SAP ABAP Data Element SCRFDMOD (Modification of a Field from the ABAP Dictionary)

Hierarchy

☛ SAP_BASIS (Software Component) SAP Basis Component
   ⤷ BC-DWB-TOO-SCR (Application Component) Screen Painter
     ⤷ SCRP (Package) Screen Painter

Basic Data

Data Element	SCRFDMOD
Short Description	Modification of a Field from the ABAP Dictionary

Data Type

Category of Dictionary Type	D	Domain
Type of Object Referenced		No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type	SCRPDICM
Data Type	CHAR	Character String
Length	1
Decimal Places	0
Output Length	1
Value Table

Further Characteristics

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Change document	☐
No Input History	☐
Basic direction is set to LTR	☐
No BIDI Filtering	☐

Field Label

	Length	Field Label
Short	4	DMod
Medium	8	Dict.Mod
Long	18	Dict.modified
Heading	3	Mod

Documentation

Definition

If a field has a reference to the ABAP Dictionary, you can decide how you adopt texts or input/output fields in the screen. The setting takes effect immediately. The texts are re-adopted each time you change the setting, edit the screen, or regenerate it. This allows you to update field labels whose texts have changed in the ABAP Dictionary.

Texts:

F Fixed modificatoin

• The text is not adopted from the ABAP Dictionary, but is used as defined in the layout editor.
  Whenever you change the text of a field label that you adopted from the ABAP Dictionary, the system flags it as modified.
  Equally, if you link an existing screen element to the ABAP Dictionary (by selecting the "From Dict." option) the system also flags the text as modified.

V Variable field label

• The system finds the longest field labed that fits from the following:
• 1 Short
• 2 Medium
• 3 Long
• If the length definitions are changed in the ABAP Dictionary, the system finds the new most-appropriate field label when the screen is regenerated.

1,2,3 Fixed field labels

• The system adopts the selected short, medium, or long field label from the ABAP Dictionary.
  If the field length defined in the Dictionary is longer than that of the screen field, a warning appears, informing you that the label will be shortened.
  Subsequent changes to the field label in the Dictionary are adopted on the screen.
  "Fixed field labels" is the default setting.

4 Fixed header text

• The header text is adopted from the ABAP Dictionary.
  If the field length in the ABAP Dictionary is longer than the field length on the screen, the system displays a warning that the headers will be shortened.
  Subsequent changes to the header texts are adopted in the screen.
• Header texts can only be fixed.

Input/Output fields:

X Dictionary field modified.

• The I/O templates are not adopted from the ABAP Dictionary. Instead, they are used as defined in the layout editor.
  If you create a Dictionary reference for a field that previously did not have one, the element is flagged as modified if the I/O template does not correspond to that in the Dictionary.

(Blank) Dictionary field original.

• The I/O template is copied into the screen each time it changes in the Dictionary. The defined and visible lengths can be changed as required. However, the visible length is not increased.

History

Last changed by/on	SAP	19990505
SAP Release Created in