Handling 255 Characters in BW

There is a strange requirement from the user that what ever the notes the Sales rep makes attending the sales call has to be shown in BW as well.This is like the CSR making notes while you are talking to him/her on the phone.
In the source system, this is 255 characters.As you know, BW can allow only upto 60 characters.
This is vey important for the user to see these notes and there is no way we can push back saying BW is not meant for these things.
One option we thought was to use the BDS.Before I start doing some research on this, I thought I would check with you all if anyone has done anything like this
or have some ideas to handle this kind of strange stuff.
I would really appreciate your help and time.
Thanks in Advance.
Vivek.

Hi Vivek,
try to split the content of your char in several infoobjects (linked as attributes to use after all together in your query) and, however, try to use some useful ABAP commands like CONDENSE or SHIFT to reduce the unused space...
Hope it helps (and, if yes, don't forget to assign some points...see /people/mark.finnern/blog/2004/08/10/spread-the-love )
Bye,
Roberto

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More than 255 characters in background

HI,
My report width is 275 which is displaying when run in front ground. but when run in background it truncates after the 255 characters.
We have created a format using 'SPAD' of width 300, area is showing but the data is not showing after 255.
I have mention line-size 275 in report, i tried this without mentioning line-size but the result is same. it gets truncates after 255, empty area is showing after 255 if we use width 300 format...
Thanks

Hi,
After creation of the new format, run the job with the new format ie. attach the new format to your printer, and run the job.
Now take the spool number and put it as a parameters to the following program .
Hope it work fine.
Rewards points if useful.
Here is the code:
Display spool list > 255 columns
This is a SAP utility report to allow display of
spool request lists with more than 255 columns in
releases 4.6B and 4.6C (4.6D kernel must be used)
REPORT ZRSPOSHOWLIST LINE-SIZE 80.
PARAMETERS: RQIDENT LIKE TSP01-RQIDENT,
FIRSTL TYPE I DEFAULT 0,
LASTL TYPE I DEFAULT 0.
global data from LSPOXTOP
DATA: RC(10) TYPE C,
ERRMSG(100) TYPE C,
STATUS LIKE SY-SUBRC,
DSN_TYPE(8) TYPE C.
DATA: BEGIN OF DATA_SET_LINE,
DATA_LENGTH(5),
PRECOL(1),
DATA_LINE(1000),
DATA_LINE(5000), "MODAB
END OF DATA_SET_LINE,
DATA_SET_LENGTH(5) TYPE C.
TABLES: TSP01, TST05, TSPOPTIONS.
DATA: TEMSE_NAME LIKE TST01-DNAME,
TEMSE_CLIENT LIKE TST01-DCLIENT,
TEMSE_HANDLE LIKE RSTSTYPE-HANDLE,
TEMSE_PART LIKE TST01-DPART,
TEMSE_OBJTYP LIKE TST01-DTYPE,
TEMSE_RECTYP LIKE RSTSTYPE-RECTYP,
TEMSE_CHARCO LIKE TST01-DCHARCOD.
DATA: IS_OTF.
global data from LSPOCTOP
DATA: BEGIN OF SPOC
, escape
, prtctrl
, FIRST_BYTES(4) " collection of the first bytes of the
" escape sequences, which I am searching for.
, PRTCTRL_START_LENGTH TYPE I
, PRTCTRL_TOTAL_LENGTH TYPE I
, PRTCTRL_START(10)
, SYMBOL_LOW_START(10)
, SYMBOL_HGH_START(10)
, SYMBOL_START_LENGTH TYPE I
, ICON_START(10)
, ICON_START_LENGTH TYPE I
, ICON_SEL TYPE I VALUE 1
, FRAME_START(10)
, FRAME_START_LENGTH TYPE I
, END OF SPOC.
FIELD-SYMBOLS: TYPE C
copied from RSPO_DISPLAY_ABAP_SPOOLJOB
DATA: BUFFER LIKE DATA_SET_LINE OCCURS 1000.
TABLES: TSP02L.
SELECT SINGLE * FROM TSP01 WHERE RQIDENT = RQIDENT.
IF SY-SUBRC <> 0.
WRITE: / 'Spool request does not exist:'(001), RQIDENT.
EXIT.
ENDIF.
CALL FUNCTION 'RSPO_CHECK_JOB_PERMISSION'
EXPORTING
ACCESS = 'DISP'
SPOOLREQ = TSP01
EXCEPTIONS
NO_PERMISSION = 1
OTHERS = 2.
IF SY-SUBRC <> 0.
WRITE: / 'No authorization to display'(002).
EXIT.
ENDIF.
PERFORM READ_DATA TABLES BUFFER
USING TSP01 FIRSTL LASTL.
IF SY-SUBRC <> 0.
WRITE: / 'Error reading spoolo request'(003).
EXIT.
ENDIF.
IF IS_OTF = 'X'.
WRITE: / 'This spool request is not an ABAP list'(004).
EXIT.
ENDIF.
PERFORM DISPLAY_DATA TABLES BUFFER USING TSP01-RQPAPER TSP01-RQIDENT.
FORM GET_SPOOL_LINE.
DO.
IF TEMSE_RECTYP+1(1) = 'Y'.
CALL 'C_RSTS_READ'
ID 'HANDLE' FIELD TEMSE_HANDLE
ID 'BUFF' FIELD DATA_SET_LINE
ID 'BUFFLG' FIELD 1006
ID 'BUFFLG' FIELD 5006 "MODAB
ID 'ALLINE' FIELD 'X'
ID 'BINARY' FIELD ' '
ID 'SHOWLG' FIELD 'X'
ID 'RC' FIELD RC
ID 'ERRMSG' FIELD ERRMSG.
STATUS = SY-SUBRC.
ELSE.
CALL 'C_RSTS_READ'
ID 'HANDLE' FIELD TEMSE_HANDLE
ID 'BUFF' FIELD DATA_SET_LINE+1
ID 'BUFFLG' FIELD 1005
ID 'BUFFLG' FIELD 5005 "MODAB
ID 'ALLINE' FIELD 'X'
ID 'BINARY' FIELD ' '
ID 'SHOWLG' FIELD 'X'
ID 'RC' FIELD RC
ID 'ERRMSG' FIELD ERRMSG.
STATUS = SY-SUBRC.
DATA_SET_LINE(5) = DATA_SET_LINE+1(5).
DATA_SET_LINE-PRECOL = ' '.
ADD 1 TO DATA_SET_LINE-DATA_LENGTH.
ENDIF.
STATUS = SY-SUBRC.
IF STATUS <> 6. " EOF, error condition, or got data
EXIT.
ENDIF.
end of this part, try to open next part
ADD 1 TO TEMSE_PART.
CALL 'C_RSTS_CLOSE'
ID 'HANDLE' FIELD TEMSE_HANDLE
ID 'RC' FIELD RC
ID 'ERRMSG' FIELD ERRMSG.
STATUS = SY-SUBRC.
IF STATUS = 0.
CALL FUNCTION 'RSTS_GET_ATTRIBUTES'
EXPORTING
AUTHORITY = 'SP01'
CLIENT = TEMSE_CLIENT "hjl
NAME = TEMSE_NAME
PART = TEMSE_PART
IMPORTING
CHARCO = TEMSE_CHARCO
CREATER =
CREDATE =
DELDATE =
MAX_CREDATE =
MAX_DELDATE =
NON_UNIQ =
NOOF_PARTS =
RECTYP = TEMSE_RECTYP
SIZE =
STOTYP =
type =
OBJTYPE = TEMSE_OBJTYP
EXCEPTIONS
FB_ERROR = 1
FB_RSTS_OTHER = 2
NO_OBJECT = 3
NO_PERMISSION = 4
OTHERS = 5.
STATUS = SY-SUBRC.
ENDIF.
IF STATUS = 0.
CALL 'C_RSTS_OPEN_READ'
ID 'HANDLE' FIELD TEMSE_HANDLE
ID 'CLIENT' FIELD TEMSE_CLIENT "hjl
ID 'NAME' FIELD TEMSE_NAME
ID 'PART' FIELD TEMSE_PART
ID 'TYPE' FIELD TEMSE_OBJTYP
ID 'CONV' FIELD ' '
ID 'ALLINE' FIELD 'X'
ID 'BINARY' FIELD ' '
ID 'RECTYP' FIELD TEMSE_RECTYP
ID 'CHARCO' FIELD TEMSE_CHARCO
ID 'PROM' FIELD 'I'
ID 'RC' FIELD RC
ID 'ERRMSG' FIELD ERRMSG.
STATUS = SY-SUBRC.
ENDIF.
ENDDO.
IF STATUS = 4.
STATUS = 12. "EOF
ENDIF.
IF STATUS = 8.
STATUS = 40. "Line too long
ENDIF.
DATA_SET_LENGTH = DATA_SET_LINE-DATA_LENGTH.
ENDFORM.
FORM READ_DATA TABLES BUFFER
USING TSP01 LIKE TSP01 VALUE(FIRST) TYPE I
VALUE(LAST) TYPE I.
DATA: LINES TYPE I.
REFRESH BUFFER.
CLEAR IS_OTF.
TEMSE_CLIENT = TSP01-RQCLIENT.
TEMSE_NAME = TSP01-RQO1NAME.
TEMSE_PART = 1.
CALL FUNCTION 'RSTS_GET_ATTRIBUTES'
EXPORTING
AUTHORITY = 'SP01'
CLIENT = TEMSE_CLIENT
NAME = TEMSE_NAME
PART = TEMSE_PART
IMPORTING
CHARCO = TEMSE_CHARCO
CREATER =
CREDATE =
DELDATE =
MAX_CREDATE =
MAX_DELDATE =
NON_UNIQ =
NOOF_PARTS =
RECTYP = TEMSE_RECTYP
SIZE =
STOTYP =
type =
OBJTYPE = TEMSE_OBJTYP
EXCEPTIONS
FB_ERROR = 1
FB_RSTS_OTHER = 2
NO_OBJECT = 3
NO_PERMISSION = 4
OTHERS = 5.
IF SY-SUBRC = 0.
IF TEMSE_OBJTYP(3) = 'OTF'.
IS_OTF = 'X'.
ENDIF.
ELSE.
EXIT.
ENDIF.
CLEAR TEMSE_HANDLE.
CALL 'C_RSTS_OPEN_READ'
ID 'HANDLE' FIELD TEMSE_HANDLE
ID 'CLIENT' FIELD TEMSE_CLIENT "hjl
ID 'NAME' FIELD TEMSE_NAME
ID 'PART' FIELD TEMSE_PART
ID 'TYPE' FIELD TEMSE_OBJTYP
ID 'CONV' FIELD ' '
ID 'ALLINE' FIELD 'X'
ID 'BINARY' FIELD ' '
ID 'RECTYP' FIELD TEMSE_RECTYP
ID 'CHARCO' FIELD TEMSE_CHARCO
ID 'PROM' FIELD 'I'
ID 'RC' FIELD RC
ID 'ERRMSG' FIELD ERRMSG.
STATUS = SY-SUBRC.
IF STATUS = 0.
DO.
PERFORM GET_SPOOL_LINE.
IF STATUS <> 0 AND STATUS <> 40 AND STATUS <> 12.
PERFORM CLOSE_JOB.
EXIT.
ENDIF.
IF STATUS <> 12. " 12 = End
IF NOT ( DATA_SET_LENGTH IS INITIAL ).
DATA_SET_LINE-DATA_LENGTH = DATA_SET_LENGTH - 1.
ENDIF.
ADD 1 TO LINES.
IF LINES >= FIRST.
APPEND DATA_SET_LINE TO BUFFER.
ENDIF.
IF ( NOT LAST IS INITIAL ) AND ( LINES >= LAST ).
EXIT.
ENDIF.
ELSE.
IF LINES = 0.
PERFORM CLOSE_JOB.
EXIT.
ENDIF.
IF LINES < FIRST .
PERFORM CLOSE_JOB.
EXIT.
ENDIF.
EXIT.
ENDIF.
ENDDO.
PERFORM CLOSE_JOB.
ENDIF.
ENDFORM.
FORM CLOSE_JOB *
FORM CLOSE_JOB.
IF STATUS <> 0 AND STATUS <> 12.
CALL 'C_RSTS_CLOSE'
ID 'HANDLE' FIELD TEMSE_HANDLE
ID 'RC' FIELD RC
ID 'ERRMSG' FIELD ERRMSG.
MESSAGE E112(PO) WITH STATUS RC ERRMSG RAISING READ_ERROR.
ENDIF.
CALL 'C_RSTS_CLOSE'
ID 'HANDLE' FIELD TEMSE_HANDLE
ID 'RC' FIELD RC
ID 'ERRMSG' FIELD ERRMSG.
STATUS = SY-SUBRC.
IF STATUS <> 0.
MESSAGE E112(PO) WITH STATUS RC ERRMSG RAISING READ_ERROR.
ENDIF.
ENDFORM.
FORM DISPLAY_DATA TABLES BUFFER USING RQPAPER LIKE TSP01-RQPAPER
RQID LIKE TSP01-RQIDENT.
DATA: LINE_LENGTH TYPE I, GCOL TYPE I, GLINES TYPE I,
LINE_LENGTH2 LIKE RSTSTYPE-LINELENGTH,
V, V2.
CALL FUNCTION 'RSPO_SPOOLDATA_WRITE_INIT'.
PERFORM SPOOLDATA_WRITE_INIT. "MODAB
select single * from tspoptions where spoption = 'REALWIDTH'.
if sy-subrc = 0.
V = 'X'.
endif.
select single * from tspoptions where spoption = 'REALHEIGHT'.
if sy-subrc = 0.
V2 = 'X'.
endif.
IF NOT V IS INITIAL OR NOT V2 IS INITIAL.
GCOL = 0.
GLINES = 0.
SELECT SINGLE * FROM TSP02L WHERE PJIDENT = RQID
AND PJNUMMER = 0.
IF SY-SUBRC = 0.
GCOL = TSP02L-COLUMNS.
GLINES = TSP02L-LINES.
ELSE.
CALL FUNCTION 'RSPO_GET_SIZE_OF_LAYOUT'
EXPORTING
LAYOUT = RQPAPER
IMPORTING
ANSWER =
COLUMNS = GCOL
LINES = GLINES
PFORMAT =
ENDIF.
ENDIF.
IF GCOL < 80 OR V IS INITIAL.
GCOL = 255.
ENDIF.
IF GLINES < 5 OR V2 IS INITIAL.
GLINES = 0.
ENDIF.
IF GCOL >= 1024. "MODAB
GCOL = 1023.
ENDIF.
NEW-PAGE NO-HEADING NO-TITLE LINE-SIZE GCOL
LINE-COUNT GLINES. " make a wide list
SET BLANK LINES ON.
LOOP AT BUFFER.
DATA_SET_LINE = BUFFER.
IF DATA_SET_LINE-PRECOL = 'P'.
IF DATA_SET_LINE(1) = ' '. " Echter Vorschub ?"
NEW-PAGE.
ENDIF.
CONTINUE.
ENDIF.
Zeilenlänge berechnen, falls unbekannt.
IF DATA_SET_LINE-DATA_LENGTH IS INITIAL.
LINE_LENGTH = STRLEN( DATA_SET_LINE-DATA_LINE ).
ELSE.
LINE_LENGTH = DATA_SET_LINE-DATA_LENGTH.
ENDIF.
IF LINE_LENGTH > 0.
LINE_LENGTH2 = LINE_LENGTH.
PERFORM SPOOLDATA_WRITE USING DATA_SET_LINE-DATA_LINE "MODAB
LINE_LENGTH2
1.
ELSE.
" Leerzeile
SKIP.
ENDIF.
ENDLOOP.
ENDFORM.
copied from RSPO_SPOOLDATA_WRITE
FORM SPOOLDATA_WRITE USING VALUE(SPOOL_DATA)
VALUE(DATA_LENGTH) LIKE RSTSTYPE-LINELENGTH
VALUE(START_POS) LIKE SY-COLNO.
function globals
DATA: LPOS LIKE SY-COLNO
, REST_LEN TYPE I
, AREA_LEN TYPE I
, NEXT_HOT TYPE I " offset of next special character
, COLS TYPE I " columns used by special character
, BYTES TYPE I " bytes used by special character
, HOT2
, HOT3
, HOT4
, HOT5
, HOT6
, HOT7
, BEGIN OF ESCAPE_TRICK
, X1(1) TYPE X
, END OF ESCAPE_TRICK
, THE_PRTCTRL(5) TYPE C
Because of a problem within the ABAP listprocessing, I shall
never output the same icon side by side with the same color
and without a gap.
As I don't know the data, I will use two different variables
alternatively.
, ICON_ID1 LIKE ICONS-L4
, ICON_ID2 LIKE ICONS-L4.
FIELD-SYMBOLS:
IF START_POS < 2.
write at / ' ' no-gap.
NEW-LINE.
LPOS = 1.
ELSE.
LPOS = START_POS.
ENDIF.
REST_LEN = STRLEN( SPOOL_DATA ).
DESCRIBE FIELD SPOOL_DATA LENGTH AREA_LEN.
IF DATA_LENGTH = 0.
" fine.
ELSEIF DATA_LENGTH .
MODAB
PERFORM WRITE_BIGFIELD USING
NEXT_HOT
LPOS.
WRITE AT LPOS <PLAIN_TEXT> NO-GAP.
ADD NEXT_HOT TO LPOS.
SUBTRACT NEXT_HOT FROM REST_LEN.
ASSIGN +6(1).
ELSE.
HOT7 = '?'.
ENDIF.
ELSE.
HOT6 = '?'.
ENDIF.
ELSE.
HOT5 = '?'.
ENDIF.
IF HOT5 = SPACE.
IF HOT6 = SPACE.
IF HOT7 = SPACE.
IF SPOC-ICON_SEL = 1.
WRITE AT LPOS(4) ICON_ID1 AS ICON.
write at lpos icon_id1 as icon no-gap.
ELSE.
WRITE AT LPOS(4) ICON_ID2 AS ICON.
write at lpos icon_id2 as icon no-gap.
ENDIF.
COLS = 4.
BYTES = 7.
ELSE.
IF SPOC-ICON_SEL = 1.
WRITE AT LPOS(3) ICON_ID1 AS ICON.
write at lpos icon_id1 as icon no-gap.
ELSE.
WRITE AT LPOS(3) ICON_ID2 AS ICON.
write at lpos icon_id2 as icon no-gap.
ENDIF.
COLS = 3.
BYTES = 6.
ENDIF.
ELSE.
IF SPOC-ICON_SEL = 1.
WRITE AT LPOS(2) ICON_ID1 AS ICON.
write at lpos icon_id1 as icon no-gap.
ELSE.
WRITE AT LPOS(2) ICON_ID2 AS ICON.
write at lpos icon_id2 as icon no-gap.
ENDIF.
COLS = 2.
BYTES = 5.
ENDIF.
ELSE.
"rite at lpos(1) icon_id as icon.
WRITE AT LPOS(1) '#' NO-GAP. " Not enough space for any icon.
COLS = 1.
BYTES = 4.
ENDIF.
ENDIF.
IF .
ELSE.
EXIT.
ENDIF.
ENDWHILE.
MODAB
IF REST_LEN > 0.
ASSIGN .
SPOC-FIRST_BYTES+0(1) = SPOC-PRTCTRL_START(1).
SPOC-FIRST_BYTES+1(1) = SPOC-FRAME_START(1).
SPOC-FIRST_BYTES+2(1) = SPOC-ICON_START(1).
SPOC-FIRST_BYTES+3(1) = SPOC-SYMBOL_LOW_START(1).
ENDFORM.

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Hi Janice Yeoh,
I am assuming this is classical report......And just need to do is increase the line-size in report statement. Find below for small example which i ve tried..
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Regards,
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 ALLOWED_CHAR(95) VALUE
'0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ`~!@#$%^&*()-_=+ ' &
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 ENDIF.
 ENDDO.
 MODIFY DATA_PACKAGE.
ENDLOOP.
if abort is not equal zero, the update process will be canceled
ABORT = 0.
I have seen the link sent by 'Eugene Khusainov' today. Thought putting my piece of code that may help others...
Regards,
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[OLE DB Source [1949]] Error: Failed to retrieve long data for column "action".
[OLE DB Source [1949]] Error: There was an error with output column "action" (2046) on output "OLE DB Source Output" (1959). The column status returned was: "DBSTATUS_UNAVAILABLE".
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Here is what your connection string should look like for excel source
Provider
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Hi ,
i am running a ALV report in background whose output is more than 255 characters . but spool is showing only 255 charcters.
Do we have any setting to change to display all characters.
Or any OSS notes that can be applied.
Thanks & regards,
Sonika Ahuja

Hi,
You need to change the Format Type through SPAD transaction. The Format Type decides the number of rows and columns per page. By creating a new format type as per your requirement would solve the probelm.
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Best regards,
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John,
I agree that note field will accept more than 255 characters. May be in my comment i have written "Both" that is confusing. Limit is only for text column.
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Change the Windows Environment Variables for the Temp folders to something like C:\TMP
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I am trying to writes data to application server file .
My line size is 1100 charqacters.
When I use open dataset for output in text mode encoding default
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I tried CG3Y to view files but it also shows only 255 characters.
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Hi,
Just find the string length.
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l_len = strlen( p_data ).
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      MOVE 0 TO l_len.
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      SUBTRACT 1500 FROM l_len.
      ADD 1500 TO l_offset.
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    CHECK l_len EQ 0.
    EXIT.
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p_data has the content to be trasfered of around 6000 characters and the length is dynamic.
Also download the data using CG3Y with BIN to .txt file and see.
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Edited by: Vinod Reddy Vemuru on Jul 25, 2008 12:34 PM

How to send a mail more than 255 characters in PDF format

Hi Experts
I am facing a problem sending an ALV list spool as an email attachment in PDF format. Here my problem is spool has morethan 255 characters, so the contents are trukated after 255.
I am using the FM "SO_NEW_DOCUMENT_ATT_SEND_API1" to send the email. Please give any good suggestion.
Thanks in advance
Praveen

Hi,
<li>After converting spool to PDF using CONVERT_ABAPSPOOLJOB_2_PDF, need to use below function module
<li>Use SX_TABLE_LINE_WIDTH_CHANGE to convert line width to 255 chars.
 CALL FUNCTION 'SX_TABLE_LINE_WIDTH_CHANGE'
 EXPORTING
 line_width_src = 134
 line_width_dst = 255
 TABLES
 content_in = i_pdf
 content_out = l_attachment
 EXCEPTIONS
 err_line_width_src_too_long = 1
 err_line_width_dst_too_long = 2
 err_conv_failed = 3
 OTHERS = 4.
 IF sy-subrc NE 0.
 MESSAGE s000(0k) WITH 'Conversion Failed'.
 EXIT.
 ENDIF.
Thanks
Venkat.O

Prompt limit is 255 characters, otherwise Photoshop crashes! Is there a better way?

I noticed today that the "prompt" command appears to have a limit where it can accept no more than 255 characters. If you try to enter more, Photoshop crashes!
Photoshop CC v14.2.1 x64
Windows 7 64-bit SP1
16 GB RAM
I tried the following:
var defaultTextString = "1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678 90123456789.123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678 901234567890123456789.1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789|12345";
var textString = prompt("Enter citation:", defaultTextString);
With 255 characters in the defaultTextString, the prompt works as expected. If you add an additional character to the defaultTextString, the prompt box comes up as expected with the full default text as expected. However, when you hit the OK button, you get the following Windows error and Photoshop closes.
Adobe Photoshop CC has stopped working
A problem caused the program to stop working correctly.
Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is
available.
I am relatively new to Photoshop scripting. Is there another command that I should be using for text input larger that 255 characters?
- Brad

Hi Brian,
try using this customized version:
function longPrompt(myText, myCitation) {
    var winRes = "dialog { \
        preferredSize: [250,150], \
        alignChildren: ['fill', 'top'], \
        orientation: 'column', \
        text: 'Confirm', \
        titleText: StaticText {}, \
        citationText: EditText { preferredSize: [200, 100], properties: {multiline: true, scrolling: true } }, \
        buttonsGroup: Group { \
            orientation: 'row', \
            alignChildren: ['center', 'top'], \
            cancelButton: Button { text: 'Cancel' }, \
            confirmButton: Button { text: 'Ok' } \
    var w = new Window(winRes);
    w.titleText.graphics.font = "dialog:18-Bold";
    w.titleText.text = myText;
    w.citationText.text = myCitation || "Enter your text"
    var result = w.show();
    return (result === 1) ? w.citationText.text : false
var textString = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aenean commodo ligula eget dolor. Aenean massa. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Donec quam felis, ultricies nec, pellentesque eu, pretium quis, sem. Nulla consequat massa quis enim. Donec pede justo, fringilla vel, aliquet nec, vulputate eget, arcu. In enim justo, rhoncus ut, imperdiet a, venenatis vitae, justo. Nullam dictum felis eu pede mollis pretium. Integer tincidunt. Cras dapibus. Vivamus."
var result = longPrompt("Enter citation", textString);
$.writeln(result);
Hope this helps.
Regards
Davide Barranca
www.davidebarranca.com
www.cs-extensions.com

Need Spool file 255 characters for background HR Reports into Excel

We have been looking for a solution for problem this for more than 2 years now.
Problem:
1.     Requirement is to run large HR reports either standard or with Ad Hoc Query in background mode in a company with more than 50,000 employees.
2.     Nobody wants printed reports these days. We want to save the forests. Customers prefer to be emailed an Excel file so they can do further data analysis, filtering, pivot tables etc.
3.     Reports are running OK in foreground for smaller sections of the organisation, where you send the output to Excel from ALV, or save as a local file in spreadsheet format.
4.     But large reports for entire company are awkward, tie up your PCs resources, and complex reports accessing many tables can timeout before completion.
5.     So scheduling these reports to run in background would be the ideal solution.
6.     However when we access the report output from SP02, we find that most reports (say with more than 13 or so fields) have an output wider than 255 characters and the output of the spool file wraps to the next line in Excel. It is very tricky to then parse the data back into one row for each employee. And you have a problem if you output is for 50,000 or so employees, because then you file is 100,000 rows and will not load completely into Excel limit problem of 65,536 characters.
7.     We simply want a spool file that does not wrap the data to the next line after 255 characters.
8.     But how to explain this simple requirement to some technical people. It seems a lot of posts on SDN think we always want to print a spool file. NO remember the forests!
Possible Solutions:
I see a lot of posts here that refer to OSS note 186603, but they dont mention the target for the output of the spool is to import into an Excel File (i.e. spreadsheet format). Just search for 186603 or Spool request with more than 255 columns. There is also a reference to OSS note 313566. I am not sure if these will work?
I have also seen the suggestions that you need to define a customer printer format that does not wrap the output after 255 characters (create a new format type in transaction SPAD).
Can anyone help us!
John McKee

Hi,
Can you please check whether you can use:
CONSTANTS C_LF TYPE X VALUE '0A'.
CONSTANTS C_CR TYPE X VALUE '0D'.
Regards,
Lakshmi.

More than 255 characters in a table text field

Dear experts,
i am facing a problem (in WD Alv too) that i can not display more than 255 characters in a single text field.
I want to display a table containing a description field without a limitation of its length. As soon as providing a (formatted) string longer than 255 characters of length, no interactive form is shown on screen.
Debugging a while, the following error message occurs;
ADS: com.adobe.ProcessingException: com.adobe.ProcessingException: XMLFM Exception - PDF render operation exception, reason code: 0 : InvalidXDPException: Xml parsing error: reference to invalid character number (error code 14) ...
Does anybody have similar problems to mine?
Did anyone resolve the issue to show more than 255 characters in a table in interactive form?
Regards,
Florian Royer
Edited by: Florian Royer on Feb 11, 2010 2:48 PM

CALL METHOD lr_service_manager->retrieve
 EXPORTING
 iv_bo_name = 'cPro_Project' "lv_bo_name "cPro_Project
* iv_bo_name = cl_dpr_api_co=>sc_bo_cprojects "
 iv_bo_node_name = 'Longtext.Root' "lv_bo_node_name "Longtext.Root
 it_keys = lt_ltext_key
 iv_edit_mode = '0' "iv_edit_mode "0
 IMPORTING
 et_data = lt_longtext_mast
 et_failed_keys = lt_ltext_key_fail.
 READ TABLE lt_longtext_mast INTO ls_longtext_mast INDEX 1.
 MOVE ls_longtext_mast-longtext TO ls_action_item-zz_description.
This is how i get the text with format (line feeds).
zz_description is type string.
My table is on a page, wrapped in a subform. and zz_description is type text field.
Yes, i maintained "allow multiple lines" and did not limit length somehow.
The problem arises in portal, pressing the preview button of a zform. providing a string <255 characters of length, everything works fine.
Edited by: Florian Royer on Feb 11, 2010 3:10 PM

How to send text file as an email attachment havin more than 255 characters

My requirement is to generate a text file and to send this text file as E-mail attachment. I am using FM 'SO_NEW_DOCUMENT_ATT_SEND_API1' to send the E-mail. but here the limitation is the number of characters per line must not be more than 255 characters whereas in my case it is exceeding 1000 characters per line. could anyone please suggest me what should i do now ? Each field in the text file has to be tab delimited.

Simplest might well be to use javamail API instead of the two tags that Sites provides, e.g. see email - Sending mail attachment using Java - Stack Overflow for a full example.
Phil

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