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1. Retro ASCII symbols in ALV Grid table: (How to...); ... types: begin of t_symbol, symbol type char01, name type string, end of t_symbol. data symbols type standard table of t_symbol. symbols = value #( ( symbol = sym_space name = 'SYM_SPACE ' ) ...; Created on 03 June 2018
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. Copying is not poss.because an entry is missing in Table TVCPL VL473: (How to...); ... any issues, then when I tried to do it in ABAP, I always received the error VL473 - Copying is not poss.because an entry is missing in Table TVCPL. I thought that this is some kind of nonsense as ...; Created on 15 February 2017
4. ZDEMO_FALV11 - Editable Grid settings: (FALV (Fast ALV Grid)); ... your grid editable, you can set whole grid editable in layout, some columns in field catalog and some cells in cells style table. This demo shows it all. "! This is demo for FALV with edit settings ...; Created on 06 January 2016
5. 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
6. ESDUS, ESRUO - MM settings table - Part 3/3: (Tricks); ... To be sure you get last document you have to select data from ESRUO table directly, sort it by timestamp and get last object. Then update setting of default document for transaction, in my example for ...; Created on 14 April 2014
7. ESDUS, ESRUO - MM settings table - Part 2/3: (Tricks); ESRUO table and FM which takes care about reading/adding/deleting entries there was described in previous part ( ESDUS, ESRUO - MM settings table - Part 1/3 ), so now is the turn for ESDUS table and SETTINGS ...; Created on 09 April 2014
8. ESDUS, ESRUO - MM settings table - Part 1/3: (Tricks); ... cases you'll want to look at tables: ESRUO (MM: Recently Used Objects) ESDUS (MM: Dynamic User Settings) and to function group MLSO which provides you few nice FM to handle entries in this tables: ...; Created on 31 March 2014
9. 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
10. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - col_id - ALV control: Column ID: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); ... notice on the screen, or while debugging the code, after the method SET_TABLE_FOR_THE_FIRST_DISPLAY is called, the FCAT is changed and so are the COL_ID entries. Now it is equal to COL_POS, which was in ...; Created on 08 June 2020
11. 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
12. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - reprep - ALV control: Value is selection criterion for rep./rep.intf.: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); ... using RRI. At the beginning I was wondering if configuration in table TRSTI and setting the parameter REPREP to ABAP_TRUE will be enough to call the interface. So I’ve started with filling TRSTI, where ...; Created on 13 April 2020
13. 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
14. 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
15. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - intlen - Internal Length in Bytes: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); ... mode, you’ll not notice probably any change When you’ll setup this incorrectly, you may have problems when you allow grid to be editable, for example: When I’ve set the INTLEN to ‘2’ for column FLTIME, ...; Created on 13 April 2020
16. 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
17. 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
18. 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
19. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - datatype: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); ... DD_OUTLEN on a base of the type of the output table field. But if you decide to fill it, then on a base of DATATYPE you’ll notice different justification or output length. But still all checks of ...; Created on 11 December 2019
20. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - convexit: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); ... to get the 5 characters describing the name of the exit. It knows automatically that for output it needs to use CONVERSION_EXIT_NUMCV_OUPUT and for input (in case of editable fields) CONVERSION_EXIT_NUMCV_INPUT. ...; Created on 29 July 2019
21. 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
22. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - col_pos: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); ... from field catalog, then it displays the rest. If I would not pass parameter I_STRUCTURE_NAME then only this fields which are in table FCAT would appear on the screen. Figure 12 ZDEMO_AIN_CL05 ...; Created on 24 June 2019
23. 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
24. 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
25. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - currency: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); ... entries from TCURC table). You can leave this field of course empty and in many case you will, especially if you use CFIELDNAME instead. In many situations changing the of currency here will not make ...; Created on 24 June 2019
26. 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
27. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - quantity: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); ... in output I’ve modified a bit the table entries, this time field DISTANCE from SPFLI table, where I’ve included decimal places for first row. Figure 22 Changed entries of SPFLI table in ...; Created on 24 June 2019
28. 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
29. 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
30. 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

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