EACH SCREEN HAS THE FOLLOWING COMPONENTS: Properties (Attributes)

Screen name as a 4-digit number

Default next screen Screen type (eg: Normal for a FULL SCREEN) Layout You can place the SCREEN ELEMENTS (I/O fields, texts, pushbuttons etc) on the screen Element List Lists all screen elements including their detailed attributes such as position, size, data type etc Flow Logic you define the screen programming logic here Has 2 main parts PAI, PBO

PBO contains references to processing blocks that are processed in preparation for screen display. These processing blocks are called PBO MODULES
Ex: data selection PAI contains references to processing blocks that are processed after the user input and actions. These processing blocks are called as PAI MODULES Ex: Save/Process user input data

The TABLES statement is used to define a structure variable which is used to transport data between the screen and the program It is common to create a dictionary structure explicitly for the data exchange

When the screen is called from the program, the PBO Module is invoked and processed

The field contents of the TABLES structure are copied to the screen fields (with same names) before sending the screen to the presentation server
NOTE- the data for the screen display in the TABLES structure is often prepared in the PBO and hence the data is populated on the screen after the processing of PBOModule

The contents of the screen fields are transported into the TABLES structure before the PAI event is processed The user entries are supposed to be processed in the PAI Modules and hence the fields are transported BEFORE the processing of the PAI module

OK_CODE is a special screen field (of OK type) which holds the function code assigned to the screen element/ button When the user presses a button, the run-time system copies the function code to the OK_CODE screen field If there is data object of the same name (OK_CODE) in the program, the contents of this special screen field are automatically transported to this data object The PAI processing is triggered after this transport The OK_CODE is processed in the corresponding PAI Module in a CASE statement (typically)

1. The special screen field is called COMMAND FIELD 2. The command field is always available on the screen by DEFAULT

3. Assign a name to the command field (usually OK_CODE) to start using it

4. OK_CODE is case sensitive (careful when using it in the CASE statement in the program)

Usually the main processing module in PAI is called USER_COMMAND_nnnn (nnnn-screen number) Variables defined inside a module are always GLOBAL You can access all the global data objects of a program inside a module

NOTE: In the ABAP Program, Modules starting with MODULE.OUTPUT are PBO Modules

MODULE.INPUT are PAI Modules