Display F1 help in ALV

[Former Member]

Can anybody tell me how to display F1 help on an ALV report . IN basic report, its coming automatically.. But in ALV its not like that . Correct ? PLease help me .

[Former Member]

Hi Shankar,

In the field catalog, do either of the following:

Example case is for Material Number

(a) Table and field reference

IT_FCAT-REF_FIELDNAME = 'MATNR'

IT_FCAT-REF_TABNAME = 'MARA'

or

(b) Using the Data Element

IT_FCAT-ROLLNAME = 'MATNR'

both of them will enable F1 help.

regards,

Satya

[ssimsekler]

Hi Shankara

You can find information on linking F1 help to fields in ALV in the tutorial <a href="https://www.sdn.sap.comhttp://www.sdn.sap.comhttp://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/documents/a1-8-4/an%20easy%20reference%20for%20alv%20grid%20control.pdf">"An Easy Reference for ALV Grid Control"</a> .

Hope it will help...

*--Serdar

[Former Member]

Are you using Grid or List ALV ?

Check program BCALV_GRID_01 and try a F1 for ID.

I believe, if there is documentation for the data element, F1 for that should work. Not sure about this though.

Regards,

Subramanian V.

[Former Member]

Hello Shankar,

Firstly, there's one point that you need to keep in mind - in most cases, if you are getting something automatically, it is usually because of some tie-up with the ABAP Data Dictionary (most common are the data-elements).

Now, what exactly do you mean by F1 help in a basic report? If you write some fields (defined with reference to some Dictionary field / data-element) to the standard list output in SAP, pressing F1 on that field will give you the documentation maintained for the data-element.

So also, in case of ALV, you will be able to get the F1 documentation for the fields with reference to the dictionary types. I do not see why you shouldn't get it.

If you can give me more details of your problem, I wll be able to help you better in fixing it.

Regards,

Anand Mandalika.