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Negative values for Custom field in SAP coding block !

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‎2010 Jul 14 5:15 PM

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Hi All,

Hope all of you are doing fine.

I need your valuable suggestion/possible workaround for the following requirement.

u2022 The project requires me to add a custom new field to SAP coding block, which can take negative numeric values.

u2022 The standard u201Caddition of custom fieldu201D configuration allows me to have the data type of the newly added custom field as either NUMC or CHAR. NUMC data type does not allow negative values. Standard configuration does not allow me to choose other data types (for custom field addition) like QUAN which can allow negative values (by checking the Sign at domain level in data type).

u2022 Moreover, once I have added the custom field, itu2019s not possible to change the data type of the newly added field (say from NUMC to QUAN).

I wanted to know if anyone of you have any project experience/knowledge about possible workaround, where we can add a custom field in SAP coding block, which can accept negative numeric values (through standard configuration or otherwise).

Hi All,

Hope all of you are doing fine.

I need your valuable suggestion/possible workaround for the following requirement.

u2022 The project requires me to add a custom new field to SAP coding block, which can take negative numeric values.

u2022 The standard u201Caddition of custom fieldu201D configuration allows me to have the data type of the newly added custom field as either NUMC or CHAR. NUMC data type does not allow negative values. Standard configuration does not allow me to choose other data types (for custom field addition) like QUAN which can allow negative values (by checking the Sign at domain level in data type).

u2022 Moreover, once I have added the custom field, itu2019s not possible to change the data type of the newly added field (say from NUMC to QUAN).

I wanted to know if anyone of you have any project experience/knowledge about possible workaround, where we can add a custom field in SAP coding block, which can accept negative numeric values (through standard configuration or otherwise).

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Sandra_Rossi
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‎2010 Jul 14 10:16 PM

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No experience on that, but I strongly advise you to not trying to do something else than what was designed by SAP. So, you can create a character type field, with for example a field exit (though this technology is obsolete, it's very useful in that case) to validate its content (and reformat it if needed).

Note that from a functional perspective, I think an amount is strange in the coding block, so maybe ask the functional people to know why they need it...