Tips about default search help at Collective Search Helps

[Jigang_Zhang张吉刚]

There're multiple search helps that exist for standard fields like a customer (KUNNR), then comes to question where to control which search help (TAB) should be the default search help when the user press F4?

1, F1 to get the search help used by this field

2, Go to SE11 using this search help SD_DEBI

Here double click the appended search help will get a list of customized Elementary search helps.

3, Go to table DDSHDEFSH (Default value - search help per user and collective s.h.) with your User ID and name of search help (here is SD_DEBI).

The default search help is stored at field DEFSHLP.  You can modify freely at this screen for example change to customize search help get from step 2 as required for specific users.

 

[raphlma]

In SAP, the default search help for a field can be controlled in several ways. For standard fields like the customer (KUNNR), the default search help can be specified in the ABAP Data Dictionary (transaction SE11). Here's how you can control which search help should be the default:

1. Go to transaction SE11 to open the ABAP Data Dictionary.
2. Enter the name of the table or structure that contains the field for which you want to set the default search help and choose 'Display'.
3. Navigate to the 'Entry Help/Check' tab.
4. Find the field for which you want to set the default search help.
5. In the 'Search Help' column, you can specify which search help should be used as the default when the user presses F4.

If multiple search helps are attached to a field, the system uses the search help that is listed first in the 'Search Help' column as the default. You can also define a default search help at the domain level or use the 'Append Search Help' feature to add additional search helps.

[shais]

@raphlma 

This post doesn't talk about assignment of a search help to screen field, but about the default elementary search help which is being displayed for a user in a collective search help.