Usage of DDIC search help relying on several structures

[Former Member]

Hello Experts

We want to reuse existing DDIC structures in our new WD4ABAP application. Some of the structures have DDIC search helps assigned that have field assignments to other table / structures. In normal Dynpro this works as long as Dynpro fields do exist that display data of the structure components required by the search help.

Example:

Search help 1 is assigned to structure A and has two import parameters:

• search help parameter OBJ_CAT has a field assignment to table name A and field A1

• search help parameterOBJ_TYPE has a field assignment to table name B and field B1

As I already said, Dynpro can handle this. But Iu2019m interested if WD4A can handle this as well? Can I introduce two nodes A and B and the search help 1 will be WD-ready as well?

Regards, Mathias

[thomas_jung · Accepted solution]

WDA can support such import of DDic Search Help parameters, only if all the parameters are from a single DDic Structure/Table and that Structure/Table is used as the source type of a single Context Node. Sometimes this might mean creating a custom DDic Structure to consolidate all of your parameters for mapping.