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[Former Member]

what is a field-catalogue and what are the various purposes of it.

[Former Member]

Field Catalog is the description of fields and their attributes for display in a report using the ALV FMs or OO modules.

[Former Member]

HI

A field catalog includes all of the fields that can be selected when creating or maintaining an archive information structure.

You can use it to specify which fields are incorporated in the information structure, and whether they should be key fields or data fields. You can decide whether key- or data fields should be incorporated into the info structure. The fields contained in a field catalog are always archiving object-specific.

use this link for detailed info on filed catalog

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/52/5f0607e02d11d2b47d006094192fe3/frameset.htm

cheers,

sharad.

Edited by: sharad narayan on Apr 17, 2008 2:54 PM

[Former Member]

Field catalog describes field descriptions for a field.It is very useful in ALV reports for manipulate your fetching data in your own way in the form of colors,selections texts,hide,column width,centralizatiuon of text,making key column,getting hotspot,to do sums under one column etc....

Reward if it useful.

Dara.

[Former Member]

hi with the fieldcatalog you will get the alvs...

check the programs for the avls to know the use of it..

http://www.saptechnical.com/Tutorials/ALV/ALVMainPage.htm

regards,

venkat.

[prasanth_kasturi]

using field catlogue you can define the various characterstics of a field explicitly .

The field cataog is a table that contains information on the fields to be displayed. The ALV uses this table to recognize the type of a field, for example.

Use

You can use fields of the catalog to determine the number format and column properties of the list to be displayed.

regards

prasanth