Length of the screen field

[Former Member]

Hi,

I am doing module pool programming, I have defined a field as pxxxx-currency(length 13) as an I/O . But on the screen painter I reduced the field length to 8 characters and so when I execute its taking 8 characters only as input but I want the field to take 13 characters I mean as we type it should take take in the whole 13 and I really do not care if it hides the first or the last characters and I cannot increase the field lenght because of the size restricitons as I have already maxed out with the screen width. All suggetions are appreciated and suitable rewarded.

Regards

Vick

[Former Member]

hi vick,

u can set the visible length to 8 chars and default will be 13 chars in the field attributes display option ..

did u check that..

check this option in the field attributes default length will be 13 and set visible length to 8,

regards,

Vijay.

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[Former Member]

Vijay,

I tried that but I get an pop up stating that unable to increase length.

Regards

Vick

[Former Member]

vick ,

do one thing , go to screen layout ,, in that change the same in field properties or ,,

delete that column and add one more time ,save and activate ...

here is the default length is 8??

vijay.

[Former Member]

Vijay,

I tried the visible length column is greyed out and if I try to change default length I still get the same error.The default length and the visible length is 8 for me which would not serve my purpose the visible length should be 8 but i do not what property should be set as 13

regards

Vick

[RichHeilman]

I don't think that you can control this with a CURR type field. It is not allowing me to make the visible length different than the definition length, nor am I allow to make the field scrollable. This maybe only allowed for character type fields.

Ok, it does appear that you can change the vis length differnet form the def length for fields that are of type CURR, DEC, QUAN, there could be others.

Regards,

Rich Heilman

[Former Member]

Hi ,

In your screen painter( Field attributes ) you have a checkbox called 'Scrollable' . Check that.

Then set your Def.lenght as 13 and Visible length as required.

Hope this solve.

Regards,

[Former Member]

Hi,

Scrollable is greyed out for me.

Rich - I will try out your procudure .

regards

Vick

Rich - It solved my problem, you have read my mind as usual.

Thanks guys for all the inputs

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[Former Member]

Hi Vick,

There is a scrollable indicator just above the length defintions. If you select that then you can set the Visible and default lengths.

Hope this helps.

Regards

[RichHeilman]

The scrollable checkbox is greyed out for these types of fields. CURR, DEC, QUAN

Regards,

Rich Heilman

[RichHeilman]

Ok, here is what I did to get it to work, set the field to a type CHAR field.

Make the Def Length what ever you want, set the scrollable checkbox to checked( hit enter ), change the visiable length to whatever you what. Now change the field data type back to CURR. It will hold the values that you entered when it as a CHAR data type field.

Regards,

Rich Heilman

[Former Member]

do this ,

goto layout editor ,,

select the column and say ctrl elements push button ,

this will give u a pop up screen

in that select the column field and click the attributes option

this will lead u to a screen ..it is element attributes display screen , remember u r doing this in change mode ,,

in here in the right top portion

Def.Lgth 13 VisLgth 8

maintain these values ..

regards,

Vijay.

ive shown u the navigation in version 4.6c ,,

hope this helps

u can use numc also for the data type

right rich ,,

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