Variants Issue

[Former Member]

I Have 2 variants for a Z report. Having issue with variants values for one of the slection screen.

Selection Screen:

SELECTION-SCREEN : BEGIN OF BLOCK bj WITH FRAME TITLE text-m08.

PARAMETERS p_ba TYPE zfi_barea-zzarea MATCHCODE OBJECT zzbarea. "Business Area

PARAMETERS p_fn(40) TYPE c. "File Name

SELECTION-SCREEN : END OF BLOCK bj.

Variants for Z report

/VAR1 has Business Area FIN

File Name Test1

/VAR2 has blank vaues for Business Area and File Name

Issue:

When i switch between variants ..The /VAR2 is retaining values of /VAR1.

Apprecite feedback.

[Former Member]

Yes, this is a common behavior.

If /VAR2 is not explicitly setting the value of a field, then the value set by the previous variant /VAR1 will be retained. Basically SAP is not forcing null/blanks on values that are already existing on a field.

This will only occur when you are switching variants. So it is always a good idea to check the values that a variant fetches and always do a /nsa38 or /nse38 before setting a variant online and not switch variants one after other.

This issue will NOT affect batch jobs run by variants as each batch job runs in its own session and there is no carry over.

[Former Member]

Thanks for your inputs. But when you swtich between variants the values should not be retianed as the users may

accidentally trigger jobs and in my case [ The business Area & File Name information is used for background Job to write files to specific Unix folder..we have a unique folder for each business area ).

I am checking the option of clearing parameter id ..still looking for answers.

[Former Member]

Resolved by using the FM 'RS_VARIANT_CONTENTS' below.

gx_program = sy-repid.

gx_variant = sy-slset.

DATA: lt_parm TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF vanz INITIAL SIZE 0,

lt_parm_nonv TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF vanz INITIAL SIZE 0,

lt_selop TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF vanz INITIAL SIZE 0,

lt_selop_nonv TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF vanz INITIAL SIZE 0,

lt_values TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF rsparams INITIAL SIZE 0,

lx_values TYPE rsparams.

CONSTANTS: lc_ba TYPE rsparams-selname VALUE 'P_BA',

lc_fn TYPE rsparams-selname VALUE 'P_FN'.

CALL FUNCTION 'RS_VARIANT_CONTENTS'

EXPORTING

report = gx_program

variant = gx_variant

TABLES

l_params = lt_parm

l_params_nonv = lt_parm_nonv

l_selop = lt_selop

l_selop_nonv = lt_selop_nonv

valutab = lt_values

EXCEPTIONS

variant_non_existent = 1

variant_obsolete = 2

OTHERS = 3.

IF sy-subrc EQ 0.

SORT lt_values BY selname.

READ TABLE lt_values INTO lx_values WITH KEY selname = lc_ba

BINARY SEARCH.

IF sy-subrc EQ 0.

IF lx_values-low IS INITIAL.

CLEAR p_ba.

ENDIF.

ENDIF.

READ TABLE lt_values INTO lx_values WITH KEY selname = lc_fn

BINARY SEARCH.

IF sy-subrc EQ 0.

IF lx_values-low IS INITIAL.

CLEAR p_fn.

ENDIF.

ENDIF.

ENDIF.

CLEAR lx_values.

FREE: lt_parm,

lt_parm_nonv,

lt_selop,

lt_selop_nonv,

lt_values.