ranges

[Former Member]

what is exact purpose of selection-screen 'ranges' and what are various advantages of using 'ranges' .its urgent please

[FredericGirod]

Ranges is very usefull when you would like to make a SELECT with a list of values.

instead of

select ... into table ... from ... for all entries in ... where ...

you remove the "for all entries in".

It's just a problem of performance. Because for all entries make a lot of database access.

The danger with the ranges is the size, greater than 3000 entries, you will have a dump.

Fred

[Former Member]

Hi,

Ranges can be described as programatic version of select-option. They are used to filter data from database or internal table. They work similar to select-options.

Definition

RANGES : r_werks FOR mard-werks,

r_lgort FOR mard-lgort.

Filling it with data

r_werks-sign = 'I'.

r_werks-option = 'EQ'.

r_werks-low = p_werks1.

APPEND r_werks.

CLEAR r_werks.

Usage

SELECT * from marc where werks in r_werks.

Regards,

Sankar

[Former Member]

SELECT-OPTIONS: Declare an internal table that is also linked to input fields on a selection screen

RANGES: Declare an internal table with the same structure as in select-options, but without linking it to a selection screen.

FOR FURTHER DOCUMENTATION PLEASE GO THROUGH THE LINK

Difference Between Select-Options & Ranges

Statical Declaration

Selection tables

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[Former Member]

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[Former Member]

HI Sandeep,

Both SELECT-OPTIONS & RANGES works for the same purpose. They both are used for the range selection from selection screen. The main diff. between them is, while we use SELECT-OPTIONS system implicitly creates the select options internal table which contains the fields of SIGN,OPTION,LOW & HIGH. But in case of RANGES, this internal table should be defined explicitly.

Hope this helps.

[Former Member]

HI,

Select-Options : They provides user with an option to enter value in the selection screen...... and it can be used in programs only.

Ranges : This provides a way to populate the range of values programatially and for further use.. e.g. if you want to pass a range of values to a select query to some function module then select options will not work.....then you have to go with ranges.

Thanks,CSR.

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