Smartform - Field not outputting more than 255 characters in a loop - Help!

Question

Hi,
I have the following problem with my Smartform:
I am looping from a table and into a structure (Loop function).
1 of those fields is 1000 characters long and will be filled usually at 500 characters inside.
However, when looping and outputting the field (text node) in the format &Tablename-Fieldname&, only up to 255 characters are output.
To give you a better idea - I have a Loop Node and there, I am looping from a table (type table of) into a header
(type).
Using LCHR does not help.
Why does this happen? How can I fix this? Are any symbols available in Smartforms, like they are in SAPscript?
Any possible solutions will help.
Please help – this is very important and very urgent.
Best Regards,
John

Answer 1

Hi,
if you want to output a long string in a smartform putting it as &name& in a text will not help you. For printing such an information you use temp include texts you create an delete on the fly while processing the SF.
To Do so:
- define GV_SUFFIX type char2, GS_HEAD a structure with fields TDOBJECT type TDOBJECT, TDNAME type TDOBNAME, TDID type TDID, TDSPRAS type SPRAS
- define a code step importing the text, the language and the GV_SUFFIX, in the coding , you convert the string to itf and than use function module SAVE_TEXT to save the include text and put the information into GS_HEAD
- define an include text where you put out the newly created include text
- define a code step to delete the temporary text with function module DELETE_TEXT
Best Regards
Roman Weise