Error in Select-Option

Question

Hi Experts,
In my report i need to declare a select-option . This select-option is a combination of Period and fiscal year i..e the values in the select-option should be like
<b>PPP/YYYY</b> period and year need to be separated by <b>"/".</b>
I had declared in that format. <b>Here the period starts from 001-012</b>.So when ever the User enters <b>010/2005</b> in low and <b>007/2007</b> in high it is giving an error that <b>Lower limit is greater than Higher limit</b> .

Answer 1

Technically, I think you could actually achive this with the use of a custom data domain and on that domain refer to a custom conversion exit...this would mean that the value typed by the user in "PPP/YYYY" format could be converted immediately into "YYYYPPP" or whatever internally before screen validation kicks in... e.g. (logic below needs more work!!):
function conversion_exit_zppyy_input.
*"*"Local Interface:
*"  IMPORTING
*"     REFERENCE(INPUT)
*"  EXPORTING
*"     REFERENCE(OUTPUT)
* Data should be in form PPP/YYYY
  data:
    l_ppp(3)            type c,
    l_yyyy(4)           type c.
  output = input.
*" add some validation here...
  split output at '/'
    into l_ppp l_yyyy.
*" add more validation here
  if sy-subrc is initial.
*" make it into YYYYPPP format
    concatenate l_yyyy l_ppp into output.
  endif.
endfunction.
You'd probably need an equivalent 'conversion_exit_zppyy_output" function too.
The question remaining in my mind is what you are going to do with the values once you have them in the range table...?  And what if user inputs wildcards etc?
Jonathan