General SAP ABAP Concepts Explained: FIELD-GROUPS fg Field groups are used to group similar fields together into

one name. Filed gr oups can be used in conjunction with INSERT f1 f2 INTO fg EXTRACT fg SORT BY fg LOOP ... ENDLOOP INSERT f1 f2 INTO fg The INSERT statement is used to create a field group dynamically by inserting the fields into it.Only global data fields can be inserted and not local data fields e.g. in FORM modules. EXTRACT fg This statement will combine all the fields in the fieldgroup and write them to a sequential dataset as a single record. e.g. DATA: customer(14) TYPE C, order(20) TYPE C, quantity(5) TYPE N, material(20) TYPE C. FIELD-GROUPS: order , mat . INSERT customer order INTO order. * insering two fields in the field *group order INSERT quantity material INTO mat . customer = 'niraj visnoi' order = '100001' EXTRACT order. *writing the contents of fiel d group *order to dataset material = '1004.' quantity = 500. EXTRACT mat. customer = 'rahul' order = '100002' EXTRACT order. material = '1006.' quantity = 200. EXTRACT mat. SORT BY order. * sorting of sequential dataset by field group order LOOP . AT order . WRITE: customer, order. ENDAT. AT mat. WRITE: material,quantity. ENDAT. ENDLOOP. FIELD-SYMBOL <fs> The field symbols work similarly to pointers in C. They are used in conjunction with statement

ASSIGN f TO <fs> . At runtime we can assign a field or structure to the field symbol , any changes or work can be done on the field symbol affecting directly the assigned field. The syntax of field symbol declaration is: FIELD-SYMBOL <fs>. Declares a field symbol <fs> which can be assigned any single field. FIELD-SYMBOL <fs> TYPE /LIKE type. Declares a field symbol <fs> which can be assigned any single field which is of particular type. FIELD-SYMBOL <fs> STRUCTURE s DEFAULT wa. Declares a field symbol <fs> which will point to a structure(table) and the default work area will be wa. FIELD-SYMBOL <fs> TYPE LINE OF /LIKE LINE OF type. Declares a field symbol <fs> which will have line type . e.g. FIELD-SYMBOLS <fs> TABLES kna1. * Customer master SELECT ..... ... ASSIGN kna1-kunnr TO <fs>. WRITE <fs>. ASSIGN f TO <fs> This will assign the field f to field symbol <fs>,now we can work with the fie ld symbol instead of the field. TYPE-POOLS tp Type-pools are used to declare a type pool to be used in the program.The speci fied type pool should already exists in the ABAP DICTONARY(SE11).Once the type p ool has been declared we can use any of the constants and types declared in that type pool. TYPE-POOL tp Type-pool statement is used to create a type group in the ABAP dictionary.It i s the first statement in the definition.The type group is used to declare consta nts and types and these must begin with the name of the type pool and underscore . e.g. TYPE-POOL owntypes. TYPES num TYPE P DECIMALS 2. TYPES name(14) TYPE C. To use these types in the abap program we have to use the statement TYPE-POOLS . e.g. TYPE-POOLS owntypes. DATA customer TYPE owntypes_num. DATA name TYPE owntypes_name. Here Add Your Own Code , Tips This page is under development.