{"id":1334,"date":"2021-01-31T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.preiss-sap-consulting.de\/download-und-upload-von-alv-layouts\/"},"modified":"2021-01-31T09:52:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T08:52:19","slug":"download-und-upload-von-alv-layouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.preiss-sap-consulting.de\/en\/download-und-upload-von-alv-layouts\/","title":{"rendered":"Download and Upload ALV Layouts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Download and Upload ALV Layouts<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Target Group<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SAP Professionals, SAP Key User<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Free report for downloading and uploading ALV Layouts. The report is available on github<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Motivation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The SAP standard allows to transport user independent ALV layouts and to copy ALV layouts to another client in the same system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However it sometimes happens that you can’t transport to the system where the ALV layouts are needed. I haven’t found a solution for this with SAP standard transactions or via business configuration sets. Internet searches returned some coding fragments which only helped to a small degree. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I developed a report and provide it free of cost with the so-called MIT Licence<\/a> via Github<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report is implemented in an old-fashioned way without using any newer ABAP elements in order to support all usual releases of SAP ERP and S\/4HANA. I tested it in ERP 6.0 releases with SAP APPL 6.05 and 6.17 and in S\/4HANA 2020 with S4CORE 105. Original language is English, with German translation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Use Cases<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Copy user dependent or independent ALV layouts from one SAP system to another. The systems can have different releases.<\/li>
  2. Backup and restore ALV layouts.<\/li>
  3. Copy ALV layouts from one report to another, e.g. after copying or renaming a customer development. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Documentation<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Report ZST12_ALV_LAYOUT_UP_DOWNLOAD asks for a report name, a local path name and the choice between download or upload. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Download – Export to local file<\/strong>s<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    All layouts for the report are proposed for download. User dependent layouts are included. You see all existing ALV layouts even if the report uses multiple ALVs with different HANDLE keys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Field catalog, layout setting, language dependent short texts, sort and filter criteria (if existing) are exported in separate files. The file names are generated automatically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    (1) Selection screen – Download<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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    (2) Popup to select layouts for download<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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    (3) Download Protocol <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

    Upload – Import from local files<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The downloaded layouts in the specified folder are proposed for upload to the target report. Source report, source system, layout ID, layout description and download date are automatically determined from file name and content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    (4) Selection Screen – Upload<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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    (5) Popup to select layouts from the local folder for upload<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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    (6) Option to put uploaded layouts in a transport<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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    (7) Upload protocol<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

    Restrictions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n