ABAP Programming EVENTS in SAP

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Below are some of the events avalable within ABAP programming

LOAD-OF-PROGRAM
First event to be called before any of the other ABAP code is processed

INITIALIZATION
Called after the abap selection screen code has been processed (i.e. parameters,
select-options etc) but before these are displayed to the user. So you can use it to
initialize input fields of the selection screen or change the default values of these
before the user gets to enter data into them.

AT SELECTION SCREEN OUTPUT

This is called just before the selection screen is displayed and can be used to
manipulate the actual selection screen attributes using teh loop at screen
functionality. This allows you to do things like hide fields, grey them out so they are
output only or make them intensified etc.

LOOP AT SCREEN.
IF SCREEN-name = 'P_FIELd1'.
SCREEN-INTENSIFIED = '1'.
MODIFY SCREEN.
CONTINUE.
ENDIF.
ENDLOOP.

AT SELECTION-SCREEN.
This event is triggered when the user presses enter on the report selection screen
and is mainly used to add processing related to screen validation. Within the AT
SELECTION SCREEN event you have not left the selection screen, which allows you
to manipulate the values contained within sel screen parameters or stop the
program and return the user to the selection screen by displaying an error message.

AT SELECTION-SCREEN ON
This allows you to add processing to a selection screen field for when it is chnaged,
user presses F1 or F4 etc using the following parameters

<parameter1>
AT SELECTION-SCREEN ON Block <block1>
AT SELECTION-SCREEN ON HELP-REQUEST for <parameter1> (i.e. When press F1)
AT SELECTION-SCREEN ON VALUE-REQUEST for <parameter1> (i.e. When press
F4)
AT SELECTION-SCREEN ON RADIOBUTTON for <parameter1> (i.e. When press F4)

AT SELECTION-SCREEN ON P_FIELD1.
AT SELECTION-SCREEN ON help-request for P_FIELD1.

TOP-OF-PAGE
This is called when a new page is started with an ABAP list and is used to display a
header for the list.
TOP-OF-PAGE During LINE_SELECTION
If you use the 'DURING LINE-SELECTION' addition this event is also triggered when
creating detailed lists.

END-OF-PAGE
This is displayed at the end of each page if there is a line reservation in the addition
LINE-COUNT of the initiating statement for a page footer.

REPORT demo_rep NO STANDARD PAGE HEADING

LINE-COUNT 0(1).

START-OF-SELECTION
This event is called when . If the user executes the program either by pressing the
execute button or F8 this is the first event triggered after all screen selection
processing has been completed (AT Selection...). So pressing execute triggers both
AT SELECTION and then START-OF-SELECTION

If no other events are declared then there is no need to manually code this event as
all processing statements will be automatically assigned to an implicit START-OF-
SELECTION block. It is a good ideal to put it in though as it separates the code and
makes it easier to read. Generally you would put all you data selection ABAP code
within this event.

END-OF-SELECTION
If your report is linked to a logical database this event is called after the logical
database has completely finished its work. Otherwise this event is trigged after the
START-OF-SELECTION event so you would generally use it to processes the data
retrieved in that event.

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Below are some of the events avalable within ABAP programming

LOAD-OF-PROGRAM
First event to be called before any of the other ABAP code is processed

INITIALIZATION
Called after the abap selection screen code has been processed (i.e. parameters,
select-options etc) but before these are displayed to the user. So you can use it to
initialize input fields of the selection screen or change the default values of these
before the user gets to enter data into them.

AT SELECTION SCREEN OUTPUT

This is called just before the selection screen is displayed and can be used to
manipulate the actual selection screen attributes using teh loop at screen
functionality. This allows you to do things like hide fields, grey them out so they are
output only or make them intensified etc.

LOOP AT SCREEN.
IF SCREEN-name = 'P_FIELd1'.
 SCREEN-INTENSIFIED = '1'.
MODIFY SCREEN.
CONTINUE.
ENDIF.
ENDLOOP.

AT SELECTION-SCREEN.
This event is triggered when the user presses enter on the report selection screen
and is mainly used to add processing related to screen validation. Within the AT
SELECTION SCREEN event you have not left the selection screen, which allows you
to manipulate the values contained within sel screen parameters or stop the
program and return the user to the selection screen by displaying an error message.

AT SELECTION-SCREEN ON
This allows you to add processing to a selection screen field for when it is chnaged,
user presses F1 or F4 etc using the following parameters

<parameter1>
AT SELECTION-SCREEN ON Block <block1>
AT SELECTION-SCREEN ON HELP-REQUEST for <parameter1> (i.e. When press F1)
AT SELECTION-SCREEN ON VALUE-REQUEST for <parameter1> (i.e. When press
F4)
AT SELECTION-SCREEN ON RADIOBUTTON for <parameter1> (i.e. When press F4)

AT SELECTION-SCREEN ON P_FIELD1.
AT SELECTION-SCREEN ON help-request for P_FIELD1.

TOP-OF-PAGE
This is called when a new page is started with an ABAP list and is used to display a
header for the list.

TOP-OF-PAGE During LINE_SELECTION

If you use the 'DURING LINE-SELECTION' addition this event is also triggered when
creating detailed lists.

END-OF-PAGE
This is displayed at the end of each page if there is a line reservation in the addition
LINE-COUNT of the initiating statement for a page footer.

REPORT demo_rep NO STANDARD PAGE HEADING

LINE-COUNT 0(1).

START-OF-SELECTION
This event is called when . If the user executes the program either by pressing the
execute button or F8 this is the first event triggered after all screen selection
processing has been completed (AT Selection...). So pressing execute triggers both
AT SELECTION and then START-OF-SELECTION

If no other events are declared then there is no need to manually code this event as
all processing statements will be automatically assigned to an implicit START-OF-
SELECTION block. It is a good ideal to put it in though as it separates the code and
makes it easier to read. Generally you would put all you data selection ABAP code
within this event.

END-OF-SELECTION
If your report is linked to a logical database this event is called after the logical
database has completely finished its work. Otherwise this event is trigged after the
START-OF-SELECTION event so you would generally use it to processes the data
retrieved in that event.