Use the
Select Tables and Select Folder Location page to perform the following
tasks:
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choose the SAP R/3 tables you want
to identify as data sources.
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specify a metadata folder location
for the table metadata.
You can also search the available tables for a specific text
string, view the data in a selected table, and display the table metadata.
The navigation selection that you make on the
Subset Tables page
determines which view displays in the
Select Tables page:
-
an alphabetical tree
that groups tables by the first letter of the table name. This view displays if you selected the
Select SAP Tables
By Starting Letter of Table option on the Subset Tables
page. The alphabetical tree view groups tables according to the first
letter of the technical table name. There is one folder for each letter
in the alphabet and also an
Other folder,
which contains tables that begin with numbers or special characters.
You can expand and contract the folders associated with each letter
in the alphabet to see all tables with names that begin with that
letter.
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an alphabetical list
that lists tables by their technical names. This view
displays if you selected the
List of All SAP Tables in
Alphabetical Order option. The alphabetical tree view
lists tables according to the first letter of the technical table
name.
-
a subset of tables
based on user-defined selection criteria This view displays
if you selected the
Subset of SAP Tables Based on Selection
Criteria option and then specified your selection criteria
on the
Build Expression (WHERE Clause) page. Tables are listed in alphabetical order according to table
name.
The Select
Tables page contains the following items:
displays either an
alphabetical tree view of tables, an alphabetical list view of tables,
or a subset of tables that meet your selection criteria. In the alphabetical
tree view, you can expand and collapse the folders as needed to locate
the desired tables. In the alphabetical list view and subset view,
you can scroll to locate the tables that you want, or you can use
the find tools that are available below the
Available
Tables list. To select a table, select the table that
you want in the
Available Tables list and
click
to move it to the
Selected Tables list. Click
to move all tables. You can use the SHIFT and CTRL
keys to select multiple tables.
displays a list of
the tables that you have selected from the
Available Tables list. To remove a table from the
Selected Tables list, select the table in the
Selected Tables list and click
. Click
to remove all selected tables.
displays the metadata
folder location that will store the table metadata.
The Select
Tables page contains the following buttons:
displays the
Search for String dialog box, where you can specify a text string for which you want
to search and then search all tables in the
Available
Tables list for that text string. If the search string
is found, the first table containing that string is highlighted in
the
Available Tables list.
searches for the next
occurrence of the search string that you specified when you clicked
Find Text. If the search string is found in any of the
tables listed in the
Available Tables list,
then the next table that contains the text is highlighted. This button
is disabled until you specify a search string in the
Search for String dialog box.
displays the
Displaying Metadata for SAP R/3
Table dialog box, where you can view metadata for a table
that you selected in the Select Tables window. Table metadata includes
information such as the field name, field text, the field format,
and so on.
displays a dialog box
for navigating and selecting a metadata folder location for storing
table metadata.