Functionality This BAPI reads the long text (documentation) for a characteristic orcharacteristic value. If only the characteristic name (CharactName) is transferred, the longtext for the characteristic is read. If the parameters of acharacteristic value are also filled, the long text for the value isread. For characteristics with character format, parameter 'ValueChar' isfilled. For numeric, currency, date, and time characteristics, theparameters 'ValueFrom', 'ValueTo', and 'ValueRelation' are filled. Youwill find a detailed description of these fields in, for example, table'CharactValuesNum' of BAPI Characteristic.Create >. If a single value is entered in field 'ValueFrom', 'ValueRelation'contains a '1'. In addition, you can transfer a date or a change number. Usually, thelong text is read in the system language, by parameter 'LanguageInt' or'LanguageISO', but you can select a different language. 'LanguageInt'contains the language in SAP format. 'LanguageISO' contains thelanguage in ISO format. If both parameters are filled, ISO format haspriority. The long text is in table 'Longtext'. The first field contains formatdata (standard line: *), and the second field contains a text line. The result is logged in table 'Return'. If there are errors in thedata, this table contains a message of type 'E', if there is no longtext, it contains a message of type 'I', and if a long text is foundsuccessfully, there is no message.Notes Function modules CTBP_CONVERT_VALUE_INT_TO_EXT> andCTBP_CONVERT_VALUE_EXT_TO_INT> can be used to switch betweeninternal and external value format. |