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text truncating in smartform

sriram_ramesh — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 14:02:05 GMT

Hello Experts,

I'm passing 500 length character field from driver program to smartform.

But only around 300 characters(definitely more than 255) are getting printed.

All declarations are proper. I'm getting the text from read_text and appending to a variable in workarea, passing total workarea to smartform.

Debugged the SMARTFORM itself. the workarea-variable is filled properly. But only while displaying it gets truncated.

I've declared table to display the text as table line expands based on value length.

Thanks in advance.

Sriram

Re: text truncating in smartform

sriram_ramesh — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 14:04:02 GMT

Image for your reference

Re: text truncating in smartform

Juwin — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 14:26:18 GMT

If you already have the text as a text object - which I understand you have, because you are using READ_TEXT - you should just include that text object in the Smartform directly, without doing the concatenation.

Thanks,

Juwin

Re: text truncating in smartform

sriram_ramesh — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 14:42:51 GMT

I use read_text to get standard text into a variable and then passing it to smartform.

Re: text truncating in smartform

Juwin — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 14:45:55 GMT

That's what I said, you don't have to do that. You can directly include the text object inside smartform.

Thanks.

Re: text truncating in smartform

sriram_ramesh — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 14:50:11 GMT

You mean using "include *** object ID..." ?

Ok will try that

Re: text truncating in smartform

Juwin — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 14:53:13 GMT

Have a look at: http://saptechnical.com/Tutorials/Smartforms/Text/Index.htm

Thanks

Re: text truncating in smartform

sriram_ramesh — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 14:57:55 GMT

thanks,

But do you think we can pass object id name dynamically in this approach?

Re: text truncating in smartform

Juwin — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 15:00:36 GMT

Absolutely yes, use & signs for passing the variable.

Thanks.

Re: text truncating in smartform

sriram_ramesh — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 08:47:42 GMT

Thanks that's a good idea. But while displaying the text I'm doing lot of validations in text like, when text line contains word "comments" I wont be printing that line.

And if text has time format like XX:XX:XX, I wont display that line.

So how to handle these things in include text in smartform?

Re: text truncating in smartform

Former Member — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 11:22:07 GMT

Hi,

please try like below with condense.

&WA_FINAL-REMOVAL_REASON(C)&

Regards.

Palaniyappan.S

Re: text truncating in smartform

sriram_ramesh — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 12:40:35 GMT

Condense just reduce spaces in front. Anyway, it didn't work

Re: text truncating in smartform

Juwin — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 12:40:52 GMT

You can't do that with include text. In that case, instead of concatenating the text lines into a big string, keep it as an internal table itself and then create a loop inside the smartform to print the table line contents.

Thanks, Juwin

Re: text truncating in smartform

sriram_ramesh — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 12:44:04 GMT

Yes that's one way. I'm now saving the altered text in one z-text object and use that as include text in smartform.

Thanks for your replies.

I just wanted to know why it is not printing all characters in my previous approach.

Re: text truncating in smartform

Juwin — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 12:51:49 GMT

It has to be because of the limitation of Smartform to print long strings.

Thanks,

Juwin