MARA Extended Append Structure. Note 44410

Hi Friends.
As Naren suggested, i've implemented the note 44410 to add new fields to the material master. Everything goes good until i've found that my structure or dynpro does'nt work, cause there'e no data in the mara table for the new append structure created. the dynpro shows the fields correctly, but no commit. pls hlp me.
Tnxs for your hlp.

Hi Steve,
You cannot add data to MARA table via Maintainance Screen. The reason for this is in the Delivery and the Maintainance tab of MARA table, the input value for the field Data Browser/Table View Maint is set to Display/maint allowed with restrictions.
Because of this the changes are not commited to the database.
Award points if helpful.
Regards,
Ravi.

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