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Author's profile photo Vignesh Bhatt

How to find Transaction codes in SAP?

SAP has more than 1,00,000+ transaction codes in all, and it is increasingly difficult to keep track or remember these transaction codes.

So what is the solution?

Should we keep excel list of these codes?

Or should we remember it? which is definitely a herculean task and almost impossible feat to achieve.

Well, SAP has come out with a solution for it, It’s simple and easy and searching T-Codes and Almost everyone has seen GOOGLE search engine, so taking a cue from that, SAP has devised it’s very own search engine for finding transaction codes.

The transaction code is : KTRAN ( find transaction )

Process :

Step 1 : Type Transaction code KTRAN in the search bar.

Step 2 : Press enter and you will be guided to a new screen and as marked in blue pen, press EXECUTE as shown below :

Step 3 : As soon as you press EXECUTE, you will be guided to a screen just adjacent to this button as shown below :

Step 4 : Now type any word (or if you know the T-Code) related to your process and SAP will auto-populate all the T-CODES which match that word entered in the Transaction Search Term. You can filter the search as per the various options mentioned in the screen and the beauty of this T-Code is it gives you the Description of the transaction code, Program, Package, Component ID, Authorization, Language, Favorite (check box i.e. whether the T-Code is already favorite in your list or not) and Add Favorite Button ( to make it as Favorite )

 When i typed “PUR”, it gave me 400 hits

When I typed the exact word “PURCHASE”, SAP zeroed it down exactly to 152 hits

When I click on a particular T-Code called J1IPUR – Purchase Register – India, it will redirect the screen to the SAP standard purchase register as shown below :

So keep using the T-Code and keep exploring the immense possibility SAP has to offer.

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      Author's profile photo Julien Delvat
      Julien Delvat

      In more than 15 years working in SAP, that's the first time I hear about that life saving transaction.

      Thanks for sharing, Vignesh Bhatt

       

      To be honest, I usually just google "SAP transaction for purchasing" to find what I need.

      Another trick is to look into table TSTCT or TSTCP (if you know some parameters).

      Author's profile photo Marssel Vilaça
      Marssel Vilaça

      It's true. Me neither 🙂

      My best way to find tcodes is by google search. SE93 matchcode description field is also useful.

      Author's profile photo Hemant Mahajani
      Hemant Mahajani

      True. It exists in S/4 HANA only.

      Author's profile photo Vignesh Bhatt
      Vignesh Bhatt
      Blog Post Author

      yes Hemant Mahajani , it exists in S/4 HANA only, especially in 1709 upwards... though SAP has provided note to implement if this transaction is not available in 1511, 1610.

      Author's profile photo Marssel Vilaça
      Marssel Vilaça

      Hi,

      it is available since EHP7. Please refer to https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/1860162

      Author's profile photo Vignesh Bhatt
      Vignesh Bhatt
      Blog Post Author

      Thanks Marssel Vilaça for the information...

      Author's profile photo Vignesh Bhatt
      Vignesh Bhatt
      Blog Post Author

      Thanks Julien Delvat , even I used to refer TSTCT or TSTCP, but found this new transaction code to be really helpful, hence blogged about it. 🙂

      Author's profile photo Yulia Sidorova
      Yulia Sidorova

      Table TSTC seems to be a faster option.

      Author's profile photo Julien Delvat
      Julien Delvat

      TSTC doesn't have descriptions. You probably want TSTCT

      Author's profile photo Kamlesh Kumar Arya
      Kamlesh Kumar Arya

      Hi Vignesh,

      Thanks for sharing!

      Very informative blog!

      This is really a timesaver T.Code.

      Regards

      Kamlesh

       

      Author's profile photo Vignesh Bhatt
      Vignesh Bhatt
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Kamlesh Kumar Arya

      Thanks. Happy that it serves the purpose.

      Regards,

      Vignesh Bhatt

       

      Author's profile photo Arvind Pereira
      Arvind Pereira

      Is this available in ehp4.7 onwards.. s4 only... Or any other earlier version?

       

      Thanks

      Arvind Leo Pereira

      Author's profile photo Vignesh Bhatt
      Vignesh Bhatt
      Blog Post Author

      Arvind,

      It is available in S4 HANA 1709 onwards, and for version 1511 and 1610, you need to apply the note : 2329987 - CO-OM tools: Generic search of transactions.

       

      Regards,

      Vignesh Bhatt

      Author's profile photo Nathan Genez
      Nathan Genez

      FYI, Tammy Powlas covered this in her blog when it first came out:  https://blogs.sap.com/2017/10/29/news-for-fi-co-friends-worth-visiting-new-sap-influence-site/

       

      Author's profile photo Vignesh Bhatt
      Vignesh Bhatt
      Blog Post Author

      Thanks Nathan Genez , Read the blog, very insightful and informative. Thanks for sharing the blog.

       

      Regards,

      Vignesh Bhatt

      Author's profile photo Jyoti Prakash
      Jyoti Prakash

      Good info. for S4H.

      But, for R/3 I always relied on SDMO.

      Thanks,
      JP

      Author's profile photo Neelesh Jain
      Neelesh Jain

      Thanks for sharing.. very faster way of searching transaction in S/4 compare to table search or SE93 or SDMO. Transaction SDMO is also changed in S/4.

      Author's profile photo Vignesh Bhatt
      Vignesh Bhatt
      Blog Post Author

      Thanks Neelesh. Indeed it is, I use only KTRAN to search transactions. ?

      Regards

      Vignesh Bhatt

      Author's profile photo Venkat Iyer
      Venkat Iyer

      Hi,

       

      I am trying tcode KTRAN but I am getting error like this

       

       

      Regards

       

      Shashi

      Author's profile photo Amaury VAN ESPEN
      Amaury VAN ESPEN

      Hello,

      not able to access KTRAN on a system CAR (SAP CA-RT),

      I’m used to calling SEARCH_SAP_MENU

      Do you know if there is something similar (or portable) to SAP CAR ? (different from SMDO)

      Thank you

      Amaury

      Author's profile photo Ratul Chakraborty2
      Ratul Chakraborty2

      This is awesome ... thanks for sharing