Video Lesson 10.3: SAP ALV Grid Control

This lesson will teach you about the ALV Grid Control. This is the most common control used to display reports on the screen. ALV Grid controls can summarize, show totals and subtotals and print your report or export it to Excel.

Application Example: ALV Grid Control

• ALV Grid Control, also called SAP List Viewer (ALV) is used for displaying an internal table on a screen. It has numerous user functions.
• On the screen, the user can vary the width of the columns, or the width can be automatically adjusted to the current data. The display position of the columns can also be changed by means of drag-and-drop.
  
  

The standard pushbuttons of the control can be used to execute, among others, the following functions:

• The detailed display shows the fields which were previously selected.
• The sorting function provides the user with the option of specifying complex sorting criteria
• You can use the search function for searching for a character string.
• You can form totals for one or each of several numerical columns.
• You can also Print and Download with the corresponding pushbuttons.
• The user can save his or her settings in the Grid Control as a display variant and reuse them at a later time.