HCM Processes & Forms - automatically UPPERCASE form fields

Hi gurus!
I have a requirement to do an automatically translation to uppercase form field values. Is there any 'standard' solution to do something like that? If no, should to do something in backend?
KR

You could create a generic service which reads all the form fields and convert them to upper case
using TRANSLATE command.
Another option is to enhance the based feeder class cl_hrasr00_fpm_feeder.
Hope this helps.
Regards.

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