topic Re: Difference between ALV and Table control in Application Development and Automation Discussions

Difference between ALV and Table control

Former Member — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:04:24 GMT

Hi folks,

i want to know the major differences between AlV and table controls.

i know that table control is designed in screen painter, but i want to know the major diff between Table control and ALV.

helpful answers will be rewarded.

Regards,

Naveen

Re: Difference between ALV and Table control

amit_khare — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:12:05 GMT

One of the major differences comes in taking of line items - ALV has an advantage over Table Control when it comes to update database from it.Table control only allows maximum of 999 records at a time where as this limitation is not there in ALV.

Also,a main feature of ALV Grid is that it contains a standard set of functions. These functions extend beyond the functions of a table control.

These two UI elements require different keyboard navigation, with ALV Grid being more user-friendly.

An application can display table data in ALV Grid or in a table control. In some applications you can choose between displaying and editing data in either ALV Grid or a table control. If a configurable button () appears in the right upper corner of the table, it is a table control.

Regards,

Amit

Re: Difference between ALV and Table control

Former Member — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:13:09 GMT

ALV is used for displaying ur report output.U can make it interactive too.U can use it for database updation too.There are different kinds of LAV layouts like heirarchical to display the header and line items, list and grid display.

Table controls are used in module pool programs to display the data and to manipulate it and update the database tables.

Thanks

Vasudha L

Message was edited by:

Vasudha L

Re: Difference between ALV and Table control

Former Member — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:13:38 GMT

Hi Naveen,

Table control is available in screen painter, If you want to display or editable values in a table format with other screens,

In case of ALV's Here also we can scroll all items but it is a report.

Don't confuse with Reports and Table controls.

If use ful reward points.

Thanks

Vamsi.

Re: Difference between ALV and Table control

Former Member — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:15:53 GMT

Hi Naveen,

Basically ALV is a way to display the output and Table Control is designed in screen painter through which you can get entries in Table Control, can delete some records etc for further processing and its not use only for Display.

ALV is Application List viewer:-

Sap provides a set of ALV (ABAP LIST VIEWER) function modules which can be put into use to embellish the output of a report. This set of ALV functions is used to enhance the readability and functionality of any report output. Cases arise in sap when the output of a report contains columns extending more than 255 characters in length.

In such cases, this set of ALV functions can help choose selected columns and arrange the different columns from a report output and also save different variants for report display. This is a very efficient tool for dynamically sorting and arranging the columns from a report output.

TABLE CONTROL:-

ABAP offers two mechanisms for displaying and using table data in a screen. These mechanisms are table controls and step loops. Table controls and step loops are types of screen tables you can add to a screen in the Screen Painter.

Rewards if useful.

Regards,

Shilpi

Re: Difference between ALV and Table control

Former Member — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:19:47 GMT

Hi Naveen,

ALV is Application List viewer:-

TABLE CONTROL:-

Rewards if useful.

Regards,

Shilpi