Graphics 

This function allows you to display the information from your list using SAP Business Graphics.

In contrast to the other functions described in this section, the Graphics function can only handle an extract from one column of your sub-list and the column must contain numeric values.

You can choose which values you want to display by placing the cursor on them when activating the function. Position the cursor on the column of the partial list whose values you want to display in graphic format. You should note here that SAP Business Graphics can handle only a limited number of values (between 6 and 32). Since the cursor position determines the first value to be processed, place the cursor directly on that value. The function then processes the value together with all the subsequent values in the same column. You can define the type of graphic in the query definition, but you can only modify the display type on the graphics screen.

If you do not position the cursor as described above when activating the function, the system itself determines a start value somewhere near the cursor position. For this reason, you should always place the cursor so that you make clear which values you want to display in graphic format.

The type of graphic can be specified in the query definition (see Graphics). The display style can be changed in the graphics screen. In the query definition it is possible to specify that the number of values to be displayed should be decided at runtime.

If this kind of graphic call has been defined for a partial list of a query, then when the Graphic function is called at runtime a window appears in which the number of values to be displayed can be entered (type of graphic, text and color display, or the number of values to be displayed). Those options chosen on the graphics screen while the query was being defined are used as defaults.

If you want display QuickView data graphically, you enter the appropriate graphical specifications at runtime.

In addition, you can also graphically display any remainder. This remainder is the sum of all values from the selected column that were not chosen for graphic display. Since only 32 values can be displayed, you may only select up to 31 individual values if you want to display your remainder as well.

If you call the Graphics function from the display with the table control, the handling is different from that in the list display. To pass a sequence of values for display in graphic format, you must first select the column from which the numeric values for graphical display are to be taken. You then select all the lines from which the values for graphical display are to be taken. Remember that you can only select up to 32 lines.