Inserting Symbols

Use

You can use symbols to insert program and system data as well as existing texts into your document.

SAPscript supports four types of symbols:

Text symbols
Program symbols
Standard icons
System symbols

Integration

If you know the symbol names, you can enter them directly in the dialog window Create Additional Information. You define text symbols locally in your document.

Features

Text Symbols

You define text symbols locally in your document.

You use text symbols to define recurring terms or text fragments in your document. In the document, you then use the defined symbol to insert the terms or text fragments at the desired places.

Program Symbols

The values of program symbols come from the tables of programs.

You use either the print program needed to provide the data for the SAPscript document to be printed or data defined globally in programs. The tables must exist in the ABAP Dictionary.

Standard Symbols

The standard symbols are maintained in the SAPscript table TTDTG; they are globally available to all SAPscript documents.

Standard symbols are language-dependent. The form processor replaces the symbol in the language you chose for the document. If the symbol does not exist in this language, the system does not print the symbols.

System symbols

System symbols come from global system variables.

List of system symbols

System symbol	Meaning
DATE	Current date
DAY	Day of current date
DEVICE	Output device: PRINTER, SCREEN, TELEX, FAX
HOURS	Hours of current time
MINUTES	Minutes of current time
MONTH	Month of current date
NAME_OF_MONTH	Name of the month of current date
NEXTPAGE	Number of the next page
PAGE	Page number of a SAPscript text
SECONDS	Seconds of current time
SPACE	Blank
TIME	Time
ULINE	Underscore
VLINE	Vertical line
YEAR	Year of current date

Activities

You can insert the symbols anywhere in the text. When printing or displaying the print preview of the document, the form processor replaces the symbol name with the current symbol value.