ABAP dynpro and containers

[Former Member]

Hi,

As far as I know it is possible only to "assign" a control to a CONTAINER

and therefore there is no way to "assign" a normal ABAP dynpro to a container.

This feature limits a lot the programmer when he decides to split the screen in sub-panes

(unless using the docking container trick). There isn't a real modularity of the sub-panes created,

once you split the screen you're sticked to controls.

I Have been working on development of new service providers in Record Management System (RMS)

and I found no way to display an ABAP dynpro on the right pane limiting a lot the application.

I know that is not trivial but, is there any plan to introduce this feature?

Regards

Fabio Cerioni

[Former Member]

Did you Try Sub Screens? You can Call Multiple Sub Screens and Place them in Main Screen where you want to show.

[Former Member]

Thank you for your reply.

Unfortunately your hint cannot be applied in this case. Record anagement System reserve (RMS) on the right pane only a container and in this case you can use only controls. That's a pity that limit a lot RMS.

By the way my post was more general. I was suggesting the development of a new "feature" in ABAP that allow to link an ABAP dynpro to a CONTAINER. It is something that I miss that would make screen programming more elegant.

Another issue is that actually there is a gap between ABAP classes and ABAP dynpros. Al new ABAP development of SAP are made with classes and when an ABAP dynpro must be displayed a function module is called, in other words you cannot display an ABAP dynpro "really" from a class. I think that this area of ABAP must be revisited.

Regards

Fabio

[Former Member]

There is a way to link a Dynpro and a container using the docking container. This is an example where I have a dynpro above a docking container that has an ALV grid. First I created the docking container and then I referenced the ALV grid to the container. You do not need to put a custom control on the screen because the docking container creates one for you.

Hope this helps.

Mike

DATA: DOCKING_9200 TYPE REF TO CL_GUI_DOCKING_CONTAINER.

DATA: PDCD_GRID TYPE REF TO CL_GUI_ALV_GRID.

• create the docking container

CREATE OBJECT DOCKING_9200

EXPORTING REPID = L_REPID

DYNNR = L_DYNNR

SIDE = DOCKING_9200-DOCK_AT_BOTTOM

EXTENSION = 165

METRIC = DOCKING_9200-METRIC_DEFAULT.

• Create the Grid Container with the parent of the docking container

CREATE OBJECT PDCD_GRID

EXPORTING I_PARENT = DOCKING_9200.

CALL METHOD PDCD_GRID->SET_TABLE_FOR_FIRST_DISPLAY

EXPORTING IT_TOOLBAR_EXCLUDING = LT_FCODE

IS_LAYOUT = LS_LAYOUT

I_SAVE = 'A'

I_DEFAULT = SPACE

IS_VARIANT = LS_VARIANT

CHANGING IT_OUTTAB = PDCD_TAB[]

IT_FIELDCATALOG = PDCD_CAT.

[Former Member]

Hi,

are there any news on this subject?

Fabio, did you get any further on putting an ABAP dynpro into a container?

Btw. - what is the docking container trick?

Regards,

Alex.

[athavanraja]

docking container is again a container to hold controls. i guess what you are looking is something similar to SE80

There some discussions in this forum about this , though no solutions yet

Regards

Raja

[OttoGold]

Hello,

I noticed this thread is very old but I was not able to find anything about using SCREENs or subscreen in the custom container. Does anybody has any news about it? I must have overlooked it.

Cheers Otto