Diff b/w search helps & help views

[Former Member]

Hi all,

Can you pls send me the differences b/w search helps and help views?

Thanks in advance

[Former Member]

Hi all,

Can you pls send me the differences b/w search helps and help views?

Thanks in advance

[Former Member]

Hi,

Search help is used to define possible entries help (F4) for screen fields.

Help View is like:

A view type in the ABAP Dictionary.

Help views are used for F4 help. Their function has changed fundamentally since Release 4.0.

From Release 4.0, you only need to create a help view if you need a view with an outer join as the search method for a search help.

Before Release 4.0, help views were displayed automatically in the F4 help for all fields that were checked against the first table (primary table) of the help view. This is no longer the case.

Regards,

Renjith Michael.

[Former Member]

Hi,

we will use help views in search helps for getting the values from different tables sing left outer join.

The selection method of a search help is either a table or a view. If you have to select data from several tables for the search help, you should generally use a database view as selection method. However, a database view always implements an inner join. If you need a view with outer join for the data selection, you have to use a help view as selection method.

rgds,

bharat.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Refer

https://forums.sdn.sap.com/click.jspa?searchID=10535157&messageID=4924211

Regards

Kiran

[Former Member]

Hi,

Search Help :

1. A search help is an object of the ABAP Dictionary with which input helps (F4 helps) can be defined.

2. A search help can be attached to ur screen object.

ex : when u r creating a MPL program, there u can make use of this search helps.

3. U cannot use a search help in ABAP programming for fetching data.

Views :

1. A view is a logical view on one or more tables, that is, a view is not

actually physically stored, instead being derived from one or more other tables.

Then for that table the help view is displayed

Help View ( SE54)

Help views are used to output additional information when the online help system is called.

When the F4 button is pressed for a screen field, a check is first made on whether a matchcode is defined for this field. If this is not the case, the help view is displayed in which the check table of the field is the primary table. Thus, for each table no more than one help view can be created, that is, a table can only be primary table in at most one help view.

2. U cannot use a view in ur MPL program for any of the screen object.

With Rgds,

S.Barani