Button as UI Element for FileDownload

[Former Member]

Hello,

I am to download data to an excel file. Herefore I can use the UI Element FileDownload (with supply function and such).

It woks fine.

Now the users would like to have the download being enabled via a button rather than a link.

So I created a button and thought that it should be possible to access the ui filedownload element via button action implementation and tell it (the filedownload ui) that it has been enabled. But I have not found a facility to neither access the filedownload UI element nor even to tell it that it is activated. I looked into the dynamic programming section of sap web dynpro documentation, but nothing seemd to fit.

Anybody got an idea if and if so how I could solve the 'problem'?

tx a lot in advance

Ana

[thomas_jung · Accepted solution]

You don't want to try and use the FileDownload UI element at runtime in such a way. Instead use the CL_WD_RUNTIME_SERVICES=>Method ATTACH_FILE_TO_RESPONSE API method:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70ehp1/helpdata/en/47/a8d95673b12fe2e10000000a42189d/frameset.htm