Dear community, my last blog was about how to add more semantics to a SELECT-statement. The solution presented at that time could still be improved. As a reminder, the solution from that time. SELECT SINGLE spld AS printer, spdb AS outp...
Just a personal disclaimer before we get started: I work as a product manager @ SAP with a focus on the subject of data protection and privacy and in no way a lawyer even with a 12-foot pole. The aim of this write-up is to not give any kind of legal ...
Providing COVID-19 time series via @Sisn/cds While staying a lot at home these days I was browsing through the many available COVID-19 related statistics and charts such this Visual Dashboard. Most numbers you see on the news rely on the data provid...
I try to write unit tests for as much of my code as I think makes sense. To speed up the creation of my unit tests, I’ve set up two ABAP templates in eclipse which I want to share with you in this post. The local test helper class I try to adhere to...
I recently posted a blog about the start of our investigations into Git-based ABAP development here at Basis Technologies. A month or so that has passed since that original piece, so in this Part 2 I want to share the progress we’ve made and the late...
Introduction. We have to make it possible that an automated email containing PO is sent to the vendor when PO is approved from Fiori PO Approval App. Problem Connecting PO Smart Form and sending email to relevant vendor using standard workflow was no...
Automation is the foundation stone for all industrialisation. Each and every business sector, since modern industrial revolution, is trying to maximise automation. Less human intervention, less human labor and more of machine-based capacity augmentat...
Dear community, this week I would like to share another example with you. It's about my attempts to avoid unnecessary comments. The source code should "tell" the story Unfortunately, my source code from previous days doesn't always tell me why I wro...
NOTE : This is an old blog entry and the SAP DI python sdk has since been updated. Please refer (https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_DATA_INTELLIGENCE/5ac15e8fccb447199fda4509e813bf9f/12f7abac63844d4293a339a8effb3521.html) for up-to-date documentation. SAP...
Before you start reading this blog post on X-press Design Thinking Workshop, please note the following: This is not a training material for Design Thinking. The consultants intended to practice X-press Design Thinking must have gone through at l...
I’ve been cleaning up some legacy ABAP code lately, and a reoccurring theme is poor exception handling. In this post, I’ll explain why ABAP exception handling shouldn’t be treated like a game of catch with your dog. I’ll discuss some anti-patterns ...
After a while of experience following this approach, considering also your comments here I discarded this approach for me. I leave the original text as it is in order to archive the discussion. As I promised in my last post, today I come back writi...
Dear community, I recently presented a calculation example with ABAP, Open SQL and ABAP CDS in this blog. It was about the different technologies that can be used to achieve the same result. I was surprised by the interest in the example. For the sak...
Recently I have to work not only with my native SAP HR. And there is a need to be aware of unfamiliar data models from other modules as soon as possible. I made a small application - Simple Data Explorer. It may be useful for consultants, architects,...
In the literature the dependency inversion principle is often presented as a very abstract principle. High level classes must not depend on low level classes is the first phrase, the clean-code-developer initiative used to explain this principle. Esp...
SAP customers have always worked with SAP partners and ISVs to augment their SAP environment with third-party ABAP add-ons, that customers license directly from SAP partners. The security of these 3rd party ABAP add-on is becoming more and more a top...
Introduction : There are scenarios where the user will upload a file in the Application Server which needs to be consumed to manipulate that data (such as updating in a table or sending it as a mail). In that case, we can use the DATASET to read the ...
A new release of the Eclipse IDE came out yesterday. I wanted to make you aware of some important features of this release which are not as prominent in the release notes. Performance There's two important points about performance hidden at the botto...
Along with many others I participated in the "SAP Community Coding Challenge Series" that thomas.jung recently put on. It was a neat challenge in that it was simple in nature, but invited different ways to approach the challenge and opportunities to...
Present Arms! This week I was supposed to be presenting at the “Mastering SAP” conference in South Africa but as might be imagined it got postponed due everyone’s favourite virus. However as I have been putting a lot of effort into thinking how best...
We had a lot of fun doing the very first SAP Community Coding Challenge with all of you. I think we all learned a lot from each other which is what its all about. We had about 200 submissions and it was really tough to narrow down the finalist which...
My intention: I wanted to fix all dumps like CONVT_NO_NUMBER / CX_SY_CONVERSION_NO_NUMBER once and for all in Idoc processing, as dumping does not change the idoc status and therefore idocs do not show up in monitoring. During the developer test I ...
Introduction: In this blog post auto creation of sales order in SAP ECC for third party e-commerce portals, which has been tagged as combi products. Requirement: All the E-commerce sales to be captured using flat files, Industry doesn't want to have ...
Attackers always had the higher ground in the cyber space. To infiltrate systems, they can use a variety of social engineering tricks, combined with low cost automated attacks. It is time for defenders to make a stand, with something that will give...
Introduction: In certain cases, we use commit work before the standard commit happens. This usually doesn't create problem in case of custom reports. But while using the same amidst the user exits or BADI we sometimes get a standard dump. This blog...
Dear community, jelena.perfiljeva2 recently reminded me by one of her comments how useful examples are. At least I feel that I can learn well from examples, too. In the beginning, very simple and basic examples are ideal to understand the possibiliti...
Recently, wired magazine published an article on bug bounties and vulnerability disclosure. This article remains on my mind and I think it is worth reflecting on my perspective on the topic, from the perspective of someone who manages the topic on ...
The ABAP class CL_ABAP_UNIT_ASSERT is a great class for asserting Actual and Expected data for ABAP unit testing. Asserting equal is comparing the Actual data with the Expected data that it is equal. If it is not equal than a failure will be raised. ...
I had been working on SAP performance analysis with my customers in the past. Based on my experience, the performance analysis process could be time-consuming and might need a large amount of time to prepare reports for sharing the finding with other...
After attending the interaction18 conference in Lyon two years ago, I came back to work fully inspired and with a stronger sense of how my design colleagues in the industry are pushing the boundaries and shaping the responsibility that our field ha...
Often and quite regularly I stumble upon developments where an SAP icon is used as a status. The most ugly version of it looks like this: IF header-status = '@01@' object-status = '@10@'. ENDIF. There are many reasons to firstly not use the intern...
Hi, This is the third post about the subject, if you are interested in the subject you can take a look at: Importance of BINARY SEARCH Importance of BINARY SEARCH (2) I'm going to test the performance of different techniques, first from a READ...
What you will learn in this blog? In this blog, you will learn to use SAP delivered standard BOPF object for CRUD operations in Custom Application. My scenario / Example to Understand For my use case, I have to create an excel upload utility to...
This is a short blog. The purpose is to provide ABAP code to set name from other data element or internal table component using CL_SALV_TABLE=>FACTORY. Enjoy! *&---------------------------------------------------------------------* *& Report ZALV_COL...
In this blog-post i want to give you a deep understanding of polymorphism with interfaces. The object-orientated memory allocation model In context of object orientation the terms "class", "object" and "instantiation" are very common. But what does t...
Note: This scenario is not officially supported from SAP This is a very short blog post to fix a small issue related to ABAP Programming model for Fiori . Prior to SAP_BASIS release 7.54, If the ObjectModel.deleteEnabled annotation is set as abap_fa...
Hello Experts! Today I'll introduce my challenge #365daysABAP.I also give my impression and share some tips from the challenge. Actually,I have just started my ABAP studying about 2 years ago.I didn't know about ABAP as a Object Oriented Program...
In order to reduce the use of plastics, I propose from now on we all use rocks rather than ducks as a more sustainable alternative to rubber-duck debugging. For those unaware, In software engineering, rubber duck debugging is a method of debugging co...
Continuous integration / continuous delivery (CI/CD) is commonly seen as a prerequisite for faster delivery in higher quality, which is especially important for cloud-based products. In this blog post I will look at what this means for ABAP developme...
This post describes how F4 help can be displayed for selection criteria defined by SELECT-OPTIONS on selection screen of ABAP report programs. F4 help can be added to selection criteria: automatically: if there is input help associated to the dat...
Today, while refactoring an old report, It came to create a dedicated method for a select to MARC in a dedicated db access class. The selection is done using a select range for material numbers. Until now, I always proceeded like this: search a r...
Before you start with PART 2, I am sharing the link for part 1 for reference: https://blogs.sap.com/2020/02/17/abap-cds-views-simplified-part-1/ INTRODUCTION: ABAP Core Data Service Views also known as ABAP CDS Views. There are so many limitations i...
At Basis Technologies our tools are built in ABAP, so abapGit has been on our radar for a while and we’ve been fiddling with it for quite some time (if you’re not familiar with what abapGit is you can learn more here or here). But so far the only ‘pr...
Do you know ABAP? As you know, ABAP is the programming language used by SAP products. But you may not know ABAP as a programming language. I would like to introduce you to ABAP again. What does ABAP stand for? ABAP once represented a gener...
Ahh.. Just finished a design revamp task at my work and I think coffee is a good idea this time, also best time to write my first post here.. Let me ask you, what do you think about the flow diagram below ? Left most image is often called "spag...
Introduction What I most like in blogs is when I catch up one thing, one hint, one emotion or one joke that ideally makes my day, brightens my mood or adds value to my software development skills. On the other side a blog can also point out missing ...
In today’s era of internet and web, almost all business has been moved to digital platform. So, it became important for all the organizations to make sure that their products and services are accessible to maximum possible customers or users irrespec...
Dear community, last year I published a blog on the 60th birthday of the COBOL programming language. According to a new study, COBOL will continue to accompany us in information technology, because according to the survey results, COBOL applications ...
Quite after some time, here is a short update on what happened the last year 2019 and what is the Outlook for this year. As you probably know, under the ABAP Community Headline are currently the Formats CodeRetreat Bunkai The Community Event...
Introduction At the recent #DSAGTT20, SAP showed a few slides regarding in the area of continuous integration and ABAP: https://twitter.com/PanzerDominik/status/1227274686750478338/photo/1 https://twitter.com/WachterSascha/status/12272548135425597...
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