Personalizing the List

Use

You use layouts to tailor the outputted list to your individual requirements. Layouts describe the list formatting options of a list. The components of a layout - and thus connected to them - include:

  • Settings on the list, such as column selection, column seuqnce and column width

  • Filter settings

  • Sort settings

  • Totals, averages, maximum / minimum

  • Subtotals

  • Display options

  • Graphic

  • Templates for the views

    See also Change Layout and Save Layout.

Features

The layouts that you can use vary according to the type of ALV list:

  • In all ALV lists, you can:

  • In ALV lists that use only the standard layouts, you cannot save your changes to the current layout. When you choose the layouts, only the standard layouts delivered by SAP will be proposed.

  • In some ALV lists, you can also save the layout you defined as your own layout.

  • In some ALV lists, you can also save the layout you defined as a user-specific layout. You are the only user that can use this layout.