Hierarchy
SAP_BASIS (Software Component) SAP Basis Component⤷
BC-DWB-DIC-F4 (Application Component) F4 Help⤷
SDSH (Package) ABAP Dictionary internal: Poss.entries (F4)
Basic Data
| Data Element | SHLPNAME |
| Short Description | Name of a Search Help |
Data Type
| Category of Dictionary Type | D | Domain |
| Type of Object Referenced | No Information | |
| Domain / Name of Reference Type | SHLPNAME | |
| Data Type | CHAR | Character String |
| Length | 30 | |
| Decimal Places | 0 | |
| Output Length | 30 | |
| Value Table | DD30L |
Further Characteristics
| Search Help: Name | DD_SHLP | |
| Search Help: Parameters | SHLPNAME | |
| Parameter ID | SHLP | |
| Default Component name | ||
| Change document | ||
| No Input History | ||
| Basic direction is set to LTR | ||
| No BIDI Filtering |
Field Label
| Length | Field Label | |
| Short | 10 | Srch Help |
| Medium | 18 | Search Help Name |
| Long | 18 | Search Help Name |
| Heading | 10 | Srch Help |
Documentation
Definition
A search help is an object of the ABAP Dictionary with which input helps (F4 helps) can be defined.
There are the following types of search helps:
- Elementary search helps implement a search path for determining the possible entries.
- Collective search helps contain several elementary search helps. A collective search help therefore provides several alternative search paths for possible entries.
- Append search helps can be used to enhance collective search helps delivered by SAP with customer-specific search paths without requiring a modification.
The three components of the input help process described by a search help are the outer interface, the online behavior and the method of data collection.
The outer interface is defined by specifying the interface parameters. They define the context information to be used in the input help process and the attributes to be sent to the screen by the input help.
The search help attachment defines the field contents for parametrizing an import parameter and the fields of the input template in which the contents of the export parameters should be returned.
The dialog behavior and data collection are defined differently for elementary search helps and collective search helps.
The behavior of a search help can be made more flexible than usual with search help exits.
History
| Last changed by/on | SAP | 19971128 |
| SAP Release Created in |
