ABAP_to_the_Future

Enhancing Custom Reports with ABAP2XLSX 11.2
Retrieving the Template from a Custom Report
Now, you’ll modify the monster example report so that instead of creating a new
workbook you will instead start by retr ieving your example template from the
database. Put a checkbox on the front screen to let the user decide if he wants to
use the template with macros. Listing 11.2 8 performs a database read to get the
template in XSTRING format and then converts it into an Excel object. Then, create
a worksheet object; the Excel and worksheet objects, taken together, will make all
the difference when you call the CONVERTER.
*---------------------------------------------------------------*
* Retrieve template from the database
*---------------------------------------------------------------*
DATA: ls_template TYPE ztexcel_template,
lo_excel_reader TYPE REF TO zif_excel_reader,
lo_worksheet TYPE REF TO zcl_excel_worksheet.
IF p_macro = abap_true.
CREATE OBJECT lo_excel_reader TYPE zcl_excel_reader_xlsm.
SELECT SINGLE *
FROM ztexcel_template
INTO CORRESPONDING FIELDS OF ls_template
WHERE template_name = 'MONSTER_EXAMPLE'.
lo_excel = lo_excel_reader->load( ls_template-raw_data ).
lo_worksheet = lo_excel->get_active_worksheet( ).
ENDIF. "Do we want to use a macro?
Listing 11.28 Uploading an Excel Template
Now you have an Excel object and a wo rksheet object; they’re empty, but they
have macros hiding within them. Listing 11.29 fills up the blank worksheets with
report data by using the CONVERTER mentioned in Section 11.2.1.
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
io_worksheet = lo_worksheet
CHANGING
co_excel = lo_excel ).
Listing 11.29 Filling the Macro-Enabled Worksheet with Data
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