COMPLEX REPORT

[Former Member]

TELL ME PLZZ DIFFRENCE BETWEEN COMPLEX REPORT AND SIMPLE REPORT AND ALV REPORT

[Former Member]

Hi Darsh,

Rather than complex do you imply an Interactive report?

Well a simple report would be one which has a list output and does not support any events like at line-selection or at user command at the output.

An interactive (or what i think u mean by complex) is also a report with a list output, but it supports user interaction through the commands like at line selection etc.

ALV is a method of outputting the same data, that too has two forms classical (using function modules REUSE_ALV_LIST&GRID_DISPLAY) and the object oriented form using the class CL_ALV_GRID

I hope this helps.

Lemme know if u need more info

aditya

[Former Member]

Hi,

A simple report is a normal report and a complex one is depends on the complexity of the logic involved.

There are different kinds of reports in ABAP like

Classical

Interactive

Logical Database

ABAP query

ALV Reports (ALV stands for ABAP List Viewer)

Report Writer/Report Painter

Classical ReportsEdit section

These are the most simple reports. Programmers learn this one first. It is just an output of data using the Write statement inside a loop.

Classical reports are normal reports. These reports are not having any sub reports. IT IS HAVING ONLY ONE SCREEN/LIST FOR OUTPUT.

Events In Classical Reports.

INTIALIZATION: This event triggers before selection screen display.

AT-SELECTION-SCREEN: This event triggers after proccesing user input still selection screen is in active mode.

START OF SELECTION: Start of selection screen triggers after proceesing selection screen.

END-OF-SELECTION : It is for Logical Database Reporting.

Interactive ReportsEdit section

As the name suggests, the user can Interact with the report. We can have a drill down into the report data. For example, Column one of the report displays the material numbers, and the user feels that he needs some more specific data about the vendor for that material, he can HIDE that data under those material numbers. And when the user clicks the material number, another report (actually sub report/secondary list) which displays the vendor details will be displayed.

We can have a basic list (number starts from 0) and 20 secondary lists (1 to 21). Events associated with Interactive Reports are: 1. AT LINE-SELECTION 2. AT USER-COMMAND 3. AT PF<key> 4. TOP-OF-PAGE DURING LINE-SELECTION. HIDE statement holds the data to be displayed in the secondary list. sy-lisel : contains data of the selected line. sy-lsind : contains the level of report (from 0 to 21)

Interactive Report Events:

AT LINE-SELECTION : This Event triggers when we double click a line on the list, when the event is triggered a new sublist is going to be generated. Under this event what ever the statements that are been return will be displayed on newly generated sublist.

AT PFn: For predefined function keys...

AT USER-COMMAND : It provides user functions keys.

Logical Database ReportsEdit section

Logical database is another tool for ABAP reports. Using LDB we can provide extra features for ABAP reports.

ABAP Query ReportsEdit section

ABAP query is another tool for ABAP. It provides efficency for ABAP reports. These reports are very accurate.

Transaction Code : SQ01

Report WriterEdit section

Key Concept :

Super users and end users can use Report Painter/Report Writer tools to write their own reports.

Giving them the ability to report on additional fields at their discretion shifts the report maintenance burden to them, saving SAP support groups time and effort normally spent creating and maintaining the reports.

Instead of using ABAP code to write a report in FI and CO, many users build a Report Painter/ Report Writer library using transaction MC27.

However, this workaround has some drawbacks. Little known transaction GRCT solves these problems in most cases, and eliminates the need to use transaction MC27.

ABAP Report TypesEdit section

ABAP report types are those ones available in some report's attributes screen, i.e. :

Executable program

Function group (containing function modules)

Include

Interface pool

Class pool

Module pool

Subroutine pool

Also ALV means ABAP List Viewer. Most convenient way to use it is through reuse library (cf. transaction se83) available from release 4.6 of SAP R/3.

ALV is available in two modes: list and grid. List mode is good old list processing with standard functionnalities, and grid mode is using a new OCX object displaying grids.

Award points if helpful.

Thanks.

[Former Member]

Hi all,

Does anybody know how to get experienced in using GRCT to enhance RW/RP reports?

Many thanks in advance,

llr