{"id":7345,"date":"2025-08-03T12:29:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T06:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sapewmhelp.com\/?question=types-of-reports-in-sap-abap"},"modified":"2025-08-03T12:29:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T06:59:20","slug":"types-of-reports-in-sap-abap","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/www.sapewmhelp.com\/?question=types-of-reports-in-sap-abap","title":{"rendered":"Types of Reports in SAP ABAP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reports are a major part of application development used to display data to users. There are three main types of reports:<\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"186\" data-end=\"215\"><strong>Classical Reports<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Simplest and most basic report type.<\/li>\n<li>Output is in line-by-line format using <code>WRITE<\/code> statements.<\/li>\n<li>Limited formatting, but supports interactive features like <code>AT LINE-SELECTION<\/code>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Used for:<\/strong> Simple lists, master data overviews, basic reporting.<\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"625\" data-end=\"656\"><strong>Interactive Reports<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Extension of classical reports.<\/li>\n<li>Allows drill-down capability: click on a row to see detailed data (secondary list).<\/li>\n<li>Can have up to 20 secondary lists.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Used for:<\/strong> Master-detail views, like viewing sales orders from a list of customers.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<em>Key event:<\/em> <code>AT LINE-SELECTION<\/code><\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"1080\" data-end=\"1122\"><strong>ALV Reports (ABAP List Viewer)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Provides a powerful, flexible, and interactive table display.<\/li>\n<li>Includes sorting, filtering, exporting, column formatting, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Can be simple ALV, ALV Grid, or ALV with OO (Object-Oriented) approach.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Used for:<\/strong> Complex and user-friendly reporting.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main function modules\/classes:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><code>REUSE_ALV_GRID_DISPLAY<\/code><\/li>\n<li><code>CL_GUI_ALV_GRID<\/code><\/li>\n<li><code>CL_SALV_TABLE<\/code> (for OO ALV)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","question-category":[158],"question_tags":[178,270,271,272,213,177,269],"class_list":["post-7345","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-abap","question_tags-abap","question_tags-alv","question_tags-classical","question_tags-interactive","question_tags-reports","question_tags-sap","question_tags-types-of-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sapewmhelp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/question\/7345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sapewmhelp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sapewmhelp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sapewmhelp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sapewmhelp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sapewmhelp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sapewmhelp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fquestion-category&post=7345"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sapewmhelp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fquestion_tags&post=7345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}