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SEARCH ABAP/RAP DOCUMENTATION: search(query="search terms")

FUNCTION NAME: search

Unified search for ABAP + RAP development documentation. It searches across curated OFFLINE sources (fast, deterministic) and can also include ONLINE sources (best-effort, 10s timeout per source) when enabled.

Use this to discover the best document IDs, then call fetch(id=...) to retrieve full content.

LANGUAGE: Query in ENGLISH — the corpus and ranking are primarily English; non-English queries return weaker results.

SOURCES OVERVIEW

OFFLINE sources (local FTS index; always searched unless filtered via sources): Reference & guidance (not sample-heavy): • abap-docs-standard (offline): Official ABAP Keyword Documentation for on‑premise systems (full syntax). Best for statement syntax + semantics. • abap-docs-cloud (offline): Official ABAP Keyword Documentation for ABAP Cloud/BTP (restricted syntax). Best for Steampunk/BTP constraints. • sap-styleguides (offline): SAP Clean ABAP Style Guide + best practices (includes translations; non‑English duplicates are filtered). • dsag-abap-leitfaden (offline): DSAG ABAP Leitfaden (German) with ABAP development guidelines and best practices. • btp-cloud-platform (offline): SAP Business Technology Platform documentation - concepts, getting started, development, extensions, administration, security. • sap-artificial-intelligence (offline): SAP AI Core and SAP AI Launchpad documentation.

Sample-heavy OFFLINE sources (controlled by includeSamples; great for implementation, can dominate broad queries): • abap-cheat-sheets (offline, samples): Many practical ABAP/RAP snippets; quick “how-to” reference. • abap-fiori-showcase (offline, samples): Annotation-driven RAP + OData V4 + Fiori Elements feature showcase. • abap-platform-rap-opensap (offline, samples): openSAP “Building Apps with RAP” course samples (ABAP/CDS). • cloud-abap-rap (offline, samples): ABAP Cloud + RAP example projects (ABAP/CDS). • abap-platform-reuse-services (offline, samples): RAP reuse services examples (number ranges, change documents, mail, Adobe Forms, ...).

OPTIONAL ONLINE SOURCES (when includeOnline=true): • sap-help (online): SAP Help Portal product documentation (official, broad scope). • sap-community (online): SAP Community blogs + Q&A + troubleshooting (practical, quality varies). • software-heroes (online): Software Heroes ABAP/RAP articles & tutorials (searched in EN+DE, deduplicated by URL; feed search is disabled).

NOTE ABOUT abapFlavor: • OFFLINE: filters the official ABAP Keyword Documentation libraries (abap-docs-standard vs abap-docs-cloud); other offline sources are kept. • ONLINE: when set EXPLICITLY to "standard"/"cloud", it ALSO scopes the SAP Help leg to the matching ABAP product (standard → ABAP Platform docs; cloud → ABAP environment docs), removing cross-product noise on conceptual ABAP queries. "auto" leaves SAP Help unscoped. • IMPORTANT — "standard"/"cloud" is a QUERY-DOMAIN signal ("this is an ABAP-LANGUAGE question"), NOT a system flag. Forcing it on a non-ABAP-language query scopes SAP Help to ABAP-language docs and buries the relevant content. Route by DOMAIN:

• ABAP language/RAP/CDS → "standard" or "cloud".

• FUNCTIONAL / configuration (Asset Accounting, Controlling, EWM ) → leave abapFlavor "auto" and pass the product param (e.g. "SAP_S4HANA_ON-PREMISE").

• CAP / UI5 / Fiori → leave "auto". The OFFLINE corpus is the authoritative source for these; note the online SAP Help leg is NOT scoped for them (no abapFlavor/product fit yet), so it may still contribute some off-topic or low-value SAP Help hits.

PARAMETERS: • query (required): Search terms. Be specific and use technical ABAP/RAP terminology. • k (optional, default=50): Number of results to return. • includeOnline (optional, default=true): Keep this ON for best answers. Only set to false if online search is blocked/slow/unreliable in your environment OR you explicitly want OFFLINE-only sources. • includeSamples (optional, default=true): Includes sample-heavy offline sources (repos, showcases, cheat sheets). If results are flooded by examples and you want more conceptual/reference docs, set to false. Turn it on when you want implementation/code. • abapFlavor (optional, default="auto"): Filter by ABAP flavor:

• "standard": Only Standard ABAP (on-premise, full syntax)

• "cloud": Only ABAP Cloud (BTP, restricted syntax)

• "auto": Detect from query (add "cloud" or "btp" for cloud, otherwise standard) • sources (optional): Restrict OFFLINE search to specific source IDs (does not disable online sources; use includeOnline for that). Example: ["abap-docs-standard", "sap-styleguides"]

RETURNS (JSON array of results, each containing): • id: Document identifier (use with fetch to get full content) • title: Document title • url: Link to documentation • snippet: Text excerpt from document • score: Relevance score (RRF-fused from multiple sources) • library_id: Source library identifier • metadata.source: Source ID (abap-docs-standard, sap-help, etc.) • metadata.sourceKind: "offline" | "sap_help" | "sap_community" | "software_heroes"

TYPICAL WORKFLOW:

1. search(query="your ABAP/RAP question")

2. fetch(id="result_id_from_step_1") to get full content

QUERY TIPS: • Be specific: "RAP behavior definition" not just "RAP" • Include ABAP keywords: "SELECT FOR ALL ENTRIES", "LOOP AT GROUP BY" • For ABAP Cloud: Add "cloud" or "btp" to query, or set abapFlavor="cloud" • For OFFLINE-only: Set includeOnline=false (use this mainly when online search does not work for you) • If results are too code-heavy: Set includeSamples=false • For implementation examples: Keep includeSamples=true

ESCALATION: If search returns no useful results (especially for specific error messages, niche runtime issues, or workaround patterns), try the dedicated sap_community_search tool which searches SAP Community blogs and Q&A directly and returns full post content for the top matches.