I recently had to go through and add a button to refresh ALV grid in a custom transaction. I initially expected this to be easy. And looking back, it actually is pretty easy, if you kept your program modular. However, I had to handle things differently than I expected.
I thought I would need to do something with the refresh button that comes with the standard ALV grid. However, after a some extensive google digging, I couldn’t find anything that told me how I could do that. Everyone else took care of the issue by creating their own button. Here’s the basic steps to do it yourself.
You will need to setup the following 2 handlers. I created a local class to house these methods. You can take care of it anyway you prefer.
DATA: l_event_receiver_grid TYPE REF TO lcl_event_receiver.
(where lcl_event_receiver is the local class)
SET HANDLER l_event_receiver_grid->on_toolbar_add_button
FOR grid.
SET HANDLER l_event_receiver_grid->on_user_command
FOR grid.
For the add_button:
DATA: ls_toolbar TYPE stb_button.
MOVE ‘ZRFO’ TO ls_toolbar-function.
MOVE ICON_REFRESH TO ls_toolbar-icon.
MOVE ‘Refresh’ to ls_toolbar-quickinfo.
MOVE ‘ ‘ TO ls_toolbar-disabled.
APPEND ls_toolbar TO e_object->mt_toolbar.
this adds a button that looks exactly like the standard refresh button. You can feel free to play around with the look and feel, but this will get your started.
In the on_user_command, you will need to look at sy-ucomm, and find when it matches ZRFO (in this example).
refresh grid table.
rebuild the grid table
then call the display method. For me, I uised the set_table_for_first_display method. So updating the grid table and calling this is enough to perform the refresh.
This will give you a great start if you want to add a refresh button your custom transaction.
I hope you find this helpful.
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