ALV F4 Help Error

[Former Member]

Hello!

After choosing a value from the possible values of the F4 help in the ALV Grid, i'm getting an error.

The details of the error is as follows:

"Field ..is not in the ABAP Dictionary"

Can anyone give me a possible solution.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Check out this article on ALV which might be useful:

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/e8a1d690-0201-0010-b7ad-d97...

cheers

Aveek

[Former Member]

Hi,

The List which you displayed have taken from internal tables where the field does not belong to ur internal table with search help..kindly refere the field in ur internal table which has search help...

Kindly reqrds the points,

[Former Member]

HI Geetha,

Check this once.

Global data definitions for ALV.......................................

DATA : alvgrid TYPE REF TO cl_gui_alv_grid,

custom_container TYPE REF TO cl_gui_custom_container,

fieldcatalog TYPE lvc_t_fcat.

table to contain fields that require f4...............................

DATA : lt_f4 TYPE lvc_t_f4 WITH HEADER LINE.

ok_code declaration...................................................

DATA : ok_code TYPE sy-ucomm.

Tables declaration....................................................

TABLES : zaemp.

Types declaration.....................................................

TYPES : BEGIN OF ty_emp,

code LIKE zaemp-code,

designation LIKE zaemp-designation,

END OF ty_emp.

Internal table declaration............................................

DATA : i_emp TYPE TABLE OF ty_emp.

Workarea declaration..................................................

DATA : wa_emp TYPE ty_emp.

Selection screen parameters...........................................

SELECT-OPTIONS : s_code FOR zaemp-code.

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• CLASS lcl_event_handler DEFINITION

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• ........ *

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CLASS lcl_event_handler DEFINITION.

PUBLIC SECTION.

METHODS :

handle_on_f1 FOR EVENT onf1 OF cl_gui_alv_grid

IMPORTING e_fieldname es_row_no er_event_data,

handle_on_f4 for event onf4 of cl_gui_alv_grid

importing e_fieldname es_row_no er_event_data

.

ENDCLASS.

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• CLASS lcl_event_handler IMPLEMENTATION

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• ........ *

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CLASS lcl_event_handler IMPLEMENTATION.

METHOD handle_on_f1.

custom f1 help for code field.......................................

IF e_fieldname = 'code'.

CALL SCREEN 3001.

ENDIF.

to prevent processing of standard f1 help............................

er_event_data->m_event_handled = 'X'.

ENDMETHOD.

Method handle_on_f4.

standard f4 help will be invoked......................................

endmethod.

ENDCLASS.

start of selection....................................................

START-OF-SELECTION.

SELECT code designation FROM zaemp

INTO CORRESPONDING FIELDS OF TABLE i_emp

WHERE code IN s_code.

CALL SCREEN 3000.

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*& Module STATUS_3000 OUTPUT

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• text

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MODULE status_3000 OUTPUT.

SET PF-STATUS 'ZTOOL'.

SET TITLEBAR 'ZTITLE'.

IF alvgrid IS INITIAL.

CREATE OBJECT custom_container

EXPORTING

container_name = 'ZCONTAINER'.

CREATE OBJECT alvgrid

EXPORTING

i_parent = custom_container.

PERFORM prepare_f4.

CALL METHOD alvgrid->register_f4_for_fields

EXPORTING

it_f4 = lt_f4[]

.

creating instance for event handler..................................

DATA : event_handler TYPE REF TO lcl_event_handler.

CREATE OBJECT event_handler.

SET HANDLER event_handler->handle_on_f1 FOR alvgrid.

SET HANDLER event_handler->handle_on_f4 FOR alvgrid.

preparing field catalog..............................................

PERFORM prepare_fieldcatalog CHANGING fieldcatalog.

CALL METHOD alvgrid->set_table_for_first_display

• EXPORTING

• I_BYPASSING_BUFFER =

• I_BUFFER_ACTIVE =

• I_CONSISTENCY_CHECK =

• I_STRUCTURE_NAME =

• IS_VARIANT =

• I_SAVE =

• I_DEFAULT = 'X'

• IS_LAYOUT =

• IS_PRINT =

• IT_SPECIAL_GROUPS =

• IT_TOOLBAR_EXCLUDING =

• IT_HYPERLINK =

• IT_ALV_GRAPHICS =

• IT_EXCEPT_QINFO =

CHANGING

it_outtab = i_emp

it_fieldcatalog = fieldcatalog

• IT_SORT =

• IT_FILTER =

• EXCEPTIONS

• INVALID_PARAMETER_COMBINATION = 1

• PROGRAM_ERROR = 2

• TOO_MANY_LINES = 3

• others = 4

.

IF sy-subrc <> 0.

• MESSAGE ID SY-MSGID TYPE SY-MSGTY NUMBER SY-MSGNO

• WITH SY-MSGV1 SY-MSGV2 SY-MSGV3 SY-MSGV4.

ENDIF.

ENDIF.

ENDMODULE. " STATUS_3000 OUTPUT

preparing field catalog...............................................

FORM prepare_fieldcatalog CHANGING i_fieldcatalog TYPE lvc_t_fcat.

DATA : ls_fcat TYPE lvc_s_fcat.

ls_fcat-fieldname = 'code'.

ls_fcat-ref_table = 'zaemp'.

ls_fcat-coltext = 'EMPLOYEE ID'.

APPEND ls_fcat TO i_fieldcatalog.

CLEAR ls_fcat.

ls_fcat-fieldname = 'designation'.

ls_fcat-ref_table = 'zaemp'.

ls_fcat-coltext = 'EMPLOYEE NAME'.

APPEND ls_fcat TO i_fieldcatalog.

ENDFORM.

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*& Module USER_COMMAND_3000 INPUT

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MODULE user_command_3000 INPUT.

CASE ok_code.

WHEN 'BACK'.

LEAVE TO SCREEN 0.

WHEN 'EXIT'.

LEAVE PROGRAM.

ENDCASE.

ENDMODULE. " USER_COMMAND_3000 INPUT

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*& Module USER_COMMAND_3001 INPUT

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MODULE user_command_3001 INPUT.

CASE ok_code.

WHEN 'SAVE'.

LEAVE TO SCREEN 0.

WHEN 'BACK'.

LEAVE TO SCREEN 0.

ENDCASE.

ENDMODULE. " USER_COMMAND_3001 INPUT

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*& Module STATUS_3001 OUTPUT

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MODULE status_3001 OUTPUT.

• SET PF-STATUS 'GUI'.

• SET TITLEBAR 'TITLE'.

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ENDMODULE. " STATUS_3001 OUTPUT

preparing fields to be registered for f4 help.........................

FORM prepare_f4.

lt_f4-fieldname = 'designation'.

lt_f4-register = 'X'.

lt_f4-getbefore = 'X'.

lt_f4-chngeafter = 'X'.

APPEND lt_f4.

ENDFORM.

Regards

Laxmi