Script

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what r the text elements in scripts?

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Hi,

SAPscript calls the individual text components of a form text elements. To achieve good structuring and readability, you assign a fixed name to each text element in the form. The print program then uses these names to access the elements. This name applies also for translated versions of a text element, while the contents of the text elements depend on the language.

Text elements are related to a window, that is, a print program can call for each window only those text elements that exist in this window. They are used in main and other windows.

The variables used within '&...&' are replaced by the system at output time

/E <element name>

UL &fieldnam& text text

Named element are written when driver program use

CALL FUNCTION 'WRITE_FORM'

EXPORTING

ELEMENT = 'BOOKING'

TYPE = 'BODY'

WINDOW = 'MAIN'

Unnamed element are written once in MAIN windows, and each time in other windows

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Omkar.

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Hi

Text elements are the elements which are used to write some data under them based on some conditions, using the command '/E' in command line

these are triggered along with the fun module WRITE_FORM from the driver program.

A variable in SAPscript is called a symbol. There are the following types.

• System symbol (e.g. the number of the current page)

• Standard symbol (usable in any document)

• Program symbol (value from the print program)

• Text symbol (“local variable”)

The value of a symbol is text for using within SAPscript code and is represented by the symbol-name enclosed by ampersands. On seeing the tell-tale ampersands in SAPscript code, you sometimes need to figure out the symbol type.

goto any PAGEWINDOW's Text elements in Script (SE71)

from the Menu-> INSERT-> Symbols

you find all symbols here

System symbols

System symbols in a SAPscript form are comparable to system fields like SY-UZEIT in an ABAP program, and include these. The graphical editor offers three types of system symbol.

1. General system symbols

See the table TTSXY. PAGE is the most widely used. The list given in our BC460 training manuals is out of date.

2. SAPscript system symbols

See the dictionary structure SAPSCRIPT. SAPSCRIPT-FORMPAGES is the most widely used.

3. ABAP system symbols

For the ABAP system field SY-UNAME, say, the symbol is SYST-UNAME. [SYST is the dictionary structure for ABAP system fields.]

Sample code:

• User: &SYST-UNAME&

• Page &PAGE& of &SAPSCRIPT-FORMPAGES(C3)&

Standard symbols

Standard symbols are maintained centrally (in the table TTDTG via transaction SE75) for use in any document. Menu path:

Tools

Form Printout

Administration

Settings

Some standard symbols are SAP-standard and others are custom. Curiously, table TTDTG is cross-client although SAPscript forms are not.

The value of a standard symbol has to be defined for each language used. This gives a way to make a single SAPscript form multi-lingual.

We can take advantage to an extent of the central maintenance, though there is no guarantee that the available standard symbols will used in every appropriate context.

Standard symbols complicate searching a SAPscript form, since text like ‘Charity registration 211581’ may be hiding in a standard symbol.

Text symbols

A text symbol is declared and assigned to within the SAPscript code, and so obviously applies only to the current document. The command DEFINE is used, requiring /: in the tag column, as in the following examples.

/: DEFINE &COMP_NAME& = ‘University of Warwick’

/: DEFINE &WS_RATE& = &TAX_SUMM_C&

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