How to send a ALV report as a workitem

Question

Hi All,
How to send a ALV report to the SAP Inbox for approval.
Requirement: When the reviewer executes the report and click on send button.
It will go to the approver for report approval.
How to send a report when reviewer click on the send button.
I am unable to find a solution when the user click on the send button the report will go to the approver.
Please help me out on this...
Regards,
Siraj,
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Answer 1

Hi Siraj
I do not have a ready sample with me; however, here can be a logical sequencing of steps which you can follow to achieve this:
1) Define a custom PF STATUS in the ALV with the SEND Button
2) In the User Command routine for ALV, code for SEND
3) See how standard ALV - EXPORT to EXCEL Works - Debug and find the steps to generate an EXCEL - in the SEND Functionality
4) Once Excel is downloaded, create a SOFM document for the same - Check the method CREATE of object SOFM on the coding required to do it
5) Generate the SOFM Object Instance using the document created and calling FM SWO_INVOKE
6) Now you have the run time instance of the report output as a document
7) Define a custom Business object and a custom workflow based on that object
8) Define a custom event with the event parameter of type SOFM
9) From your SEND routine of the report -> trigger the event and pass the SOFM Instance of the excel as event parameter
10) Workflow will have this object via binding from event to workflow container
11) In the decision step to approver, bind this to _ATTACH_OBJECTS
For each of these, you will find some  link already on SCN.
Hope this helps.
Once you have the solution, by the above steps or a better one, do remember to create a document on SCN in order to help others - this is a valid requirement and it would be good to have a ready reckoner :-)
regards,
Modak