Collecting the Application Data 

Background

To ensure a good level of performance when you print forms, you must separate the selection of the data from the processing of the form.

The following questions need to be answered about the collection of the data:

·        What application data do you want to appear on the form?

·        Which database tables need to be accessed to get this data?

Process Flow

You write an ABAP program that collects the data or you include an appropriate routine in your application. These routines usually consist of statements that select data from the database. You save the data in internal tables, structures, or variables, which you then bundle and send to the form.

Customers who want to change the way the data is collected, and do not want to modify the application program, can extract data when the interface is initialized, and then use this data in the form under Global Data.

Result

The data is saved to internal tables in the application program. Now that you know all the types of tables that are used, you can define a form interface to send this data to a form.