I had to combine several lines (records) of a column into a string. This string will then become a value in a column. This field is known as Ref Designator or technically known as EBORT. EBORT is a field part of the explosion of BOM material. EBORT field and value can be derive from Function Module "CSAP_MAT_BOM_READ" and output is a table known as "IT_STPU". So, imagine a material being exploded into multiple sub parts; this EBORT represented the exploded BOM material.
As the main material may consist more than a hundreds of sub-materials, the string will need to be longer in order to hold as many as the sub-parts it could in a manufacturing facility. In this report, it was finely displaying because it was displaying in rows of records. Now, when the change to combine all of the referential designation of BOM parts into one single string to be displayed in an ALV; most of the remaining parts were chopped off.
This chopping off was due to ALV's per cell only allowed 128 maximum characters to be displayed out. Hence, I had a chopped off parts of combined EBORT. So, i had the following attempt to try to expand the length in the ALV :
- Put in "255" characters in ALV Fieldcat's INTLEN = '255'.
- Put in "255" characters in ALV Fieldcat's OUTPUTLEN = '255'.
- Declared "255" characters in the holding variable; GV_EBORT(255) TYPE C.
None of the above were able to force ALV to display a string longer than 128 in its' cell.
Then, I found this note, 857823, that specifically states that this is "standard system behavior and cannot be changed". Now, I really need to find an alternative.
To tackle this problem, and user still insist on displaying EBORT's value in a single stream, I had to let them know the maximum characters that cell can display; I suggested that they break it into two streams or more if EBORT gets bigger.
So, my alternative solution - retain a single stream of combined EBORT but it will break into second line if it reaches 128 character. But the ceiling length I need to start breaking nicely will be reaching 120 characters or less depending on the EBORT whole next word. We don't want to break something half of a whole word.
williamwilstroth... EBORT, CSAP_MAT_BOM_READ, 128 Characters Only.
