Search help attached to standard screen

[Former Member]

Hi,

I want to know the name of the search help attached the standard screens. For example, on VA41 screen, I want to know search help attached to the field "Contract Type".

Can you guys pls suggest the way to find the search help name attached to given filed.

Thanks for your help.

[RichHeilman · Accepted solution]

Sure, go to the VA41 transaction, go to that field, hit F1 when on the field, now you will get a dialog, click the "Technical ingo" icon on the toolbar. Now you will see the technical data, now double click on the data element field, this will take you to the data element assigned to the field, Here you can see the attached search help. This is how you find attached search helps. In this particular case, that field does not use a search help, but it is tied to a check table via a foriegn key. The table is TVAK. The attached text table is TVAKT.

Regards,

Rich Heilman

Message was edited by: Rich Heilman

[RichHeilman · Accepted solution]

So if you don't find an attached search help in the data element, then you will want to check the table/field itself to see if there is a check table assigned. In this case, you would want to double click on the fieldname instead of the data element when displaying the technical info. This will take you to the table and the field. You can see if it is attached to a check table there.

Regards,

Rich Heilman

[suresh_datti · Accepted solution]

check table? Rich is it a typo? TVAK is the Value table for the domain AUART to which the data element AUART is tied to.

Regards,

Suresh Datti

[RichHeilman · Accepted solution]

Well, there is two ways of looking at this. If you were to create a "Z" table with the field AUART using the AUART data element, and activate the table, then use it in a program.

report zrich_0002.

parameters: p_auart type ztest-auart.

You will notice that there is no search help for this field. Now if you where to assign check table in the ZTEST table, then the search help will fire.

So to summarize, yes, you are correct in saying that the value table in the domain, dictates the values from the particular table, but does not necessarily mean that the field in VBAK database is actually using the check table, so I think if you want a fool proof way of finding the data related to the search help, you should check to see if the field of the table is attached to a check table via a foriegn key.

Make sense?

Ajay, if these answers were helpful, please consider awarding points. If you are satified completely, make sure to mark your post as solved. Thanks.

Regards,

Rich Heilman

[suresh_datti · Accepted solution]

Rich,

In this particular case, it is VA41 a standard transaction and I do not see any search help associated with the screen field Contract Type. The possible values are coming straight out of the Value Table TVAK. PL correct me if I am wrong.

Regards,

Suresh Datti

[RichHeilman · Accepted solution]

Yes, that's correct. Go to SE11, enter VBAK as the table name and click display, now look for the field AUART. Do you see here that that field is tied to a check table via a foriegn key. This is what I'm talking about. Yes, it is tied to and getting data from TVAK, but it is doing so because VBAK-AUART is tied to the check table TVAK. If there was no check table here, the value help would not be fired in VA41.

Regards,

Rich Heilman

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks for your replies.

If Search Help coming from check table, Can help contain more than two columns?

[suresh_datti]

Hi Ajay,

The possible values for the Contract Type are from the value table TVAK. ( this is tied to the Domain AUART ( Sales Order Type).

Regards,

Suresh Datti