Character variablesVariables of type c have a specified length declared in the TYPES or DATA declaration section. The length can not change, and there is no length indicator nor an end-of-char like \0 in c. Blanks to the right of the content are alw...
Well, that's over. Got myself a beer, and beginning a rambling reflection on the process. Preparation In a fit of impetuosity back in July I submitted a title to Craig for the VCD sessions. Mainly thinking - I'll give it a go. Not expecting to get...
One of the best underlying mechanisms to be introduced into the Basis / NetWeaver stack in the past few years is the Internet Communication Framework (ICF), which is a collection of configuration, interfaces, classes and a core set of processes tha...
In this short blog I would give you 10 tips and tricks that could make your SAP life easier and, even more, generate a money saving.Good programmers write good code, but great programmers reuse the good programmers' code! Do not create something that...
It has been years since NetWeaver Portal started to suppport SAML 1.1 Browser Artifact profile as a SAML Destination Site. Now SAP NetWeaver CE has taken this further: it can also act as a SAML 1.1 Source Site, so that the NetWeaver CE system can ser...
ADBC is the abbreviation for "ABAP Database Connectivity" that is a class-based API for the Native SQL interface of the Application Server ABAP. ADBC allows object orientated and dynamic access to the Native SQL interface and can always be used whe...
21st September at 17:00 CET. The Ancient (and noble and arcane [insert hyperbolean adjective here]) of Code Review.
Earlier in the month, Redmonk's James Governor kicked off a discussion about design thinking as it applies to enterprise applications:Portal reskinning is a growing business – both Deloitte and Accenture, for example, have built practices dedicated t...
Regular expressions are available in ABAP as of Release 7.0. A regular expression is a pattern of literal and special characters that describes a set of character strings. You use regular expressions to locate or replace one or more occurrences of...
The Single Transaction Analysis was developed to promote the usage of ABAP trace inside SAP Support. It integrates the ABAP- (SE30) and the Performance (ST05) Trace into one transaction. This blog will show how to take a trace with ST12 in the so cal...
Hi folks, It's quite a time that I have published my last ABAP Geek but yesterday I stumbled across a feature that I don't want to hold back. You might be well aware of the so called "Dynamic Selections" that are offered at the selection screens of...
NOTE: this content is the copyrighted property of the author, Gretchen Y. Lindquist, and is published by the author's permission on SDN.SAP.COM. If you are reading it elsewhere, you are reading stolen property.***My colleague's request was simple: co...
A few months ago I blogged about “The importance of being trained...” after attending an ABAP training course with SAP’s Education Department which left me regretting not having done it earlier. Different opinions about the cost : benefit ratios of t...
The new book "ABAP Programming Guidelines" that is available in German since May 2009 and will be available in English in September 2009 will be presented in the dedicated session CD103 at TechEd 2009. If you are at TechEd, come by and learn wh...
Whether you think about virtualization of hardware or you already are in the virtualization, the main question is "How do I separate my individual systems?". This blog is comprised of 2 parts. This first part deals with the basic ideas behind virtual...
Introduction I have wanted to write this blog for ages but have only gotten around to it now. Before I begin I would like to acknowledge the following which are also related to the content of this posting:Gregor Wolf's New ABAP Open Source Project: C...
NOTE: this content is the copyrighted property of the author, Gretchen Y. Lindquist, and is published by the author's permission on SDN.SAP.COM. If you are reading it elsewhere, you are reading stolen property.***If you work for an Americas' SAP User...
In the previous post of the series Object Oriented Design Principles, we have seen: 1) Object Oriented Design Principles (OODP): Open-Closed Principle(OCP)2) Object Oriented Design Principles (OODP): OCP with Business Scenario 3) Object Oriented Des...
In this weblog I present how to run SAPGui for HTML in Google Chrome even if it is not supported.I executed the transaction "FI02 - Change Bank" in a NW 7.01 to check how much Chrome is faster than IE.The first test is to open the Webgui in Chrome v...
The German version of the "ABAP Programming Guidelines" has been released by SAP Press. The English version will follow in the next months (planned for September). Best Horst
In the previous post of the series Object Oriented Design Principles, we have seen: 1) Object Oriented Design Principles (OODP): Open-Closed Principle(OCP) 2) Object Oriented Design Principles (OODP): OCP with Business Scenario Definition: By D...
In the previous post Object Oriented Design Principles (OODP): Open-Closed Principle(OCP) of the series OODP, we have seen how we can achieve the OCP using Shape object like Square, Circle. In this blog post, we will see how we can use the Open-Clo...
See the UPDATES section below for change log Let's check with X-it RAY EyeIn all upgrade projects in which I was involved I prepared a checklist of standard modifications and implemented userexits. This kind of analysis performed before the upgrade,...
We need to follow the Design principle while developing the software to reduce the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership), Reduce the Cost of maintenance and for robust design. Definition: The name itself sounds like contradicting – OPEN & CLOSE, but by...
I covered a good range of topics on Tuesday at #ASUG09 and #SAPPHIRE09. First up was the morning keynote with Leo Apotheker. He spoke on themes of getting clarity in today's challenging times. I was pleased to hear his comments on the importance of b...
In this article I would like to give you a tutorial in order to invoke SAP web services with Flex using Cairngorm framework.1. What is Cairngorm?Cairngorm is one of the primary MVC open source frameworks for application architecture in Adobe Flex.Th...
I found too many posts about Exporting SE78 Graphics because there is no option for Exporting Graphics in T-Code SE78 so I decided to develop a custom Application to overcome this exporting issue. The purpose is not only Exporting or Preview SE78 Gra...
The new BLOG-TOPIC-NAME called Security is now available to all people that post about SECURITY. This will make it possible to select and search for SAP product security blogs in the future. Please add this new topic name to your blogs when you thi...
In this period I'm involved in many upgrade projects and one of the biggest effort is to adjust ABAP copied from SAP standard ones that I call CLONEs.In my experience pure custom ABAPs require few adaptations (obsolete statements, obsolete function ...
Introduction From time to time, the need to compare validation (transaction GGB0) & substitution (transaction GGB1) between two systems (usually development and quality or development and production), or between two client arises. This task is usuall...
For the past decade the advantages of ABAP Objects has been described time and again. If you are still skeptical to ABAP Objects, then please read "Not Yet Using ABAP Objects? Eight Reasons Why Every ABAP Developer Should Give It a Second Look" befo...
Preface: Today’s blog The specified item was not found.from Alvaro Tejada (https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/x/nDk) has reminded me that we can also use the XML to create formatted, fancy Excel files using ABAP and XML. The advantages o...
PrologLike many of us, I'm a kind of addicted to Twitter. But a few weeks ago, the admins of my client cuts the connection to Twitter and all of the known anonymanizers like "agentanon". My hands began to tremble, my work became poorer and poorer (ju...
In the first two articles of this series we had a look at how to best read data from database tables. The Code Inspector checks whether the database access has a WHERE clause that will be able to make use of a database index, or if an access to a buf...
Updated on December 16, 2009: How many lines of custom ABAP code are inside your system? – Part2Updated on February 5, 2009: out-of-scope section was addedAfter the Simple ABAP Benchmark , I'm glad to share here in SDN another simple ABAP tool to mon...
Update (05-Mar-2014) - Since after SCN migration to the new platform, the code formatting is gone. Please visit - SALV Table 10 – Editable SALV Model (Overcome the restriction of SALV Model) (outside SCN) for a formatted version. We all know th...
Consider the following fragment of coding.DATA: v_matnr TYPE matnr, v_ekgrp TYPE ekgrp, v_count TYPE i, v_value TYPE p LENGTH 8 DECIMALS 2....PERFORM myform USING v_matnr v_ekgrp v_count v_value....FORM myforum USING i_matnr ...
If you look at most standard SAP transactions that include a table control, you will see that entire columns are either enterable or display only. It is rare for a table control to change the attributes of a single field dynamically, but if you look ...
I decided to write this blog after regularly seeing forum questions about accessing external databases from ABAP.I will try my best to describe how to connect to non-SAP databases from ABAP, and also encourage you to try it yourself using an example ...
In part 1, Alex Ayers and Julius Bussche wrote about using transaction SU24 and how it documents and reproduces “authorization use cases” for specific entry points which are maintained via the role menu (transactions, RFC and services). Based on some...
After delivery of SAP Netweaver 7.0 the ABAP group at SAP of course did not stop to further improve the ABAP Language and its programming einvironment. At preceding TechEds, these news have already been presented. Some highlights are decimal floati...
In this blog I will describe a way of leveraging ABAP web services that allows you to deliver the response payload through new channels. More specifically I will describe how to construct the web service response payload without having to make SOAP c...
Usability ... Call For Action !!! Everybody talks about usability, you can google usability and you'll find 25,100,000 hits. Very impressing ... In my experience usability is one of the buzzwords if something feels wrong or if someone is not feel...
Give it a try ... ... or use direct links: http://help.sap.com/abapdocu/en/abenabap.htm http://help.sap.com/abapdocu/de/abenabap.htm http://help.sap.com/abapdocu/en/abenabap.htm (Attention, it's the latest version of the documentation not...
When you upgrade your SAP system some functions became obsolete.In this first part I would like to analyze one of the most used function module in SAP: POPUP_TO_CONFIRMThis is its signature with all the possible parameters:CALL FUNCTION 'POPUP_TO_CON...
Hello all, In this blog, I want to show how Google Maps can be displayed in the ABAP screens using the existing CFW utilities available. There are many other blogs on SDN that talk about displaying Google Maps, but using BSP, WebDynpro, Netweaver...
In the ABAP Forum, there are couple of questions unanswered related to LSMW using standard program RFBIBL00 to post the FI documents. That inspried me to write this Blog. Step 1: Maintain Object Attributes For creating the FI document with the RFB...
FI users often have to enter a series of document line items and then create an offsetting entry that is the total of the line items with the opposite sense so that the document nets to 0. (If the total is a credit, a debit entry must be added and vi...
On the other day, I was reading through SCN and this question came up. There wasn’t any suitable answer, which can get the watermark in SAPScript. So, I decided to give a try. I have tried couple of times with different techniques like calling the s...
The other day, "Blag" raised a question on Twitter around this topic. He was having trouble with a program where there were multiple table controls on a single screen. He asked if there was some kind of limit as to how many you could possibly have ...
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