Search help

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what is append search-help and customizing include. Plz give examples.Points will be rewarded

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An append search help is used to enhance a collective search help (that is not the original in the current system) by further search paths (elementary search helps) without modifications. This technique can be used for example by special developments, country versions, SAP partners and SAP customers to add further search paths to a collective search help in the SAP standard version.

An append search help has a fixed assignment to a collective search help (of your appending object). This appending object is enhanced with an append search help. The structure of an append search help corresponds to the structure of a collective search help.

The append search help takes on the parameters of your appending object. An append search help is automatically included in your appending object. The parameters of both search helps having the same name are assigned to one another.

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A Customizing include is a structure that satisfies a special naming convention. The name of a Customizing include begins with ‘CI_’ and the include is in the customer namespace.

If enhancements are already planned in the standard using customer-specific fields, such Customizing includes are included. in the corresponding standard table or standard structure. The Customizing include (that is the definition of the structure itself) is usually first created in the customer system and filled with fields by special Customizing transactions.

Customers can thus enhance tables and structures of the standard system without themselves having to modify the table and structure definitions. This means that these enhancements will not be lost when upgrading. If a table or structure of the standard system is enhanced with customer fields using a Customizing include, these customer fields are automatically inserted in the new delivered table or structure definition during an upgrade.

If you create a Customizing include for a table or structure, only those enhancements are allowed that are consistent with the enhancement category of the enhanced table or structure. For more information, see Structure Enhancements.

Customers can but need not create a Customizing include and fill it with fields. If there is no Customizing include, there is no error message when the table or structure including it is activated.

A Customizing include can be contained in several tables or structures, so that they remain consistent when the include is modified.

The order of the fields in the ABAP Dictionary can differ from the order of the fields in the database. Inserting fields in a Customizing include does not result in a data conversion for transparent tables containing this include (see Adjusting Database Structures). The new fields of the ABAP Dictionary table are simply appended to the database table.

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Hi,

Importance

If the end user don't know the input to the field whish he have to give, the ser=arch help input are acts as input help for that field and following are some notes about the append stsearch help.

An append search help is used to enhance a collective search help (that is not the original in the current system) by further search paths (elementary search helps) without modifications. This technique can be used for example by special developments, country versions, SAP partners and SAP customers to add further search paths to a collective search help in the SAP standard version.

An append search help has a fixed assignment to a collective search help (of your appending object). This appending object is enhanced with an append search help. The structure of an append search help corresponds to the structure of a collective search help.

Append search helps can also be used themselves to describe an input help. In this case they are used like collective search helps. A search help exit cannot be assigned to an append search help.

Elementary search helps without modifications can be hidden in an SAP collective search help with an append search help. You have to include the search help to be hidden in the append search help as well and hide the inclusion there. The search path defined with this search help is no longer offered in the appending search help.

If the parameters of the appending object change, this change is not automatically made in the append search help. Instead, you are informed that you should adjust the parameters of the append search help. In this case you should check if you want to change the assignments between the parameters of the append search help and the search helps included in them.

It would not make sense to automatically change the interface of the appending objects since if the interface of the collective search help changes, some of the contained elementary search helps normally have to be adjusted to this change.

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Ganesh.

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Hi Ajaya ,

Both Append search helps and customizing includes comes undrer enhancements and modifications.

Customizing includes are created by SAP to include customer

specific fields to the standard tables.

suppose I want to add an Zfield to a table say ANLU , u can adding using this.for this u have to search the table for a customer iclude which is implemented using the keyword

CI_XXXXX .Double click on that include will take to a structure

where u can add ur own fields.

An append search help is used for modification-free enhancement of a collective search help (that is not the original in the current system) with further search help inclusions. This technique can be used for example in special developments and country versions, and by SAP partners and customers to add further search paths to a collective search help of the standard system.

An append search help has a fixed assignment to a collective search help (its appending object). This appending object is enhanced with the append search help.

The structure of an append search help corresponds to that of a collective search help, but the append search help takes on the parameters of its appending object so that it cannot be maintained separately any longer. Furthermore, an append search help cannot be assigned a search help exit.

An append search help is automatically included in its appending object. The parameters of the two search helps having the same name are assigned to each other.

Procedure: Proceed as follows to enhance a collective search help of the standard system with your own search paths:

1. For each search path, create an elementary search help in your namespace and activate these search helps.

2. In display mode, go to the maintenance screen for the collective search help and choose Goto -> Append search helps. Create the append search help in your namespace.

3. Include the elementary search help defined in the first step in the append search help. Maintain the parameter assignments between the parameters of the append search help and the parameters of the included search helps.

4. Activate the append search help. The append search help is automatically added to your appending object. The search paths inserted in the append search help are now available in the collective search help. They appear at the end of the list of available elementary search helps.

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Surya Pydikondala

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hi,

Release 4.6 provides an appendtechnique that permits the enhancement of collective search helps without modifications.

An append search help is a collective search help that is assigned to another collective search help (itsappending object) and that enhances it with the search helps it includes. The append search help usesthe interface of its appending objects.

The append search help lies in the customer namespace. Normally the search helps included in theappend search help are also created by the customer and lie in the customer's namespace. With append search helps, search helps for

standard collective search helps can be added or hidden without modifications.

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Thanks,

Rajyalakshmi.