are is triggered before any automatic field checks (for example, required fields) have taken place on the screen, and before any field transport. The PAI and PBO events are not triggered. Consequently, you cannot access any values that the user has just changed on the screen. Furthermore, there is no field transport back to the screen after the event, so values that you have changed in the event handling are not updated on the screen.
The handler method that you defined for the event is called automatically by the system. However, you can use the method set_new_ok_code to set a new value for the OK_CODE field. This then triggers the PAI and PBO modules, and you can evaluate the contents of the OK_CODE field as normal in a PAI module. CL_GUI_CFW=>DISPATCH .
Application events
are triggered automatically at the end of the PAI event. Consequently, all field checks and field transport has taken place. If you want the event handler method to be called at a particular point during PAI processing, you must trigger the event handler using the static method