SAP Reports Interview Questions And Answers

What are the SET Parameter and GET Parameter?

To use parameter IDs, you need to “set” (store) values in the global memory area and then “get” (retrieve) values from this parameter ID memory area. In the case of an online program, you will “set” values from screen fields and you will “get” these values for screen fields. You can perform this “set/get” function two ways: § Use the ABAP statements “SET PARAMETER ID” and “GET PARAMETER ID”. Use the field attributes “SPA” and “GPA” . Remember that parameter IDs can only be used with ABAP Dictionary fields because parameter IDs are linked to data elements. The appropriate data elements must have a parameter IDs for this “set/get” function to work.

What are Text Elements?

Text elements makes program easier to maintain program texts in different languages.

These are used for maintainig list headers,selectiontexts in programs

What is an Interactive Report?
An Interactive report allows the user to participate in retrieving and present data at each level.while classical report doesn't have access to interact

What are Layout set Elements?

layout set elements are

1.header 2.peragraph formats 3. character formats 4. windows 5. pages 6.page windows

Distinguish between setscreen and call screen?

In the case of setscreen the entire processing of the current screen takes place and then the system branches out to next screen.if u want to branch out to the next screen without processing the current screen then LEAVE SCREEN should be used along with SET SCREEN.

CALL SCREEN is usually used for pop up screens.

What is ABAP Memory and SAP Memory?

Answer1;

SAP memory is a memory area to which all main sessions within a SAPgui have access. You can use SAP memory either to pass data from one program to another within a session, or to pass data from one session to another. Application programs that use SAP memory must do so using SPA/GPA parameters .

ABAP memory is a memory area that all ABAP programs within the same internal session can access using the EXPORT and IMPORT statements. Data within this area remains intact during a whole sequence of program calls. To pass data to a program which you are calling, the data needs to be placed in ABAP memory before the call is made. The internal session of the called program then replaces that of the calling program. The program called can then read from the ABAP memory.

Answer2;

1. SAP memory is for cross-transaction Applications and ABAP/4 memory is transaction-specific.

2. The SAP memory, otherwise known as the global memory, is available to a user during the entire duration of a terminal session. Its contents are retained across transaction boundaries as well as external and internal sessions. The contents of the ABAP/4 memory are retained only during the lifetime of an external session. You can retain or pass data across internal sessions.

3. The SET PARAMETER and GET PARAMETER statements allow you to write to, or read from, the SAP memory. The EXPORT TO MEMORY and IMPORT FROM MEMORY statements allow you to write data to, or read data from, the ABAP memory.

Explain Check Table and Value Table ?

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

How many types of Standard Internal Tables?

- 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.

What is Refresh in Internal Table?

'Refresh' is the keyworld which clears the contents of an internal table body.

What is the Difference Between Collect and Sum?

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.

What are the ways of creating Tables?

There are two ways to create table

1) top-down approach

2) bottom-up approach

What are Function Modules?

Answer1:
Function modules is a extranal subroutine.we can call it to outside the program.its a mini program. its used for redues the coding,easy to find error.

Answer2:

Function modules is like a small program (is not a suboutine because sub-routines are not standalone objects-i.e we cannot execute them alone) which are similar to 'functions' in C.

We can pass the varible and get the return values even with out knowing what is happening in its code.

They are standalone programs-i.e.we can debug and execute them alone unlike subroutines and macros and includes.

What is CAT?

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