How to get the displayed message when using FM: ABAP4_CALL_TRANSACTION

[Former Member]

Hi, 

I am calling FM ABAP4_CALL_TRANSACTION from MS-Excel.  This FM works perfectly for me except the system messages that SAP returns are not always understandable or intituative.  My question is there another FM or Table that I can use to convert the data from MESS_TAB to a more meaningful message for the users?

Examples listed below:

Normal T-Code Message	FM Message in MESS_TAB	Real Meaning
Fill in all required entry fields	COBL-RMVCT	Field COBL-RMVCT is a required field
Document 400000000 was posted in 130	4000000000 130	Document 400000000 was posted successfully

Thanks for your Help

[Former Member]

Hi Karim,

Create a wrapper RFC which calls your RFC, and there you can add your logic to transform certain messages.

Regards,

Shravan

[Former Member]

Hi Karim,

Did you try with the function module

FORMAT_MESSAGE.

Regards,

Ramya R

[Former Member]

Thanks Ramya,

Do you know if there is a Remote enabled version of FM FORMAT_MESSAGE?  If it is not remote enabled I will not be able to use it and I am unable to have any new development made to our system.  I can possibly look up the message in table T100.

[Former Member]

Hi Karim,

I thought that you need to transform the messages completely. That is why I suggested a wrapper RFC. FORMAT_MESSAGE is a normal FM. You can mimic it pretty easily though.

Regards,

Shravan

[tkaess]

Hi Karim,

when you have the parameter to generate the message, you can use the following RFC function module:

BAPI_MESSAGE_GETDETAIL

The module has the following interface:

*"*"Lokale Schnittstelle:

*"  IMPORTING

*"     VALUE(ID) LIKE  BAPIRET2-ID

*"     VALUE(NUMBER) LIKE  BAPIRET2-NUMBER

*"     VALUE(LANGUAGE) LIKE  BAPITGA-LANGU DEFAULT SY-LANGU

*"     VALUE(TEXTFORMAT) LIKE  BAPITGA-TEXTFORMAT

*"     VALUE(LINKPATTERN) LIKE  BAPITGA-LINKMASK OPTIONAL

*"     VALUE(MESSAGE_V1) LIKE  BAPIRET2-MESSAGE_V1 OPTIONAL

*"     VALUE(MESSAGE_V2) LIKE  BAPIRET2-MESSAGE_V2 OPTIONAL

*"     VALUE(MESSAGE_V3) LIKE  BAPIRET2-MESSAGE_V3 OPTIONAL

*"     VALUE(MESSAGE_V4) LIKE  BAPIRET2-MESSAGE_V4 OPTIONAL

*"  EXPORTING

*"     VALUE(MESSAGE) LIKE  BAPIRET2-MESSAGE

*"     VALUE(RETURN) LIKE  BAPIRET2 STRUCTURE  BAPIRET2

*"  TABLES

*"      TEXT STRUCTURE  BAPITGB OPTIONAL

Best regards

Thomas

[Former Member]

Thanks Thomas!  Thats exactly what I was looking for.