What you should do and not do when implementing long texts
- Do Make use of the texts concept - even for your own developments.
- Don't Use text fields to store a field value you may need. Field values belong elsewhere.
- Do Use the concept of including texts. When texts are used inefficiently, a given text will be stored on the system many many times.
- Don't Select texts in mass processing, your program should never select many texts in a single selection run... Selecting a text header from table STXH to determine the existance of the text can improve performance as well.
- Do Remember: when a SapScript or Smartform is printed as a letter, the (text) contents of the letter should be held in a longtext so changes can be applied without development interference.
- Don't Forget: transaction SO10 allows editing of standard texts... (your end user can use this as well)