topic Re: Regarding BDC in Application Development and Automation Discussions

Regarding BDC

Former Member — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:28:00 GMT

What is the difference between GUI_DOWNLOAD & WS_DOWNLOAD...

and GUI_UPLOAD & WS_UPLOAD

Re: Regarding BDC

Former Member — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:30:24 GMT

GUI_* are the new function modules and WS_* are the old obsolete function modules that are no longer supported by SAP.

Re: Regarding BDC

Former Member — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:32:32 GMT

Hi,

You can say WS_DOWNLOAD is an obsolete form of GUI_DOWNLOAD.

Regards,

Atish

Re: Regarding BDC

Former Member — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:33:21 GMT

Initially DOWNLOAD, UPLOAD and after wards WS_DOWNLOAD and WS_UPLOAD function modules are used in older versions of SAP

now they become obsolute

and you have to use GUI_DOWNLOAD and GUI_UPLOAD in place of them

and these function modules won't work in background when you schedule the BDC in background

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Regards

Anji

Re: Regarding BDC

Former Member — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:34:10 GMT

WS_UPLOAD is obsolete as of 4.7 so GUI_UPLOAD is the next trend FM which will be used in continuance.

whenver there is an upgrade later then the WS_UPLOAD will have to be removed and replaced with GUI_UPLOAD.

so only try to use GUI_UPLOAD only.

refer

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005/helpdata/en/79/c554a3b3dc11d5993800508b6b8b11/frameset.htm;

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srinivas

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Re: Regarding BDC

Former Member — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:45:32 GMT

good

UPLOAD and DOWNLOAD, the function modules used until now are not part of the standard set of ABAP commands. They are used to display the file interface on the presentation server. UPLOAD and DOWNLOAD are not compatible with USs and have been replaced by GUI_UPLOAD and GUI_DOWNLOAD.

The new function modules, GUI_UPLOAD and GUI_DOWNLOAD, have an interface that also allows you to write Unicode format to the local hard drive. For a description of these interfaces, refer to the documentation for each function module, available under SAP Easy Access " Development " Function Builder " Goto " Documentation.

Instead of using the function modules, you can use the static methods GUI_UPLOAD and GUI_DOWNLOAD of the global class CL_GUI_FRONTEND_SERVICES.

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mrutyun^