How to display icons with Infotext in cells of ALV list.

There are three key steps involved in displaying an icon with Infotext in the cells of SAP ALV List.

1. Extension of Internal table with an additional field of type char40.
2. Fill the additional field with icon name and information text.
3. Assign the new field to field catalog.

• Extension of Internal table with an additional field of type char40.

TYPES: BEGIN OF ty_contact.

                            INCLUDE STRUCTURE ztt_db_table2.

                            TYPES: icon_text TYPE char40,

              END OF ty_contact.

DATA lt_contact TYPE TABLE OF ty_contact.

• Filling the internal table with icon and information text.

SELECT * FROM ztt_db_table2 INTO TABLE lt_contact.

LOOP AT lt_contact ASSIGNING FIELD-SYMBOL (<ls_contact>).

              <ls_contact>-icon_text = ‘@09\Q Info_text @’.

ENDLOOP.

The value of field icon_text is based on the format ‘@xyz\Q info_text @’

The value of xyz in the above format is determined based on our needs. The various ICON codes are available through the type group ‘ICON’.

Transaction -> SE11.

Type Group -> Enter ‘ICON’ in Type group.

It will list the available icon ids.

Note: Please don’t forget to give a space character after ‘Q’ and before the @symbol.

              The user can give their own text instead of info_text in the format mentioned above.

              In our example, we have considered the icon ‘ICON_YELLOW_LIGHT’. It’s ID is ‘@09@’.

• Assignment of field ‘icon’ to field catalog.

DATA ls_field_Cat TYPE lvc_s_fcat.

ls_field_cat-fieldname = ‘ICON_TEXT’.

ls_field_cat-icon = ‘X’.

ls_field_cat-outputlen = 40.

APPEND ls_field_cat TO lt_field_cat.