Multiple Lines in ALV Cell

[Former Member]

Hi,

I need to enter multiple lines (of Equipment long text) in an ALV cell, in order to display single fields (Classification Characteristic values) and long text in the cells of a single ALV row.

The result would look something like this (looks better in Courier font):

----------+--

---

+

Val1	Val2	Text line 1
		Text line 2

----------+--

---

+

Val3	Val4	Text line 3
		Text line 4
		Text line 5

----------+--

---

+

etc

The same effect is achieved in an Excel cell by typing <Alt-Enter> at the end of each line.

I was thinking of using a String variable for the long text, with line-feed characters to split the lines. Is there an equivalent in ABAP to the Excel/ASCII line-feed character, or is there another way?

Thanks,

Chris.

[Former Member]

Hi,

I need to enter multiple lines (of Equipment long text) in an ALV cell, in order to display single fields (Classification Characteristic values) and long text in the cells of a single ALV row.

The result would look something like this (looks better in Courier font):

----------+--

---

+

Val1	Val2	Text line 1
		Text line 2

----------+--

---

+

Val3	Val4	Text line 3
		Text line 4
		Text line 5

----------+--

---

+

etc

The same effect is achieved in an Excel cell by typing <Alt-Enter> at the end of each line.

I was thinking of using a String variable for the long text, with line-feed characters to split the lines. Is there an equivalent in ABAP to the Excel/ASCII line-feed character, or is there another way?

Thanks,

Chris.

[Nawanandana]

hai

i think u can use the command of concatanate

ex:-

data : w_fricharge type c,

w_fric type c,

w_freight(70).

concatenate 'Freight ' w_fricharge w_fric into

w_freight

separated by space.

then u can write the code...

....

....

...

fieldcatalog-fieldname = 'VBELN'.

fieldcatalog-key = 'X'.

fieldcatalog-seltext_m = ' w_freight '.

fieldcatalog-col_pos = 1.

fieldcatalog-outputlen = 5.

fieldcatalog-edit = ''.

i think it wil be help full to u

regard

nawa

[Former Member]

Thanks Nawa, I'm not sure how that helps though. What I want to do is include any number of lines (as you would find in long text) into a single ALV cell, to appear as separate lines. With Equipment the line length is 72 characters, so I need to handle records with zero to any number of lines, each of which has a length between zero and 72 characters.

I guess I could read the contents of the long text into an internal table, loop through the table and concatenate all the lines into a string variable, but that does not preserve the line breaks, which are important. I need to include some kind of line break character at the end of each line.

[Former Member]

Hi Chris

You can not have multiple lines in same cell.

This functionality is not provided in ALV.

Regards

Navneet

[Former Member]

Hi Chris,

use REUSE_ALV_HIERSEQ_LIST_DISPLAY

regards Dieter

Message was edited by:

Dieter Gröhn

[Former Member]

Thanks Dieter - I'll give it a try.