How t o appl y Cel l var i ant f or

c ol umns of ALV i n Web Dynpr o f or

ABAP
Applies to:
SAP NetWeaver 2004S.Web Dynpro for ABAP
Summary
Cell variant is used to change the cell properties dynamically.
In the Table UI element we have a provision that we can add the cell variant directly to the column, where
as in ALV it is not possible. So we will create cell variant and will assign this to the column.
Author: Suman Kumar Chinnam
Company: YASH Technologies
Created on: 17 September 2008
Author Bio
Suman Kumar is a Consultant for YASH Technologies, Pvt., and Ltd. Based in India. He has 2 years of IT
experience. He has good knowledge of ABAP, BSP and Web Dynpro for ABAP.
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Table of Contents
How to add cell variant to the column in ALV.....................................................................................................3
Result..................................................................................................................................................................6
Related Content..................................................................................................................................................6
Disclaimer and Liability Notice............................................................................................................................7
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How to add cell variant to the column in ALV
In this Application I am trying to show the Flights details using ALV.I Will make some cells are Checkbox and
some are Text Views of one of the column using Cell variant. To do this we have to add one attribute like
CELL_VARIANT of type STRING to the Context node.

Now populate the data to the internal table.

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Populate the Cell_Variant attribute of context node FLIGHTS to make some cells Text Views and some are
Checkboxes.
Here I am assigning TextViews in alternative cells.

Bind the table to the Context node.

Initialize the ALV and call the method GET_MODEL to get the reference of table.

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To make alternative cells with Checkboxes and Text Views. We have to follow the following steps.
Get Column to which one you want to add Cell Variant and make alternative cells Checkboxes and Text
views.
Get the column Flight Number and add Checkbox to the column. Now the entire column contains the
checkboxes.

Now create a Textview and assign this to Cell variant and set the key value TEXT_VIEW. We then tell the
column where it can get its cell variant value from.

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Result
In the below output see the column Flight no column cells is alternatively checkboxes and Textviews.

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