What is difference between dialog program and a report?

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suja

  • Nov 14th, 2005
 

Report is a excecutable program

Dialog is a module pool program.It has to be executed via a transaction only.

Dialog programming is used for customization ofscreens

Regula

  • Jan 7th, 2006
 

Technically there are soo many differenses, let me explain in terms of data... Report is nothing but to analyze the data present in the database. where as Dialog is just like as a front end to the database

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srinivas reddy

  • Jan 14th, 2006
 

using  reports

we can dispaly the data

insert and modify the data

* its executable program

where as in dialog programming

we can create our own screens and transactions

we can't execute directly this

venkatesh

  • Jan 28th, 2006
 

hiwith reports u can only display the data ,insertion ,deletion of data is not possible with reports,if so can u give one example?but with dialog programming we can .

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sajith_khanna

  • Mar 17th, 2006
 

reports: they can be used only for data extraction(simply we can say output)

it constists of 2 screens 1.selection screen (optional)  2.listoutput

where as in dialog program they can be used for data extraction

and manipulation (can perform DML operations)

it consists of n number of screens

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Rajesh

  • Apr 3rd, 2006
 

You can enter data through reports using INPUT ON in write statement and further reading it by READ LINE N OF CURRENT PAGE.......

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SESHU

  • May 4th, 2006
 

Hi,u have given nice answer which is wrong.

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