Search using Long Text

[Former Member]

Hi

Material Master standard search help provides for searching via short text in the master. Is it possible to create a custom search on the long text maintained in Purchase Order Text or Basic Data Text tabs of the master? What could be the approach?

Alternatively, can we create a report which can work on Long Text as a selection field?

Regards

Sriram

[Former Member]

Hi,

1.Custome long text creation is possible.

We will need the same parameters for saving the text as well. The function modules that you can use for this will be SAVE_TEXT followed by COMMIT_TEXT. The parameters play a very important roles as you might not see the saved text in the standard transaction if you give wrong parameter values.

CALL FUNCTION 'SAVE_TEXT'

EXPORTING

• CLIENT = SY-MANDT

HEADER =

• INSERT = ' '

• SAVEMODE_DIRECT = ' '

• OWNER_SPECIFIED = ' '

• LOCAL_CAT = ' '

• IMPORTING

• FUNCTION =

• NEWHEADER =

TABLES

LINES =

• EXCEPTIONS

• ID = 1

• LANGUAGE = 2

• NAME = 3

• OBJECT = 4

• OTHERS = 5

.

IF SY-SUBRC <> 0.

• MESSAGE ID SY-MSGID TYPE SY-MSGTY NUMBER SY-MSGNO

• WITH SY-MSGV1 SY-MSGV2 SY-MSGV3 SY-MSGV4.

ENDIF.

CALL FUNCTION 'COMMIT_TEXT'

• EXPORTING

• OBJECT = '*'

• NAME = '*'

• ID = '*'

• LANGUAGE = '*'

• SAVEMODE_DIRECT = ' '

• KEEP = ' '

• LOCAL_CAT = ' '

• IMPORTING

• COMMIT_COUNT =

• TABLES

• T_OBJECT =

• T_NAME =

• T_ID =

• T_LANGUAGE =

.

Regards,

Shiva.

[Former Member]

Hi Shiva

Not sure you understood the question, I am asking if it is possible to create custom search help for long text in the material master dropdown field.

Regards

Sriram