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Control Command

Former Member — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:36:43 GMT

What are control commands in SAP Scripts?

Re: Control Command

Former Member — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:38:35 GMT

Hi,

The purpose of the control commands is to allow control of the output formatting. These commands are not interpreted by the SAPscript editor, but are passed through to the SAPscript Composer for processing. The Composer is the program that converts text from the form displayed in the editor to the form used for printing. This includes, for example, line and page formatting, the replacement of symbols with their current values and the formatting of text according to the paragraph and character formats specified

For syntax of the control commands,go thru this link

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_40b/helpdata/en/d1/80319c454211d189710000e8322d00/content.htm

hope it helps..

sathiya Ramasmay

Re: Control Command

Former Member — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:41:53 GMT

Preeti,

Control Command Purpose:

The purpose of these is to allow control of the output formatting. These commands are not interpreted by the SAPscript editor, but are passed through to the SAPscript Composer for processing. The Composer is the program that converts text from the form displayed in the editor to the form used for printing. This includes, for example, line and page formatting, the replacement of symbols with their current values and the formatting of text according to the paragraph and character formats specified.

The SAPscript control commands are described in the following sections.

Syntax of Control Commands

Explicit Page Break: NEW-PAGE

Preventing Page Breaks: PROTECT

Next Main Window: NEW-WINDOW

Assigning a Value to a Text Symbol: DEFINE

Formatting Date Fields: SET DATE MASK

Formatting Time Fields: SET TIME MASK

Country-Dependent Formatting: SET COUNTRY

Position of the Leading Sign: SET SIGN

Initializing Numbered Paragraphs: RESET

Including Other Texts: INCLUDE

Changing the Style: STYLE

Formatting Addresses: ADDRESS

Setting a Header Text in the Main Window: TOP

Setting a Footer Text in the Main Window: BOTTOM

Conditional Text: IF

Finding a Match: CASE

Calling ABAP Subroutines: PERFORM

Inserting Print Controls: PRINT-CONTROL

Boxes, Lines, Shading: BOX, POSITION, SIZE

Hexadecimal Data: HEX, ENDHEX

Summing a Program Symbol: SUMMING

refer.

check this link

http://www.allsaplinks.com/Scripts_1.html

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Re: Control Command

Former Member — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:42:43 GMT

Hi,

Some Important Control Commands are,

NEW-PAGE

PROTECT …… ENDPROTECT

NEW-WINDOW

DEFINE

SET DATE MASK

SET TIME MASK

TOP …. ENDTOP

BOTTOM …. ENDBOTTOM

IF …. ENDIF

Regards,

Padmam.

Re: Control Command

Former Member — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:42:45 GMT

Hi,

The purpose of control command is to allow control of the output formatting

Syntax of Control Commands

SAPscript control commands are entered and edited in the text editor in the same way as a normal line of text. They do, however, differ from normal lines of text:

Enter the paragraph format /: in the format column to identify a control command.

Enter the command itself in the text line. You will notice that all key words and other parts of the specification not given as literal values enclosed in inverted commas are automatically converted to capital letters.

Make sure that a control command, together with any parameters it requires, does not occupy more than a single line.

Enter only one control command in each line.

Note that the editor formatting has no effect on lines containing control commands.

If a control command is unknown or it contains syntax errors, the line containing it is treated as a comment line. It is neither interpreted nor printed.

Eg.

/: NEW-PAGE

/: NEW-WINDOW

/: DEFINE

Regards,

Suruchi