Module pool unable to trigger my selected f4 help value

[siongchao_ng]

Hi,

I added a custom field responsible person with custom search help ZPS_VERNR created in SE11.

Now I need to select to another value and populate the name of the vernr onto the highlighted text field.

But my PAI does not trigger. My process on value-request also does not trigger.

Nothing happened. Anyone have any idea?

[raymond_giuseppi]

The PAI wont' be triggered by the F4 process (POV)

What did you code in the POV, did you use FM DYNP_VALUES_UPDATE to update current dynpro values without PAI/PBO cycle. (It's not common to use same module in PAI and POV.)

Hint: Read also Hierarchy of Search Help Calls

[siongchao_ng]

I am using search help that is tied to the screen field so I dont have to use FM DYNP_VALUES_UPDATE

But before I get my selected F4 values, the PAI and the POV already run and my vernr is still 00000000. So I am unable to populate the name field. After F4 selecting value, I still need to hit "Enter" key for PAI, POV to run again in order to populate the name field.

Anyway for F4 to do the same as "enter" key?

[raymond_giuseppi]

• DYNP_VALUES_UPDATE allows you to update other fields in dynpro not bound with the field carrying the search help without triggering a PAI (add the fields to DYNPFIELDS table parameter)
• If you don't want to use the FM, you could try to call CALL METHOD cl_gui_cfw=>set_new_ok_code in POV to simulate "Enter" key

[Sandra_Rossi]

If you have a search help which returns the text, you don't need ABAP code, you just need a DDIC structure for the screen to map the 2 screen fields (which should then be named zddic-zz_vernr and zddic-vernr_name instead of prps-zz_vernr).

There's no reason that zfips_populate_resp_person is not called when you press F4, unless you have mapped F4 to something else (via the "Reserved Function Keys").

[Sandra_Rossi]

I see that you implemented a customer exit, did you activate your code, did you activate the project, does it work in DEV but not in other system?

[Sandra_Rossi]

Also make sure your POV module is not defined as MODULE ... OUTPUT, it should be of type INPUT.

MODULE zfips_populate_resp_person INPUT.
  ...
ENDMODULE.

Don't put MODULE zfips_populate_resp_person in the PROCESS AFTER INPUT logic, put it only after PROCESS ON VALUE-REQUEST.

[siongchao_ng]

When I press F4 the same module under PAI and POV did trigger but the problem here is before I can pick the employee number, codes such as below already run. My prps-zz_vernr is still 00000000 . So the name verna is not populated into the field on the screen prps-verna. Found that after selecting, I need to hit the "Enter" key for the PAI to run again and this time my prps-zz_vernr had my selected value and the name field prps-zz_verna can be populated.

Anyway for F4 to do the same as "enter" key?

select single verna from zfi_tcj04 into prps-zz_verna where vernr = prps-zz_vernr.

[Sandra_Rossi]

Not sure if you have read all that I have written, as you persist with your original idea, but you didn't say what you don't understand from my answers. You don't need ABAP code as I said. I guess you have incorrectly defined the fields, the search help, the linked fields. I can't know.

Defining PRPS-ZZ_VERNA is not very good because it's redundant information of ZFI_TCJ04 and can become obsolete if you change the name in ZFI_TCJ04.