Calling an existing ALV report in WD4A

[Former Member]

Im going to try to call an existing ALV report using WD4A.

Was wondering if anybody has used the "SUBMIT <report> EXPORTING LIST TO MEMORY" option to get the results table, then after IMPORTING from memory, display this in ALV in Webdynpro abap?

[Former Member]

I was able to acomplish the following way...

My WD4A component has an assistance class, has a method fetch_results, in that method, I pass my selection criteria which calls a function.

The function does this...

  SUBMIT  REPORTXYZ
  USING SELECTION-SET lv_variant 
  AND RETURN
    WITH pnppernr IN pnppernr
    WITH pnpbegps EQ act_begda
    WITH pnpendps EQ act_endda
    WITH pnpbegda EQ act_begda
    WITH pnpendda EQ act_endda
    WITH pnptimed EQ blank
    WITH p_layout EQ '/MGR SEP'
    WITH p_portal EQ 'X'.

My p_portal parameter is a flag that REPORTXYZ will use to export the it_output to memory.

I then import that table to the function module which returns to WD4A alv.

  IMPORT zit_output TO tbl_output FROM MEMORY ID
    lv_flag.

[ChrisPaine]

K,

I've done this in the past to provide a simple way to have both backend and portal based views of the same reports. (was in WDJ not WDA). In the end I decided that it wasn't a good solution.

Now all reports I build, I build them in a MVC design - and reuse the model in my WDA (or more usually POWL) implementation of the same report.

Chris