Issue Solution Document

4/29/2017

Rahul Nayak

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Problem: need to print a sentence into a form. This sentence is a text that is the same text
at material-plant level.

I wanted to use a general characteristic (CT04) for this, but my text is of more than 30
characters. The text is really a very long sentence and I am limited by the field length.

I can use standard texts, or any other possibility (except enhancing the material master), so
the solution is related to the characteristic). The requirement is that this text can be the
value of the characteristic, so then it can be inserted into a form.

Solution:
Unfortunately, standard SAP solution does not have the flexibility of incorporating large
texts in characteristics. The only solution available is usage of a SAP transaction SO10 and
enhancing the material master. This is a stable solution with less risks involved and
companies across the globe use the solution to manage large texts in a form.

Steps for Creating a Text Editor

Step1: Opening the text Editor
SO10 is the transaction for creating standard text. Enter SO10 transaction in the command
prompt and press enter the first screen appears as shown
below.

In the Text Name field enter the name of the standard text which we are going to

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create.

After entering the name as shown in the above screen press on the create button available.
Next screen appears as shown
below.

In the space provided we can enter the text which we needed and can save the standard
text as shown below.

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Step2: Entering text in the Standard Text
Editor

We have various options for formatting the text which we will be discussed below. We will
not be able to see the preview in the same screen but we can see the preview in print
preview by selecting Text-> Print Preview option in the menu bar.
We also have a different text editor. Which we can use for entering and editing the text. But
the difference is that we will be able to see the alignment in the same screen where we
enter the text. To see the other editor we need to click GOTO -> Change Editor. Then we will
be able to see the actual output.
Now let us see the various formatting options which we can use.

Formatting Options Available with Text Editor

The figure below shows you the various formatting options available along with the
standard text editor

.
Now we can see few examples for the various formatting options. The formatting options

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are quite familiar to the user. Now let us see how the output will look like with the
formatting options.
Now we can see each of the formatting options with an example.

Explanation for the above formats

Default Paragraph*
Is the default paragraph we will get the output or display as we there wont be any change
in alignment it will be defaulted.
B Paragraph Justified
Is used when the paragraph needs to be justified. The paragraph which is given with this
formatting option will be justified in the output.
Space Continuous Text
Is used to define continuous text i.e. when we need two or more lines in a same paragraph
we can mention it as a continuous text by just specifying space in the format option.
We can define the format for the paragraph as shown below

And the preview or the text in the output will appear as

shown,

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C Centered
Is used to align the paragraph to center. So in the preview we can see the paragraph will be
centre aligned.
L Paragraph Left Aligned
Is to align the paragraph to left.
We can specify the alignment as shown below.

The text in the output will appear as shown

below,

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= Extended Line
Is used when we need to extended the line. When we want the current line to be displayed
following the preceding line we can use this. This is similar to space formatting option but
if we give space the line will get appended to the previous line at the editing mode itself. But
if we need the line to be appended to the preceding line only at the output we can go for
this option.
( Raw line
We use this formatting option when we want to follow the same paragraph format as use
previously. i.e. when we need to adapt the same paragraph format of the previous
paragraph used we go for this option. When we use this option the next line will also be
append to the previous line.
We can specify the formatting as shown below.

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It looks like this when we just enter the text but after we press enter or save button the
screen looks as shown below
.

The second line of second paragraph is appended to its previous line. (Which will be
indicated using a small symbol >at the end of the first line). Now the output will be as
shown

Once you define the standard text in SO10 you can include text by the above process or use
the function module read_text:
CALL FUNCTION 'READ_TEXT'
EXPORTING
CLIENT = SY-MANDT
id =
language =
name =
object =
ARCHIVE_HANDLE = 0
LOCAL_CAT = ' '
IMPORTING
HEADER =
tables
lines = i_tab
EXCEPTIONS
ID = 1
LANGUAGE = 2
NAME = 3

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NOT_FOUND = 4
OBJECT = 5
REFERENCE_CHECK = 6
WRONG_ACCESS_TO_ARCHIVE = 7
OTHERS = 8
So you want to know how get the parametrs right. This is how -In SO10 goto goto menu ->
header
here you will find all the required parametrs. The text lines will be returned in the i_tab.
you can loop at this itab and display the data.

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