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Define search/value helps

Define search and value helps for your OData service.

Search helps are currently ment to be global available. But the search help entity will only be generated if any property has an value in the "search help" column.

Every search help entity will have 2 properties:

  • value
  • description

Fixed domain values

The fixed domain values can be created as a value help with following customizing:

So to get it to work you only need to enter the data element into the "data_element" column.

The framework automatically propergates the values.

In the example the value help enity will be: fixedDomainValueHelpSet

Valuehelp from table

As a value help a table with the description and value fields can be specified. Therefore you fill in the columns "tablename", "data_element" and "DESCRIPTION_FIELD".

Valuehelp from table with where condition

You can also specify a simple where condition to your value help. The customizing is similar to the value help from table. But you must also fill in the columns "WHERE_DATA_ELEMENT1" and "WHERE_VALUE1".

Valuehelp with custom odata entity

The search help can be created with an odata entity using the following customizing: