Illegal selection by InfoObject from outer join table

Hi all,
in any infoset with left-outer-join, when i want to select any field (infoobject) to get exlude conditions i got these errors:
illegal selection by InfoObject from outer join table.
error reading the data of infoprovider '*'.
thanks in advance .
HS

Hi Dorota,
Choudhary S was right.
İ have notified the SAP about this issue..they wrote me below note :
As SAP tables have no concept for NULL, we
have to restrict this condition to not allow excluding condition to be
used any more. But alternatively, you could use including to replace it.
Please check my last reply to see the detailed reason for it, and
this explaination is from our development colleagues.
For this note 1435772, you could also see why this error message
arises.
So, they said it is not possible in case of left outer join after those patches.
i just used include to replace that exluding condition.it takes little time but the problem is solving.
Thanks
HS

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