Mastering SAP ABAP

Writing files to the local PC using gui_download

Now let's imagine the situation that the client needs a report which will generate a result in the form of a text file saved on the user's local computer. This chapter will expand your skills with this knowledge. It's very similar to the previous example; the only difference is that we write the file to the PC and not read from the PC. To save files and choose a suitable file path, we will be using new methods from the previously used class, cl_gui_frontend_services. 

First, create new report, ZMSA_R_CHAPTER4_2, and include a report template from Appendix A, Assessments. We need to declare variables. We need three of them to make the method file_save_dialog work. lv_filename is the name of ...