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Jigang Zhang 张吉刚

September 3, 2021 | 2 minute read

Grid refresh Issue after screen switch

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At vendor master screen enhancement, I create several customized screens to achieve the below purposes:

Screen 100- The main screen holds 1st/2nd level key fields along with Vendor no. and purchase org, provides buttons to create/modify/view address, etc.
Screen 200- Single address maintenance screen
Screen 300-View already maintained addresses using grid refer to cl_gui_alv_grid

Switching between screens:

1. Button ‘Create/Modify Address’ will call screen 200 to support single address maintenance.
2. Button ‘View Address’ will call screen 300 to display lists of already maintained addresses.
3. Call screen 200 when double-click a single line at screen 300, and the user can modify already existed address details at 200 and click return then get
back to screen 300.

Now the issue is:

At above point 3, the newest modification at screen 200 will not be reflected when back to screen 300 (already update the global data used by ALV grid at
screen 300), now an extra ‘Refresh’ button has been created to achieve this refreshment. But it’s quite annoying and not user-friendly. Many very similar
issues had been brought out like the below questions:

To refresh the ALV grid display (question link)

Refresh ALV Grid after execution of secondary screen (question link)
Refresh ALV Report after return from dialog screen(question link)

I try the below approaches:

Call Method grid->refresh_table_display

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Call refresh method at end of double click Event for screen 300 is triggered, but not working.
Call refresh method at PAI of screen 200 is triggered, but not working.
Call refresh method at PBO of screen 200 is not triggered at all.

Call method cl_gui_cfw=>flush

Call this method along with refresh_table_display is not working

LEAVE TO SCREEN 300 at return button of screen 200

using LEAVE TO SCREEN 300 instead of LEAVE TO SCREEN 0 will call another 300 with the initial screen and conflict with the original 300~

Call method set_new_ok_code

call the below code at the return button and no refresh as well~

CALL METHOD cl_gui_cfw=>set_new_ok_code

EXPORTING
new_code = 'REFRESH'.
CALL METHOD cl_gui_cfw=>flush.

Function module ‘SAPGUI_SET_FUNCTIONCODE’

call the below code at the return button and it’s working!!!

CALL FUNCTION 'SAPGUI_SET_FUNCTIONCODE'

EXPORTING
functioncode = 'REFRESH'
EXCEPTIONS
function_not_supported = 1
OTHERS = 2.
LEAVE TO SCREEN 0.

The documentation for this FM:

Functionality

This module simulates user input in the command field. This enables you
to run screen sequences without user input.

Example

A screen contains a single output field:

Counter ____

with the field reference "count".

This field is changed in the single flow logic module:

process before output.

module pbo.

and the default function code "=" is processed:

module pbo output. add 1 to count. if count > 20.

leave to screen 0.
endif.
call function 'SAPGUI_SET_FUNCTIONCODE'.
endmodule.

Notes

Since the function SAPGUI_SET_FUNCTIONCODE is not implemented for all

front end platforms, you may need to use a substitute solution. For
example:

call function 'SAPGUI_SET_FUNCTIONCODE' exporting functioncode = 'ABCD'

exceptions function_not_supported = 1.
if sy-subrc <> 0. suppress dialog. endif. "For Motif etc.

One blog explains how to force Enter event by using this FM.

I’m not a master of the screen painter, please kindly let me know if any wrong

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ABAP Development | ALV refresh | cl_gui_alv_grid | GRID refresh | SAPGUI_SET_FUNCTIONCODE | screen switch

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Sandra Rossi
September 3, 2021 at 7:14 am

refresh_table_display SHOULD work, unless you are doing something wrong, but It's difficult to understand the situation without the code (but it would be better to prepare a distinct
minimal reproducible code and to discuss based on it). You wouldn't need to have a REFRESH button. And so, you shouldn't need to execute a function code programatically.

In your case, theoretically, there could be an unlimited number of screen calls switching between 200 and 300, but it's limited to 50 CALL SCREEN. Either you agree on that limit, if a
user does more than 50 screen calls, that will short dump, and the user will have to restart. Otherwise, I would suggest that you use SET SCREEN instead. If needed, you can internally
stack the situation in memory.

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Jigang Zhang 张吉刚 | Blog Post Author

September 3, 2021 at 8:04 am

Sandra Rossi

Thanks for your comments, it's very helpful! Get your point, going to recheck my code and try to use SET SCREEN instead! I'll not list messy code here as too many screens
are involved : D

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