Equipment Long Text and Maintenance Order Long Text

[Former Member]

Hi All,

How to activate 'Log Line' and 'No Text Change' functionality for Equipment Long Text and Maintenance Order Long Text ?

  ( For Example - 'Define Long Text Control for NotificationTypes' in SPRO. )

[Former Member]

Hi,

We normally use READ_TEXT to retrieve the data, change it and then use the function module SAVE_TEXT to Save it.

Regards

Vivek Patil.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Thank you very much for your valuable suggestions.

While searching for this functionality I came across following links & SAP Notes:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw74/helpdata/en/3b/04178b239647b5b7c78bcaaae5c2ed/content.htm?frameset=...

573291 - Audit Trail: Activate long text logging

1758053 - Long text: Log line missing

1058984 - Frequent audit trail problems (transactions AUT01-AUT10)

2171566 - No logging of long text change

703891 - Audit Trail: Client dependency of logging

But I am not very sure whether they are helpful. Kindly Suggest.

Thanks & Regards,

Basavraj

[peter_atkin]

Basavraj

None of these notes are relevant, or useful for your original question.

PeteA

[jogeswararao_kavala]

Hello BASAVRAJ,

There is no such arrangement for Equipment or Order long texts. Only clue you'll need is the information about corresponding user-exits to achieve this through your ABAPer. i.e., IEQM0003 and IWO10009 both of which trigger at Save event of Equipment and Order respectively. Rest depends on your ABAPer.

But I consider, even the above path is not so easy. The implicit enhancement way might prove a better option. That is finding the right enhancement points in the standard programs SAPMIEQ0 and SAPLCOIH and writing the code to stop long text changes.

Regards

KJogeswaraRao

[peter_atkin]

KJogeswaraRao,

The notification functionality inserts an extra line with the user/date/time, then sets a special character (I think its a "*" symbol) against the text rows.

From memory it wasn't that complicated to do the same for orders. I'm pretty sure we did it in IWO10009.

We probably used READ_TEXT and SAVE_TEXT to insert the user/date/time, and also the special characters against each row.

Then next time you enter the text you are not able to change it.

PeteA

[peter_atkin]

BASAVRAJ JAKAPURE,

There's no standard functionality that I know of..

But I have developed a solution for a previous client to mimic the notification long-text functionality in a maintenance order.

And no - I can't remember how it was done.. But it was probably at order save, and using function module READ_TEXT to obtain the text, then manipulate the data, then CHANGE_TEXT to write the data back to the memory tables.

PeteA