Application Development and Automation Blog Posts

Writing/Unveiling ABAP Unit Tests for Table Functions

Introduction In SAP ABAP development, writing robust code is essential for ensuring the stability and reliability of applications. One powerful tool for achieving this is the ABAP Unit, whi...

Fiori Elements: Display Tree-Structure using OData Annotation (Code Based)

Hi All,Focusing on beginners, I am writing this blog to understand the Tree Structure by using OData annotation. Here I have tried to display data in Hierarchy format using OData Code. I have written ...

HOW TO ADD NEW INPUT FIELD IN STANDARD FIORI APPLICATION BY EXTENDING STANDARD CDS.

Objective:Despite limitations in directly modifying custom fields or logic, our goal is to enhance the “Task Definition” application by incorporating new input fields below the priority field. Our obj...

Fiori Analytical List Page using CDS Annotations to Display as Charts

Analytical List Pages (ALPs) visualize data and provide functionality such as drill-down and navigation to transactional data.we will create a report to visualize household expenditures.In order to un...

Custom Field Enhancement with Search Help and Validation

The agenda of this blog is to add a custom field with Dynamic search help and validate the data entered.We will be using Custom CDS View as search help feeder and, validate the input entered manually,...

Release News 2308: Enumerations in ABAP CDS

ABAP CDS has released a new killer feature: CDS enumerated types. CDS enumerated types make enumerations globally available and reusable in different contexts.Enumerations define a fixed set of values...

ABAP CDS Releases CDS-Native Data Types: CDS Simple Types

CDS simple types provide a modern way to create user-defined elementary data types directly in ABAP CDS. Other than classical DDIC data elements, CDS simple types allow the creation of type hierarchie...

Feature Matrix: Data Modeling with ABAP Core Data Services

Did you know that the ABAP Keyword Documentation provides a list of all available language elements of the CDS data definition language (CDS DDL) of ABAP CDS and their release dates? This allows you ...

CDS view entities are feature complete, Part lll: Differences

Since ABAP release 7.88, SAP BTP ABAP Environment 2205, CDS view entities are feature complete. In this blog series, you find a complete list of new features, improvements, and differences of CDS view...

CDS view entities are feature complete, Part ll: Improvements

Since ABAP release 7.88, SAP BTP ABAP Environment 2205, CDS view entities are feature complete. In this blog series, you find a complete list of new features, improvements, and differences of CDS view...

CDS view entities are feature complete, Part l: New features

Since ABAP release 7.88, SAP BTP ABAP Environment 2205, CDS view entities are feature complete. In this blog series, you find a complete list of new features, improvements, and differences of CDS view...

ABAP Core Data Services: New syntax for extending CDS entities

This blog post provides an overview of all available types of CDS extensions.Overview of CDS entity extensionsStatement Can be used for Available sinceEXTEND VIEW ENTITYCDS view entityCDS projection v...

New type of CDS entity available: CDS projection views

Since ABAP release 7.76, there's a new CDS entity available: the CDS projection view. This blog post explains what a CDS projection view is, what it does, and which components it consists of. ...

A new generation of CDS views: CDS view entities

With ABAP release 7.55, a new type of CDS view is available: in official terminology, it's called CDS view entity. And it has come to replace the "classic" CDS DDIC-based views that have been around f...