SE16J: SE16 with Joins

In S4HANA2023 and more recent versions there is a new SE16 flavour: SE16J (for setting up queries on tables with Joins). This is very powerful function next to SE16H.

Reference OSS note for SE16J: 3529563 – Functions of transaction SE16J.

Setup new SE16J query

Start transaction SE16J. Give your new query a name and description and press the Create button:

Now click on the 3 dots to add a secondary table:

You can put in selection criteria, aggregation, decide to output fields.

Give the secondary table (in our example VBAP):

Important now: select the Inner join tick box if you want inner join, otherwise you get outer join. Select the fields for output, aggregation etc.

Important: on the right hand side give the JOIN fields.

Now press the Check button, and when ok, the Save button:

Run query

Now run the query by hitting execute. Due to the saving, next time, just pull up the existing query.

Output example:

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