Adding Free Text field to Item Overview

[Former Member]

Currently we are able to add a custom simple input field.

Is it possible to add a custom free text field (similar to Description) to General Information tab for Item Overview in RPM 4.5?

[mariano_sabiche · Accepted solution]

Hello Daniel;

You have 3 alternatives:

1) You can create a New Tab and them create a free text field (like descripción), with a developt.

2) Using the Custom Specific Component (last Item tab), with a "char" field.

3) Using a Document & Note (Item Tab), here you can use DMS or a simple document with the detail's that you want to complete.

Best Regards,

Mariano.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thank you for your answer Mariano!

Could you give me a more detailed explanation of option 2?

Would this "char" field be a multiline input field?

[mariano_sabiche · Accepted solution]

Daniel;

In the alternative 2, you have to create a text field with this option.

SPRO --> SAP Portfolio and Project Management --> Portfolio Management --> Global Customizing --> Global Field Settings --> "Define Custom Long Text Fields".

Here you can define long text fields for items or initiatives and assign them to item types or initiative types.

Add Long Text Field for Object Type

1. Click New Entries.

2. In the Object Type field, choose RIH for item or IPO for initiative, enter a longtext field ID and add a longtext field name.

3. If you want to display the new field only on a specific item type or initiative type, such as Development Project, you must select the Object Type-Specific Long Text Field checkbox.

4. Save your settings.

If you have selected the Object Type-Specific Long Text Field checkbox, you can now assign the long text field to the item type or initiative type. To do this, select the row you want to assign the item type or initiative type and continue with the next activity step.

Note:

If you select the checkbox and do NOT assign the long text field to an item type or an initiative type in the next activity step, the system does not display this long text field in any of the object types.

If you do not select this checkbox but nevertheless assign the long text field to any item type or initiative type in the next activity step, the system displays the long text field in all object types.

Assign LongText Field to Item Type or Initiative Type

5. Click New Entries.

6. In the Item Type or Initiative Type field, select an entry.

7. Save your settings.

This new long text field have to be assing to a Item Type, for best practices.

Search help for custom field --> SAP Note 1242010

Hope this help you.

Best regards.

Mariano

Edited by: Mariano Sabiche on Mar 31, 2011 4:06 PM

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi

The option 2 suggested by Mariano is only possible in PPM 5.0

Its not available in RPM4.5

I would suggest to create custom Tab and develop a small component to handle that..

Niranjan

[mariano_sabiche · Accepted solution]

Niranjan;

You're right, I had not noticed.

However, you can check the default SAP field and user interface (UI) configurations for specific object

types.

The same setting in -->

Go to the SAP xRPM Implementation Guide (IMG) and choose Global Customizing u2192 Global

Field Settings u2192 Define Custom Field Configuration.

Go to the SAP xRPM Implementation Guide (IMG) and choose Global Customizing u2192 Global

Field Settings u2192 Check SAP Field Configuration.

Note: You cannot change these default settings, but you can define your own custom field and UI

configuration.

Hope this is helpful.

Best regards.

Mariano

[Former Member]

Custom text areas are not possible in RPM 4.5. Closed.

[Former Member]

Daniel - You are right that custom text area ( long text kind of field) is not possible in the General Overview text in xRPM 4.5 . We had the same situation where we were supposed to add bunch of these find of fields. We achieved it by doing following.

1. Created a new webdynpro component. This webdynpro component accepts the project guid as parameter.

2. This webdynpro component show a numner of text edit UI elements and a save button. Every UI element is associated to a context element attribute which gets from / saves data to long text with object cgpl_text, id ltxt language english and name project guid suffixed by unique id of the text .

3. We added this webdynpro component as new tab which requires portal configuration, ABAP IMG configuration and one BADI implementation.