Value Helps and Valid Values
Which fields offer which value help, the context some need, names in your language, and what you see when the SAP arrangement behind a help is missing.
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- Which fields offer which help: the 17 master-data helps (plant, work center, cost center, company code, business area, controlling area, country, product group, sales organization, distribution channel, division, product, business partner, fixed asset, WBS element, internal order, unit of measure) with the context they need (plant for work centers, controlling area for cost centers, company code for assets); closed value sets.
- Names in your language; the daily name cache.
- What you see when the SAP arrangement is missing: the codes in use, no names; how to tell the administrator (link
value-help-arrangements).
Related information: common-ui-elements, value-help-arrangements, lookup through the assistant (tool-reference).
Source in the product repository: docs/master-data-value-helps.md, .claude/rules/value-helps.md (D100).
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