Question and answer about PID

What is a PID?

In F1 field-specific help, there is a tab for Technical Information. This tab contains a field’s parameter identifier or PID. Once you have the PID, you can assign a default value to a field.

How can you assign a PID to a user profile?

Follow the menu path System → User profile → Own data to access the Maintain User Profile screen and choose the Parameters tab.

Enter the PID for the field in a blank Parameters field and then enter the value (for example “2006”) in the corresponding Value field.

Save the changes. The new default value will take effect only after you log off and log on again to SAP.

Result: Once the PID is assigned to your user profile, its field will be filled in with the data you assigned whenever you use a transaction that includes that field.

Studying about PID

In F1 field-specific help, there is an icon for Technical Info . This tab contains the field’s parameter identifier or PID, along with other technical information. A field can be filled with proposed values from SAP memory using a parameter ID.

Once you know a field’s PID, you can assign a default value to automatically populate that field whenever it appears in a transaction. This change is made for your user profile only – it does not change the field’s value for other users.