topic Re: ABAP documentation in help.sap.com in Application Development and Automation Discussions

ABAP documentation in help.sap.com

Former Member — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 14:31:51 GMT

How can i find ABAP documentation in help.sap.com.

I want to find ABAP documentation with ABAP versions.

I am sure ABAP will have documentation based on it's different versions, how do i find them?

Re: ABAP documentation in help.sap.com

Former Member — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 14:51:48 GMT

Surman,

On the help portal help.sap.com, navigate to technology and you will find the different versions of NW. Clicking on each versions should give you detailed info on the release.

Technology – SAP Help Portal Page

Thanks,

Vikram.M

Re: ABAP documentation in help.sap.com

Former Member — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 15:05:03 GMT

In the most recent SAP version i found a lot of subtopics, where can i possibly find ABAP documentation for SAP Netweaver 7.4. Also do i require a marketplace id to see the documentation?

SAP NetWeaver 7.4

Support Package Stack 11

Re: ABAP documentation in help.sap.com

Former Member — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 15:16:13 GMT

Is it really difficult to go thru those links and check?

If you are looking for ABAP specific enhancements for NW 7.4, search for Horst Keller's blogs in SCN. Below is an example.

Thanks,

Vikram.M

Re: ABAP documentation in help.sap.com

Former Member — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 15:31:53 GMT

Apologies, i am new to ABAP.

If i download any of the documentation it asks for Marketplace id which i don't have!

So i am not able to download ABAP documentation

Re: ABAP documentation in help.sap.com

Former Member — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 15:41:09 GMT

You should request for one.

If you are looking for new enhancements within ABP for NW 7.4, search for articles by Horst Keller as I had stated earlier. You will find plenty of updates from him on various enhancements to ABAP.

Thanks,

Vikram.M

Re: ABAP documentation in help.sap.com

Former Member — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 16:53:49 GMT

sorry, i am just looking for the most recent ABAP documentation which is ABAP 7.4

Re: ABAP documentation in help.sap.com

Jelena_Perfiljeva — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 20:11:34 GMT

My mouse pointer was already hovering over 'Alert moderator' button, but just for giggles I googled 'ABAP Help' and the results were quite surprising. It shows Help editions for 4.6, 7.0 and 7.31 as top results, but it seems that afterwards the Help article 'ABAP Programming' seizes to exist.

If you use the Search field on help.sap.com (and don't forget to hit 'Global search' on this super-intuitive web site) and search for 'ABAP 7.4' it only finds 'what's new' type of articles. Search for 'ABAP Programming' (and then sort by date descending because all links look the same and there is no way to know which one is for which release) and you'll only get 7.3 version.

7.4 was announced on SCN in 2013, so I'm quite puzzled - did SAP not get around yet publishing ABAP Help for it or was it renamed / moved somewhere else? Maybe is in the loop on this...

@OP - ABAP Help for current version is available in the ABAP Editor. If you don't have access to an SAP system then not sure reading official Help is a good approach anyway. You'd be better off with Horst's blogs (specifically regarding new stuff in 7.4) or Paul's book. Even when available ABAP help is not a very good reading for the beginners.

Re: ABAP documentation in help.sap.com

retired_member — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 06:53:40 GMT

ABAP Keyword Documentation

Re: ABAP documentation in help.sap.com

Jelena_Perfiljeva — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 13:03:08 GMT

Thank you, Horst! No wonder I couldn't find it - 'help' is not even mentioned anymore. Even when I google the exact string 'ABAP keyword documentation' version 7.4 is link # 6 down the list, way below your SCN blog.

Re: ABAP documentation in help.sap.com

Private_Member_7726 — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 15:33:34 GMT

abapdocu_7xx

cheers

Jānis

Re: ABAP documentation in help.sap.com

retired_member — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 16:30:19 GMT

But the SCN blog does contain the above link ...

Re: ABAP documentation in help.sap.com

Jelena_Perfiljeva — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 21:31:33 GMT

The problem from my point of view is that search for 'ABAP Help 7.4' in Google does not find either blog or documentation. Not sure many people would realize they need to search for 'ABAP keyword documentation' because on SCN we usually urge the beginners to read 'ABAP Help'.

Although to be fair it's not the issue only with ABAP documentation. Searching for official SAP information in most cases is a bit of a, um, challenge. But it's the whole another story...

I guess we'll need to redirect folks to 'ABAP keyword documentation' instead of 'help' from now on. Thanks again for a reply!