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conversion routines

Former Member — Sun, 13 May 2007 11:19:31 GMT

what is conversion routines?give some detail.where/why it useful.

Re: conversion routines

Former Member — Sun, 13 May 2007 11:40:04 GMT

Hi,

Conversion routines are nothing but function modules which gives us the actual value and starts with "CONVERSION_". The best of example is Partner Functions (Table KNVP and field PARVW). For example the partner function for Ship-to-party is 'WE' and 'SH'. Go to SE16 and enter KNVP and hit enter. Now enter WE in field PARVW and execute. you will get records which have partner function WE. Now Double click on any record and now check the field PARVW. it will show the Value as 'SH'. Here when you double click on any record a function module on PARVW is executed and shows its actual value.

If you want to know the function module on PARVW, then go to SE11 on table KNVP and double click on field PARVW and see its attributes. you will find the function module name.

thanks,

sksingh.

Re: conversion routines

Former Member — Sun, 13 May 2007 12:51:40 GMT

Hi,

As the name goes they are primarly used for converting the values from target variable to source variable.

They are mostly used to store the data differently in database. Some of the example is CONVERSION_EXIT_ALPHA_INPUT and CONVERSION_EXIT_ALPHA_OUTPUT which is used to remove or add leading zeros to the data variable before soting the data in the database.

Cheers