Issue in Foreground Report executing as background

Question

I have developed a Report in ABAP which has a selection screen and 2 radiobuttons
Foreground
Background
The report basically reads a TXT file from Desktop and calls a standard BAPI.
In foreground, I have no issues i.e. I browse the call from desktop and call GUI_UPLOAD and so on
However, in background, I am confused how to proceed??
Please note: Report is still running in foreground mode i.e. i am browsing the file. Its just that i have selected background Radiobutton
Can anyone tell me how to proceed i.e. to execute in background.
Do I need to submit the same program via JOB_OPEN JOB_CLOSE in background and then exit??
Please advice

Answer 1

Hi Razdan,
If want to schedule the background job through the program, then you can try method explained in below links. Here you might have to create a separate program to submit.
   https://help.sap.com/abapdocu_70/en/ABAPSUBMIT_VIA_JOB.htm
   http://scn.sap.com/thread/590077
  Another approach would be like below
Add an additional field apart from the radio button, say “ip_file” in the selection screen. This you can show while selecting the radio button “background”
Suppose if you have updated the file in app. Server(AL11 ) , in a location , say ( “home/myfile/test.txt” ) .
Save a variant with the radio button “background” selected and input field ip_file value as   “home/myfile/test.txt”.
Now from the SM36 you can schedule the background job to run the report with the same variant.
Please note that , here you need to upload the file separately to app. Server using , tcode - CG3Z or any other FM. And in the program you can use open dataset to access the file in the app. Server.