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Truncate Characteristic data

Posted on Jan 04, 2008 at 11:49 AM 11 Views

Hello Experts,

I have Social Security Number in a infoobject. On BEX report, I would like to display only the last 4 digits of SSN. How do I do that please?

Regards,

-Sonny

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    Posted on Jan 04, 2008 at 12:40 PM
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    Hi Sonny,

    this canot be done in the report designer.

    You will have to add an extra field to the cube and use a routine to truncate.

    Udo

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    Posted on Jan 04, 2008 at 12:42 PM
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    Hi,

    In transfer rules you can do coding to truncate and display only last 4 digits of social security.

    you can use offsets... suppose for 9 length filed id FIELD, YOU CAN WRITE LIKE FIELD+0(4).

    out of 9 charecters, which charecters you need?

    ex: field = 000000000 if you need last 4 then field+0(4).

    If you dont mention any offset, then it will only pick the first 4 char's by default (truncating the length).

    Hope it helps.

    Regards,

    Mona

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    • Former Member Former Member
      Jan 04, 2008 at 04:36 PM

      Hi,

      the alternative would be to add a navigational attribute to your SSN IObj.

      Load this IObj into itself and fill this attribute was suggested ATTR = SSNID+x(4) (x = LEN(SSNID)-4).

      Activate this Nav in your Cube and you'll be able to report on it.

      Another alternative is to implement a virtual char; a bit more complex and less performant but also possible...

      hope this helps...

      Olivier.

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  • author's profile photo Rakesh Pattani
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    Posted on Jan 05, 2008 at 04:05 PM
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    Try using the replacement path variable. This might help you

    Check the following link

    http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/af/809528939d5b4fbff7e16a5bdc0d85/content.htm

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