START-OF-SELECTION Event In Report Programming.

This is the first event for your list. Once all the events are triggered for selection screen, the data is retrieved from database. Data declaration, select statements are done in this event. Consider the following example:

START-OF-SELECTION.
Data: mtype i.
Tables: sflight.
Select * from sflight where carrid = ‘LH’.
Write: / sflight-carrid,sflight-connid.
Endselect.