Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Activate the TM Quick Search in Netweaver

Hera is a nice way to access TM transactional documents directly from the NWBC search bar. Basically it looks like this, enter a search string in the NWBC search bar, get a result list instantaneously: Quicksearch Example
If you are interested in the functionality, you may check TMP033 ( http://podcast.tm-podcast.com/tmp033-tm-quicksearch/ ), the podcast episode about the topic. Now, how to activate the TM Quicksearch for you: 1. Install note 2260864 which is available from 9.1 onwards and comes with the required classes 2. Check and/or activate the SICF service: To make the search classes available they must be accessible as a service. This is done in transaction SICF. The path is sap->bc. In there add a service named tm_quick_search. The only tab where you need to maintain something is the handler list, in there enter the class /SCMTMS/CL_QUICK_SEARCHPROVIDE. It should look something like this:
3. Activate the service 4. Enter the Search provider URL: The easiest way to test the service is to enter the search provider explicitely in the NWBC search provider list. This can be done from the NWBC menu:
The URL is composed as follows:
 First part: Your system url and port (you can get this from options->settings->connections in the NWBC menu)
Second part: /sap/bc/tm_quick_search?type=OpenSearchDescription
Third part: Optionally you can add some parameters like restriction to a certain search class, if you only want to search e.g. Forwarding orders, I will try to complete the list later in here, we can start with the default With this, you are done and can use the TM Quicksearch!