Open a form in search mod by default

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Patrice Vigier

• March 04, 2016 16:48

Hello,

I'm looking for a "trick" to open a form in search mode by default instead of add mode.

For example if you open "Payment terms setup" the form open in "add" which is "dangerous"

Any idea?

Thank you

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  Naama Aharoni

  • April 19, 2016 09:45

  Hi,

  Unfortunately, that is not possible in some documents. It is a limitation of the SDK.

  Thanks, Naama
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  george harris

  • March 29, 2016 17:43

  Why not just make a button with a macro like below?

  activate (theFormYouWantToOpen);

  Activate (1281); //sets to find mode

   

   
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  Patrice Vigier

  • April 03, 2016 11:57

  Thank you for your answer.

  I want it automatic to avoid mistakes and because instead of making a button it is faster to click on the SAP search icon :=)

   
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  laszlo.fulop

  • April 04, 2016 14:58

  Create a validation on form load, and do the same what George suggested.
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  Patrice Vigier

  • April 05, 2016 16:01

  Thank you all for your help.

  I did try a validation on form load with "Before action = false" so it triggers at the end but it does not work because it triggers before SAP has finished loaded.

  activate(1248) return an error :

  Macro error in UF-034: System.Exception: Menu - Cannot activate a disabled menu item  [66000-75]   [Macro Command: Activate(1281)]    Macro Enviroment parameters:   [Current Form: 177 - Payment Terms - Setup]  [Source Row: -1] [Target Row: -1] [Break: False] [Initial FormType: 177] [B1UP Version: 2015.1.0.0]      etc...

   

  and SendKeys(^F); //Search do not return an error but does nothing.

   

  In the B1UP manual it is written:

  Form Load  = "A window was opened (Please note that in some cases Form Load cannot access the window opened (since it is still opening)) "

  Maybe that's the case here!!!

   
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  george harris

  • April 06, 2016 07:52

  Can any expert advise on this as I have a similar error when trying to automate switching between windows. "Cannot activate a disabled menu item..."

   
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  Scott McClure

  • December 14, 2016 17:03

  Has anyone got anything more on this?  How do we know which forms it won't work on.  I'm trying to do the same on Project and getting the same error.  Is there a work around?

   

  Thanks,

  Scott
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  Yaremi Miranda Lopez

  • December 20, 2016 16:22

  Helo Scott,

  Like Naama mentioned unfortunatelly this is an SDK limitation and we can't include this as a development request.
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  Patrice Vigier

  • November 02, 2017 08:53
  • Edited

  I manage to have it works.

  Here is how to setup the Validation configuration

  

  and the create a Universal function like this

  

  Then it works like a charm :=)

  Patrice

  2.5.0.0
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  Scott McClure

  • November 02, 2017 16:34

  Patrice,

  Your validation is on a menu click (not specified) but doesn't the form still open in Add or Update?  What triggers your validation?

   

  Thanks,

  Scott
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  Patrice Vigier

  • November 03, 2017 19:34

  Hello Scott,

  Yes I did indicate that you have to put the menu number and select event = Menu click
  
  Yes the form open in search mode, that the reason of this post.
  All the information are on my previous post, look at every fields and it should work fine for you.
  Enjoy
  Patrice

  2.5.0.0
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  Artur Grzeszczuk

  • June 22, 2018 15:04

  Hi All,

  I had same problem while trying to create validation on form load, with little read in this forum and brainstorm with my Colleague we have managed to get it to work just like for Patrice, what I think confused people was that no one was sure what menu uid to use-this has to be an actual MAIN MENU uid for document you want to open. so for my example (Sales Order) menu uid is 2050, validation and UF are looking like this:

  and UF:

  

  Hope this helps!

  Art

   

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