Date format from 2020.11.20 to 11/2020 - abap

I'm trying to change the date format from 2020.11.20 to 11/2020
My objective is to remove the day and leave just month/year.
If I change the type of the field EDATU from vbep-EDATU to string it doesn't work.
Any tips on how to achieve my goal?
DATA: GR_COLUMNS TYPE REF TO CL_SALV_COLUMNS_TABLE,
GR_TABLE TYPE REF TO CL_SALV_TABLE.
TYPES: BEGIN OF IT_STR,
EDATU TYPE VBEP-EDATU,
vbeln type vbep-vbeln,
END OF IT_STR.
DATA: IT_FINAL TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF IT_STR.
FIELD-SYMBOLS: <F_DAT> TYPE IT_STR.
SELECT EDATU vbeln FROM VBEP INTO TABLE IT_FINAL up to 10 rows.
LOOP AT IT_FINAL ASSIGNING <F_DAT>.
<F_DAT>-EDATU = <F_DAT>-EDATU+4(2) && '/' && <F_DAT>-EDATU(4).
ENDLOOP.
TRY.
CALL METHOD CL_SALV_TABLE=>FACTORY
EXPORTING
LIST_DISPLAY = IF_SALV_C_BOOL_SAP=>FALSE
IMPORTING
R_SALV_TABLE = GR_TABLE
CHANGING
T_TABLE = IT_FINAL.
CATCH CX_SALV_MSG .
ENDTRY.
GR_COLUMNS = GR_TABLE->GET_COLUMNS( ).
CALL METHOD GR_TABLE->DISPLAY.

Even though a type D is really just a char based data type of length 8 it has some special behavior when outputting it. If you check in the debugger you will see the data in IT_FINAL is what you want, it's just that the ALV processes this data as a date regardless of the value in it.
So, for example date 20221019 got changed in IT_FINAL-EDATU to '10/2022'. Now, when you display it in the ALV it gets interpreted as a date and gets displayed depending on your user settings, assuming yours are yyyy.mm.dd the output would be: '10/2.02.2'.
You can get around this in two ways:
Add a new field to your table with a char-like type to hold the month value as suggested by Skin, and suppress the display of the EDATU field in the ALV
gr_columns->get_column( columnname = 'EDATU' )->set_technical( abap_true ).
Change the behavior of the EDATU column in the ALV by changing the edit mask with:
gr_columns->get_column( columnname = 'EDATU' )->set_edit_mask('_______').
Option 1 is clearly the better way to avoid unintended mishaps in the future.

I created a new colum type C and changed the loop to
LOOP AT IT_FINAL ASSIGNING <F_DAT>.
data(month) = <F_DAT>-EDATU+4(2).
data(year) = <F_DAT>-EDATU(4).
<f_dat>-char = month && '/' && year.
ENDLOOP.
Thanks for everyone who helped me.

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Display an internal table?

I have to read some data from a table and display it. The program starts but I don't know how to display any of the data I've selected. I want to put it out as a table.
I honestly don't even know if the following code is correct.
REPORT ZT_THIEMANN_TEST.
types : begin of ts_output,
object_id type CRMD_ORDERADM_H-object_id,
created_by type CRMD_ORDERADM_H-created_by,
end of ts_output,
tt_output type table of ts_output.
PARAMETERS Mel_Nr TYPE CRMD_ORDERADM_H-Object_ID obligatory.
data gt_output type tt_output.
START-OF-SELECTION.
SELECT cm~object_id cm~created_by
from CRMD_ORDERADM_H as cm
into corresponding fields of table gt_output
where cm~object_id like Mel_Nr.
As Sandra said, you can check if your code/the select works by using the debugger.
You can output data different ways, but the easiest is using the class CL_SALV_TABLE. Without adding any additional features (such as a title, toolbar buttons, sorting, hotspots, etc.), the below code is how you can display your data using the oo alv grid.
...
DATA: go_alv TYPE REF TO cl_salv_table,
gx_salv_msg TYPE REF TO cx_salv_msg.
...
TRY.
cl_salv_table=>factory(
IMPORTING
r_salv_table = go_alv
CHANGING
t_table = gt_output ).
CATCH cx_salv_msg INTO gx_salv_msg.
MESSAGE 'error' TYPE 'E'.
ENDTRY.
go_alv->display( ).
If you need a real one-liner, just use ABAP demo output standard class cl_demo_output that can handle any type including internal tables:
SELECT *
FROM scarr
INTO TABLE #DATA(carriers).
cl_demo_output=>display( carriers ).

Creating a range for a field from internal table using RTTS

I want to create a function/custom class method that takes in 2 parameters:
1) IM_ITAB type ANY TABLE
2) IM_COMPONENT type STRING
and returns 1 parameter:
1) EX_RANGE type PIQ_SELOPT_T
So, algorithm is like this:
First of all, we check if the column with a component name at all exists
Then, we check that internal table is not empty.
Then, we loop through internal table assigning component and filling range table. Code is below.
METHODS compose_range_from_itab
IMPORTING
IM_ITAB type ANY TABLE
IM_COMPONENT type STRING
EXPORTING
EX_RANGE type PIQ_SELOPT_T.
...
METHOD compose_range_from_itab.
DATA: lo_obj TYPE REF TO cl_abap_tabledescr,
wa_range TYPE selopt,
lt_range TYPE piq_selopt_t.
FIELD-SYMBOLS: <fs_line> TYPE ANY,
<fs_component> TYPE ANY.
lo_obj ?= cl_abap_typedescr=>describe_by_data( p_data = im_itab ).
READ TABLE lo_obj->key TRANSPORTING NO FIELDS WITH KEY name = im_component.
IF sy-subrc IS INITIAL.
IF LINES( im_itab ) GT 0.
LOOP AT im_itab ASSIGNING <fs_line>.
ASSIGN COMPONENT im_component OF STRUCTURE <fs_line> TO <fs_component>.
wa_range-sign = 'I'.
wa_range-option = 'EQ'.
wa_range-low = <fs_component>.
APPEND wa_range TO lt_range.
ENDLOOP.
SORT lt_range BY low.
DELETE ADJACENT DUPLICATES FROM lt_range COMPARING low.
ex_range[] = lt_range[].
ENDIF.
ENDIF.
ENDMETHOD.
But I want to improve the method further. If the imported internal table has, let's say, 255 columns, then it will take longer to loop through such table. But I need only one column to compose the range.
So I want to get components of internal table, then choose only one component, create a new line type containing only that component, then create internal table with that line type and copy.
Here is the pseudo code corresponding to what I want to achieve:
append corresponding fields of im_itab into new_line_type_internal_table.
How can I "cut out" one component and create a new line type using RTTS?
You are overcomplicating everything, you don't need RTTS for that.
DEFINE make_range.
ex_range = VALUE #( BASE ex_range ( sign = 'I' option = 'EQ' low = &1 ) ).
END-OF-DEFINITION.
LOOP AT im_itab ASSIGNING FIELD-SYMBOL(<fs_line>).
ASSIGN COMPONENT im_component OF STRUCTURE <fs_line> TO FIELD-SYMBOL(<fs_field>).
CHECK sy-subrc = 0 AND <fs_field> IS NOT INITIAL.
make_range <fs_field>.
ENDLOOP.
And yes, as Sandra said, you won't gain any performance with RTTS, just the opposite.
Surprisingly, this variant turned out to be faster:
CLASS-METHODS make_range_variant_2
IMPORTING
sample TYPE table_type
column TYPE string
RETURNING
VALUE(result) TYPE range_type.
METHOD make_range_variant_2.
TYPES:
BEGIN OF narrow_structure_type,
content TYPE char32,
END OF narrow_structure_type.
TYPES narrow_table_type TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF narrow_structure_type WITH EMPTY KEY.
DATA narrow_table TYPE narrow_table_type.
DATA(mapping) =
VALUE cl_abap_corresponding=>mapping_table_value(
( kind = cl_abap_corresponding=>mapping_component srcname = column dstname = 'CONTENT' ) ).
DATA(mover) =
cl_abap_corresponding=>create_with_value(
source = sample
destination = narrow_table
mapping = mapping ).
mover->execute(
EXPORTING
source = sample
CHANGING
destination = narrow_table ).
LOOP AT narrow_table ASSIGNING FIELD-SYMBOL(<row>).
INSERT VALUE #(
sign = 'I'
option = 'EQ'
low = <row>-content )
INTO TABLE result.
ENDLOOP.
ENDMETHOD.
CL_ABAP_CORRESPONDING delegates to a kernel function for the structure-to-structure move, which apparently is faster than the ABAP-native ASSIGN COMPONENT [...] OF STRUCTURE [...] TO FIELD-SYMBOL [...]. The actual loop then seems to be faster because it uses fixed-name assignments.
Maybe somebody could verify.
I would not go for a Macro.
Data:
lr_data type ref to data.
FIELD-SYMBOLS:
<lv_component> TYPE any,
<ls_data> TYPE any.
CREATE DATA lr_data LIKE LINE OF im_itab.
ASSIGN lr_data->* TO <ls_data>.
"Check whether im_component exists
ASSIGN COMPONENT im_component OF STRUCTURE <ls_data> TO <lv_component>.
CHECK sy-subrc EQ 0.
LOOP AT im_itab INTO <ls_data>.
APPEND VALUE #( sign = 'I' option = 'EQ' low = <lv_component> ) TO ex_range.
ENDLOOP.

Create dynamic ABAP internal table

On selection screen, the user needs to insert a table name, and I need to get first 3 fields from that table and display them in an ALV for the output. What I understand from reading tutorials is that I need to call method cl_alv_table_create=>create_dynamic_table, but I don't know how to create the fieldcatalog.
DATA: t_newtable TYPE REF TO data,
t_fldcat TYPE lvc_t_fcat,
CALL METHOD cl_alv_table_create=>create_dynamic_table
EXPORTING
it_fieldcatalog = t_fldcat
IMPORTING
ep_table = t_newtable.
I assume that the table name which user enters is a data dictionary table (like SFLIGHT). If yes, then you can generate the field catalog as follows.
data : it_tabdescr type abap_compdescr_tab,
wa_tabdescr type abap_compdescr.
data : ref_table_descr type ref to cl_abap_structdescr.
ref_table_descr ?= cl_abap_typedescr=>describe_by_name( p_table ).
it_tabdescr[] = ref_table_descr->components[].
loop at it_tabdescr into wa_tabdescr.
clear wa_fieldcat.
wa_fieldcat-fieldname = wa_tabdescr-name .
wa_fieldcat-datatype = wa_tabdescr-type_kind.
wa_fieldcat-inttype = wa_tabdescr-type_kind.
wa_fieldcat-intlen = wa_tabdescr-length.
wa_fieldcat-decimals = wa_tabdescr-decimals.
append wa_fieldcat to it_fieldcat.
endloop.
Here, "p_table" is the selection screen parameter containing the table
name.

Change field length afterwards

TABLES: VBRK.
DATA: BEGIN OF it_test,
BUKRS LIKE VBRK-BUKRS,
FKDAT LIKE VBRK-FKDAT,
END OF it_test.
DATA: wa_test LIKE it_test.
SELECT * FROM VBRK INTO CORRESPONDING FIELD OF wa_test.
IF wa_test-BUKRS = 'xxxx'.
wa_test-BUKRS = 'XXXXX' "Problem occurs here as the BUKRS allow 4 value
APPEND wa_test TO it_test.
ENDIF.
Then I want to map the internal table to output as ALV table. Is they any way to change the field length afterwards?
Apart from multiple issues in your code, you can't. If you need something similar to that, add an additional field to the structure with whatever size you require and copy the values over.
If the objective is to output something to the screen that is different(or differently formatted) that what is stored internally(or in the database), then the use of a data element with a conversion exit maybe the way to go.
For an example, look at the key fields of table PRPS.
Expanding the answer of vwegert:
The MOVE-CORRESPONDINGcommand (and SELECT ... INTO CORRESPONDING FIELDS) don't need the same field type. The content is converted. So you could define a 5-character field in your internal structure and copy the BUKRS-value into this 5-character field:
TABLES: VBRK.
DATA: BEGIN OF it_test,
BUKRS(5), "longer version of VBRK-BUKRS,
FKDAT LIKE VBRK-FKDAT,
END OF it_test.
DATA: tt_test TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF it_test.
* I would strongly recommend to set a filter!
SELECT * FROM VBRK INTO CORRESPONDING FIELD OF it_test.
IF it_test-BUKRS = 'xxxx'.
it_test-BUKRS = 'XXXXX'.
APPEND it_test to tt_test.
ENDIF.
ENDSELECT.
A pitfall: When you use it with ALV you will loose the field description. (on the other side, the field description of the original field will not fit any longer the new field.)

ABAP Display field symbol dynamic in alv

I am pasting this program for example but i will never know the type of the table (here vbap and vbak).
My goals is to display my field symbol without knowing the types.
Is it possible ?
Here is my code :
REPORT ZTEST_FME_FOL.
type-pools slis .
FIELD-SYMBOLS : <mytable> TYPE ANY TABLE.
DATA : lv_alv_table TYPE REF TO cl_salv_table,
lv_funct TYPE REF TO cl_salv_functions,
lv_columns TYPE REF TO cl_salv_columns_table,
lv_column TYPE REF TO CL_SALV_COLUMN_table.
SELECT * from vbap INNER JOIN VBAK ON vbap~vbeln = vbak~vbeln UP TO 10 ROWS INTO TABLE <mytable>.
TRY.
cl_salv_table=>factory(
IMPORTING
r_salv_table = lv_alv_table
CHANGING
t_table = <mytable> ).
CATCH cx_salv_msg .
ENDTRY.
lv_funct = lv_alv_table->get_functions( ).
lv_funct->set_all( Abap_True ).
lv_columns = lv_alv_table->get_columns( ).
lv_alv_table->display( ).
Thanks in advance !
Depending on what you 're trying to do there's going to be more validation required than what I've done, but in essence this is what you need.
Using (dynamic) joins may be particularly tricky.
report zevw_test_dynamic_alv.
parameters: p_table type string obligatory.
field-symbols: <gt_table> type standard table.
data: gt_data type ref to data.
start-of-selection.
create data gt_data type table of (p_table).
assign gt_data->* to <gt_table>.
select * from (p_table) up to 10 rows
into table <gt_table>.
perform display_results using <gt_table>. "Your ALV stuff will be in here
You may even have to build the fieldcat manually and then use
call method cl_alv_table_create=>create_dynamic_table
exporting
it_fieldcatalog = gt_fieldcat[]
importing
ep_table = gt_data.
to get the data reference