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Objectives
The participants will be able to:
Create a subscreen.
Create a subscreen area.
Call a subscreen onto a subscreen area.
Recognize a subscreens restrictions.

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Subscreens

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Customer

Subscreens are displayed on another

screen

Address Information
Bank Information
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Customer
Name

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Address Information
(Subscreen 9020)

Subscreen Area
(on Main Screen 9010)
Bank Information
(Subscreen 9030)

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Main Screen

Main Screen

Screen Painter

Subscreen
Area #1

Subscreen

Subscreen

Area #2

Area #3

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Layout (subscreen areas)

Flow Logic

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Subscreen Area in Main Screen

This subscreen area
must be given a name
up to 10 characters
long (e.g. SUB1)

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CALL SUBSCREEN in PBO

PROCESS BEFORE OUTPUT.

for main screen 9010

* CALL SUBSCREEN <area> INCLUDING <program> <subscreen #>.

CALL SUBSCREEN SUB1 INCLUDING SAPMZSUB SCREEN_NUM.
This SCREEN_NUM variable
Customer
Name

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Tools International

contains the number of the

subscreen to display in the specified
subscreen area.

Bank Information
Subscreen Area

(Subscreen)

SUB1
Address Information
(Subscreen)

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CALL SUBSCREEN in PAI

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Customer
Name

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To invoke the PAI event of the
actual subscreen, the
CALL SUBSCREEN statement
Address Information
(Subscreen 9020)

PROCESS AFTER INPUT.

must be used in
the PAI event of the main screen.

for main screen 9010

* CALL SUBSCREEN <area>.

CALL SUBSCREEN SUB1.

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Creating a Subscreen

Address Information

Bank Information

(Subscreen 9020)

(Subscreen 9030)
Screen
Screen Painter
Painter

Screen Attributes
Screen Type = Subscreen

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Subscreen Restrictions

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Demonstration
Creating an online program to display customer information on the main screen.
Creating two sub-screens : one for displaying address information and the other
for displaying bank information .
Showing that the appropriate sub-screen is displayed on clicking the appropriate
radio-button on the main screen.

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Practice
Creating an online program to display customer information on the main screen.
Creating two sub-screens : one for displaying address information and the other
for displaying bank information .
Showing that the appropriate sub-screen is displayed on clicking the appropriate
radio-button on the main screen.

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Summary
A subscreen is a screen that is displayed in a specified area of another screen
(the main screen). A subscreen cannot be displayed by itself.
To include a subscreen in a predefined area on the main screen, use the CALL
SUBSCREEN statement in the main screens PBO event.
If the subscreen contains any PAI code, use the CALL SUBSCREEN statement
in the PAI event of the main screen.
A subscreen is created just like any other screen of an online program. The only
difference is the screen type specified in the Screen Attributes section of the
Screen Painter. The screen type for a subscreen is appropriately called
Subscreen.
The following ABAP/4 statements cannot be used in a subscreens PBO or PAI
modules (instead, they must be used in the main screen): SET PF-STATUS,
SET TITLEBAR, SET SCREEN, LEAVE TO SCREEN,CALL SCREEN.

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Questions
What is a sub-screen in the context of online programming ?
Can the CALL SUBSCREEN statement be used in the PBO event ?

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