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2883992 - Extension Field Names are not Displayed Completely

Symptom

You have created extension field in system and after adding that field to data source/report, you are not able to see the whole text. Field name length is getting truncated.

Environment

SAP Cloud For Customer

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Create extension field in system.
  2. Add that field in any of the data source/report.
  3. Now open that data source/report from Business Analytics work center.
  4. Add that field in data source/report view and you will notice that whole text is not displayed. Text is getting truncated.

Cause

At report/data source level, we support up to 80 characters for characteristic names and 60 characters for key figure names.
This is applicable for extension fields as well.

Resolution

This is working as expected.

See Also

  2801953 - Business Object message is truncated to 255 characters

Keywords

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Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions ; SAP Cloud for Customer add-ins all versions ; SAP Cloud for Customer core applications all versions