Creating Help View

By Ashish Trivedi, Infosys

Introduction: This document deals with the introduction of the Help View and step by step procedure to
create help view and use it in the search help.
What is Help View: Help view can be used in the search help as in the Selection Method. We can also
provide database table or database view name there, but suppose if we want to get data as outer join
then Help View is provided. It uses left outer join to select the data while database view uses inner join.
What it means: suppose I have two tables A and B. In help view all the contents of primary table will be
displayed.

And also if we want to show only particular data then in the Selection Conditions tab of the help view we
can also provide condition to select data.
Steps: 1) How to create Help ViewGo to transaction SE11
Give View Name that you want to create
Click on create button

Now next screen appears with multiple options choose Help View and click Copy

Provide short description and enter the base table name in the tables field as in below screen shot then
click on Relationship button
On clicking of relationship button, it lists all the tables that are directly linked with the base table that we
have provided.

Now select the table from the list and click copy. Join condition is populated automatically.

In the view field we put the fields that we want to show in our view. Click on Table fields and select the
table and fields.

Choose the fields that we want to include

Now in the Selection Conditions tab give the selection criteria if we want to filter on the basis of some
conditions as in below screen shot
For example if we want to include only those values for which Company code is 1000 and Item number
is 010

If we can give multiple conditions with the help of Logical Operators

AND=> True only in case of all the conditions are true
OR=> True in the case if any of the condition is true
In the next tab maintenance status can be provided. In case of Help view only two options are available:
Read Only: Data can only be read
Read and change: Existing entries can be changed but deletion or insertion is not possible

Now save

and activate

the View.

2) Use of help view in search help:

To create a search help go to SE11 and provide search help name and click Create. For example we
want to create Elementary search help

In next pop-up choose Elementary search help. In the next screen provide short description and in the
selection method input provide the name of help view. In the parameter, provide the search help
parameters and provide the other properties whether it is import or export parameter their positions etc.
Now Save

and activate

the search help.

3. Use of search help: we can use this search help with the help of keyword Matchcode object

Now at the selection screen when we press F4 in the select-option parameter so_werks a list appears
for which item is 10 as we had given in our help view selection condition

Summary: In the above example, steps for creating help view and how to use that in search help has
been explained.