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What is Table Maintenance Generator . What isuse of it?
Posted by: amitkhari on: October 16, 2007
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As all of you know, we can create database tables in SAP using transaction codeSE11. A table can be manipulated by a program or manually.
When creating table, you will find a check box ‘Table maintenance allowed’. If wecheck that option, we can manually enter entries using SE16 or tablemaintenance generator screen.
SE16 is for data browser.
How to create table maintenance generator?Go to SE11, give the table name and click on change. Then Go to utilities–> Tablemaintenance generator.
In the table maintenance generator screen, we should give Authorization Group,Function Group name (Function Group name can be same as table name),Maintenance type can be one step or two step, usually we will create with onestep. we should give maintenance screen number. After clicking on create button,a table maintenance generator will be created.
To check it go to SM30 . In SM30, we find display, Maintain options.
We can view the table contents by choosing Display and we can create tableentries by choosing Maintain.
Why we have to go for Table maintenance generator, when we can edit the tableby SE16 or SE11, utilities‑>create entries?
Answer.
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In the production system, end‑users will not be having access to transactioncodes like SE11 and SE16. Developers will not be having access to manytransaction codes including the above two.To view the contents of the database table, we will use SE16n in Productionsystem. Please find out the difference between SE16 and SE16n.All these authorizations will be maintained by BASIS team, by creating accessprofiles.So in order to edit or create the contents of a database table, we should go fortable maintenance generator. In real time, authorizations will be maintained inproduction system. (even in development and Test systems to some extent).There is an audit like Sarbanes‑Oxley Act for American clients, where every thingwill be audited by government agency. To know more about SOX, use the links onthe right hand side of this page.
The second reason is, we can edit or create multiple entries at a time, using tablemaintenance generator.Apart from that we have options like ‘Enter conditions’ in table maintenancescreen SM30. Please try to find out the use of those, by creating an example.Table Maintenance generator: Difference between one step and two steps.While creating table maintenance generator, we find below options:
When we choose one step, we have to give the screen number in Overview Screen field.When we choose two step, we have to give both overview screen number and single screennumber.
You can give any number for screen. Don’t give 1000 screen number. As thisnumber is reserved for selection screen.
When we choose two step, two screens will be created for table maintenance. Forsingle step only one screen will be created.When we choose two step, table maintenance will work as followsGo to SM30, give the table name for which you have created table maintenance‑Overview screen will be displayed. To create entries, when you click on ‘newentries’. Another screen will be displayed, where you give input and save. You canenter one record at a time.
When we choose single step, table maintenance will work as follows:Go to SM30; give table name for which you have created table maintenance‑Overview screen will be displayed; To create entries click on ‘new entries’, you canenter the records on the same screen. You can enter multiple records at a time.
We use single step generally, as it is user friendly.To completely understand the difference and above points please do exercise bycreating table maintenance generator in both ways (using single step and twostep).
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2 Responses to "What is Table Maintenance Generator . What isuse of it?"
1 | mahaDecember 13, 2007 at 9:33 am
Hi Experts,I want to add some 100 entries in table thru table maintainance generator. what is the procedureto enter those values at a time but not manually.
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