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SAP Report Interview Question - 46 : -

What are Text Elements?

SAP Report Interview Answer - 46 : -

Text elements makes program easier to maintain program texts in different languages.
These are used for maintainig list headers,selectiontexts in programs

SAP Report Interview Question - 47 : -

Explain Check Table and Value Table ?

SAP Report Interview Answer - 47 : -

check tabke works at table level and value table works at domain level.
check table is nothing but master table that u will create with valid set of values.
value table it provides the list of values and it will automatically proposed as a check table while creating foreing key relationship

SAP Report Interview Question - 48 : -

How to assign multiple transaction codes in a session method to BDC_Insert function module?

SAP Report Interview Answer - 48 : -

Call function ' BDC_Insert'
exporting
tr. code = ' enter tr.code1 here'
table = 'give an internal table related totr.code1 here'
call function 'BDC_INSERT'
exporting
tr.code = ' enter 2nd tr code'
tables = ' 2nd internal table'

“Check” and “Continue”. What is the difference?
Check statement, checks the condition with in a loop and if it satisfies the condition, the control moves to next statement in the loop. Otherwise, it terminates the loop.

Continue statement, acts like goto statement. If the condition is true, it processes the remaining statements and if the condition is false, then the control moves to the top of loop.
At-Line selection, At user-command etc..,

In at line-selection system defined fcode will be generated In at user-command we need to define the fcode and fkey manually then only it will triggers.

“Exit” and “Stop”. What is the difference?
exit statments is exit the current loop. and moving to next loop but stop statement move to end of selection. it's not check all other loops.

SAP Report Interview Question - 49 : -

What is CAT?

SAP Report Interview Answer - 49 : -

"CAT" Computer Aided Test Tool. Used to create test cases for application testing purposes.

SAP Report Interview Question - 50 : -

What is meant by BDC. How many methods of BDC are there?

SAP Report Interview Answer - 50 : -

BDC -> BATCH DATA COMMUNICATION.
METHODS OF BDC-> Direct Input method, Batch Input Session method, Call transaction method.

SAP Report Interview Question - 51 : -

What is the difference between start_form and open_form in scripts? Why is it necessary to close a form always once it is opened?

SAP Report Interview Answer - 51 : -

strat_form using this we can open many layoutses
open_form using this we can open the layout
performance will be high

Open_form -- is used to initialize the spool request.
Start_form-- is used to initialize the layout.

SAP Report Interview Question - 52 : -

What are the difference between table controls and step loops in dialog programming?

SAP Report Interview Answer - 52 : -

1. Function modules use a special screen to define the parameters where as subroutines use the same ABAP/4 editor to define its parameters.
2. Tables work area can be commonly shared by calling program and subroutine where as function modules do not share commonly.
3. Calling a function module syntax (Call function.) is different from calling a subroutine syntax (perform….).
4. With raise statement user can exit from a function module where as exit is used in subroutines.

SAP Report Interview Question - 53 : -

How to navigate basic list to secondary list?

SAP Report Interview Answer - 53 : -

We can Navigate from basic list to secondary list with the help the event called AT LINE-SELECTION. for every Secondary List the System Field SY-LSIND increases by 1. So there will be Totally 21 list possible in SAP.

One Basic List 20 Secondary List.

SAP Report Interview Question - 54 : -

How many types of Standard Internal Tables?

SAP Report Interview Answer - 54 : -

- STANDARD TABLE:
The key is, by default, set to NON-UNIQUE. You may not use
the UNIQUE addition.

- SORTED TABLE:
Unlike stadard tables, sorted table have no default setting
for the uniqueness attribute. If you do not specify either
UNIQUE or NON-UNIQUE, the system defines a generic table
type, where uniqueness is irrelevant. You can use generic
types to specify the type of generic subroutine parameters.

- HASHED TABLE:
Hashed tables have no default setting. You must use the
UNIQUE addition with hashed tables. You may not use
NON-UNIQUE.

SAP Report Interview Question - 55 : -

What is the Difference Between Collect and Sum?

SAP Report Interview Answer - 55 : -

COLLECT allows you to create unique or summarized datasets. The system first tries to find a table entry corresponding to the table key. The key values are taken either from the header line of the internal table itab, or from the explicitly-specified work area.
If the system finds an entry, the numeric fields that are not part of the table key (see ABAP number types) are added to the sum total of the existing entries. If it does not find an entry, the system creates a new entry instead.
The way in which the system finds the entries depends on the type of the internal table:

- STANDARD TABLE:
The system creates a temporary hash administration for the table to find the entries. This means that the runtime required to find them does not depend on the number of table entries. The administration is temporary, since it is invalidated by operations like DELETE, INSERT, MODIFY, SORT, ...). A subsequent COLLECT is then no longer independent of the table size, because the system has to use a linear search to find entries. For this reason, you should only use COLLECT to fill standard tables.

- SORTED TABLE:
The system uses a binary search to find the entries. There is a logarithmic relationship between the number of table entries and the search time.