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1. FALV (Fast ALV Grid): (Category); Created on 28 December 2015
2. ALV Grid in the nutshell: (Category); Created on 17 December 2018
3. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - convexit: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); Conversion Exit was already mentioned while describing the EDIT_MASK field, but here it is called in a bit different way. Before saying how, it is important to understand the conversion exits. They are ...; Created on 29 July 2019
4. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - outputlen: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); OUTPUTLEN can be used to setup the width of the column (if you don’t use automatic column width optimization). When automatically created, usually it have the value of the maximum field width, but when ...; Created on 29 July 2019
5. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - tech: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); Technical field allows you to do similar thing as NO_OUT, you can hide the field on the output, the difference is that, users are not able to unhide this field. As NO_OUT, in order that TECH field work, ...; Created on 29 July 2019
6. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - no_out: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); NO_OUT is useful when you want to hide the field on the output, but still allow users to unhide it on demand. As lots of fields from field catalog, it can be filled with ‘X’ or space (default). If ...; Created on 29 July 2019
7. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - no_sum: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); As you can imagine from the name, NO_SUM does mostly opposite what DO_SUM, but in more secure way. If you don’t want that the field is allowed to be summarized, then set the value of this field to ‘X’. ...; Created on 28 July 2019
8. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - do_sum: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); DO_SUM is very helpful when you want to assure that some of the numeric fields are summarized directly after the output, without interaction from the user side. In order to do so, just put the ‘X’ or ABAP_TRUE ...; Created on 28 July 2019
9. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - fix_column: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); ... so the full grid is not visible. Figure 62 ZDEMO_AIN_CL26 Field catalog fixed on AIRPFROM field Figure 63 ZDEMO_AIN_CL26 Field catalog fixed on AIRPFROM field ...; Created on 28 July 2019
10. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - emphasize: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); ... grid ‘X’ – you use standard emphasize (default colour) ‘Cxyz’ – where: ‘C’ is a character that notifies ALV grid that you will use specific colours x – contains one of the following ...; Created on 01 July 2019
11. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - edit_mask: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); If you are familiar with the WRITE statement, then probably you know the EDIT_MASK addition which allows us to do formatting of the output in two different ways, you can apply the same to the EDIT_MASK ...; Created on 28 June 2019
12. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - col_pos: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); This field is responsible for setting up columns in proper order while displaying the grid without using of saved layout. It may be useful if you don’t allow your users to save their own or global grid ...; Created on 24 June 2019
13. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - fieldname: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); This field is one of the basic ones in field catalog. It contains the fieldname of internal table that will be used in our grid. Although LVC_T_FCAT is standard table, then this field should be treated ...; Created on 24 June 2019
14. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - tabname: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); The name of this field suggest to put here an internal table name, but it seems that it has no function at all. When SAP fills field catalog automatically, then value of this field is set to ‘1’. You can ...; Created on 24 June 2019
15. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - currency: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); When you have a field that contains an amount, for example net value of an sales order, then in order to show it correctly in the grid you should fill or this field with an value of currency key (one of ...; Created on 24 June 2019
16. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - cfieldname: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); CFIELDNAME can be read as currency field name. When you have in your internal table a field that represents the currency for the amount stored in a field kept under FIELDNAME in field catalog, then you ...; Created on 24 June 2019
17. 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
18. 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
19. 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
20. 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
21. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - exponent: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); ... how the field is displayed in ALV grid. For example, the picture below, shows the results of the ALV output when EXPONENT field was set to 2. Figure 32 ZDEMON_AIN_CL13 Results ...; Created on 24 June 2019
22. 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
23. 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
24. 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
25. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - symbol: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); ... in ALV Grid ...; Created on 24 June 2019
26. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - checkbox: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); ... or any other CHAR(1) type. If you use editable grid then once the checkbox is checked, the cell of the table behind it will be filled with value ‘X’. Figure 41 ZDEMO_AIN_CL18 ...; Created on 24 June 2019
27. 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
28. 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
29. 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
30. 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

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