More than one print program for one sap script

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

I have more than one print program which is attached to one sap script. There is standard text used in the script which has variable as date, i want that date to be converted into the previous date but only for one specific print program. For rest of the print program it should behave as it is.

I have tried it using ( s_date - 1 ) formula and it is working fine. But the variable s_date is used in other parts of the program which is affecting rest of the functionality when i am using above said formula. I can't use other variable in standard text as it is used by other programs.

Please guide me to resolve this, thanks in advance.

[Tamas_Hoznek]

Well, I'm not sure if I understand the scenario 100%, but I think what you have is a standard text (that you cannot change) referring to variable &S_DATE&. You want this to display the previous day's date when the form is used by one print program but not when it's called by another.

Also, you don't want to change S_DATE to S_DATE - 1 for the whole printout, because apart from the text display, S_DATE is used elsewhere and you want to keep the date as S_DATE, not the previous day.

I assume that you can change the coding of the form.

If all of the above is correct, then you could change the value for S_DATE in the form to the previous day just before it calls the standard text and change it back after the output of the text is done. So right befor the INCLUDE for the standard text, you could use an IF statement in the form logic, query the value of SY-REPID (or SY-CPROG). You'll have to test which one shows the print program name. Depending on that, you can do S_DATE = S_DATE - 1 and after the INCLUDE, do the same thing and change it back to S_DATE = S_DATE + 1.

But honestly, this is a pretty shady programming technique... I mean, hard coding references to the print program name in the form logic is certainly not a very clean method