Mastering SAP ABAP

Selection screens

A selection screen is a specific type of screen used to create selections, such as parameters, and to select queries or ranges. To create a selection screen, we can use the parameters or the selection option.

If we use PARAMETERS, we can create a single input field to put values in, in contrast to the select-option, where we get two input fields; the first is a lower value and the second is a high value of a range. Parameters and the select-option inherit values from search-help if it was created for using data elements.

To create parameters, we can use the following statement:

PARAMETERS: p_car TYPE s_carr_id.

To create select-option, we can use the following statement:

SELECT-OPTIONS s_con FOR lv_connid.

Lv_connid in the ...