{"id":2176,"date":"2015-01-19T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dab-europe.com\/\/articles\/transaction-se16-adding-additional-parameter-fields-for-selecting-data\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T08:40:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T08:40:41","slug":"transaction-se16-adding-additional-parameter-fields-for-selecting-data","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.dab-europe.com\/en\/articles\/transaction-se16-adding-additional-parameter-fields-for-selecting-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Transaction SE16 \u2013 Adding additional parameter fields for selecting data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"align-justify\">This article shows a way to customize the list of <strong>selection criteria<\/strong> within SAP\u00ae transaction <strong>SE16<\/strong> by adding additional fields. It is a little trick which can make your life easier if you need to look at<strong> table content in SAP<\/strong> regularly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"align-justify\">In SAP it is possible to list records of a certain table using <strong>T-Code SE16<\/strong> (the<em> \u201eData Browser\u201c<\/em>). This has already been described by a colleague of mine in the article \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dab-europe.com\/en\/articles\/formats-for-download-from-sap-se16\/\">Formats for downloading from SAP (SE16)<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<h2>Standard Selection Parameters in SE16<\/h2>\n<p class=\"align-justify\">Now, there might be situations where you do not want to list the complete content of a table (= all records) but only a subset which corresponds to certain criteria. When calling transaction <strong>SE16<\/strong> and entering a certain table name you will get to a selection screen. This screen contains a list of <strong>parameters<\/strong> which can be used for limiting the data accordingly.<\/p>\n<h3>Example:<\/h3>\n<p class=\"align-justify\">The following picture shows T-Code SE16 for table \u201eLFA1\u201c, which represents the global vendor master data (e.g. vendor number, name, address etc.).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dab-europe.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20150120_transactionSE16_D_01.png\" alt=\"SE16 selection screen showing standard parameter fields for table LFA1\" width=\"814\" height=\"542\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"align-justify\">The fields which are displayed as parameters can be used for limiting the to-be-displayed data, for example by entering:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"align-justify\"><strong> a range of vendor numbers<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"align-justify\"><strong>creation dates<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"align-justify\">other available options<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Adding Your Own Selection Fields<\/h2>\n<p class=\"align-justify\">However sometimes you might want to filter data according to parameters which are <strong>not offered upfront<\/strong>. As an example it could be interested to look for<strong> \u201cAlternative payees in the document\u201d<\/strong>, a topic which has been explained by my colleague Martin Riedl in detail some time ago already in his article \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dab-europe.com\/en\/articles\/alternative-payee-in-document-at-sap-vendor-invoices\/\">Alternative payee in document at SAP vendor invoices<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"align-justify\">Technically speaking as described in his blog post such vendors can be identified by looking at the field <strong>\u201eAlternative Payee in Document\u201c<\/strong> (Technical field name \u201eXZEMP\u201c) which contains an \u201eX\u201c if an alternative payee can be entered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"align-justify\">Looking at our selection screen above, SAP does not offer that field as parameter there. Luckily this is not difficult to solve:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"align-justify\">Menu: \u201cSettings -&gt; Fields for Selection\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dab-europe.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20150120_transactionSE16_D_02.png\" alt=\"Fields for Selection dialog in SE16 to add additional parameter fields\" width=\"814\" height=\"542\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"align-justify\">A dialog appears which lists all fields of table LFA1. The selected ones are used as parameters for selecting the data.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dab-europe.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20150120_transactionSE16_D_03.png\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"align-justify\">In our example we want to add the \u201eAlternative Payee\u201c as parameter. To do so, we tick the field XZEMP accordingly and confirm with \u201cOK\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dab-europe.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20150120_transactionSE16_D_04.png\" alt=\"New selection field XZEMP (alternative payee) enabled in SE16 selection screen\" width=\"449\" height=\"443\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"align-justify\">In the next picture we see the new parameter which has been added. All vendors where the \u201cAlternative Payee\u201d field is flagged with an \u201cX\u201d do have that setting activated and can be used for entering an alternative payee when entering for example an invoice. In our example this is the case for 331 vendors.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dab-europe.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20150120_transactionSE16_D_05.png\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Conclusion<\/h2>\n<p>Maybe you have not been aware of the option to enhance the<strong> SE16 selection screen<\/strong> by adding your own fields for selection. Usually the \u201cworkflow\u201d when using it starts with identifying interesting attributes in context of your <strong>analytic work<\/strong> or <strong>audit tasks<\/strong>, then adding those as parameters in the data browser and checking how often such constellations do appear in your data. 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My colleague described this in the article &#8220;Download formats from SAP\u00ae (SE16)&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7928,"template":"","articles_category":[],"articles_tag":[92],"class_list":["post-2176","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","articles_tag-sap"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Transaction SE16 \u2013 Adjusting the search criteria in SAP<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Description of transaction SE16: Adding custom fields as search parameters \u2713 Adjust fields \u2713 What to consider \u2013 Learn more online!\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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