SELECT-OPTIONS and Screen Layout

[Former Member]

I have a request where I need to create a prompt screen with selection so can enter list or range (SELECT-OPTIONS) and also need to enter Text (up to 6 lines of text) so this can be used to print comments on generated report.  How do you combine SELECT-OPTIONS and LAYOUT on one prompt Screen?  I found program SAPTEXTEDIT_TEST_2 that does what I need but can not enter list of range like I can do with SELECT-OPTIONS

Thanks Gary 

[Former Member]

I have a request where I need to create a prompt screen with selection so can enter list or range (SELECT-OPTIONS) and also need to enter Text (up to 6 lines of text) so this can be used to print comments on generated report.  How do you combine SELECT-OPTIONS and LAYOUT on one prompt Screen?  I found program SAPTEXTEDIT_TEST_2 that does what I need but can not enter list of range like I can do with SELECT-OPTIONS

Thanks Gary 

[Juwin]

Add the 6 lines of text, as 6 parameters in the screen. So, finally your screen will have 1 select option and 6 parameters.

Thanks,

Juwin

[Former Member]

Yes add text as 6 parameters might work but trying to figure out if I could add a free formatting text box?

[Juwin]

Yes you can... but not so straight forward.

You will have to create a new subscreen, and add the textbox in that. Then, you will have include that subscreen, in the selection-screen.

Thanks,

Juwin

[Former Member]

Is there an example program of this process?

[Juwin]

Due to technical limitations of the forum, I can't paste the screen design here. But, once you create the subscreen, including that in the selection-screen is easy.

Thanks,

Juwin

[Private_Member_7726]

Hi,

I tried it the other way around - create a selection screen as subscreen, which then was included on a normal dynpro. It has drawbacks - the functionality related to variants and normal selection screen GUI Status of course are not there.

I copied SAPTEXTEDIT_TEST_2 into Z namespace and adjusted it:

1) to define selection screen 0199 as sub-screen:

2) to add subscreen called SELECTION_AREA on dynpro 100:

3) flow logic of 100 to include 0199 into SELECTION_AREA:

4) form EXIT_PROGRAM to LEAVE TO SCREEN 0 rather than leave program

and there it is - functional selection screen in a subscreen of normal dynpro:

What Juwin proposes of course sounds more attractive - editor box in a selection screen...

cheers

Jānis

[Juwin]

Hi Janis & Gary,

In order to include another screen on a selection-screen, you need to define a subscreen area on the selection-screen.

To define a subscreen area on the selection-screen, you need to take help of TABBED BLOCK.

selection-screen begin of tabbed block b1 for 10 lines.

selection-screen end   of block b1.

This creates a subscreen area in the selection-screen named B1. This also creates a structure in the program, with 3 fields (PROG, DYNNR, ACTIVETAB). In the initialization event, assign the program name and the screen number you would like to show in the subscreen.

I have my selection-screen 1000 (for select-option) and subscreen 100 (for text area).

Upon execution, the screen looks like...

This way you can add any kind of controls - like table control, ALV control, picture control etc onto the selection screen.

Thanks,

Juwin

[Juwin]

I have updated this in my blog here:

Thanks,

Juwin

[Private_Member_7726]

Yup, it's much easier than I thought it would be

Now I have to look some day if there is a viable hack to save those editor contents to a variant and pull them out again...

Thanks and cheers

Jānis