Content Conversion - Ignore extra last fields

Hi There
My content conversion has the following:
STRUCTURE.fieldNames
STRUCTURE.fieldSeparator
STRUCTURE.additionalLastFields
STRUCTURE.endSeparator
My payload has 22 fields and I only specify 20 field names in my CC.. Due to the parameter additionalLastFields, I don't get an error because of the extra 2 fields.. These field is used in the file name and not in the file itself.. But it adds it to the end of each line regardless. I suppose adding fixed Field length would solve this problem but that I don't have.
Is there a way to ignore these 2 by NOT adding it to the file? Maybe some parameter I migth have over looked?
Thanks
Jan

Hi,
Use the different structures for payload data and the fields to be used for file name.
Similar to STRUCTURE add one more structure as STRUCTURE1 and define those 2 fields over here.
The FCC parameters can also be dfefined accordingly.
STRUCTURE1.fieldNames= field1, field2
STRUCTURE1.fixedFieldLengths = 0,0
Thanks
Swarup
Edited by: Swarup Sawant on Sep 7, 2009 1:20 PM

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Giuseppe Agnello wrote:
> Sorry, there was a typo in the parameter name.
> Word fields should start with capital F.
> Try with Record.missingLastFields, with value "add"
>
> http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/ae/d03341771b4c0de10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm
>
> Similar issue was resolved with same parameter in this thread:
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