SELECTION-SCREEN - Defining Titles and Texts on Selection Screens

You can define texts for various text objects: ( comments, pushbuttons, ...)

There are two ways to do this:

1. Static definition: You enter the text in the form TEXT-xxx with a three-character identifier xxx as a text symbol.
   The contents of the text symbol TEXT-xxx appear on the selection screen and cannot be changed dynamically.
   
2. Dynamic definition: You enter a field name of up to eight characters ex. abcdefgh.
   In this case, the system creates a field with the name abcdefgh . Its contents then appear on the selection screen at runtime. You must set these texts at runtime (in the INITIALIZATION part of a report, or in the INIT routine of the logical database program SAPDBldb). You can also change them while the selection screen is being processed.
   
   
   

Notes

The field abcdefgh is generated automatically. You do not have to declare it using the DATA statement.

You can define texts in any of the following:
- SELECTION-SCREEN BEGIN OF SCREEN
- SELECTION-SCREEN BEGIN OF BLOCK
- SELECTION-SCREEN COMMENT
- SELECTION-SCREEN PUSHBUTTON

Example

DATA SAPLANE_WA TYPE SAPLANE.

SELECTION-SCREEN BEGIN OF BLOCK CHARLY
                 WITH FRAME TITLE TEXT-001.
  PARAMETERS PARM(5).
  SELECTION-SCREEN COMMENT /5(20) COMM1234.
  SELECT-OPTIONS SEL FOR SAPLANE_WA-PLANETYPE.
SELECTION-SCREEN END   OF BLOCK CHARLY.

...

INITIALIZATION.
  MOVE 'Test dynamic text' TO COMM1234.

( TEXT-001 has the contents 'Block Charly').

Selection screen:

  --Block Charly-----------------------------------
  | PARM             _____                        |
  |     Test dynamic text                         |
  | SEL              ________    to   ________    |
  -------------------------------------------------

Additional help

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