ABAPblog.com - by Łukasz Pęgiel

1. How to handle CL_GUI_ALV_GRID events in SALV: (Tricks); If you follow my blog, then you probably noticed that I'm not keen of SALV class, as it's not editable and you cannot handle all events that you can in cl_gui_alv_grid class. With a small trick ...; Created on 09 October 2016
2. How to access private or protected data and methods of CL_GUI_ALV_GRID: (Tricks); ... CL_GUI_ALV_GRID, which is normally not possible. When you look into the class definition you'll notice that there is only one global friend - interface IF_ALV_RM_GRID_FRIEND which has no attributes ...; Created on 26 May 2016
3. ZDEMO_FALV04 - Full Screen with fully dynamic GUI Status: (FALV (Fast ALV Grid)); The latest version of each part of FALV can be found on github repository https://github.com/fidley/falv which you can use in abapGit for easier up to date handling. Demo for fully dynamic GUI ...; Created on 06 January 2016
4. ZDEMO_FALV03 - Full Screen with GUI Status Partly Dynamic: (FALV (Fast ALV Grid)); ... to GUI status (in case of full screen display). Screen contains default grid buttons + 19 empty slots for custom buttons. "! This is demo for FALV full screen with partly dynamic GUI STATUS "! done by Lukasz Pegiel for http://abapblog.com ...; Created on 06 January 2016
5. Dynamic GUI STATUS & TITLE with ABAP code: (Tricks); When you're used to create buttons in ALV Grid dynamically then you think why SAP doesn't allow create dynamically buttons on GUI STATUS. You can change icon or text if you defined that function ...; Created on 11 July 2015
6. CL_PROGRESS_INDICATOR VS direct call of SAPGUI_PROGRESS_INDICATOR: (Tips); ... remember I was always using SAPGUI_PROGRESS_INDICATOR FM to display such messages on the screen. When used inside loops I often was manually dividing current tabix by selected variable (for example 1000) ...; Created on 28 April 2015
7. Create a nice looking chart with CL_GUI_CHART_ENGINE - Part 3 - Chart Data and render: (How to...); ... table. In the method provided bellow I firstly create custom container object (cl_gui_custom_container) to place the chart in it, then I create chart engine (cl_gui_chart_engine), then using if_xml I ...; Created on 06 May 2013
8. Create a nice looking chart with CL_GUI_CHART_ENGINE - Part 2 - Customization: (How to...); In part one for this tutorial I quickly shown you how to create a chart customizing using Chart Designer, in this part I will show how I store and use such customizing. For the beginning I'll tell ...; Created on 04 May 2013
9. Create a nice looking chart with CL_GUI_CHART_ENGINE - Part 1 - Chart Designer: (How to...); ... then it's no longer a problem as we can use CL_GUI_CHART_ENGINE together with chart designer provided by SAP. Chart designer is a tool which allows you to create a customizing for your chart and save ...; Created on 03 May 2013
10. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - col_id - ALV control: Column ID: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); Column ID is not really a special field in ALV. It is always filled automatically by ALV and your manual entries are overwritten and set to the same value as COL_POS (Column position). I’ve prepared ...; Created on 08 June 2020
11. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - dfieldname – Fieldname for column group: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); I was trying to find an usage of this field in ALV, but I failed. Any of known behaviours of ALV didn’t shown anything on a base of this field.; Created on 27 April 2020
12. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - Hotspot - ALV control: SingleClick-sensitive: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); ... OF CL_GUI_ALV_GRID with importing parameters E_ROW_ID, E_COLUMN_ID and ES_ROW_NO Figure 115 Hotspot_Click event handler definition After definition, of course you need to prepare ...; Created on 27 April 2020
13. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - sp_group - Group key: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); Group key is not widely used but it has nice feature. Once you group the field catalog fields and you pass the group name into parameter IT_SPECIAL_GROUPS of method SET_TABLE_FOR_FIRST_DISPLAY, then in ...; Created on 18 April 2020
14. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - domname - Domain name: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); You may suspect that setting up a domain name in the field catalog will make some effect on the display, for example in data type, length, lowercase sign, but it seems that it has no effect in ALV grid. ...; Created on 18 April 2020
15. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - reprep - ALV control: Value is selection criterion for rep./rep.intf.: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); Before writing this part, I was never using Report-Report Interface, so probably it is not common scenario to do so, or it is not used with the systems I had possibility to use. But anyway I’ve made a ...; Created on 13 April 2020
16. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - reptext – Heading: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); This field allows us to set (or change) the header text of the column. It can consist up to 55 characters in lowercase mode. When you use data dictionary reference ( REF_FIELD, REF_TABLE ) it is populated ...; Created on 13 April 2020
17. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - lowercase - Lowercase letters allowed/not allowed: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); The changes of this parameter are only visible in edit mode and makes sense only for character or string fields. If it is set to ABAP_TRUE (‘X’), then the ALV grid stores in internal table the value in ...; Created on 13 April 2020
18. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - intlen - Internal Length in Bytes: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); As the description says, the meaning of that field is to set the internal length of the field in Bytes. During my whole career as ABAP Developer, I had never filled that field manually. Usually you’ll ...; Created on 13 April 2020
19. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - inttype - ABAP data type (C,D,N,...): (ALV Grid in the nutshell); As you can imagine, INTTYPE is just a presentation of DATATYPE in internal SAP format in most of cases. I wrote most of cases because it can also say if the field in internal table is a reference to other ...; Created on 18 December 2019
20. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - datatype: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); DATATYPE field has small influence on the way the column is displayed. You can omit this field and then ALV grid will automatically fill this field and additionally JUST, OUTPUTLEN, INTTYPE, INTLEN and ...; Created on 11 December 2019
21. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - rollname: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); The main functionality of the ROLLNAME is to provide a data element that will be responsible for showing F1 help on the grid cell. If in data element the documentation is available, then it will be shown. ...; Created on 12 September 2019
22. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - tooltip: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); TOOLTIP, as in any other places in on your PC, is responsible to show short info about the column when you hover your mouse over the column header. It’s very useful when you have a lots of fields in you ...; Created on 12 September 2019
23. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - seltext: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); SELTEXT is one of the fields that are linked to the texts of the grid columns. This particular one is responsible for displaying the name of the column in the change/display of layout popup. ...; Created on 12 September 2019
24. 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
25. 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
26. 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
27. 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
28. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - no_sum: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); ... It will not only not show the sum, but also it will forbid to set it the GUI. Figure 66 ZDEMO_AIN_CL28 DO_SUM for DISTANCE field Once user will try to summarize the values ...; Created on 28 July 2019
29. 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
30. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - fix_column: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); ... only see selected fields and nothing more. When you’ll run the ZDEMO_AIN_CL26 program, you can see the behaviour of the FIX_COLUMN field. If you have wide screen, please resize the SAP GUI window, ...; Created on 28 July 2019

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