Creation of a View cluster

By T.N.Swapna

View Cluster

A view cluster is the set of objects, such as views, reports or tables, which belong to one business function. The data can be arranged either hierarchically or non-hierarchically in view cluster. A view-cluster transaction edits the complex cross-table data in a view cluster. The transaction navigation box shows the complex business object with its components or sub objects.

Example:

Let us create a View Cluster on Material Details. The view cluster would include three tables namely, MARA, MARC and MARD. We need to create maintenance views for each of these tables.

Maintenance view for Table MARA

To create maintenance view for the table MARA follow the procedure below. Go to transaction SE11. Give a view name say ZMM_V_MARA and click on ‘Create’. Give a short description, enter the table name as MARA and click on the tab View fields.

By default all the key fields would be added. We can add more fields by clicking on the button Table fields.

Now Save and activate the view.

Maintenance view for Table MARC

Follow the same procedure as above. In the Tab View fields, give ‘S’ in the column ‘P’ for the fields MANDT and MATNR as shown in the screen shot below:

This is because the fields MANDT and MATNR would be filled in the view for MARA and thus they act as subsets and appear as header data when we create entries in view cluster.

Maintenance view for Table MARD

Follow the same procedure as above. In the Tab View fields, give ‘S’ in the column ‘P’ for the fields MANDT, MATNR and WERKS as shown in the screen shot below:

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