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String fields in smartform

Former Member — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:28:59 GMT

Hello,

I have a structure which has one of the component of type String. I want to print the contents of this String field [which has more than 255 chars] into smartforms. I have searched for the thread similar to this and broke the contents in the table but the format is getting lost. Is there anyway I can get large string printed in smartform without loosing its format.

Thanks,

Navneet

Re: String fields in smartform

Former Member — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:36:22 GMT

Hi,

By Using INCLUDE STATEMENT we can get more than 255 chr.

Regards

Ranga

Re: String fields in smartform

Former Member — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:48:28 GMT

Hi,

Thanks. But for that I should have a text object. I dont have text object, I have a string type field.

Thanks.

Navneet

Re: String fields in smartform

Former Member — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 04:57:41 GMT

can you explain a bit more, what formatting is lost? Cant you get all the characters?

Regards

Karthik D

Re: String fields in smartform

raja_narayanan2 — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 10:46:32 GMT

try this type .... XSTRING

Regards

Raja

Re: String fields in smartform

Former Member — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 11:05:37 GMT

Hai,

Kindly try the following function module.

READ_TEXT , which is used to bring the long texts.

Regards,

Harish

Re: String fields in smartform

Former Member — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 15:44:45 GMT

Hi,

Thank you all for your responses.

using of String or XSTRING wont help me as I am assigning my string field to a TEXT element which has limitation of 255 chars.

Now I have a string field which has more than 1000 characters with bullets and numbered bullets plus there are carriage returns for new paragraph/new line. All these formatting placeholders does't work if I break my string in String table and print it in loop thru text element which takes 255 chars at a time.

Harish can you explain more abt thie READ_TEXT. Do I have to use it in TEXT MODULE Type? I tried putting it in there but gave me error saying READ_TEXT doesnt exist.

Is there any way out?

Thank you,

Navneet

Re: String fields in smartform

Former Member — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:34:38 GMT

I was able to find the solution for this by splitting the string at the carriage return and further splitting it by offset at required characters.

Thank you for your responses.