Changing Cell Contents

Hi folks,
I have a requirement to display table output in an ALV grid, making 1 column editable.
I have done this by setting the EDIT = 'X' flag in the field catalog for the field in question. Yet, when the field value is modified and the users try to continue processing, I cannot find the value that was changed.
The process for building and displaying the table is as follows:
1)
method constructor.
*/ Initialise variables here...
*/ Set the name of the internal table that will be displayed
*/ in the ALV grid
    m_active_Table = 'IT_SPECTRUM_RECS'.
2)
*/ Assign the data display table to a field-symbol for ALV display
    assign (m_active_Table) to <fs_datatab>.
3)
    call method go_grid->set_table_for_first_display
      EXPORTING
        is_layout            = ms_layout
        is_variant           = ms_Variant
        i_save               = m_var_save_st
        it_toolbar_excluding = mt_Excl_UI_Func
      CHANGING
        it_sort              = mt_sort
        it_fieldcatalog      = mt_FieldCat
        it_outtab            = <fs_datatab>.
Coming back into the PAI of the program, the changes in the editable field are not displayed, only the PBO values of the table (IT_SPECTRUM_RECS) and the field symbol <FS_DATATAB>.
My requirement is to loop through the table and verify the edited column details. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated, and points will be rewarded accordingly.
Cheers,
Stephen

Hello,
Check if you have done the following:
---You have to modify the field Catalog fields to set the field EDIT as 'X'.
---Call the method
CALL METHOD ALV_GRID_INSTANCE->set_ready_for_input
EXPORTING
i_ready_for_input = 0. ( For Display ) and '1' for Edit )
Put this after the set_table_for_first_display method.
--- If you want to check if the user has entered any value on the grid, use the Method : CALL METHOD ALV_GRID_INSTANCE->check_changed_data.
This will reflect as a change in your existiing data table to new data added on the editable grid.
For example,you can use it at user-command 'SAVE':
WHEN 'SAVE'.
      call method alv->check_changed_data
                 importing e_valid = l_valid.
      if l_valid = 'X'.
        MODIFY SPFLI FROM TABLE I_SPFLI.
      endif.
Regards,
Beejal
**Reward if this helps

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pcbaz

Thanks for the input. You're right, a GREP search is much more efficient. But what I'm trying to do and the circumstances here don't allow me, I think, to go that route. I am trying to generate a list of values coming from several textframes on a single page and have them come out so that I can tell which values belong together.
I'm using an inherited document with masters that were created 'manually'; the index numbering for textframes and tables is random. I navigate through the pages, looping through textframe indices asking ' does this textframe exist?' If so, I ask if it is a table -- if no, it is a simple textframe and I ask about the ID, if yes, I ask if the contents of cell (0,0) (invariant position and contents) are equal to the table I want.. I am sending the ID and other pieces of information from the table to one row of a new table on a new page. So the ID and other information from a single page are linked by being in the same row.
I know this a little 'off-normal' -- I'm using the search to navigate through the document and find things by location the way you do with a spreadsheet. I have devised a work-around that helps me get around the fact that the ID is not invariant. I create a list of the (exact) IDs from another document, equating them to a variable ('a'). I then loop through the list of IDs and ask if the contents of the textframe is equal to 'a'..This works o.k, unless there happens to be an extra space, a different kind of hyphen, etc. It would be so much easier if I could use the wildcards that work in a menu-driven text or GREP search in script just to ask about the contents of the textframe.
Thanks again
pcbaz (Peter BIerly)
P.S. we have since rewritten the masters so this problem will not exist in the future -- we now know exactly which textframe and/or table indices to refer to to get any particular bits of information and don't need to ask questions about the contents.

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