https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/converting-report-to-abap-object/m-p/1716104#M313015 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Well, in my opinion, reports do not usually make for good objects. If you are working with a regular report progam with a list diaplay, there is no reason to try to write it using classes/methods. Now if you want to convert it to an ALV grid which uses class/methods, then yes, I see a point there. Is this what you want to do? What version of SAP are you using.</P><P></P><P>Regards,</P><P>Rich Heilman</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:03:36 GMT RichHeilman 2006-11-07T17:03:36Z https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/converting-report-to-abap-object/m-p/1716103#M313014 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P></P><P>Could any one of you please tell me the steps to follow while converting a report to a abap object.</P><P></P><P>Thanks in advance.</P><P>Regards,</P><P>Sooraj</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:55:16 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/converting-report-to-abap-object/m-p/1716103#M313014 Former Member 2006-11-07T16:55:16Z https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/converting-report-to-abap-object/m-p/1716104#M313015 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Well, in my opinion, reports do not usually make for good objects. If you are working with a regular report progam with a list diaplay, there is no reason to try to write it using classes/methods. Now if you want to convert it to an ALV grid which uses class/methods, then yes, I see a point there. Is this what you want to do? What version of SAP are you using.</P><P></P><P>Regards,</P><P>Rich Heilman</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:03:36 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/converting-report-to-abap-object/m-p/1716104#M313015 RichHeilman 2006-11-07T17:03:36Z https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/converting-report-to-abap-object/m-p/1716105#M313016 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello Sooraj</P><P></P><P>Recently I developed a "report" for a customer which is completely OO-based without any program. The report extracts data from the CATSDB, then aggregates the according to sending and receiving cost centers and orders and finally updates cycles (CO controlling objects).</P><P></P><P>The final application (based on a MVC architecture) consisted of the following objects:</P><P>- controller class (corresponds to the classical report and controls all other objects and user interactions)</P><P>- model class (contains the business logic)</P><P>- view instance (displays the data as three ALV lists)</P><P>- function group (contains the selection screen and the dynpros for displaying the data)</P><P>- OO-transaction which starts the report by instantiating the controller class</P><P></P><P>The dynpros are completely empty (not even a custom container). The view instance provides a reference to a splitter container that is simply linked to the dynpro in a PBO module.</P><P></P><P>How do you start to convert your report into objects? </P><P>&lt;b&gt;The most important step is to identify "objects" with distinct properties.&lt;/b&gt;</P><P></P><P>In addition the classes mentioned already I needed an exception class (certain CATS data should be ignored), a cycle class (handling the CO cycles) and a cost center hierarchy class. These were my "distinct" objects needed.</P><P></P><P>Regards</P><P> Uwe</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 08 Nov 2006 20:43:00 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/converting-report-to-abap-object/m-p/1716105#M313016 uwe_schieferstein 2006-11-08T20:43:00Z