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Maintenance of Authorisations: placeholder values '', ' ', '

Former Member
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Simple very basic question.

PFCG (maintain authorisations) Placeholders used in authorisation fields:

Placeholder ''

Placeholder ' '

Placeholder '

What is the difference? What is the effect of chossing '' versus ' ' versus ' ?

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jurjen_heeck
Active Contributor
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In my experience it has to do with the amount of space in the field: 1char = ', 2 chars = '' 3 or more chars = ' '.

Former Member
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Hi Chris,

What you are referring to is usually a "dummy" value. If you do a forum search on the term "dummy" you should get plenty of background info on why they appear, how to deal with them etc. It ranges from SAP performing an initial evaluation on initialisation of a transaction through to poor coding.

The ' ' (apostrophe space apostrophe) is most common, the ' (apostrophe space) is sometimes used where there is a 2 character field. The '' (apostrophe apostrophe) is not something I have seen used before and haven't seen any significance for it, unlike a true dummy value.

Cheers

Alex