ABAP_to_the_Future

Enhancing Custom Reports with ABAP2XLSX 11.2
spreadsheet. Perhaps you want the same datato be displayed in different ways on
different sheets: a detail view, a summar y view, and a list of records requiring
attention, for example. This requires a lot of manual work, usually the exact same
work each month or week oreven day. Often, people get friendly Excel experts to
write macros to help them do this. Next, you will get to go one stage further and
have ABAP2XLSX do this work inside of SAP.
In this example, you will download a spreadsheet with two worksheets, both containing
the same report. (In real life, of course, you could have as many different
reports as you wanted.) Listing 11.22 sh ows the code to create a second worksheet
and fill it with data from a report. In Listing 11.22, you start from the position
of already having one worksheet that is full of data. You then give that original
worksheet a name so that you can te ll it apart from any others you create.
Then, create a second worksheet, and call the CONVERTER again to fill the new
worksheet with an SAP report, this time passing in the exact worksheet you want
to populate. (You didn’t need to perform that last step of passing in the worksheet
object back when there was only one worksheet.)
lo_worksheet->set_title( 'First Worksheet' ).
lo_worksheet = lo_excel->add_new_worksheet( ).
lo_worksheet->set_title( 'Second Worksheet' ).
lo_converter->convert(
EXPORTING
io_alv = go_view->mo_alv_grid
it_table = gt_monsters[]
i_table = abap_true
i_style_table = zcl_excel_table=>builtinstyle_medium2
"Specify newly created worksheet
io_worksheet = lo_worksheet
CHANGING
co_excel = lo_excel ).
Listing 11.22 Creating a Second Worksheet
Note
In fact, you do not need a report object at all; you can pass an internal table in via the
BIND_TABLE method of the worksheet object, and then you do not need a CONVERTER at
all. The worksheet object also has a BIND_ALV method that wraps the CONVERTER. However,
this chapter explains the long way of doing things so that you can see what’s really
happening.
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