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INITIALIZATION
Other versions: 7.31 | 7.40 | 7.54
Syntax
INITIALIZATION.
Effect
This event keyword defines an event block for initializing an executable program. The associated event is triggered by the
ABAP runtime environment during the
flow of an
executable program, directly after LOAD-OF-PROGRAM and before the
selection screen processing of any existing standard selection screen. This enables the input fields of the
selection screen to be initialized once-only, including those fields defined in the
logical database associated with the program.
Note
When an executable program defines a standard selection screen, it is called again by the ABAP runtime
environment after execution, which triggers the INITIALIZATION event again.
In this case, initializing parameters or selection criteria of the selection screen has no effect, because they are automatically supplied with the preceding user inputs from the selection screen during the
selection screen
event AT SELECTION-SCREEN OUTPUT. To explicitly initialize the selection screen for each call, the event AT SELECTION-SCREEN OUTPUT must be used.