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Symptom

The F4 help for industry does not display any results although industries have been maintained in the customizing.

Other terms

BUPA_INDUSTRY_SECTOR_B, SEARCH HELP, F4, BUPA_F4IF_SHLP_EXIT_INDSECTOR, INDUSTRY,

Reason and Prerequisites

The error occurs only if thousands of industries have been maintained in the table TB038. The search help has been designed to first search for the industries and then filter them according to the logon language.
By default, only 500 records are returned. In case the there are no records in the logon language within the 500 hits, the search returns an empty list. Also, the search can only work for a maximum of 9999 records. In scenarios where there are several languages maintained, there may be no records of the logon language even in the first 10,000 hits. Hence, the search result is empty.

Solution

Implement the corresponding support pack SP20 for SAP_ABA 700.
To manually perform the corrections,if required urgently, follow these steps:
1. Go to transaction SE11.
2. In field ’search help’ enter BUPA_INDUSTRY_SECTOR_B, click ‘Change’.
3. In the next screen, delete the selection method BUPA_INDUS_VIEW.
4. Delete parameters TEXT and SPRAS.
5. In field ‘Search Help Exit’ , enter module name ‘BUPA_F4IF_SHLP_EXIT_INDSECTOR’.
6. Change Dialog Type to ‘D – Display Values Immediately’
7. Save and acivate the search help.
The F4 on industry will now display the industries in a hierarchy, not as a list as earlier.