This article shows how to use static lists and SELECT statements in the WHERE Clause Editor.

Note: List parameters or not yet supported by the Table component.

Static Lists #

The following example statement returns all the active customers (rows in the table KNA1) that have an address in one of the following cities: Berlin, Stuttgart, Paris, Seattle, Hong Kong or Dongguan.

  1. Create a Table extraction for the SAP table KNA1, see Online Help: Defining a Table Extraction.
  2. Navigate to the WHERE Clause tab in the main window of the extraction and click [Editor Mode] to open the WHERE clause editor.
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  3. Click [Add criteria] and [Default with literal] to create an empty template in the WHERE clause editor.
  4. Select the column ORT01 from KNA1 as the data you want to filter.
  5. Select IN as the operator. IN is the only operator that can be used for lists.
  6. Select List as the type of the static filter value.
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  7. Click [Press to Edit] in the static value component of the WHERE clause. The window “Edit List” opens.
  8. Select String as the Type of the list. When working with numbers, select Number.
  9. Click [Add] to add items to the list. You can edit items via double-click.
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  10. Click [OK] to confirm your input.
  11. Click [Load live Preview] or run the extraction to check the output.

SELECT Statement #

SELECT statements can be used to select data from SAP tables, see ABAP Documentation: Open SQL SELECT.
The following example statement returns all the active customers (rows in the table KNA1) that have a sales document in the table VBAK for sales document header data.

Note: The usage of SELECT statements is only possible as of SAP Release 7.40, SP05.

  1. Create a Table extraction for the SAP table KNA1, see Online Help: Defining a Table Extraction.
  2. Navigate to the WHERE Clause tab in the main window of the extraction and click [Editor Mode] to open the WHERE clause editor.
    where-clause-editor
  3. Click [Add criteria] and [Default with literal] to create an empty template in the WHERE clause editor.
  4. Select the column KUNNR from KNA1 as the data you want to filter.
  5. Select IN as the operator. IN is the only operator that can be used for lists.
  6. Select List as the type of the static filter value.
    where-clause-editor
  7. Click [Press to Edit] in the static value component of the WHERE clause. The window “Edit List” opens.
  8. Select SELECT as the Type of the list.
  9. Enter the SELECT statement SELECT KUNNR FROM VBAK to create a list that contains all items of the column KUNNR from the SAP table VBAK.
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  10. Click [OK] to confirm your input.
  11. Click [Load live Preview] or run the extraction to check the output.