How To Fix DH113 - Collective search help contains more than & elementary search helps

DH113 - Overview

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: DH - DD: Messages for search helps

• Message number: 113

• Message text: Collective search help contains more than & elementary search helps

What causes this issue?

This search help contains more than 30 elementary search helps.

System Response

The system issues an error message and will not allow you to continue with this transaction until the error is resolved.

How to fix this error?

Ensure that not more than 30 elementary search helps are activated in
customer systems. A search help with more than 30 elementary search
helps is not recommended from a user-friendliness point of view.
Therefore<(>,<)> suppress some of the search helps in the maintenance
transaction for the ABAP Dictionary.

Procedure for System Administrators

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• What is the cause and solution for SAP error message DH113 - Collective search help contains more than & elementary search helps ?

  The SAP error message DH113 indicates that a collective search help contains more than the allowed number of elementary search helps. In SAP, a collective search help is a way to group multiple elementary search helps together, allowing users to search for data across different tables or fields in a unified manner. However, there is a limit to the number of elementary search helps that can be included in a single collective search help.
  
  Cause:
  The error occurs when:
  
  A collective search help is defined with more than the maximum allowed number of elementary search helps. The limit is typically set to 10 elementary search helps, but this can vary based on the specific SAP system configuration.
  The system is trying to execute a search that involves a collective search help exceeding this limit.
  
  
  Solution:
  To resolve the DH113 error, you can take the following steps:
  
  
  Review the Collective Search Help:
  
  Go to the transaction code SE11 (Data