Dynamic text in text symbols.

Hi,
Is there any way by which I can assign dynamic texts at runtime in a text symbol? Eg., say I have the following text to display :-
Error in calling the form name XYZ.
where the value XYZ is to be fetched from the program at runtime.

Hello Anirban,
AFAIK this is not possible. Anyways why bother?
Declare you text symbol as:
TEXT-001: Error in calling the form name
In your code:
DATA: LV_STR TYPE STRING.
LV_STR = TEXT-001.
CONCATENATE LV_STR V_FNAME INTO LV_STR SEPARATED BY SPACE.
BR,
Suhas

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