NW GW and searchhelp

[former_member184588]

Hi,

I would like to develop a openui5 application. Therefore I need to implement a NW GW service. This service is handling accounting associations. I would like to have a search help for fields like account, project, cost center. Is there a way to use the standard search helps for this? How can I integrate these search helps?

Greetings, Vanessa

[kammaje_cis · Accepted solution]

Hi Vanessa,

If you are on Gateway SP8, you are lucky. Now you can create OData services from Search Helps. It has been added just like other feeders like BOR, RFCs.

https://help.sap.com/saphelp_gateway20sp08/helpdata/en/77/ec405224753607e10000000a441470/content.htm

If you are not on SP8, then you need to develop on your own. I would create an Entity with four columns.

-> Search help identifier (unique keys for account, project, cost center etc)

-> Language

-> Key

-> Value

In the data provider class, based on the Search Help Identifier, call an FM to fetch the values from search helps and return.

-Krishna

[former_member184588 · Accepted solution]

Hello Krishna,

thanks a lot for your answer. I will try it out tomorrow. One question:

Does "Only the search helps in the local SAP system can be used as a data source." mean that this will not work if the NW GW and the backend system are on different machines?

Greetings

[kammaje_cis · Accepted solution]

I am not sure. I have not yet got a SP8 system. I did the second approach.