The purpose of the option is to display a structured layout of the material number. You specify a bitmap of your choice in the GuiXT profile. This bitmap is then shown in the lower part of each material number field in R/3.

Read-only field:

Tabular screen:

Different bitmap:

The first 3 examples use the following bitmap (bmp format, size 146x5):

The last example uses the following bitmap:

Any colors can be used, but normally white/black/gray suffice.

Please observe the following limitations which are not likely to be removed in the near future:

• Lists (ABAP reports) are not supported
• Popup screens (e.g., the matchcode screen) are not supported
• When the user changes the position of the material number columnn in a table control, the bit map is not moved synchronously until the user presses the Enter button (a better solution is under development for the 4.6 Sapgui level)
• lower case letters in the material number are not supported
• The bitmap is automatically streched according to the selected font size. It is not possible to specify different bitmaps for different fontsizes.

Install GuiXT. Choose a test bitmap (format bmp 146x5 pixels), for example a red line, and specify this bitmap in all 4 fields of the GuiXT profile (Edit->Profile in GuiXT Window). If you are using a guixt.ini file instead, you can specify the bmp files there as well.

Specify a directory for the domain files. If you are working with InputAssistant, you have probably generated these domain files already.

For the material number you only need the file

DomText.E.txt

(E=English, use DomText.D.txt, DomText.F.txt,... for German, French, ...)

This file contains the text for material number fields.

For testing purposes you can start with a simple file that you create manually, containing only one line for the text "Material". Save this file to the domain directory.

The R/3 material number fields may have other texts as well. These texts are specified in the DomText.E.txt file, either manually or by running the generation utility ZGUIXT12 (see documentation InputAssistant).

Lot number: MATNR
Material: MATNR
Receiver material: MATNR
Sender material: MATNR
Service number: MATNR
...

Exceptions, i.e. fields with these texts that do not contain a material number, can also be specified, if necessary, in the file DomTextScreen.E.txt.

Example for an entry in this file:

SAPLCMDE.1300.Material:WERKS

This file is generated by ZGUIXT12 as well.

Please observe that both the domain files and the bitmaps are kept in memory during one GuiXT session. If you have changed the domain files or the bitmap, you have to perform the following steps:

• logoff from R/3
• terminate GuiXT
• start GuiXT again
• logon to R/3 again

Otherwise you will still see the old version.

During productive use this means that the files can be put on a file server in your local net without any decrease in performance

Logon to R/3 and test.