Problems with formatting on ALV component

[Former Member]

Hello Experts

I have come across rather annoying issue with displaying initial amounts on ALV component of Web Dynpro for Abap. Basically instead of getting 0.00 I am getting blank fields. I tried several combinations (null value, retain zeros, default value etc) of context attribute settings but with no luck so far. Data type I am using for mentioned attributes is BETRH_KK. I have also tried populating fields with initial value with zero but that did not work either.

Does anyone have some idea how to solve it?

Regards

Michael

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello Michael,

If everything fails You can always change the data type to char / string type and populate it with 0.00 values.

Thanks,

Abhishek

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Abhishek

Thanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately I am using aggregation rule on that column (total) so I dont think its a good idea to use character/string format for that field.

Regards

Michael

[thomas_jung · Accepted solution]

Take a look at the formatting options in the context attribute. For some data types you can use the display leading zeros formatting option:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70ehp1/helpdata/en/3a/2232666aeb45f4b759848a4caf9c8b/frameset.htm

It could also be a field conversion exit on this data type. You might have create your own domain (of the same elemental data type) and use a custom field conversion exit to get the formatting exactly the way you want it.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thomas

Thanks for your suggestions.

I have tried several things:

1. I have added following code in the WDDOINIT method of the View

DATA: nd_assessments TYPE REF TO IF_WD_CONTEXT_NODE,

nd_assessments_info TYPE REF TO IF_WD_CONTEXT_NODE_INFO,

ls_format_props TYPE WDY_ATTRIBUTE_FORMAT_PROP.

nd_assessments = wd_context->get_child_node( name = wd_this->wdctx_assessments ).

nd_assessments_info = nd_assessments->get_node_info( ).

ls_format_props-null_as_blank = ' '.

ls_format_props-condense = ' '.

nd_assessments_info->set_attribute_format_props( NAME = 'TAXBAMNT' FORMAT_PROPERTIES = ls_format_props ).

2. I have tried to manipulate displayed amounts by adding code in method WDDOMODIFYVIEW of the View. Code works perfectly fine as long as I am not trying to display zero amounts

3. I have also tried to use conversion exits for my amount data type. However I did not get far with that (tried several types with no luck). Please note that when printing zero amount in standard ABAP screen (using WRITE command) I do get expected result (0.00).

Please do share any additional advice you might have.

Regards

Michael

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thomas

Further fiddling with data types helped (without having to use conversion exits).

Thanks for sharing your ideas.

Regards

Michael