Populating description field in selection-screen

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

My WD report has a selection-screen with select-options and parameters built using IF_WD_SELECT_OPTIONS.

One of the select-options has a search help, but the value it returns is a guid, so I want to have a new read-only description field, populated with the description of the selected value, next to the input field for the guid.

How can I do this?

I tried adding a new read-only parameter field and populating it in WDDOMODIFYVIEW but I got a short dump when I tried to set the value, because the new field is not in the context of the component controller.

Many thanks, Ben

[Former Member]

Hi Ben,

You will have to define the new field in the context and then programatically bind the value of the description field to this attribute.

But ideally, you can have a structure, which the two fiels (guid & description), and define a search help which is mapped to the structure, then you do not need to do any programming, the description field should get populated automatically.

Hope this helps.

Regards

Wenonah