Change the Data Type of a Standard Required Field

Hello Experts,
Need to know if is it possible to change the data type of a standard field. The field is marked as a required field.
For example: If a standard field is an Object Picker and I would like to change it to a string field. Is it possible? How can I do it?!
Many thanks,
Igor Nakamura

Hi Igor,
Since you cannot hide a required field, what you can do is move the standard required field to someplace less noticable (like the bottom of the page) and then use a validation script to set it to some benign value.
-Howie

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Can we change the data type of a field based on the value of the field

HI Gurus,
My Requirement is as below -- Could you please guide me
in the Printable Adobe form -- for ex - as usual for dates fields in the Object Pallette the object type is a date/time field and for quantity/currency fields corresponding fields are taken
now in case the either the date, quantity or currency is initial in place of displaying 0.00 or empty date we need to display N/A (Not Applicable)
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to put it simply --
we need to change the data type of date field from DATE&TIME to Char type to hold N/A or Quantity field to Char field to hold N/A
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Hello Ramchander,
     You cannot change the data type of the field at run time in Adobe forms because the type of field you choose at the time of design level is associated with the data type itself.
If you want to achieve your requirement, then your main idea should be to set the data type as CHARACTER itself while designing the field in the adobe form itself. CHAR field will comfortably hold the value of Calculation/amount field, Currency field, Amount, Date, Time HHMMSS, Unit Accuracy, Currency key, Floating point number, Numeric text, Client, Language and many other data types.
After designing the field as TEXT field in Adobe form you have two options.
Option 1:
Select the Date field initially as type TEXT field or CHAR field in Adobe forms.
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if ( this.rawvalue == null )
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Option 2:
Select the Date field initially as type TEXT field or CHAR field in Adobe forms. Do the formatting part in ABAP itself. It will increase the performance. Avoid Javascript as much as possible.
Suppose you have a DATE variable l_dats of type DATS. Then take another variable l_date of type CHAR. Then write the below ABAP code.
MOVE l_dats TO l_date.
IF l_date IS INITIAL.
     l_date = 'N/A'.
ENDIF.
Bind the l_date to the TEXT field in the form.
Even in this case, if the field is not blank, then it will show the date. Else it will show "N/A".
But I will suggest you to use Option 2 of keeping the AMOUNT, QUANTITY, DATE, TIME fields etc as CHAR or TEXT fields in Adobe form and do the required formatting in ABAP itself.

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I have a requirement in which one of the change is to convert the data type of the field 'USERF2_NUM' in the table 'ESLL' from 'QUAN' to 'CHAR'.
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Regards,
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You really don't need to sum the item before hand if you are going to create a summary!

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iam attaching my .vi iam having problem that my math script function is not changing it data type in its output
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First off, there is a dedicated mathscript forum that might be better to get your problems answered. (I see if I can have this thread moved from the LabVIEW board, else you can re-post over there.)
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How To... Change the Data Type for a SELECT-OPTIONS at run time.

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DATA c_char(32) TYPE c.
declaration of count variable
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SELECTION-SCREEN END OF BLOCK a1.
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How to change the data type of a field in an internal table dynamically ?

I have an internal table :
Data: Begin of itab_data occurs 0,
field1 type i,
field2 type p decimals 2,
end of itab_data.
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Its urgent. Please help me.
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I dont think you can change it dynamically...but as per your requirement ...why dont you define the variable with maximum decimal length and depending on the parameter(from your selection-screen) use the WRITE command to populate it with the specified decimals.
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How to change the data type property of a feild property at run time.

i have feild varchar2(15) in database, but if want to insert alphanumric, char, number it at runtime by changing its parameters dynamically (parameter is a).
i have write this code
if a= 'C' then
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Checking for number is easy:
Declare
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Exception
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Change Cluster Data Type

I might be asking a really silly school boy question here and to some degree I hope I am but could somebody tell me if its possible to change the data type of a cluster element? Let me explain.
Here is a screen shot of my code:
I read back my test data as an array of strings which I convert to a cluster, bundle then send off on its merry way to do other stuff, however the first element in the cluster is actually a path. As you can see I currently unbundle all elements, change the first to a path then re-bundle with the correct data types. Whilst somewhat messy, this used to be acceptable as I only had two other strings in the cluster, however due to expansion I now look at it and think that there must be an easier, more elegant way to do this if I just want to change one element.
If this is the only way (or at least if no other simpler solution exists) then I could potentially keep the path a a string and do the conversion at the points that require it, however that would now require a bit of re-coding which I would like to avoid if possible.
Hopefully I'm just not thinking hard enough on this one.
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Mitch
Solved!
Go to Solution.

I have no idea what the rest of the code looks like and how much you can change so a few options:
1. Keep them all as strings, do the path conversion when you actually need the path. I'll show you the trick I use to convert arrays to nicely labelled clusters below.
2. Make the cluster an object, keep the data as a string array and the accessors deal with indexing and path conversion.
3. Make the cluster hierarchial, separate the path and have a second cluster which is all strings.
4. If you want you can jigger the string array and use some flatten and unflatten action.
The top of the snippet is one way to jigger the string array to get a path for the first element in a flat cluster (should wire seamlessly to the rest of your code). The lower code shows how I would convert a string array to a cluster so the labels are useful, same idea works for clusters which are given useless labels such as those from Array to Cluster. (Fixed sized clusters with brown wires are easier to handle, simply Type Cast to the cluster with the same types and appropriate labels).
Judging from your original post, you know when and how to Type Def the various clusters I show.

How to check the data type dynamically

hi all
my requirement is like this in one screen field which is of character type user is inputing data .
now while saving to the database i have to apply one external check for this data if it is integer type or not
as this data on the screen is refrenced to the database so i can not change the data type on the screen itself .
i have to check it externally from PAI ....... would any one please help on this
Thanks and regards
Papps

Hi
Thanks again you are right i missed the space one ..
but Now another problem...
I have tried that but in that case even user can input data by mistake like this
123 4 but this is not an integer it should also give error as this is also not a correct integer ...
as par asi think . we have to aain check if there is any spaces in the data provided i guess or
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Is there any way to change the data type x to data type c.
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Is there any other to solve the problem.
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Prabhat

Hi,
Try following this peice of code.
TYPES: BEGIN OF TAB_TYPE,
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The data type of the variant is not compatible with the data type wired to the type input.

Hello all..
Iam curently struggling with the following:
On my main(top)_VI, I have a mix-signal graph which will output several or one signals depending on the user. I also have an inner subvi which has the analisys i want to give the the data before outputing it to the main(top) VI, which has the mix-signal graph control.
Now, I created a reference from the mix-signal graph and Iam imputing this reference into the subVI (which inside has a property node type_control_mix-signal graph in which Iam connecting the refnum from the top VI to view the output data). The data consists of an array of clusters of 2 arrays of doubles each.
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I have the feeling Iam missing on one or more Labview fundamentals regarding refnums.
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You almost found it on your own. The refnum needs to be 'strict', that means that the data type of the graph is set (2D dbl), otherwise it will use the default data type. To do this you create the refnum directly from the graph after you have wired the correct data type to the terminal. In this case the refnum wire will break if you change the data type of the graph.
Independend of this issue, I suggest you not to use the value property on the graph but directly wire the data (e.g. the 2D double) to the SubVI. The property value is by far the slowest way to get data, and 2D arrays are really some amount of data.
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Info Object: Change of Data Type (NUMC to CHAR)

We have a scenario wherein one of the Info objects is defined currently as NUMC. Due to the change in the Source system, the info object is now defined with data type as CHAR. The info object in consideration is the "Cost element".
As the current info object contains data, it will not be possible to change the data type from NUM to CHAR.
Is there any pre-defined way of doing this data type change without loss of data (in the info object as well as the info cube(s) where the info object is used)?
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Hi Balakrishana,
Try this:
Insted of changing the definition of infoobject(NUMC to CHAR), why cant you change the data itself from CHAR to NUMC...?? If length is same.
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