Dynamic report output in a webdynpro alv

Question

Hi,
I have created a dynamic report in the R/3 system . In this report, i am creating a report program within the report and subsequently executing this dynamically created report and displaying in the ALV..
Is it possible to handle such a scenario in a webdynpro ALV. One option is to use ITS and display the report in the portal but is there some other way so that i can directly view this report in an alv grid in a view.
all help appreciated!!
regards,
Priyank

Answer 1

Hi Priyank,
This could be one of the solution:
1] Run the report in background mode (using submit statement, dn't forget to give printer as LOCL), get the spool id programatically. Use the FM's CONVERT_OTFSPOOLJOB_2_PDF or CONVERT_ABAPSPOOLJOB_2_PDF.
Which returns the ouput of table tline, convert this to xtring and bind it to xtring attribute.
In view add a interactive form and bind the xstring attribute to the Interactive form.
By following the above steps, we can display the result in the PDF in WD ABAP.
2] The report result is ALV and in most of the cases we generally do not have function modules or any other easy way to get the output.
In such cases the best approach which we follow is, to run this in background mode and generate the spool and display the ouput in PDF.
3] But if intertactive form is not present in your requirement then we need to debug the logic of the report (if no FM or class present) and get the results and display it in the View.
You can create a service which takes the parameters of the report, submits it and
transfers the result to HTML. In a view you use an IFRame which takes the URL of the service and shows the result HTML.
just additionally read this thread,
Display simple ABAPLIST
Here an IFrame is used to display HTML output of report. But as IFRame gets obsolete the Suresh's solution seems to be pretty cool.
Hope this will help you!
Cheers,
Darshna.