topic Re: Alternatives to List Processing in Application Development and Automation Discussions

Alternatives to List Processing

Former Member — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:24:21 GMT

According to this post (http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/ABAP/List+processing), list processing is obsolete and is replaced by Dynamic Documents. However, DDs do not work with batch processing.

SALV is great and can be used in batch but what about non-column/row type reports?

The only solution i have come up with is to create a table of strings (that normally would have just been written out using the write statement) and pass those to a SmartForm for output. Anyone have a better solution?

Re: Alternatives to List Processing

Sandra_Rossi — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:04:47 GMT

Hi Clay,

I forgot to tell you that I added references to sap library and abap documentation in that wiki yesterday after reading your message. One thing weird is that SAP has added [new functionalities to lists in 7.1|http://sandraros.free.fr/abap_docu.htm?url=ABENNEWS-71-LISTS.htm]. But as you say, it's difficult to not use lists for batch jobs. Except maybe by using Adobe forms.

Re: Alternatives to List Processing

Former Member — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:44:15 GMT

Thank you very much for your reply. It looks like simple lists will be supported for a while so we'll continue to use them sparingly and use sALV and DD where appropriate.