WORK AREA..?

[Former Member]

Hello Experts,

When do we use a work area and how is it useful...in what situations shud we use it....difference between internal tables and work area...

Thanks in advance...

Cheers:Jim

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Hi Jimmy,

WORKAREA is a structure that can hold only one record at a time. It is a collection of fields. We use workarea as we cannot directly read from a table. In order to interact with a table we need workarea. When a Select Statement is executed on a table then the first record is read and put into the header of the table and from there put into the header or the workarea(of the same structure as that of the table)of the internal table and then transferred top the body of the internal table or directly displayed from the workarea.

Each row in a table is a record and each column is a field.

While adding or retrieving records to / from internal table we have to keep the record temporarily.

The area where this record is kept is called as work area for the internal table. The area must have the same structure as that of internal table. An internal table consists of a body and an optional header line.

Header line is a implicit work area for the internal table. It depends on how the internal table is declared that the itab will have the header line or not.

e.g.

data: begin of itab occurs 10,

ab type c,

cd type i,

end of itab. " this table will have the header line.

data: wa_itab like itab. " explicit work area for itab

data: itab1 like itab occurs 10. " table is without header line.

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Hi

Work area is used to hold a single record

When you declare a TABLE with TABLES : MARA statement

by default a work area of MARA is created and you can use a select single statement into MARA work area

Similarly with ITAB's if you delcare itab with header line, it creates a work area during run time first the record is fetched to header(work area) and is moved to body.

so every time the record comes to header and then moved to Itab body.

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Anji

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Simple terminology,

Internal table- store multiple records

work area - It get one record at a time from internal table and we process them.

Processing is always based on work area and selection of data is done in internal table.

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Atish

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hi

good

While adding or retrieving records to / from internal table we have to keep the record temporarily.

The area where this record is kept is called as work area for the internal table. The area must have the same structure as that of internal table. An internal table consists of a body and an optional header line.

Header line is a implicit work area for the internal table. It depends on how the internal table is declared that the itab will have the header line or not.

e.g.

data: begin of itab occurs 10,

ab type c,

cd type i,

end of itab. " this table will have the header line.

data: wa_itab like itab. " explicit work area for itab

data: itab1 like itab occurs 10. " table is without header line.

http://www.sap-img.com/abap/difference-between-work-area-and-header-line.htm

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mrutyun^

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In what circumstances do we use work area....sample code would help...when I have a internal table that has a header then i can do all the processing through that...where do we work area...

please explain...

[Former Member]

yes Jim, you can use table with work area BUT not in ABAP OO and now a days after ECC 6 SAP becoming more and more towards ABAP OO.

So you need explicit work area there.

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Atish

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Atish,How to we actually use it.....Do u have any sample code that makes understand it clearly...I am not able to get the fact that when we have the header in the internal table why do we need a work area...

Sorry for the trouble...but I have to understand this....

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Hi Jimmy

here is ur sample program

 TYPES : BEGIN OF ty_test,
        code TYPE i,
        name(10) TYPE c,
        amount TYPE p DECIMALS 2,
       END OF ty_test.

DATA : it_test TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF ty_test WITH HEADER LINE INITIAL SIZE 10.

DATA : wa TYPE ty_test,
       chk1 TYPE c,
       fldname(30), fldval(50).

*set pf-status 'PF01'.
*set titlebar 'PF01'.
*

INITIALIZATION.
  it_test-code = 300.
  it_test-name = 'Ramesh'.
  it_test-amount = 5500.
  APPEND it_test.

  wa-code = 207.
  wa-name = 'Prem'.
  wa-amount = 5000.
  APPEND wa TO it_test.

  it_test-code = 117.
  it_test-name = 'James Bond'.
  it_test-amount = 9900.
  INSERT it_test INDEX 3.

  it_test-code = 217.
  it_test-name = 'Sivaraman'.
  it_test-amount = 9900.
  INSERT it_test INDEX 3.

  it_test-code = 201.
  it_test-name = 'Saravanan'.
  it_test-amount = 1000.
  APPEND it_test.

  it_test-code = 210.
  it_test-name = 'Shanmugam'.
  it_test-amount = 6000.
  APPEND it_test.

  WRITE : / 'Loop Display ( Appended rows ) :-'.
  LOOP AT it_test.
    WRITE : / chk1 AS CHECKBOX,
    sy-tabix, sy-vline, it_test-code, it_test-name, it_test-amount.
    HIDE : it_test-code, it_test-name.
  ENDLOOP.
  SKIP.

END-OF-SELECTION.
  CLEAR : it_test-code, it_test-name.
  WRITE : / 'this from end of selection'.


*&--------------------------------------------------------------------*
*&      Form  DISP1
*&--------------------------------------------------------------------*
*       text
*---------------------------------------------------------------------*
FORM disp1.
  WINDOW STARTING AT 15 10
         ENDING AT 80 15.
  DO.
    CLEAR chk1.
    READ LINE sy-index FIELD VALUE chk1.
    IF sy-subrc NE 0.
      EXIT.
    ELSE.
      CHECK chk1 NE space.
      WRITE : / it_test-code, it_test-name.
      MODIFY CURRENT LINE :
        FIELD VALUE chk1 FROM ' '
        FIELD FORMAT chk1 INPUT OFF.
    ENDIF.
  ENDDO.
ENDFORM.                                                    "DISP1

***line double click ****
AT LINE-SELECTION.
  CHECK sy-lsind = 1.
  WINDOW STARTING AT 5 4
         ENDING AT 85 20.
  WRITE: /  'THE USER DOUBLE-CLICKED A LINE IN THE REPORT'.
  WRITE: /  sy-lisel.
  WRITE : / 'Sometime ',it_test-name, ' is good '.
  WRITE : / 'Sometime ',it_test-name, ' is bad  '.
  WRITE : / 'Sometime ',it_test-name, ' is rich '.
  WRITE : / 'Sometime ',it_test-name, ' is poor '.
  WRITE : / 'Who knows, who is ',it_test-name, ' ? '.
  WRITE : /, / 'we can also use this in SELECT statement'.
  CLEAR : it_test-code, it_test-name.

        .
IF SY-SUBRC <> 0.
* MESSAGE ID SY-MSGID TYPE SY-MSGTY NUMBER SY-MSGNO
*         WITH SY-MSGV1 SY-MSGV2 SY-MSGV3 SY-MSGV4.
ENDIF.

  ULINE.
  SKIP.
  SKIP.
  WRITE : / 'Below from Get Cursor Field...'.
  GET CURSOR FIELD fldname VALUE fldval.
  CONDENSE fldname.
  CONDENSE fldval.
  WRITE : / 'You have clicked ', fldname, ' & its value is ', fldval.

***function key press F6 ****
AT PF06.
  PERFORM disp1.

*AT USER-COMMAND.
*  CASE SY-UCOMM.
*    WHEN 'STOP' OR 'CANCEL'.
*      LEAVE TO SCREEN 0.
*    WHEN 'TESTME'.
*      PERFORM DISP1.
*  ENDCASE.

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Pavan

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hi Jimmy,

TYPES:

BEGIN OF t_bukrs,

bukrs LIKE t001-bukrs, "Company dode

butxt LIKE t001-butxt, "Name of company

END OF t_bukrs,

data gt_bukrs TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF t_bukrs. "table

data gs_bukrs TYPE t_bukrs." work area

select * from t001 into corresponding fields of table gt_bukrs.

loop at gt_bukrs into gs_bukrs.

write:/ gs_bukrs-bukrs.

endloop.

hope it is clear. Revert if still not clear.

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Atish

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Hey Jimmy,

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Atish

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Hi Jimmy

Workarea is the memory area on with you perform the required operation related to data. Every Internal table has a header that is work area of the internal table. As soon as you read a row in an internal table the particular record gets filled in the workarea and now you can make modifications to this data, then say update or append the same data to internal table.

if you have defined an internal table with out header line, then you have to separately declare a work area and use as per requirement.

check these links

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/fc/eb30dd358411d1829f0000e829fbfe/content.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/fc/eb30dd358411d1829f0000e829fbfe/content.htm

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Pavan

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Thnx Atish...