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Guilherme Frisoni
April 2, 2013 | 4 minute read

How to Easy… Create a Search Help in ALV OOPS editable field

When we use an editable ALV, some fields must have a custom Search Help. Let’s describe the simple way to add a custom Search Help to a specific field of
an ALV using OOPS.

Assuming we have a field called BWTAR in our alv table GT_OUT.

At fieldcat, we need to set this field editable and with F4:

CLEAR ls_fcat.

ls_fcat-fieldname = ‘BWTAR’.

ls_fcat-ref_field = ‘BWTAR’.

ls_fcat-ref_table = ‘MBEW’.

ls_fcat-edit = ‘X’.

ls_fcat-f4availabl = ‘X’.

APPEND ls_fcat TO gt_fcat.

After create ALV Object GO_ALV, we need to register BWTAR field for F4 and set ONF4 event handler.

DATA: lt_f4 TYPE lvc_t_f4 WITH HEADER LINE.

CLEAR lt_f4.

lt_f4-fieldname = ‘BWTAR’.

lt_f4-register = ‘X’.

INSERT table lt_f4.

” Register F4 for BWTAR

CALL METHOD go_alv->register_f4_for_fields

EXPORTING

it_f4 = lt_f4[].

” Set Handler

SET HANDLER lo_handler->handle_on_f4 FOR go_alv.

In our local event handler class, we need to define the ONF4 event and code it.

CLASS lcl_event_handler DEFINITION FINAL.

PUBLIC SECTION.

METHODS:

handle_on_f4

FOR EVENT onf4 OF cl_gui_alv_grid

IMPORTING e_fieldname

es_row_no

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er_event_data.

ENDCLASS.

CLASS lcl_event_handler IMPLEMENTATION.

*–Handle On F4

METHOD handle_on_f4.

PERFORM handle_on_f4

USING e_fieldname

es_row_no

er_event_data.

ENDMETHOD.

ENDCLASS.

At last, let’s code handle_on_f4 perform:

FORM handle_on_f4

USING e_fieldname TYPE lvc_fname

es_row_no TYPE lvc_s_roid

er_event_data TYPE REF TO cl_alv_event_data.

” Types

TYPES: BEGIN OF ys_bwtar,

bwtar TYPE mbew-bwtar,

END OF ys_bwtar.

” Local Vars

DATA: lt_bwtar TYPE TABLE OF ys_bwtar,

ls_bwtar TYPE ys_bwtar,

lt_map TYPE TABLE OF dselc,

ls_map TYPE dselc,

lt_return TYPE TABLE OF ddshretval,

ls_return TYPE ddshretval,

ls_stable TYPE lvc_s_stbl.

” Field-symbols

FIELD-SYMBOLS: <l_out> TYPE ys_out. ” ALV table line

” Check which field raise f4 event

CASE e_fieldname.

WHEN ‘BWTAR’.

” Read current line

READ TABLE gt_out ASSIGNING <l_out>

INDEX es_row_no-row_id.

” Load F4 Data

SELECT bwtar

FROM mbew

INTO TABLE lt_bwtar

WHERE matnr = <l_out>-matnr AND

bwkey = <l_out>-werks.

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” Set return field

CLEAR ls_map.

ls_map-fldname = ‘F0001’.

ls_map-dyfldname = ‘BWTAR’.

APPEND ls_map TO lt_map.

” Call Search Help Popup Function

CALL FUNCTION ‘F4IF_INT_TABLE_VALUE_REQUEST’

EXPORTING

retfield = ‘BWTAR’

value_org = ‘S’

TABLES

value_tab = lt_bwtar

dynpfld_mapping = lt_map

return_tab = lt_return

EXCEPTIONS

parameter_error = 1

no_values_found = 2

OTHERS = 3.

” Read selected f4 value

READ TABLE lt_return INTO ls_return WITH KEY fieldname = ‘F0001’.

IF ls_return IS NOT INITIAL.

” Update ALV table

<l_out>-bwtar = ls_return-fieldval.

ENDIF.

ENDCASE.

ls_stable = ‘XX’. ” Set stable refresh for row and column

” ALV Refresh

CALL METHOD go_alv->refresh_table_display

EXPORTING

is_stable = ls_stable

i_soft_refresh = ‘X’

EXCEPTIONS

finished = 1

OTHERS = 2.

” Avoid possible standard Search Help

er_event_data->m_event_handled = ‘X’.

ENDFORM.

That’s it!

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khushbu Agarwal
March 18, 2015 at 7:25 am

very nice and helpful blog, it would be great if mentioned step by step approach with the reason of doing it.

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Radouane Sbaa
September 25, 2017 at 8:11 pm

Thanks, very useful !

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Sandra Rossi
March 19, 2018 at 2:13 pm

The title of your post is a little bit misleading: you are not using a Search Help, you are implementing the F4 Help. A Search Help is an object from the ABAP Dictionary (DDIC).

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Mohamed Hamdy
May 12, 2018 at 4:03 pm

Perfect, Thank you

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Vivin Gomez
July 13, 2019 at 10:00 am

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It is displaying F4 help and picking the values perfectly, but an internal error occurs “Search help: Internal error: DestroyTab 2” that makes my SAP to crash

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madjid khanevadegi
May 18, 2020 at 11:11 am

Hi

useful and very good

thanks

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Edwin García Ospina

Hi,

Thank you, useful and very good

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