Sunday, June 1, 2014

ABAP: Maintenance View_How to change settngs for fields with Fixed values

You already know how to create a maintenance view, just a refresher:
1. Via SE11 -> Utilities -> Table Maintenance Generator
2. Via SE54

Once you create the view, by default the display settings are taken from the associated Data element/Domain of a field. Let's take example of Domain 'KOART'(account type) which can hold 1 character and has Fixed values assigned to it.

 

In the maintenance the KOART field will always show the number and its description, see below:
 

But if you want to use Upload functionality for such a view its very painful exercise so beset way is to remove the drop-down for such fields from maintenance generator.
SE11-> Table Maintenance Generator -> Maintenance screen no -> Overview screen-> Element List -> Texts/I/O templates and change the column Dropdown to "No Dropdown" for KOART.


And you are good to go with this view.

Cheers,
Sandeep