In the Archive Explorer, you can save list variants. You can use list variants to specify the fields that are to be used when a particular list is displayed.
You can operate the variant functions using the standard menu entries and function buttons of the SAP List Viewer (formerly ABAP List Viewer,
ALV
).
You can create both user-specific and common list variants. You can do this where lists are implemented using the SAP List Viewer, that is, for displaying:
Data belonging to an archive information structure
Table contents for the technical view
List Variants for Archive Information Structures
In the display of information structure data (the first list in the Archive Explorer), list variants are stored per archive information structure. A list variant is only valid for the archive information structure for which it was created and cannot be used for other archive information structures.
Once an archive information structure has been changed (but has kept the same name), the accompanying list variants can still be used. However, a list variant can be invalid is invalidated by the change, for example where the field displayed in the list variant has been deleted from the archive information structure. You should therefore modify the list variants accordingly. Example:
Example
When you display the archive information structure
CO_ORDER_001
, use the list variant
MY_VARIANT
to specify that the fields
AUFNR
(Order Number) and
KTEXT
(Short Text) are to be displayed. You cannot use these variants for the archive information structure
CO_ORDER_002
, even if both archive information structures have identical structures.
If the archive information structure
CO_ORDER_001
is changed so that the fields
AUFK
and
KTEXT
no longer appear, then the list variant
MY_VARIANT
can still be used, but this would be pointless as no fields will be displayed. You can therefore modify these variants using the relevant function of the ALV to fit the changed archive information structure.
For the archive information structure
CO_ORDER_002
you can also create a list variant called
MY_VARIANT
; however this is not identical to the list variant of the same name for
CO_ORDER_001
.
List Variants for Tables
The technical view for single document display is used to display the table contents for the selected data objects. You can save list variants per table here, which are independent of the archive information structure used. A list variant created for a specific table is only valid for this table and cannot be used for other tables. However, a list variant for a specific table is always independent of the archive information structure used. This is also valid where the archive information structure belongs to different archiving objects. It therefore does not matter which archiving object was used to archive the table entries. Example:
Example
You are using the archiving objects
SD_VBAK
and
PP_ORDER
and the accompanying archive information structures
SD_VBAK_001
or
PP_ORDER_001
. Both archiving objects contain the table
COEP
. To display the table
COEP
, save the list variant
MY_VARIANT
in the Archive Explorer. In contrast to the above list variants, this variant is only assigned to the
COEP
table.
You can then use
MY_VARIANT
to display the
COEP
table, and it does not matter whether you enter the Archive Explorer via the archive information structure
SD_VBAK_001
or
PP_ORDER_001
.
Activities
In the Archive Explorer list display, you can access the list variant functions. Choose
.For more information on the use of list variants, see the documentation on the SAP List Viewer.