How to avoid hard coding

hello experts,
in one of the requirements i asked to design the selection screen with some of the fields, those fields are having some constant values while filtering the data.
to avoid that hard coding they asked me to design the selection screen with those fields can anyone suggest me how to do that...?
thanks a lot for your anticipation...
SRI

hi
good
you can create a f4 search helo,store those hard coded values in a internal table and fetch those interal table value into that f4 help.
thanks
mrutyun^

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