How To Extract Formatted SALV Output As An Excel Document in the background

Recently, have come across a requirement to send output of report developed based on SALV as an excel attachment. To achieve the same we can use the method TO_XML of class CL_SALV_TABLE. This method will have the formatted output content as XSTRING value.

Here are the steps.

a. Variable Declaration.

b.Data Selection/ALV Customizing calls.

c.Call to Convert ALV Output as internal XML Format.

d.E-Mail Data Declaration.

e.EMail - Content Conversion/Body/Attachment Creation

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Excel Output

we can also use TO_XML method to download the content as an XLS or XML documents  in Abap Web dynpro based applications .

Here is the sample source code for this approach.