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An explanation of the specic tasks can be viewed by clicking the note folder to the
le of the conguration step, as shown below. e level of detail provided in the
documentation can be very useful in determining which steps, or tasks, are suitable
for your project.
Other Methods of Table Maintenance and Customizing
It is sometimes dicult to nd the table you need to customize in the IMG. SAP
provides two transaction codes that can be used when you know the name of the
table you need to customize and you’re not sure where it is in the IMG. Transaction
code SM30 is used to access the screen for maintaining tables or table views, shown
in Figure 1.6. Although it is more common to refer to customizing objects as tables,
most customizing objects are actually views of tables. To customize an object, you
must create a maintenance interface for it. SAP very rarely creates maintenance
interfaces on tables themselves. Most of the time, maintenance interfaces are cre-
ated for table views by SAP for R/3 as delivered. Do not try to create maintenance
interfaces for SAP-delivered tables! Transaction code SM30 is used to maintain
custom-created (user-dened) tables.
FIgurE 1.6 Transaction code SM30 is for maintaining tables or table views.
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