ABAP Quick Search for NWBC

In the SAP (Netweaver) Business Client you have a search bar in the upper range of the window. As soon as you type something in there, it tries to get search suggestions from all the defined so-calledsearch providers:

It is possible to add own search providers. For more information, see: WKS: How to use NWBC in TM - Search Providers

The ABAP Quick Search for NWBC is such a search provider.

With that search you can easily search for all ABAP related content available on your system and open it with one click:

Additional Features:

• Results are sorted by type
• Define a namespace and search it by typing //
• Extra fancy result page

• Search for special result types by typing \<object_type> (see file ABAP_Whitelist.xlsx or the list at the end of the document)
• Decide how to open tables: Do you want to see the structure (SE11) or the content (SE16)?

• Decide how to open BOBF Business Objects: In the BOBF Test UI or in BOBF Conf UI?

Unfortunately, not all functions work in NWBC 4.

If you want to have the search included into your Business Client, please read this scn posting: How to include ABAP Quick Search into NWBC

Here is the standard list of result types for which is searched for. In case you want to search for a certain type, add \<object_type> to your search request.

E.g. "\CLAS" for classes.