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Maintenance view and Table Maintenance
generator
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Hi All,

What is the difference between Maintenance view and Table Maintenance generator.

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Praveen Makam May 7, 2008 7:17 AM
Re: Maintenance view and Table Maintenance generator
Refer to the below related threads
Table Maintenance Generator
table maintenance generator
purpose of table maintenance generator

Regards,
Santosh
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Guest May 7, 2008 7:20 AM (in response to Praveen Makam)
Re: Maintenance view and Table Maintenance generator
Can please you give the exact difference?instead of what they are.
i mean the restrictions among them like. what can be done in one and not in another.
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Praveen Makam May 7, 2008 7:25 AM (in response to Guest )
Re: Maintenance view and Table Maintenance generator
Priyanka,

Maintenance view and table maintenance generator are two different thing elementarily, and
Guest May 12, 2008 10:17 AM (in response to Praveen Makam)
Re: Maintenance view and Table Maintenance generator
Hi All,

Both are same through maintenance generator you are going to create the maintenance table. whcih
will be accessed from the SM30 t-code.


Regards,
Madan.
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Madan Mohan kurapati May 7, 2008 7:28 AM (in response to Praveen Makam)
Re: Maintenance view and Table Maintenance generator
Hi Priyanka,


Maintenance views offer easy ways to maintain complex application objects.

Data distributed on several tables often forms a logical unit, for example an application object, for the
user. You want to be able to display, modify and create the data of such an application object
together. Normally the user is not interested in the technical implementation of the application object,
that is in the distribution of the data on several tables.

A standardized table maintenance transaction is provided (SM30), permitting you to maintain the data
from the base tables of a maintenance view together.

Maintenance mechanisms, like screens and processing programs, must be created from the view
definition with the transaction Generate Table View (SE54).

Without creating Table View (SE54) for a table we cant use Maintenance views (SM30) to
maintain the entries.

Try to do this,
Without creating the Generate Table Maintenance Dialog (SE54) try to use Maintenance views
(SM30) for that table.

it can be accessed only after creating SE54 for the specified table.


Best regards,
raam
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Kodandarami Reddy Suravaram May 7, 2008 7:47 AM (in response to Praveen Makam)
you cannot make a comparison between them.

Maintenance view is one of 4 type of views that you could possibly define in SE11. It is a
DDIC entity, and its own definition sits on underlying table definitions and relations.

Now, with just the view in place, you cannot maintain data. You need a screen, some
method to display the data contained in the view, and some logic with which you can
perform operations like add, change, delete, transport, entries. This is where the table
maintenance generator comes into picture. This is simply a connected transaction with your
SE11, which enables you to define what is called a 'maintenance dialog', for your view. It
automatically generates screens, controls, and logic to do all the above.

There are enough links on both Maintenance View and Table Maintenange Generator in the
above links, which give you detailed steps and info on how to go about each one of them.

PS: remember, the table maintenance generator can also be used directly for tables itself!

Cheers
Rekha
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Re: Maintenance view and Table Maintenance generator
Hi Priyanka,

please visit for table maintenance>>>
Table Maintenance Generator
table maintenance generator
purpose of table maintenance generator

please visit for maintenance view>>>

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/38/81c1351181b73fe10000009b38f839/frameset.htm

please mark all helpful answers...
Amit.
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Amit Gujargoud May 7, 2008 7:39 AM (in response to Praveen Makam)
Re: Maintenance view and Table Maintenance generator
hi,

Maintenance views offer easy ways to maintain complex application objects.

Data distributed on several tables often forms a logical unit, for example an application object, for the
user. You want to be able to display, modify and create the data of such an application object
together. Normally the user is not interested in the technical implementation of the application object,
that is in the distribution of the data on several tables.

A maintenance view permits you to maintain the data of an application object together. The data is
automatically distributed in the underlying database tables. The maintenance status determines
which accesses to the data of the underlying tables are possible with the maintenance view.

All the tables in a maintenance view must be linked with foreign keys, that is the join conditions for
maintenance views are always derived from the foreign key.

cannot directly enter the join conditions as for database views.

There are some restrictions for the attributes of the foreign keys with which the tables in a
maintenance view can be linked .
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A standardized table maintenance transaction is provided (SM30), permitting you to maintain the data
from the base tables of a maintenance view together.

Maintenance mechanisms, like screens and processing programs, must be created from the view
definition with the transaction Generate Table View (SE54). This makes it possible to create easy-to-
use maintenance interfaces in a simple manner.
Table Maintanence 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 one
step. 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 table
entries by choosing Maintain.

In the production system, end-users will not be having access to transaction
codes like SE11 and SE16. Developers will not be having access to many
transaction codes including the above two.
To view the contents of the database table, we will use SE16n in Production
system. All these authorizations will be maintained by BASIS team, by creating access profiles.
So in order to edit or create the contents of a database table, we should go for
table maintenance generator. In real time, authorizations will be maintained in
production system. (even in development and Test systems to some extent).
The second reason is, we can edit or create multiple entries at a time, using table maintenance
generator.
Apart from that we have options like 'Enter conditions' in table maintenance screen SM30.
Table Maintenance generator: Difference between one step and two steps.
Guest May 15, 2008 12:54 PM (in response to Praveen Makam)
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While creating table maintenance generator, we find below options:
1.When we choose one step, we have to give the screen number in Overview Screen field.
2.When we choose two step, we have to give both overview screen number and single screen
number.
You can give any number for screen. Dont give 1000 screen number. As this number is reserved for
selection screen.

When we choose two step, two screens will be created for table maintenance. For single step only
one screen will be created.
When we choose two step, table maintenance will work as follows
Go 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 new
entries. Another screen will be displayed, where you give input and save. You can enter 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 can enter 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 by
creating table maintenance generator in both ways (using single step and two
step).
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