Passing data to excel file and sending as mail

Question

Hello Everyone,
I am using FM SO_NEW_DOCUMENT_ATT_SEND_API1 to send an excel file as an attachment to a mail id.
But the issue is i have 4 fields in excel vendor, material, material descp and PO number.
The vendor field is of char 10 i need to show all the leading zeros in the excel file.
I.e  now i am getting vendor as 88058 in the excel file but i need to show it as 0000088058.
If anyone has come across such issue please provide some solution to it.
Thanks & Regards,
Ravi Aswani

Answer 1

Hi,
This is the code snippet I have used to generate the test file.
REPORT  ztest_download.
TYPES: BEGIN OF ty_data,      
vbeln TYPE vbeln,      
amt   TYPE dmbtr,      
long  TYPE char30,      
text  TYPE char20,      
END   OF ty_data.
DATA: it_data TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF ty_data,      wa_data TYPE ty_data.
START-OF-SELECTION.
  DO 5 TIMES.    wa_data-vbeln = sy-index.   
UNPACK wa_data-vbeln TO wa_data-vbeln.   
wa_data-amt   = '12345.67' * sy-index.   
wa_data-long  = '12345678901234567890'.   
wa_data-text  = sy-abcde.   
APPEND wa_data TO it_data.   
CLEAR  wa_data. 
ENDDO.
DATA: l_file TYPE string.
here we will pass the .txt instead of the .xls*
l_file = 'C:\temp\test_data.txt'.
In the Filetype, we still pass the DAT because we want* our output in the tabular format. 
CALL FUNCTION 'GUI_DOWNLOAD'   
EXPORTING    
filename                = l_file     
filetype                = 'DAT'  
TABLES     
data_tab                = it_data   
EXCEPTIONS     
file_write_error        = 1     
no_batch                = 2     
gui_refuse_filetransfer = 3     
invalid_type            = 4    
no_authority            = 5     
unknown_error           = 6     
header_not_allowed      = 7    
separator_not_allowed   = 8     
filesize_not_allowed    = 9     
header_too_long         = 10     
dp_error_create         = 11     
dp_error_send           = 12     
dp_error_write          = 13     
unknown_dp_error        = 14     
access_denied           = 15     
dp_out_of_memory        = 16     
disk_full               = 17     
dp_timeout              = 18     
file_not_found          = 19     
dataprovider_exception  = 20     
control_flush_error     = 21.
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Edited by: Thomas Zloch on Oct 15, 2010 4:27 PM