If statement is not working

[Former Member]

Hello Experts,

I am facing issue with date is initial.

Actually I am trying to do transfer posting using IDOCs. If the posting date is initial then I am trying to assign system date is default but my 'if condition is not working'

      lw_seg_head = IDOC_DATA-sdata.

      MOVE-CORRESPONDING lw_seg_head to lw_gm_head.

      if lw_gm_head-PSTNG_DATE is INITIAL.

         lw_gm_head-PSTNG_DATE = sy-datum.

      endif.

Please advise.

[Former Member]

Hello Experts,

I am facing issue with date is initial.

Actually I am trying to do transfer posting using IDOCs. If the posting date is initial then I am trying to assign system date is default but my 'if condition is not working'

      lw_seg_head = IDOC_DATA-sdata.

      MOVE-CORRESPONDING lw_seg_head to lw_gm_head.

      if lw_gm_head-PSTNG_DATE is INITIAL.

         lw_gm_head-PSTNG_DATE = sy-datum.

      endif.

Please advise.

[Mohamed_Mukhtar]

Hi Vada,

What is the date type of field lw_gm_head-PSTNG_DATE.

Is it declared as type sy-datum or char. Declare it as sy-datum If it is not declared .

Thanks

-Learner

[rahul_mahajan]

Hello,

Did you tried searching SCN before posting this question? I would suggest to read first.

To answer your question, please refer below SCN threads. There could be many other threads on same topics.

https://scn.sap.com/thread/950883

Hope this helps and let us know if this is not something you were looking for.

Thanks,

Rahul

[former_member184158]

Hi,

try to define the PSTNG_DATE as sy-datum or sdate.

if lw_gm_head-PSTNG_DATE is INITIAL

or  lw_gm_head-PSTNG_DATE = '00000000'.

        lw_gm_head-PSTNG_DATE = sy-datum.

      endif.

Regerads

Ibr

[Former Member]

Hi,

If you declared posting date as type sy-datum,Then use below condition.

       lw_seg_head = IDOC_DATA-sdata.

      MOVE-CORRESPONDING lw_seg_head to lw_gm_head.

      if lw_gm_head-PSTNG_DATE = '00000000'.

         lw_gm_head-PSTNG_DATE = sy-datum.

      endif.

Hope this will help you.

Thanks

KH

[Private_Member_7726]

Hi,

That to me indicates - you have assigned to lw_gm_head-PSTNG_DATE a value that is not initial (SPACE for example). If the field type is 'date' then the initial value for that type is '00000000'.

If you want to do programming, you should really be able to solve this kind of problems on your own...

cheers

Jānis

[former_member246634]

Hi!

Since date field is never empty, it contains only zeros. You can use:

lw_seg_head = IDOC_DATA-sdata.

MOVE-CORRESPONDING lw_seg_head to lw_gm_head.

if lw_gm_head-PSTNG_DATE EQ '00000000'.

     lw_gm_head-PSTNG_DATE = sy-datum.

endif.

or

lw_seg_head = IDOC_DATA-sdata.

MOVE-CORRESPONDING lw_seg_head to lw_gm_head.

if lw_gm_head-PSTNG_DATE CO '0'. "Contains only zeros

     lw_gm_head-PSTNG_DATE = sy-datum.

endif.

Greetings

Bartłomiej