E-REc: Error in Candidate Data Overview

[Former Member]

Hi All,

When we try to  open the external candidate 'print preview' - Data overview for Candidate is not opening.

we are getting this error only for one candidate in production, rest for all the candidates - data overview is opening fine.

Error is: Error when generating the form for the data overview.

We have checked in SLG1 error are

Table row is larger than 176 cm

The error occurred in program CL_HRRCF_M_DATAOVERVIEW=======CM007 line 92.

Could you please advice.

Regards

BTM

[antjedoering · Accepted solution]

Hello,

with the note 690836 the restriction was delivered. That's why you receive "Table row is larger than 176 cm" error message. That is the effect of the note.

That the error message is correct however there are no changes to behavior. This means

that the limitation of cell with 176 cm at most still persists. This is about 8 pages long of data. 176 cm is the limit to display data in a cell. If you have a form that requires more space than that we recommend that you create an additional cell for it.

This is the standard behavior and currently there are no plans to change it.

Regards, Antje

[romanweise]

Hello BTM,

as Antje described there is a technical restriction on the maximum length of a field in a SMARTFORM and can't be directly changed. But your issue is not unique. At some time it is found in nearly every eRecruiting system.

The most common case is that a candidate copied his cover letter from MS Word into the eRecruiting application. In some cases layout information and other special characters are transformed into line  breaks which causes the text to get very very long. More rarely you find candidates which actually have the urge to write a lot of pages for their cover letter or their work experience. The result is the same in both cases when the system tries to create the SMARTFORM the field exceeds the technical restrictions and you get the generation error.

My standard solution for this is to put a function into my data overviews to truncate texts which have the possibility to have this problem (cover letter, work experience description, education description, other qualifications). I truncate after a defined number of characters or a number of line breaks whatever comes first. I set the values as system parameters / values in a table of delivery type A so a system admin can change them quickly if necessary. Of course you could try to distribute the text to several fields but so far none of my customers thought this was necessary.

Kind Regards

Roman