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31. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - quantity

(ALV Grid in the nutshell)

QUANTITY field is very similar to CURRENCY. The difference here is that you don’t keep currency key here, but unit of measure, for example M for meters or KG for kilograms. Again to show you the difference ...

Created on 24 June 2019

32. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - ifieldname

(ALV Grid in the nutshell)

Although the SAP name of this field says: “Field name of internal table field”, then I haven’t found any usage of this field. It’s also not filled by SAP when you use SALV for creating field-catalogs. ...

Created on 24 June 2019

33. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - round

(ALV Grid in the nutshell)

Round can be used for decimal fields that have no assigned QFIELDNAME or CFIELDNAME fields. Its purpose is to move decimal places left or right. If you want to move decimal places left, then you have to ...

Created on 24 June 2019

34. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - qfieldname

(ALV Grid in the nutshell)

QFIELDNAME has the same meaning for quantity fields, like CFIELDNAME for amount fields. This means that we can setup in which column of internal table the information about unit of measure is kept. On ...

Created on 24 June 2019

35. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - exponent

(ALV Grid in the nutshell)

This field is used to setup exponent number display for floating point decimals (F) fields. Although it’s not that commonly used field type for display, then it’s important to know that you can manipulate ...

Created on 24 June 2019

36. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - key

(ALV Grid in the nutshell)

If you want to setup current field as a key one, you need to fill KEY with ‘X’. When you’ll do this then the field will have blue background and during horizontal scrolling the column will be fixed.  ...

Created on 24 June 2019

37. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - key_sel

(ALV Grid in the nutshell)

The description of this fields claims that if you put ‘X’ inside then current field will became a key field that can be hidden, but in fact it has no effect here, as standard key field can always be hidden. ...

Created on 24 June 2019

38. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - icon

(ALV Grid in the nutshell)

If you want to display an icon inside the cell, then you need to setup a value of this field to ‘X’ and additionally you need to put an icon from type-pool ICON into the corresponding field of your internal ...

Created on 24 June 2019

39. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - symbol

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This field has similar functionality like ICON but instead of better looking icons, you can choose to display old-style ASCII symbols from type-pool SYM. Like in an example of ICON you have to setup the ...

Created on 24 June 2019

40. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - checkbox

(ALV Grid in the nutshell)

The name of this field says almost everything about it. If you put an ‘X’ in it, then the column will be displayed as checkbox. The type of the field which is used as checkbox should be set to ABAP_BOOL ...

Created on 24 June 2019

41. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - just

(ALV Grid in the nutshell)

With this field, you can setup alignment of the column. You can use one of the following values: R - Right, L - Left, C - Centre, space – default setting for field type      ...

Created on 24 June 2019

42. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - lzero

(ALV Grid in the nutshell)

This field allows manipulation of visibility of leading zeros. One of the most common example is the material number (MATNR), when there is no letter inside the name of material, it is stored in database ...

Created on 24 June 2019

43. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - no_sign

(ALV Grid in the nutshell)

NO_SIGN can be used to hide the sign of the number. For example you have negative values but you want to display it as positive. In order to show you the behaviour of this settings, I’ve manipulated ...

Created on 24 June 2019

44. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog

(ALV Grid in the nutshell)

Field catalog is one of most important tables that is used in ALV Grid. In most cases you’ll create it manually or at least after automatic creation, you’ll update its content, as most of the columns settings ...

Created on 24 June 2019

45. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Basic Information

(ALV Grid in the nutshell)

​​​​​​ I wrote in previous post, you can’t use this class directly without any effort. First of all, the class itself will not display anything if you’ll not create a container for it. The following containers ...

Created on 24 June 2019

46. ALV Grid in the nutshell

(ALV Grid in the nutshell)

... it will help you in your daily job.  From all available grids as the one to describe I’ve selected CL_GUI_ALV_GRID, which was, or maybe still is, called by many persons ALV OO. I’m doing this of ...

Created on 24 June 2019

47. Retro ASCII symbols in ALV Grid table

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... all that I have found on 7.50 SP2 NW system.    report zab_alv_symbols. parameters: dummy as checkbox. initialization. data(grid) = new cl_gui_alv_grid( i_parent =  new cl_gui_docking_container( ...

Created on 03 June 2018

48. FALV (Fast ALV Grid)

(FALV (Fast ALV Grid))

... cl_gui_alv_grid class so then whenever users decided that they need one of the field to be editable then I can do it in few seconds/minutes.   But there is a way to make SALV editable! Yes, ...

Created on 04 January 2016

49. FALV (Fast ALV Grid) - First blood

(FALV (Fast ALV Grid))

... but, many doesn't mean everything. Especially that I really like CL_GUI_ALV_GRID class and this that without any tricks I can make it editable in easy way.    My class in not yet finished but it has ...

Created on 28 December 2015

50. How to teach ABAP ???

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... procedural programming, then don't ask them to use OO ALV grid but REUSE_ALV_GRID_DISPLAY. Once you start with classes, switch to cl_gui_alv_grid. If you teach selection-screens don't mix it with ...

Created on 24 November 2015