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3640703 - Characteristic value length for reference characteristic

Symptom

You are creating reference characteristic and you find the length of characteristic value can be different from the length of domain for reference field.
It is able to input value less than the length of domain.

For example, domain MATNR is defined for 40 characters in S/4HANA system.
When a reference characteristic which referring to table MARA, field MATNR, value length of 18 can be input and saved.


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Environment

  • SAP ERP Logistics (LO)
  • SAP ERP Classification (CA)
  • SAP R/3
  • SAP R/3 Enterprise
  • SAP ERP Central Component
  • SAP ERP
  • SAP Enhancement package for SAP ERP
  • SAP Enhancement package for SAP ERP, version for SAP HANA
  • SAP S/4HANA
  • SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition

Product

SAP ERP Central Component all versions ; SAP ERP all versions ; SAP R/3 Enterprise all versions ; SAP R/3 all versions ; SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition all versions ; SAP S/4HANA all versions ; SAP enhancement package for SAP ERP all versions ; SAP enhancement package for SAP ERP, version for SAP HANA all versions

Keywords

ANZST, ANZDZ, Number of Chars, Decimal Places, ATTAB, ATFEL , KBA , CA-CL-CHR , Characteristics , How To

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