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Control User Specific button in ALV report

Former Member — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 03:58:18 GMT

Hi,

Can anybody please suggest me how to control "USER SPECIFIC" button in ALV report layout using authorization object. I mean if you can tell me which authorization object is responsible to control the "USER SPECIFIC" button.

Re: Control User Specific button in ALV report

Former Member — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 05:31:14 GMT

Dear Gordon,

Could you please provide more details about the report that you are checking?

Normally the below object are used for the administration of ALV reports.

F_IT_ALV

S_ALV_LAYO

Regards,

Re: Control User Specific button in ALV report

Former Member — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 06:33:02 GMT

additional info to what Lakshmi already said:-

normally the restrictions for saving layouts/display variants are done at 2 levels:

1) The developer of an ALV list first predetermines the authorization in the 'i_save' parameter within the code.

I_SAVE = ' ' -

layouts cannot be saved

I_SAVE = 'A' -

user-specific and cross-user layouts can be saved

I_SAVE = 'X' --- cross-user layouts can be saved

I_SAVE = 'U' --- user-specific layouts can be saved

2) The second level comes to us restriciting the S_ALV_LAYO which gives access to users to save global layouts if I_SAVE for that particular transaction is A or X.

for example, a report has I_SAVE= 'A', which means

it will allow to save User-specific layouts without any restrictions.

and if user has S_ALV_LAYO then he can save both User-Specific and Global Layouts(variants).

it would be better to keep this object separate.