Lesson12.Using Selection Options on Data Entry Fields

Lesson 12. Using Selection Options on Data Entry Fields

This lesson describes the procedure for attaching selection options to data entry fields on initial screens, search screens, and multiple selection screens.

Selection options are conditional indicators that mark the limits of the codes in data entry fields. To explain this definition, we offer two examples from the initial screen of the IW29 transaction, which displays a list of notifications^[1] for a maintenance-plant manager.

^[1] Anotification is a record in the SAP database that equipment needs maintenance work because it is malfunctioning or not operating at its optimal level.

For our first example, we set up the initial screen of the IW29 transaction to generate a list of all completed notifications for equipment 100500 that were created in 2004 by doing the following (Figure 12.1):

• We selected the Completed option (A) in the Notification status field area.
  
  
• We entered the object code 100500 in the first of the two Equipment fields (B).
  
  
• We entered 01/01/2004 and 12/31/2004 in the Created on fields (C).
  
  

Figure 12.1. The initial screen of the IW29 transaction, set up for the first example.

For our second example, we set up the initial screen to generate a list of all completed notifications for equipment 100500 that were created before the year 2004 by doing the following (Figure 12.2):

• We again selected the Completed option (A) in the Notification status field area.
  
  
• We again entered the object code 100500 in the first of the two Equipment fields (B).
  
  
• We entered 01/01/2004 in the first of the two Created on fields, then attached the green less than selection option to the field. This option is indicated by the less than (<) symbol to the left of the field (C). This entry alerts the system that there is a condition to the transaction: We want to generate a list of only those notifications with dates less thanthat is, prior toJanuary 1, 2004.
  
  

Figure 12.2. The initial screen of the IW29 transaction, set up for the second example, which includes a selection option on the Created on field.