Event in ABAP report determine process flow of a program. The events are triggered depended on the way the output is generated. They begin after event keyword and end when the next event reached.

Event keyword:
INITIALIZATION.
Occurs when report initialized.
We can use it to check user authorization or prepare output for selection screen.



AT SELECTION-SCREEN OUTPUT :
Occurs each time selection screen about to generated.
We can use it to modify selection screen, for example hide / unhide parameter.

AT SELECTION-SCREEN.
Occurs each user command in selection screen. we can use it to perform checking on user input.

START-OF-SELECTION
Occurs after the standard selection screen has been processed.,
data is read in this event.

END-OF-SELECTION
Occurs after start-of-selection.

TOP-OF-PAGE
Occurs when a new page starts.
Use it for write report header.

END-OF-PAGE
Occurs when a page ends.
Use it for write report footer.

AT LINE-SELECTION
Occurs when the user double-click on report.

AT USER-COMMAND
Occurs when the user push toolbar button.

This is program to demonstrate how to use event properly.

REPORT ZAALGAL0008
LINE-COUNT 10(1).

*http://abap-gallery.blogspot.com

TABLES: sflight.

DATA: BEGIN OF t_report OCCURS 3,
carrid LIKE sflight-carrid,
connid LIKE sflight-connid,
END OF t_report.

*begin selection screen
PARAMETERS p_datum LIKE sy-datum.
PARAMETERS p_check AS CHECKBOX.
*end selection screen

INITIALIZATION.
*begin initialization
MOVE sy-datum TO p_datum.
*end initialization

AT SELECTION-SCREEN.
*begin at selection-screen
MESSAGE I888(sabapdocu) WITH 'At selection-screen'.
IF p_check = 'X'.
MESSAGE E888(sabapdocu) WITH 'Clear checkbox'.
ENDIF.
*end at selection-screen

AT SELECTION-SCREEN OUTPUT.
*begin at selection-screen output
MESSAGE I888(sabapdocu) WITH 'At selection-screen output'.
*end at selection-screen output

START-OF-SELECTION.
*begin start-of-selection.
MESSAGE I888(sabapdocu) WITH 'start-of-selection'.
SELECT * FROM sflight.
MOVE sflight-carrid TO t_report-carrid.
MOVE sflight-connid TO t_report-connid.
APPEND t_report.
ENDSELECT.
*end start-of-selection.

END-OF-SELECTION.
*begin end-of-selection.
MESSAGE I888(sabapdocu) WITH 'end-of-selection'.
FORMAT COLOR col_normal.
DO 30 TIMES.
LOOP AT t_report.
WRITE / t_report-carrid.
WRITE t_report-connid.
ENDLOOP.
ENDDO.
*end end-of-selection.

TOP-OF-PAGE.
FORMAT COLOR col_heading.
WRITE 'This is header'.

END-OF-PAGE.
FORMAT COLOR col_total.
WRITE 'This is footer'.

AT LINE-SELECTION.
WRITE: / 'Cursor Row:', sy-curow.
WRITE: / 'Cursor Col:', sy-cucol.



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