How to increase the length of select-options in UI

Question

As I understood, select-options in abap just takes 45 characters from UI.

Whatever I assign the type of select-option, it doesnt take more then 45 characters.

SELECT-OPTIONS: s_key  FOR somlreci1-receiver NO INTERVALS VISIBLE LENGTH 100. 

somlreci1-receiver is char(1215). But I cannot write more than 45 into that select-option.

Any way to increase this length ?

Answer 1

This official link

http://help.sap.com/abapdocu_70/en/ABAPSELECT-OPTIONS.htm

says it isn't possible to pass input larger than 45 chars, sorry :|

Answer 2

At the end of the documentation posted by @vlad-ardelean it mentions that:

If a selection criterion for data types is supplied with data when calling up an executable program with SUBMIT

...

If the selection criterion is declared with the addition NO-DISPLAY, no conversion routine or truncation will be performed for the first row either.

You could declare the select-options as NO-DISPLAY in your main program, then call it from a second program with

SUBMIT programname WITH so_field EQ lv_longdata SIGN 'I'. 

...or similar to pass the long value to the main program. It's a pretty convoluted way of doing it, however.

Answer 3

In addition to @vlad-ardelean's answer: It might be interesting to note that in recent releases, the maximum field length was raised to 255 characters (see http://help.sap.com/abapdocu_731/en/ABAPSELECT-OPTIONS.htm).