Extend the search in IC web client

Question

Hi,
My requirement is to add a custom field on the "Identify Account" Screen. I am working on CRM 5.0. I found this thread in SDN
[Extending BUPA search at ICWC;
and found it useful for my case. One doubt that i have is after taking a 'Z' copy of the search structure - ZCRMST_HEADER_SEARCH_BUIL and after copying the class CL_BUIL_HEADER how will we get it reflected on the BSP ? Won't the BSP view by default
point to CRMST_HEADER_SEARCH_BUIL and class CL_BUIL_HEADER ? How can we make it point to our custom structure and clasS ?
Regards,
Venkat Varadan

Answer 1

Hi Venkat,
Create a sub class of CL_BUIL_HEADER as ZCL_BUIL_HEADER but as it said in the "Extending BUPA search at ICWC thread, do not create a copy structure, just create an append structure to CRMST_HEADER_SEARCH_BUIL and add your new field in that append structure, then go to IMG(CRM> CRM Cross applicationComponents>GenIL > Component Specific> Extend Object model for business partner.
then, on Implementation Class Definition give External Object Name as BuilHeader & implementation class as 'ZCL_BUIL_HEADER', your new search class is linked, then you can extend this Z class to have your own search logic.
Hope this helps,
Regards,
Ramakanth