Text element more than 3 characters

[Former Member]

Hi all,

I have a requirement to add text elements in my report which have characters more than 3 and less than 3.Like R and IF0005.But its not allowing me to add those,as text element is always 3 characters long.Is there any way to add those text element in my report.

Thanks in advance

Priyanka

[Former Member]

Hi,

it is not possible to have other length for text elements tham 3. A work around may be to use DDIC tables for that. Define your text id as table key.

Regards,

Klaus

Edited by: Klaus Babl on Dec 8, 2011 6:37 AM

[Former Member]

Hi Priyanka,

Text element ID cannot be modified means it will not accept characters less than or greater than 3.

its default length and visible length both are 3 .Still if you want to modify this length then you need access key.

Regards,

Shelja

[Former Member]

Hi Priyanka,

It is not possible to increase length of text element field without using access key, as mentioned above.

But if you can share the need to do this may be you can get some alternative logic for doing same.

Regards,

Ganesh.

[Former Member]

Priyanka,

Could you please let us know why is this needed? its always char03.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Actually i am copying one standard program from one server to another server.Whenever we check text elements of that particular program,its showing list of text elements with text element id which has length more than 3 and less than 3.it is a list like this:

ID Text

IB211 Posting date.

R .......

Is there any alternate way to copy same to new server.

Thanks,

Priyanka