Does CF2SAP handle SAP “field conversion exits”?
“Conversion exits” are a kind of filtering that SAP applies when displaying or receiving data through the standard presentation layer, SAP GUI. For example Material Numbers, which have leading zeros in the SAP database, are represented with the leading zeros truncated in the GUI. In other cases, SAP may store a field in its German form and translate it into English (or whatever language the user logs in with) in the user interface. For example the unit of measure ‘D’ (Day) in English must be converted the German form ‘T’ (Tag). These conversions are absent from data transferred via RFC. This can result in confusion unless the developer is aware of the need to pad or strip ‘numchar’ fields and convert some fields to/from the German langage language form. In Version 2 CF2SAP has an option on all components to convert internal to external formats and vice-versa.
