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Tip of the Week – Skip Indicator in Studio

  • 1.  Tip of the Week – Skip Indicator in Studio

    Employee
    Posted 18 days ago
    Edited by Maria Ebner 18 days ago

    Hi Automate Community!

    I have a quick tip that applies to scripts for change Transaction codes and Fiori apps. Typically, when you create the Transaction or Fiori script you include all the fields you might need but sometimes you don't need to change all the fields and you might not know the existing value in SAP. If you need to remove the value or blank it out, then you can leave the field blank in the spreadsheet and the script will remove the value in SAP. If you want to retain the existing value in SAP, then use a skip indicator in the Run settings and apply that skip indicator to the field in the spreadsheet:

    The default skip indicator is a backslash "\". The other out of the box options are forward slash "/" and blank. As you can see in the screenshot, I have a 4th option of a pipe "|" which you can create simply by typing it into the skip indicator field. Please note that a skip indicator created for a script will only apply to that script, so I won't see the pipe option in my other scripts.

    Be careful using the blank option for the skip indicator because if you need to blank out the value in SAP, the script will skip it instead. I recommend using the default backslash "\" for consistency, especially when sharing scripts. 

    Have a great week!



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    Maria Ebner
    Precisely Software Inc.
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