How to open an ALV (the OO way) in Excel-View right away?

Question

Dear experts,
i'm creating an ALV Grid by using method set_table_for_first_display and I wonder if I can initially choose the Excel-view for it as if the user had switched over to it by using the standard "view" function. I figured that this might be posible by using the "FRONTEND" field in the Layout-structure, but this has no efect. Does anybody know how to do that? (if possible without creating an instance of the office integration class).
regards
Andreas

Answer 1

Yeah, it is possible
Check this code
*   Container auxiliar
    create object g_o_container
      exporting
        container_name              = 'G_D_CONTAINER'
      exceptions
        cntl_error                  = 1
        cntl_system_error           = 2
        create_error                = 3
        lifetime_error              = 4
        lifetime_dynpro_dynpro_link = 5
        others                      = 6.
    create object g_d_grid
      exporting
        i_parent          = g_o_container
        i_parentdbg       = cl_gui_custom_container=>default_screen
      exceptions
        error_cntl_create = 1
        error_cntl_init   = 2
        error_cntl_link   = 3
        error_dp_create   = 4
        others            = 5.
  endif.
  perform layout.
  perform fieldcat.
  call method g_d_grid->set_table_for_first_display
   exporting
      is_layout                     = gs_layout
*     is_print                      =
*     it_special_groups             =
*     it_toolbar_excluding          =
    changing
      it_outtab                     = g_t_alv
      it_fieldcatalog               = g_t_fieldcatalog
    exceptions
      invalid_parameter_combination = 1
      program_error                 = 2
      too_many_lines                = 3
      others                        = 4
The key is using the i_parentdbg parameter when creating the ALV Grid, it's kind of a trick, but it worked for me.