SAPScripts

[Former Member]

Hi,

Does anyone know how to find current line number and total number of lines printed on a page in SAPScripts?

Is it possible to use sy-linno and sy-linct?

Regards ,

Amina.

[Former Member]

Hello,

It is not possible to find the current line number / total number of lines inside the SAPScript by a system variable.

Anyhow we can control the same from the driver program. In such cases we may have to use monospaced fonts like Courier / Arial monospaced for SAP etc.,

The total number of lines in a SAPScript cannot be determined in the Script dynamically, because the line size in a form depends on font used and the size of the font.

Hope this helps you.

Best Regards, Murugesh AS

[Former Member]

Hi,

You can very well use the folling system variables

sy-linno - Current line

sy-linct - Page length

For further you can refer the table "SYST".

Regs,

Venkat Ramanan

[Former Member]

Thankyou Murugesh and Venkat,

I have tried sy-linno and sy-linct but it is not returning any value.

I want to print a text with a heading.

if there are less than 3 lines remaining on a page then i dont want to print the heading (i.e. i want to force a page break here)

text can vary up to N number of lines so I cannot use Protect-Endprotect.

If you know some way out please help me out.

Regards,

Amina.

[amudhans]

Hi Amina,

Please let me know how the data gets in to the form. I had a situation in a payroll remuneration form where I solved a similar issue by calling external subroutines and incrementing the counter by 1 everytime I print a line. Little performance overhead but ok. The catch is I was printing only one line of content each time(from an internal table) through a text element. So I could calculate the number of lines. System variables were not helpful to me.

Please let me know if you need any more details!

[Former Member]

Hi Srinivasan,

Thankyou,

I am printing data from an internal table as well as standard text. I have coded a Transaction for end users to enter some text. So the problem is when I print a particular text element I dont know how many lines will be printed. Also I am using different font size for paragraphs.

There are FMs READ_FORM and CHECK_FORM but they donot return any value. Also when I define a paragraph there is a check box 'Next paragraph same page'. But this is also not working.

Regards,

Amina.