INTRO
The days of using SE16N (or even the old SE16) should be over now and you should now embrace the new evolution of it. The new SE16H !!! "H" for the HANA database era and capabilities.
This new version (SE16H) offers grouping capabilities, sorting, aggregation (like COUNT for counting records) and one of the most important one, JOIN capabilities. Now you can JOIN other tables to retrieve the content or descriptions that you can find in other satellite tables or Header to Line items relationships in one big Query / Result instead of jumping from one to another.
In the past we used to execute several Queries with SE16N (or SE16 for the old folks), download to Excel and then VLOOKUP those values to join them and or get descriptions. Now you can do all of that directly in SAP with SE16H in one step.
QUERY
This Query will allow you to quickly understand and give you more information about all your FI-MM account determination from your system by providing GL account descriptions and Valuation Classes names,
FI-MM Account determination configuration can be found in Table T030.
Once in SE16H, go to "Outer Join Definition" and create a new one. Provide a Name and a Name / Description.
Then add Table SKAT - GL Account Master record descriptions by clicking the green add icon with the "+" on the 1st table for "Definition of Secondary Tables".
Once added click on the "Output" icon (same as the Multiple selection icon for reports). This will allow you to select which fields you want to output from your "joined" SKAT table in your final query results. Accept and you will go back to the prior screen.
Then on the 2nd part of the screen (Selected Secondary Table) you have to enter the different fields that you need to join both tables. In our case, I am looking to display the GL accounts descriptions / names that I have in Table T030 as there is no way that I would know them by hard by just looking at T030 directly, and there are quite a few of them.
Enter SAKNR on Table field, select Method "Reference" (as you will reference / join it with the value of table T030), Reference field KONTS (GL account) from Table T030 then Table T030.
Add 2 other lines for KTOPL (Chart of accounts code), but in this case it will be as a "Constant" and value 0001 as my Chart of Accounts is 0001. Note: don't put this value as '0001' or you will get an error in your query, you do not need the colons for a constant as you would do while writing code.
Then add SPRAS (Language) as you are bring Text descriptions from a Table (SKAT) that is language dependent. In this case E for English and not EN. E for the technical unconverted value for English language. If you are not sure of your language technical value, display SKAT first in a separate SE16H window to know yours.
Finally, I want to add a 2nd table that will show me the Valuation Classes descriptions, as there are several and you do not always know them all by hard. Follow the same process but in this case for Table T025T (T for Text table for original table T025 Valuation classes).
At the end, after adding the 2 tables for GL account and Valuation Classes descriptions, your end result will show you all the T030 records with their corresponding descriptions for GL and Valuation classes. This will help you understand your FI-MM Account determination in a better way.
PS.: It is a shame that we do not have a table to get the descriptions for the field "Transactions" / KTOSL that would tell us what BSX, GBB, PRD, WRX, etc mean that we could add here too. But as an SAP Consultant, we need to know them or have proper notes / documentation with their meaning and usage.
