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Search Help Exit: Enabling Search with partial input data

Former Member — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:50:52 GMT

Hi experts,

I have created a search help with search help exit.

It has one import parameter and few export parameter.

Here import parameter X can take input say for e.g. AB-111232 or AC-119727

If I provide the input as AB and I want all the values starting with AB should be returned i.e AC values should not be returned.

For full key search, it is working fine but how I can achieve partial entry search.

Thanks

Depesh

Re: Search Help Exit: Enabling Search with partial input data

former_member156446 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:56:58 GMT

create a range table or of type SELOPT and use that in the select query in your search help exit code...

if input field have * sign eq BT

else.

sign eq EQ.

Re: Search Help Exit: Enabling Search with partial input data

Former Member — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:19:07 GMT

Hi,

If I remember it quite right, you use a changing parameter SHLP TYPE SHLP_DESCR. The SHLP_DESCR structure itself has SELOPT as a table field in it. The input to the importing parameters are all store in this. So, I think this by default will enable search options with pattern or wild card characters.

Re: Search Help Exit: Enabling Search with partial input data

Former Member — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:44:40 GMT

Hi Friend ,

Can you see this Wiki for search help exit with sel option parameter passing using table shlp-selopt.

[http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/Snippets/CaseInsensitiveSearchHelpExitforMaterial+Group]

Regards ,

Re: Search Help Exit: Enabling Search with partial input data

Former Member — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:26:16 GMT

Thanks Nitwick.

By default system allows pattern matching for selopt.