topic Re: Validating Long Material Name in Application Development and Automation Discussions https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/validating-long-material-name/m-p/8071482#M1613645 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I believe that you can't make any automatic validation or Foreign key with MARA as your domains are different.</P><P>Better code in maintenance event and check with relevant MARA existence there.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 27 Jul 2011 02:55:19 GMT Former Member 2011-07-27T02:55:19Z Validating Long Material Name https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/validating-long-material-name/m-p/8071481#M1613644 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Greetings,</P><P></P><P>How can I validate a long material name (char 40) with table MARA for input on sm30(table mainteinance view)? [probably there is some conversion involved].Also, can I make this material a foreign key with mara-matnr, given that they have differnt sizes, or all my validations have to be coded in table manteinance events?</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:37:20 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/validating-long-material-name/m-p/8071481#M1613644 Former Member 2011-07-26T16:37:20Z Re: Validating Long Material Name https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/validating-long-material-name/m-p/8071482#M1613645 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I believe that you can't make any automatic validation or Foreign key with MARA as your domains are different.</P><P>Better code in maintenance event and check with relevant MARA existence there.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 27 Jul 2011 02:55:19 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/validating-long-material-name/m-p/8071482#M1613645 Former Member 2011-07-27T02:55:19Z