topic Re: Is 'SCREEN' structure or table ? in Application Development and Automation Discussions

Is 'SCREEN' structure or table ?

coolomi1 — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 04:12:19 GMT

Can some one clear me .

Is 'SCREEN' structure or table ?

IN DDIC it is structure .

So, my question is, If SCREEN is structure then why do we loop at it .

Re: Is 'SCREEN' structure or table ?

former_member191253 — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 04:28:11 GMT

Hi Om,

In data dictionary SCREEN is a structure but in report it acts like a table with header line.

So that's why we loop it inside the report and modify as per our requirement.

Regards,

Swaroop.

Re: Is 'SCREEN' structure or table ?

Former Member — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 04:29:17 GMT

Hi,

Screen is a structure, just like a template to the database but doesn't store data in the database.It store data only at the runtime for the attributes of the screen. That is why we loop at it.

When your program load a internal table of type screen is loaded with the screen attributes, to check them we need to loop at it just like we do for other internal tables defined in the program.

Hope this helps.