar

Expandable toolbar that contains buttons for handling the data records with the standard functions Create, Save, and Change. Depending on the specific application, there can be other buttons on this toolbar. For more information, see Search Result Toolbar.

Toggle button

To switch between list view and form view.

Personalize

Click this link to personalize the result list.

Detail areas 1 and 2

All the relevant data from the data record selected in the search result is made available here for you to process.

Detail area 1 displays important attributes of the data record and the data is further grouped and sorted into tab pages.

Detail area 2 contains objects or details that are hierarchically dependent on the information contained in detail area 1.