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Reports

Former Member — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 04:34:47 GMT

Hi friends,

what is diff between ALV s and Normal reports

Re: Reports

Former Member — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 04:37:02 GMT

Normal reports need extensive coding for formatting and alignment whereas ALV have the advantage of good look and feel and also need minimal coding.Also ALV reports can be made interactive and the fields can be made editable.

Thanks

Vasudha

Re: Reports

Former Member — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 04:39:16 GMT

In ALV reports,

we will use the standard type-pool SLIS. and standard function modules to display the output. In case of ALV various operations like sorting, sum, filtering, subtotals, totals, filtering and modifying of the output layouts are available.

Which are not available automatically in the normal reports ( we have to write the coding explicitly).

This is the major difference.

Re: Reports

Former Member — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 04:40:00 GMT

ALV provides tabular format output where you can sort/filter/cut/paste,download etc

CLassical report output is a plain output.

Re: Reports

Former Member — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 04:40:06 GMT

Hi,

using the alv the report headers will automatically be shown based on the attributes of the field..The output length of the column, field allignment everything is taken care by the alv ..

normal reports..you have to take care of the alignment , report headings..

Thanks

Naren

Re: Reports

Former Member — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:13:12 GMT

good

in classical interactive reports

we will trigger the next lists by using

at line selection event

and depending on the values we will call the next lists

and in the alv interactive

we will be using the

user_command which is a dynamic form written

and depending on the clicks like on clicking the button

or clicking a record

then slis_selfield structure will be populated and depending

according to our requirements we will be following the codes..

reward point if helpful.

thanks

mrutyun^

Re: Reports

Former Member — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:39:46 GMT

hi chandra shekar,

In ALV reporting ,we use SLIS which is type library for ALV grid.ALV reporting is very flexible and mainly done by function modules and now we can do with ABAP OBJECTS,where as normal reporting is maily hard coded ABAP and need to write code for every functionality.

Thanks,

Srikanth.A