Use filtered ALV table data in OOP

[Former Member]

Is there an easy way of retrieving the ALV data that is displayed when there are also filters used on that ALV?

The ALV is an object of CL_GUI_ALV_GRID. When showing it to the user, there is a filter placed on it by default. The user also has a button that processes the data in the ALV. How can I make sure the process only works with the data that is displayed, even if the user places his own filters on the ALV?

e.g: An ALV gets created from an itab that has 10 rows, but because there is also a filter passed on the ALV, only 8 rows are showing. When pressing a button, I only want to work with the 8 rows currently showing to the user.

Thanks in advance.

[raymond_giuseppi]

Use method get_filtered_entries.

[Former Member]

Thanks, that is already really helpful, but this method gets me the entries that are NOT displayed. How would I best translate this to the displayed entries? I think filling a table with entries not displayed, copying the source table and then looping through this copy and checking if they are in the non-displayed entries to delete them is a little bit timeconsuming.

[raymond_giuseppi]

Usually I loop in the internal table and for each record check if it's hidden (in the filtered entries) The other solution is build a second itab so the check is only executed once, it depends on your program layout.

[Former Member]

I ended up copying the source table, looping over the filtered entries and deleting those indexes from the copy of source.

      " Copy original table
      DATA(lit_buffer) = lt_disp_items.

      " Get excluded rows
      lo_alv_grid->get_filtered_entries(
        IMPORTING
          et_filtered_entries = DATA(lit_index)
      ).

      " Remove excluded rows from buffer
      LOOP AT lit_index ASSIGNING FIELD-SYMBOL(<index>).
        DELETE lit_buffer INDEX <index>.
      ENDLOOP.

[raymond_giuseppi]

Be aware that deleting a row will change the index value of following rows... (you could sort/loop filtered entries by index descending among many other tricks to solve this one)

[satyabrata_sahoo3]

Using method GET_FILTERED_ENTRIES you can get filtered values of the ALV. Exporting parameter ET_FILTERED_ENTRIES holds the filtered rows.