Here’s a useful little tip that I just had to overcome. In my Renovation application, I have an ALV grid of results, and some of the columns are my own custom columns. Instead of taking the data dictionary description, I wanted to be set it to my own description. I had solved this issue for non-ALV tables, but it seems that ALV had me outsmarted for a while. I finally decided to solve this little headache and thought I’d show you what I found. First off, thanks to Thomas, the web dynpro guru and all his posts.
http://scn.sap.com/thread/1385428
This thread gave me exactly what I was looking for. It turns out that you can’t just change the text, you first need to turn off the data dictionary binding. It’s pretty easy to do… For me, I just needed to add one additional method call:
l_header->set_prop_ddic_binding_field( property = if_salv_wd_c_ddic_binding=>bind_prop_text value = if_salv_wd_c_ddic_binding=>ddic_bind_none ). but if you're starting from scratch, check the link above to see full sample code. Thanks for reading,
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