Problem passing a table in an RFC wrapper in ECC to a FM in SRM?

Question

I am creating a wrapper around FM 'TEXT_CONVERT_XLS_TO_SAP' in ECC, because I cant find a FM in SRM to convers an excel file into an itab. I pass an excel sheet from SRM to this wrapper to convert the values into an Itab and pass then back to SRM. The problem is the parameter "i_tab_converted_data = i_converted" from 'TEXT_CONVERT_XLS_TO_SAP' is of type STANDARD TABLE. So when I created the Itab = i_itab_converted_data in my program using a type I declared in my program, I can't use the type to create the exporting parameter in the FM to pass the itab back to SRM.

Answer 1

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DEMVIL wrote:
> What I was saying was tthe I_TAB_CONVERTED_DATA is of type "STANDARD TABLE" therefore if I create type and create a table of that type, in this case table I_CONVERTED, it works, but can't use the type to create an export parameter.
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> CALL FUNCTION 'TEXT_CONVERT_XLS_TO_SAP'
>     EXPORTING
> *   I_FIELD_SEPERATOR      =
> *      i_line_header       = 'X'
>       i_tab_raw_data       = i_raw
>       i_filename           = l_filename
>     TABLES
>       i_tab_converted_data = i_converted
>  EXCEPTIONS
>    conversion_failed       = 1
>    OTHERS                  = 2.
It should work. how have you defined i_converted? Below is what I have used and it works fine for me.
TYPES: BEGIN OF ty_datatab,
  matnr          TYPE char18,  "Material Number
  short_text     TYPE char40,  "Short Text
  quantity       TYPE char13,  "Purchase Order Quantity
  unit           TYPE char3,   "Purchase Order Unit of Measure
  delivery_date  TYPE eeind,   "Delivery Date
  ekgrp          TYPE char3,   "Purchasing Group
  stge_loc       TYPE char4,   "Storage Location,
  matl_group     TYPE char9,   "Material Group
  agreement      TYPE char10,  "Agreement Number
  ag_item_num    TYPE char5,   "Agreement Item Number
  vendor_mat_no  TYPE char35,  "Vendor Material Number
  gl_account     TYPE char10,  "G/L Account Number
  costcenter     TYPE char10,  "Cost Center
  fund           TYPE char10,  "Fund
  func_area      TYPE char16,  "Functional Area
  item_txt       TYPE char70,  "Item Text
  created_by     TYPE char12,  "Created By
END OF ty_datatab.
it_record TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF ty_datatab INITIAL SIZE 0,
  CALL FUNCTION 'TEXT_CONVERT_XLS_TO_SAP'
    EXPORTING
      i_tab_raw_data       = it_raw
      i_filename           = p_pfile
    TABLES
      i_tab_converted_data = it_record
    EXCEPTIONS
      conversion_failed    = 1
      OTHERS               = 2.