Increasing length of purchasing group Description & Tel. No.

[Former Member]

Hi,

There is request to increase length of Purchasing Group description (EKNAM) length from 18 Char to 25 and "Tel. No. Purc Grp" (EKTEL) from 12 to 13.

So is it possible and what may be the impact if any?

BR

Nilesh

[former_member183424 · Accepted solution]

The standard domain (TEXT18) length of purchase group's description is 18.

And the same is applicable for domain CHAR12, it is 12. It is saved into table T024.

You can face many inconsistent if you change it. It is strongly recommended to go with the standard field length.

If your requirement is to add some more information, then please create an extra field with the help of ABAP team as per your requirement.

[Former Member]

Hi All,

Thanks for your input.

BR

Nilesh

[rafael_zaragatzky]

Hi Nilesh,

I think this is completely impossible. Even if you modify the standard and change the length of the fields, not sure that it will be updated on all the screens - some of them may have defined the field length of their own.

Without modification to standard, you might be able to append a structure to the PGrp table, but all the screens will still show the standard fields.

Hence, the only way is to give up the longer descriptions on standard screens and only show them on custom made screens. In such case you can e.g. create a parallel Z table to the PGrp table.

BR

Raf