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Advanced ALV with ABAP Objects

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Objectives
The participants will be able to:
Get overview of dialog program
Discuss classical list programming as related to ABAP objects
Review SAP Control Framework (CFW)

Build dialog program using ABAP Objects and custom controls

Creating a screen with a control
Dialog Modules
GUI Status
Passing Data
Using Classes
Creating Objects

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SAP Control Framework (CFW)

SAPGUI(frontend)

Automation
Controller

Events
Instance
Automation Queue

OK_CODE

Application Server
(Backend)

Custom Control 1

OO Control
Framework

Custom Control 2

GUI RFC

Automation Queue

Application
Program

Events
Instance

In the R/3 System, you can use ABAP to control desktop applications
(custom controls). The application logic runs on the R/3 application server
(automation client), which drives the custom control (automation server) at
the frontend.
The ability to use these custom controls has been built into the dialog
process between SAP GUI screens and application programs. Custom
controls can be added in the screen painter.
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Classical List Report Programming vs. ABAP Objects

How is the end result displayed by this program different from a standard
list report displaying data from table MARA ?

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Overview of a Dialog Program with Custom Controls

Create a simple dialog program to display Material information
Specifications:
Launch via transaction code
Display all columns from table MARA
Display rows based on user input Material Type (MTART)
Use single screen to display data with menu controls to back out of the screen
Use custom control to display the data in SAP List Viewer (ALV) format

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Integrating a Control Area into a Dynpro Screen

Using the screen painter the developer can place custom controls on SAP
screens. The custom control area is given a name that identifies it. In this
example it will be LIST_AREA
Within the application program, the developer calls proxy objects from within the
superclass CL_GUI_CONTROL
For each control, a container object and an application object must be created
To create a container object specifically for the ALV viewer, feed the screen name
of the custom control (LIST_AREA) to the constructor of the container object
For this dialog program, the class CL_GUI_ALV_GRID will be used to create the
viewer
The dialog program will feed the MARA data to the ALV object which will be
displayed in the custom control are as an ALV grid

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SAP Control Framework Wrapper Classes for GUI Controls

CL_GUI_OBJECT

CL_GUI_CONTROL

CL_GUI_FRONTEND_SERVICES

CL_GUI_CONTAINER

Methods
FILE_OPEN_DIALOG
GET_DESKTOP_DIRECTORY
GUI_UPLOAD
GUI_DOWLOAD
.

CL_GUI_CUSTOM_CONTAINER
CL_GUI_SPLITTER_CONTAINER
CL_GUI_DIALOGBOX_CONTAINER
CL_GUI_ALV_GRID_BASE
CL_GUI_ALV_GRID
CL_GUI_HTML_VIEWER
CL_TREE_CONTROL_BASE
CL_GUI_SIMPLE_TREE
CL_GUI_PICTURE

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Demonstration : Create the Program and Screen

Step 1 : First create a program using SE80 (Object Navigator)
Step 2 : Create a Screen for the program using :
SE80 ->Program->Right click on program name->select Screen

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Demonstration : Create Custom Control

Step 3 : Create an Input Field and a Custom Control in the Screen

Input Field

Custom Control Area

Custom
Control

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Demonstration : Create GUI Status

Step 4 : Create GUI Status to add the exit capability

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Demonstration : Create Transaction Code and Define Class

Step 5 : Create a transaction code to execute the dialog program
Step 6 : Define a class to perform the data retrieval and formatting to the screen

In TOP Include

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In Main Program

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Demonstration : Creating Objects for the Class

Step 7 : Create Object for the Class to Implement the methods and displaying the ALV
Grid Control with desired functionality.

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Demonstration : Result

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Container Controls
SAP Custom Container
SAP Dialog Box Container
SAP Docking Container
SAP Splitter Container
SAP Easy Splitter Container

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Container Controls (Contd.)

SAP Custom Container
SAP Dialog Box Container
SAP Docking Container
SAP Splitter Container
SAP Easy Splitter Container

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Demonstration
Create a simple ALV report using OOPs concept

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Practice
Create a simple ALV report using OOPs concept

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Summary
Description of SAP Control Framework.
Different classes required for various containers..
Purpose of different containers.
How to handle Events in ALV.
Steps to create an ALV report using OOPs concept.

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Questions
What is SAP Control Framework?
What is container control? What are their types?
Which class encapsulates the functionality of ALV grid in OOPs?
What are the steps required to build an ALV report using OOPs concept ?

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