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- About working with customers
- About working with suppliers
- Business partner search alternatives in DC1
This panel displays the search fields that have been set up in your system. You can add, change or delete records.
Normally the search fields are created automatically when new customers and suppliers are entered, which means you do not need to enter search fields manually on this panel. In the BP search field controls table you define which search field should be created automatically. Note: You should try to restrict the number of search fields, because the fewer search fields you have in the system, the faster the search will be done when you enter a search text in the Business partner file enquiry or Select business partners window.
Function keys
Selection fields
- Field
- Displays the text you can enter in the Business partner file enquiry program or Select business partners window to find a customer or supplier.
- Type
- The type is used to identify the different fields in the Business partner file, in which you want to be able to search. The BP search field controls table contains the types which correspond to a field in the Business partner file. For example, type 25 means the Salesman field.
- Description
- Displays the description of the type, i.e. which field in the Business partner file to which the type corresponds.
Business partner file maintenance, Search fields (GDMD0183)
On this panel you enter the search text and in which field the enquiry program should search for the text. You are allowed to search for the text displayed in the Field field in the whole or initial part of the text in the Business partner file enquiry and Select business partners window.
Function keys
- Type
- Enter the type from the BP search field controls table, which corresponds to a field in the Business partner file, in which you want to be able to search. The BP search field controls table contains the types which correspond to a field in the Business partner file. For example, type 25 means the Salesman field.
If the Type is 11 (internal name) and the Search field is TOYS, it means you can enter TOYS in one of the search fields in the Business partner file enquiry program to find all customers/suppliers with the internal name TOYS.
If you enter TO in the Business partner file enquiry program, you will find all customers/suppliers with the starting characters of TO in the internal name.
Note: If the internal name is BIG TOYS COMPANY, three search fields will be created: BIG, TOYS and COMPANY. In addition, the Search field delimiter table controls which characters should be ignored by the search field creation.
Normally the search fields are created automatically when new customers and suppliers are entered, which means you do not need to enter search fields manually on this panel. In the BP search field controls table you define which search field should automatically be created.
Note: You should only maintain the alphanumeric search field types here, since types 00-99 are predefined by the system and automatically created when you add new customers/suppliers or when the Rebuild business partner search fields routine is run.
- Search field
- Displays the text you want to be able to search for in the Business partner file enquiry program.