ALV stands for ABAP List Viewer. ALV gives us a standard List format and user interface to all our ABAP reports. ALV is created by a set of standard function modules provided by SAP.
ALV provides a lot of inbuilt functions to our reports and some of the functions  are listed below.
  • Sorting of records
  • Filtering of records
  • Totals and Sub-totals
  • Download the report output to Excel/HTML
  • Changing the order of the columns in the report
  • Hide the unwanted columns  from the report
Because of the above functions, ALV substantially decreases the report development time. ALV takes care of rendering the list and we can concentrate only on the data retrieval part.
Some of the function modules used to create ALV reports are listed below.
 
 
Function Module Description
REUSE_ALV_LIST_DISPLAY Display an ALV list
REUSE_ALV_GRID_DISPLAY Display an ALV grid
REUSE_ALV_COMMENTARY_WRITE Output List header information
REUSE_ALV_VARIANT_F4 Display variant selection dialog box
REUSE_ALV_VARIANT_EXISTENCE Checks whether a variant exists
REUSE_ALV_FIELDCATALOG_MERGE Create field catalog from dictionary structure or internal table
Simple ALV report.
DATA: it_spfli TYPE TABLE OF spfli.

SELECT * FROM spfli INTO TABLE it_spfli.

CALL FUNCTION 'REUSE_ALV_GRID_DISPLAY'
  EXPORTING
    i_structure_name = 'SPFLI'
  TABLES
    t_outtab         = it_spfli.
 
 
 
 
Serkan AKKAVAK
Computer Engineer
ABAP Developer & SAP S/4 HANA Logistics Consultant
Contact : serkurumsal@yandex.com