Define lenght in SE51 will change upon transporting

Question

Hi Expert's,
Good Day!
I would like some help regarding my object on transaction SE51 (screen painter). I was changing the Define Length from 45 to 55 upon activating their will be a pop-up information message will appear "Selection screen: Report generation makes screen changes ineffective". After the activation the Define Length in transaction se41 will now be 55.
However, upon transporting to another Box/system the Define Length will be 45 instead of 55. Can you help me how to solve this problem? What to do to avoid the changes in the Define Length so that it would still be 55 instead of 45?
Answer's will be a great help.
Thank you,
~Junne Ray
Edited by: jrvillacortz on Mar 17, 2009 1:37 AM

Answer 1

Hi,
It looks like you change a selection screen from a report. By default when you activate a report which does contain:
1. SELECT-OPTIONS, and
2. PARAMETERS,
SAP will automatically create a selections screen for you.
If you want to lengthen the field, you need to change the data element or data type that it refers too. Never change it from SE51, screen painter but rather use SE38, ABAP editor. Why, because every time, the report is activated again, that is the case, when you transport it to another system, it will use back the definition that you use in the SELECT-OPTIONS or PARAMETERS.
Please do it this way:
Example currently you defined it:
PARAMETERS: P_UNAME LIKE CHAR01 (In the screen painter the length is 1 character)
Change it to:
PARAMETERS: P_UNAME LIKE CHAR10 (In the screen painter the length will become 10 chars upon activation).
Regards,
Lim...