topic Re: Visible Length in Application Development and Automation Discussions

Visible Length

Former Member — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:33:46 GMT

hi,

when i declare a parameter of length 20 and gave a visible length 15. when i try to display the entries in the parameter it is giving me only the 15 characters instead of all the characters entered. (SAP 4.7EE)

code snippet:

Report yxyz.

parameter:

p_name(20) type c visible length 15.

write:/ p_name.

when i enter a value ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST

the result will be ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO.

Re: Visible Length

Former Member — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:38:12 GMT

hi ,

see whatever you said may be correct but if you try same snipett on any other system you will get correct result....

you might have got it due to some patche errors.

regards.

mohit

Re: Visible Length

GauthamV — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:40:06 GMT

Hi,

That addition Shortens only the visible length of a parameter field on the selection screeen.

I checked your same code and iam getting full ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST.

Re: Visible Length

Former Member — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:40:54 GMT

it is obvious that it will show the visible length only...you should omit that portion...


parameter:
p_name(20) type c.

Use the code above like that...

Re: Visible Length

Former Member — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:43:14 GMT

I tried out your code. It works fine for me. If the problem continues, then try using a breakpoint or debugger and check if the value is changing anywhere. Are you using these lines together or is there some other code in between?

Hope this helps

Regards,

Jayanthi.K

Re: Visible Length

Former Member — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:45:39 GMT

I checked your code in my system and it's giving the whole string of 20 characters.

Check the output length of the parameter during debugging.

Pushpraj

Re: Visible Length

dev_parbutteea — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:47:57 GMT

Hi,

Maybe because you specified VISIBLE LENGTH 15, you can see only the first 15 characters.

If you would click on the field on the selection screen, you would see that it contains the full 20 characters but its only that there is space to display only the first 15 characters on the screen.

Regards,

Dev.

Re: Visible Length

Former Member — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:50:58 GMT

Hi Sarves,

The code is working absolutely fine rather than the parameter declaration what you havew given try out

p_name(20) type c.

the addition visible length(vlen) defines the visible length of the input field as vlen, whereby vlen is entered directly as a positive number.

If vlen is smaller than the length of the parameter and smaller than the maximum visible length, the input field is displayed in the length defined in vlen, with movable content.

Otherwise, the addition is ignored.

Hope you got the concept and the relavant solution

Thanks and Regards

Srikanth.P

Re: Visible Length

Former Member — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:56:38 GMT

Hi,

Look my friend the basic concept of using visible length is to display the specified length of the parameter in the basic list.

i.e if u specify visible length of 15 characters than u can only view 15 characters. It's a way that u hide your string at display time.

the statement visible length truncates the string starting from rigth to left.

if u think u got the answer to your query.

Regards

Re: Visible Length

Former Member — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:17:48 GMT

i tried it but still it gives me the same. i am working in SAP 4.7 version.

Re: Visible Length

GauthamV — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:22:57 GMT

Hi,

I also checked in 4.7 version only....

Re: Visible Length

Former Member — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 07:44:09 GMT

Hi,

The problem is with the patches.

i got the answer.

thanks for the help.