- [Instructor] To use SAP effectively,
we have to find the data we want to work with.
Whether it's a customer number or a material number,
it's impossible to have it all memorized.
Any editable fields in the SAP gooey
that are not freeform text fields
allow us to search for the data we need.
To demonstrate, let's enter
and display a material transaction using the code mm03.
We need to display a material but let's imagine,
we don't know the material number we need.
When we click on the material field,
the match code button appears.
Anytime the match code button shows up in SAP,
we have the opportunity to search.
We'll click the match code button now,
this opens our search screen.
The search screen allows us to search
using a large variety of data combinations.
By clicking the three dots
on the right side of this screen,
we can see all the tabs
with the possible search combinations.
Let's assume that we know the material we're searching for
has a description called, forklift.
So we'll search by material number/material description.
Now in our material description field
we'll enter forklift and press, Start Search.
Our search returned one exact match
which has material CM-FL-V00.
We'll click this and press Copy.
We now have this material number
entered into our material field.
Sometimes we will only have partial information
for our searches.
Wild cards allow a search
when we only have some information.
The search wild card in SAP is the asterisk.
As an example,
what if we know we're searching for material
that has forklift somewhere in the description
but it's not an exact match.
To demonstrate it,
we'll delete this material
and again, we'll press the magical button.
This time in our material description,
we'll use our asterisk wildcard,
type forklift
and type, asterisk again.
This search is telling the system
that anything can come before
or after the word forklift
but the search should return all those results for us.
We'll now press Start Search.
We now see that we have 11 materials
that have the word forklift
in the material description field.
We can use wildcards in any searchable fields in SAP.
Wildcards make searching in SAP much easier
and more accurate.
Even when we only have partial information available.