Color of ALV Output, Columns, and Cells in SAP Netweaver

You can specify the color of various areas of the ALV output. The following options are available:

● ALV output:

You can choose between two variants:

○ Standard Color Assignment

All rows and columns have the same color.

○ Alternating

The rows of the ALV output alternate between light and dark

○ Transparent

The background is transparent. The individual cells are displayed without gridlines.

You only have these options if write-protection is switched on (see Write-Protection and Activation).

● Column

You can change the background color of a column. You can use pre-configured semantic colors for this (see TableColumn Properties).

You only have these options if write-protection is switched on (see Write-Protection and Activation).

● Cell variant

You can specify a background color for a cell variant. You can use pre-configured semantic colors for this (see TableColumn Properties).

You only have these options if write-protection is switched on (see Write-Protection and Activation).

● Cell

The only UI element whose color you can change is the cell editor TEXT_VIEW. You can choose the combination of background and text color that you want to use (see TextView Properties, under SemanticColor).

You also have this option in the editable ALV.

Methods for Changing the Colors

Area	Class	Method
ALV output	IF_SALV_WD_ TABLE_SETTINGS	SET_DESIGN GET_DESIGN
Column	CL_SALV_WD_ COLUMN	SET_CELL_DESIGN GET_CELL_DESIGN
Cell variant	CL_SALV_WD_ CV_STANDARD	SET_CELL_DESIGN or SET_CELL_DESIGN_FIELDNAME GET_CELL_DESIGN or GET_CELL_DESIGN_FIELDNAME
Cell	CL_SALV_WD_ UIE_TEXT_VIEW	SET_SEMANTIC_COLOR or SET_SEMANTIC_COLOR_FIELDNAME GET_SEMANTIC_COLOR or GET_ SEMANTIC_COLOR_FIELDNAME