Cannot set CURR fields to scrollable in screen painter

[fabianlupa]

In S/4HANA currency amount field lengths in FI were extended to 23.2. Currently being on ERP and trying to be upwards compatible I am developing things using the new length. On dynpros however I want to display the field smaller so they don't take up to whole screen. With text fields you can do that using the scrollable feature and having defined length be longer than visible length. I cannot get the scrollable checkbox to not be grayed out for CURR fields though. I can only change the defined length. Which would result in shortdumps when the variable has a values using the new length and also forces the modified flag to be set I think. According to note 2628714 this is possible though and they even attached a screenshot of the screen painter where it works.

Was "scrollable" somehow patched in for CURR fields in some release? I have never seen it mentioned in the ABAP language release notes where this should have been if that were the case. Or does the output length need to be adjusted in the domain?

The F1 help for scrollable mentions CURR fields not being scrollable (checked on 740SP20 and 752SP04):

Screen painter for me for RF05V-AZSAL (scrollable is grayed out):

Screen painter according to note 2628714 (scrollable checked, visible length less than defined length):

I also had a look at how generated selection screens deal with this. But they don't use the CURR type for the dynpro field.

[Sandra_Rossi]

To help people who want to know more globally about Amount Field Length Extension (the one you mention being 2628714 "User Interface Adaptations"), here they are - the starting point is the note 2628654:

• 2601956 - SAP S/4HANA: Amount Field Length Extension: Restriction Note
• 2610650 - Amount Field Length Extension: Code Adaptations
• 2628040 - Amount Field Length Extension: General Information
• 2628617 - Amount Field Length Extension: Adaptations for ALE/BDBG Generation
• 2628641 - Amount Field Length Extension: IDoc Interface/ALE Adaptations
• Start here >>> 2628654 - S4TWL: Amount Field Length Extension
• 2628699 - Amount Field Length Extension: Code Adaptations for Compatibly Enhanced Local Function Mod...
• 2628704 - Amount Field Length Extension: Code Adaptations for Usages of Adjusted Interfaces
• 2628706 - Amount Field Length Extension: Code Adaptations for Usages of RFC Enabled Function Modules
• 2628714 - Amount Field Length Extension: User Interface Adaptations
  « If the screen field visible length cannot be adjusted, we provide a fallback strategy that enables displaying of an extended amount field in a smaller visible length. Ellipsis will be displayed in this scenario and the entire amount is displayed on mouse hover. Please refer to figure 2 in attachment. Take care that the DDIC Modify flag in the screen attributes is not set to 'X' (modified compared to the Dictionary) for the provided amount field length extension to work correctly. »
• 2628724 - Amount Field Length Extension: Code Adaptations/Usages of BAPIs and RFCs
• 2659194 - Check variant for SAP S/4HANA 1809 custom code checks

[Sandra_Rossi]

I tried to look as far as I could, and my conclusion is that either a patch is provided at a release level (no SAP note/I checked in the SAP Cloud demo system --dynpro code is still present...-- where a recent note (2831558) is applied, there's no change around the "scrollable" restriction), or it just doesn't work at all. If I were you, I would immediately copy/paste your question into a customer message at SAP support.

[fabianlupa]

sandra.rossi Thanks for looking into this. I opened an incident and will update once there is a response.

[fabianlupa]

sandra.rossi I received a response to the incident. According to it the feature of rollable CURR fields in dynpros is not available on any release. The screenshots in note 2628714 apparently are "wrong".

?!?!

I'll respond that this doesn't make sense to me and if this were indeed not available it's not a case of missing documentation but wrong and misleading documentation that needs to be corrected.

[Sandra_Rossi]

Thanks for the feedback! Funny SAP answer! 🙂

[fabianlupa]

The incident is now closed. The screenshot is wrong, the text is correct according to SAP. The feature is only available for PACKED not CURR. Making it totally useless in my opinion since PACKED does not have currency specific output conversion logic (like decimal places for JPY for example).

[Sandra_Rossi]

Fabian Lupa Thanks! I guess you could turn your comment into an answer.

So, the "amount" fallback strategy does not work for CURR fields, well designed 🙂 It should not be called a "fallback strategy", but just a "workaround". At least, a DEC field would display 1,000,000,000.00 instead of just 1,000,000,000 for JPY, I guess it's acceptable to have useless cents for a few fields whose output length cannot be extended...