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1. 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
2. Create XLSX file from internal table in background v2: (Tricks); You may saw before the article Create XLSX/MHTML file from internal table in background and you may have use it without any issues before, but it seems that in newer releases of SAP (definitelly >= 7.50) ...; Created on 01 June 2018
3. Create fieldcatalog from internal table: (How to...); Many people still asks how to create field catalog for CL_GUI_ALV_GRID or REUSE_ALV_GRID_DISPLAY on a base of internal table. This is very easy since we have SALV classes, you could see it in my article Create ...; Created on 08 May 2015
4. Create XLSX/MHTML file from internal table in background: (Tricks); I think that any of us had meet the situation when we needed to create an Excel output from internal table in background. There is a really nice project called ABAP2XLSX which gives you to possibility ...; Created on 12 May 2013
5. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - reprep - ALV control: Value is selection criterion for rep./rep.intf.: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); ... then this mechanism of callback is know for you, if not, then in simply words it’s an kind of event handler. When RRI finish to fill the internal tables with selection data, it allows developer to modify ...; Created on 13 April 2020
6. 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
7. Downloading Exchange Rates from NBP (National Bank of Poland): (How to...); ... To download the XML file and to call transformation, you can use following dirty ABAP code. The structure of the XML will be transformed into internal table of ...; Created on 06 April 2020
8. Downloading Exchange Rates from Central Bank of Turkey: (How to...); ... XML from bank site into internal table, which can be then used inside your code to populate values of BAPI_EXCHANGERATE_CREATE FM. There are few ways to download the XML to your ABAP code, I prefer ...; Created on 06 April 2020
9. 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
10. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - datatype: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); ... the data entered in edit mode will be done on a base of the real data type of the linked internal table field. Possible data types form system NW 7.52 SP04 can be found bellow. Data ...; Created on 11 December 2019
11. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - convexit: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); ... no more and no less than a function modules that helps to represent the internal values into understandable or more readable values. An basic example is field MATNR which is 18 characters long in ECC and ...; Created on 29 July 2019
12. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - tech: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); ... internal table that supposed to be displayed, but you do not want to display them. Such field can be used for example during the event handling or displaying totals and subtotals. It can also be used ...; Created on 29 July 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); ... difference to the output, but there are some exceptions, for example JPY (Japanese Yen) don’t have decimal places. Figure 17 displays value of 42 294 whereas the internal value of field is 422,94. If we ...; 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); ... value contains more decimal places, like on the first row, then the value is displayed fully as written into internal table. Figure 24 ZDEMO_AIN_CL10 Results using DEG unit The same ...; 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); ... -5 was used. You can see on image below that instead of 2 571,25 you can see 275 225 000. Figure 31 ZDEMO_AIN_CL12 Results with -5 as P_ROUND value In each case the value in the internal ...; 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); 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
22. 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
23. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - symbol: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); ... fieldcatalog value for field SYMBOL to ‘X’ and in the corresponding field of your internal table, you have put the value of the symbol. The corresponding field should be CHAR1 field. Figure ...; Created on 24 June 2019
24. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); ... control: Output line (INTERNAL USE) col_pos type lvc_colpos ALV control: Output column fieldname type ...; Created on 24 June 2019
25. ALV Grid in the nutshell: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); ... programs. This is of course OK for the start but later on it happens very often that our customers (internal or external) want to have some additional functionalities of the grid and due to restrictions ...; Created on 24 June 2019
26. ATC Pseudo Comments list: (Tips); ... access on internal table outside a LOOP LOOP_INDEX CL_CI_TEST_EXTENDED_CHECK 3202 E Non-numeric index access on internal table INDEX_NUM CL_CI_TEST_FIELD_EXT ...; Created on 26 September 2018
27. Creating ABAP type definition from JSON structure (JSON2ABAPtype): (How to...); ... init, get_internal_types changing value(c_type) type t_hierarchy. endclass. start-of-selection. data(hlp) = new lcl_hlp( ). call screen 0100. ...; Created on 20 August 2018
28. How to extend the time between SAP license installations on NPL: (Tricks); This time it will not be about ABAP but about the way how to extend the time between installation of new license for you NPL instance that is run using Virtualbox and OpenSuse. Normally it's ...; Created on 03 August 2018
29. CMD_EI_API deletes contact persons?: (Tips); ... So I did some debugging and found a place where after extraction of data from DB, the contact persons where deleted from internal tables. So I went deeper and saw that there is a table CVIC_MAP_CONTACT ...; Created on 13 August 2017
30. ZCL_FALV - explanation of main methods and attributes: (FALV (Fast ALV Grid)); ... returning value(rv_falv) type ref to zcl_falv . LVC_FCAT_FROM_ITAB This is the method to create LVC field-catalog from internal table like in this article. class-methods lvc_fcat_from_itab ...; Created on 09 January 2016

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