Working With Display Variants on Other Screens

We described the various procedures for using display variants on the output screens of list-display transactions throughout this lesson. However, you can also apply the same procedures to the line-item tables that you will find on the initial and output screens of other transactions.

For example, the initial screen for the ME51N transaction, which creates requisitions for materials and services, contains a line-item table (A) for entering data about those requisitions (Figure 15.25). The output screen for the ME53N transaction, which displays requisition data, contains this same table in a read-only format. Each line of these tables contains data for one requisitioned material item or service, which are entered in a long series of columns. To see all these data, you must scroll horizontally along the length of the table.

Figure 15.25. The initial screen for creating a requisition contains a line-item table. You can create and work with variants for this table with the commands of the Layout Settings button (B).

However, it is possible to create a display variant for this table with fewer columns. The procedure begins at the Layout Settings button (B) in the application toolbar of the table. Click this button to display a list of variant-related commands, then follow the same procedures that we offered in the earlier part of this lesson.