topic Re: Modification Assistant Problems in Application Development and Automation Discussions

Modification Assistant Problems

aaron_morden2 — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 19:57:58 GMT

Hello All,

I am trying to change an SAP program with the modification assistant. I clicked on the "LINE-SIZE 132." line and pushed REPLACE.

This is what it brought up:

REPORT RFSSLD00

MESSAGE-ID FR

NO STANDARD PAGE HEADING

*{ REPLACE DEVK940652 1

*\ LINE-SIZE 132.

LINE-SIZE 132.

*} REPLACE

LINE-SIZE 132.

As you can see, it commented one line and moved another 2 copies of the line down. Now I have 2 uncommented lines. It allows me to edit 1 of the Lines. If I try to activate, I get an error saying the "LINE-SIZE" is not defined.

Any ideas? Thanks!

Re: Modification Assistant Problems

venkata_ramisetti — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 19:58:58 GMT

Hi,

OPen the program in SE38 and goto Menu bar.

Menu bar

Goto --> Modification Operations --> Switch Off Assistance

Now come to the program code and make necesary changes.

Thanks

Ramakrishna

Re: Modification Assistant Problems

aaron_morden2 — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:07:37 GMT

I do not want to do this because, according to the documentation, during an upgrade or the application of support packs, my change will not show up in our SPAU and could be missed if it's overwritten by an SAP change.

Re: Modification Assistant Problems

venkata_ramisetti — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:16:21 GMT

Hi,

In such case you can do one thing . Go to the same path

Menu bar

Goto --> Modification Operations -->Undo Modification

(If that is not possible, use Delete Line Area)

Either undo the changes or delete the statment "LINE-SIZE 132.".

The again go to the same path and click Insert Line Area and add your code here.

Thanks,

Ramakrishna

Re: Modification Assistant Problems

ferry_lianto — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:17:17 GMT

Hi Aaron,

Please try to restore the previous version (version management) and make necessary changes from here.

Regards,

Ferry Lianto

Re: Modification Assistant Problems

aaron_morden2 — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:21:56 GMT

I went back to the orignal copy and tried to Delete the line and this is what happened:

REPORT RFSSLD00

MESSAGE-ID FR

NO STANDARD PAGE HEADING

*{ DELETE &$&$&$&$ 1

*\ LINE-SIZE 132.

*} DELETE

LINE-SIZE 132.

It just commented out one line and created another uncommented line.

Re: Modification Assistant Problems

venkata_ramisetti — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:23:32 GMT

Hi,

Are you still getting syntax error?

Thanks,

ramakrishna

Re: Modification Assistant Problems

aaron_morden2 — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:25:41 GMT

I didn't try to insert the new line, because it did not really delete the other line. If I would have inserted a new line, I would have got a syntax error.

Re: Modification Assistant Problems

aaron_morden2 — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 12:05:32 GMT

I resolved my problem by switching to the Old Editor. Not sure why the new editor caused this problem.

Thanks for all of your help and suggestions!