Purpose

When generating a Smart Form document you get an error with the following details:

• Exception:     FORMATTING_ERROR
• Message ID:  SSFCOMPOSER 250  /  SSFCOMPOSER250
• Message:      Table row is larger than 176 cm

Overview

• Generate a Smart Form document (usually through an application) where a lot of text is being inserted into a table cell in the Smart Form
• The error message "Table row is larger then 176 cm" means that you tried to print an extremely large text (which is longer than 176 cm) into a table cell in the form.
• This is a fixed restriction in Smartforms: The length of a single table cell cannot be longer than 176 cm.  There are only 5 digits to represent this (99999 TWIPs ~ 176 cm).

Procedure

1. Check whether it is really necessary to process such a long text.  If so, then ensure that the text is not put into a single table cell.
2. The note 690836 describes a workaround.  You can either split the text into different table rows, or you can use a loop instead of a table (the limit only exists inside a table row).
   • 690836 - Table is written beyond lower margin of the window
3. Therefore, there are only 3 possible solutions to this problem:
   1. Do not process so much text in the form table
   2. Split the text so it is not all in one single table cell
   3. Use a loop instead of a table