You can use this function to create and search for orders. There are two search options for orders – basic search and enhanced search:

Basic search
In Order Processing, you can execute a basic search in a single screen by using standard search criteria based on customer, vehicle, and order in the Find/Create Orders group box.
You can also create new orders with this search option. This option searches in the database without using any search services.
Enhanced search
You can execute an enhanced search in two ways:
- Create a customer-specific variant and set as the default
- Create multiple variants and, in a two-step procedure, execute a search by first selecting a variant and then clicking Find in the Find/Create Orders group box. The enhanced search supports attribute and free text searches.
  You cannot use this search option to create new orders.

Integration

From the order search, you can branch to the customer master, vehicle master, notification, and fact sheet.

Prerequisites

You have made the appropriate Customizing settings for the order search in Customizing for Vehicle Sales and Service (VSS) under Start of the navigation path Order Next navigation step Order Search End of the navigation path .

Features

The order search function allows you to do the following:

Create a new order by entering customer data, vehicle data, and order type (basic search)
Search for an existing order (basic and enhanced search)
Start the enhanced search with an initial search (enhanced search)
Load a default selection variant (enhanced search)
Select a view with additional search criteria (enhanced search)
Load and modify a selection variant (enhanced search)
Create, save, and delete a personal, that is, user-specific selection variant (enhanced search)
Add new attributes to the search (enhanced search)
Execute events for several orders, items, jobs, tasks, or splits at the same time without having to use separate dialog boxes (basic and enhanced search)

Note

If you want to generate your own dialog boxes, implement the Business Add-In (BAdI) Order Mass Processing-UI Enhancement in Customizing for Vehicle Sales and Service (VSS) under Order User Interface Control Business Add-Ins (BAdIs) .
Set the Error-Tolerant Search checkbox.
By doing this, you can execute a fuzzy search. Note, however, that this checkbox refers to text only, and not to attributes.

Note

The descriptive texts for the selection variants are language-dependent. For example, variants that you create in German are available to you in another user logon language, but they do not then have a text
.

Activities

To search for an order, choose on the SAP Easy Access screen Start of the navigation path Vehicle Sales and Service Next navigation step Order Processing Order Processing End of the navigation path (/DBE/ORDER), and enter the appropriate organizational data.

Basic search
By selecting the Order Acceptance tab, you can access the basic search and create new orders or search for existing orders by entering the appropriate customer, vehicle, or order data.
Advanced Search
By choosing the Order Search tab page, you can access the enhanced search.
The enhanced search is displayed on a separate tab page in the same transaction. It is separated into two areas: the search criteria area and the result list. By default, there is a standard search screen with some of the most useful criteria for an order search, but you can also implement your own views/customer screens. On these customer screens, you can implement new attributes, provided that they are part of one of the following five basic VSS tables:
- Header (VBAK_DB)
- Item (VBAP)
- Job (JOB)
- Split (SPLHDR_DB)
- Partners (VBPA).

Every field that is part of one of these tables can be defined as an attribute field. Furthermore, you can append further fields to these tables.

Note

Generally speaking, you can declare all fields of these five main order tables as attributes, also customer fields that have been appended to the tables. You cannot include other tables in the search.

For more information, see Customizing for Vehicle Sales and Service (VSS).

You can use selection variants in the enhanced search, not in the basic search. Selection variants are user-specific and can only be used by the user who created them. They contain all the criteria on all the screens of the enhanced search; in other words, also when you create your own views. All the criteria are used for the search, not just the criteria for the screen that is currently active.

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