Ever heard of SAP Leonardo? If not, you can learn more in this openSAP course. The course includes a unit about machine learning (ML). The term is currently used widely by researchers, companies and the press. For a better understanding here is the d...
This blog post is intended to give an overall idea on file encryption and decryption process using a key in ABAP. By end of this blog post, we will be able to learn 'how to encrypt a text file or data using a key and in the end we will also able k...
When I wrote about [AdT keyboard shortcuts](https://blogs.sap.com/2019/10/16/how-to-use-adt-solely-with-a-keyboard-navigation-in-eclipse/), some parts didn't make it to the blog. I didn’t want to include them to no lose focus to much. But I didn't wa...
Coding AdT is great, and not having to touch a mouse also is. So I'll list some cool shortcuts I use. But not knowing how to do something (with the keyboard), makes me feel bad, powerless, and frustrated. So I'll also list some things I don't know ...
The view maintenance generator is one of the oldest functions of the SAP system. It is an easy way to generate a standard maintenance functionality to custom tables or views. The generated programs are used with transaction SM30 "table maintenance". ...
Thanks to the "Clean ABAP" style guide I think a lot more about the maintainability of my source code. A particularly important point in this context is readability. In the style guide many recommendations are made to improve the readability. It's a...
Introduction In order for our legacy to continue, we should be thinking about raising the next generation of ABAP programmers. In my experience, talent can easily be attracted by using shiny or colorful things. Turtle graphics are a popular method o...
Introduction The history of email extends over more than 50 years, entailing an evolving set of technologies. Early dedicated machines and networks for sending text messages existed in the form of the telegraph, Telex and AUTODIN. There can exist so...
With the accelerated evolution of mobile hardware, application developers tend to reconsider the importance of the Augmented Reality technology ( called AR for short in this article subsequently ) in regard to satisfy their customers better with enha...
Do you know about ABAP Debugger scripting? And if so, have you made use of it, yet? I knew about it for quite some time already (I think it’s been around for ~10 Years), but only recently mad use of it. This is the experience I want to share here. ...
It always helps to define development guidelines / naming conventions and adhere to them. ABAP CDS View development is not an exception. Development guidelines / Naming Conventions are not something set in stone. They need to make sense and meant t...
In this blog post I will explain in detail the Create method which is generated by the ABAP BAPI BO Class Code Generator tool. This blog post is a follow-up blog post of the blog post ABAP BAPI BO Class Generator. The explaining of the Create metho...
This blog discusses how you could add SAP custom Search help to standard search help and also troubleshoot why the SAP custom search help does not return any values even when user selected multiple values. It covers below topic areas: Check h...
Some time ago ABAP surprised me with a nice feature. I saw an interesting SELECT statement during a code review. Here is the SELECT statement. For demonstration purpose I changed the statement a little bit. SELECT SINGLE 'X' FROM seoclass ...
Motivation When I "navigate" through another developers communities I see how they are strong in terms of open source world. Seeing this I started a digital event here in last year (can be read here) to promove this initiative. About event The Hackt...
Introduction In the below example I am going to explain CRUD Operations using module pool programming. Here, I have done CRUD operations by taking separate screens i.e., GET, CREATE, UPDATE and DELETE operations. Step 1: Go to SE38 transaction co...
Update, 31st March, 2022 The license file expires today. Please update your license from: SAP License Keys for Preview, Evaluation and Developer Versions (minisap) Installation Instructions and First Steps IMPORTANT: If you are installing AS ABAP 7...
With the publication of the sap-styleguides, sustainable development or clean-code as it is called by Robert C.Martin becomes more and more popular in the SAP-developer-community. Although this topic brings a lot of benefits, it was neglected for man...
Sometime in the summer of 2004, during my studies, I attended a lecture about programming. It was a hot summer day. This noticeably lowered the students' attention During the lecture, the professor said something that I always remembered. I could un...
I work at SAP in a department called Innovative Business Solutions. We focus on customer-specific solutions. This blog is my engineer's view on the development methodology that we're using. I'd like to generalize our approach a bit for you, while em...
In this blogpost you will learn to “Download spool to presentation server and application server in 3 formats – Excel, Text and HTML “. In one of my projects I got a requirement to download the spool in Excel, text and HTML format in presentation/Ap...
Note: This blog post is purposefully intended for the beginners. Introduction In the area of SAP interfaces, particularly report programs having complex selection screens; it practically becomes impossible to remember the screen values, every time t...
INTRODUCTION: I got the requirement to capture the Created by Created on and Updated by Updated on logs for the custom table using Table Maintenance Generator events. Here is the step by step process to capture the table change logs. Step 1: Cre...
Object-Oriented Programming and Design principals have now existed for over 50 years, so it seems odd that apparently no-one has noticed the massive flaw in Object-Oriented Design that has existed since the very beginning. We are instead told Object-...
From the release 1911 of SAP Cloud for Customer, you'll notice new and exciting features while configuring the recipients in the workflow rules of type e-mail in SAP Cloud for Customer. In this blog post, I want to share the features existing till th...
By Stefanie Nennstiel According to the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD), there are approximately 72 million deaf people worldwide, and collectively they use more than 300 different sign languages. As a part of International Week of the Deaf (IW...
#Interview of Dr. Roger Gutbrod, Head of SAP Security Research What are the main principles that drive the SAP strategy in that domain? First of all, I would like to talk about SAP sales and the change of our sales pitches. In the past SAP convin...
The magic of some applications ends at the moment you need to inspect, patch or improve it. This shouldn’t be this way, and there is a a way to improve this point. After the first episode, this is our second one: documentation on all fronts. Months...
In some situations, Processing huge number of records in Internal table could take a lot of time. This in turn reduces performance of the entire system.This is where the concept of Parallel Processing comes into the picture. This Blog explains how to...
Introduction I got the requirement to update the database table using the excel sheet data provided by the end-user. End-user will provide different database table names and the corresponding excel data, we need to upload that particular excel data ...
Disclaimer: Needless to say, this may not address all the issues faced by developers and there may be other ways also to address this requirement. So, as always, explore and learn.... Inspired by: https://answers.sap.com/questions/12395917/aba...
This blog post is a follow-up blog post of https://blogs.sap.com/2019/08/27/abap-bapi-bo-class-generator/. In this post is explained what effect the Business object class parameters have on the generated code. The example below will be used to expl...
In some situations, it can be useful to be able to determine the names of the current class and method dynamically instead of using hard-coded strings. I find this particularly useful for logging purposes. I have a helper class which writes to the s...
When using the ABAP Test Cockpit (ATC) for statically and dynamically checking the quality of your ABAP code and related repository objects, some of the warnings and errors identified by the ATC aren't relevant in your specific scenario. Leaving err...
Secure Software Development Much has been said and written about this topic since Bill Gates’ famous memo to Microsoft employees in February 2002 and the shaping of Microsoft’s Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) as it was called back then in 2003 [...
A few days ago, the programming language COBOL celebrated its 60th birthday. The german IT news portal "heise online" has published an article. At first glance, this is not worth mentioning. The longer IT exists, the older the hardware, software and ...
In a series of customer workshops The main subjects are custom code migration towards S/4HANA and SAP Cloud Platform ABAP Environment with the new ABAP programming models for extensions. A lot of customers want to move their current custom code from...
Introduction Further to our earlier posts on SCN Question Read,automation of the task and sending email notification using Python here, let us now proceed to enhance the email content of the notification. When we look at popular email notifications t...
About pull requests Pull requests let you invite others to review changes you've pushed to a branch in a repository on GitHub. Once a pull request is opened, you can discuss and review the potential changes with collaborators and add follow-up commit...
When developing an OData service for searching for contact persons by name, I came across a scenario where the name contains the special character ' (single quote character). As an example, the user would like to search for contact persons with the ...
In order to use a CDS view we need to know which the fields available are. If we know the CDS View you need to go to the SQL View to know the fields. In SE11 we can’t directly see the CDS view, above image is an example for that. In-order to g...
This is a SAP Teched community session at Las Vegas Teched. I'd love to see you here! Do you have a great new idea that is shut down at your employers or past employers? Do you have coworkers that think you are a bit crazy for wanting to try ne...
This is a SAP Teched community session at Las Vegas Teched. I'd love to see you here! So my friends - those on pre-Hana systems and those that have moved to HANA systems. Do you want a place to sigh and just talk about ABAP? So here's the session...
When defining a variable containing a text of some sort in ABAP, which of the following options do you typically use? " Option 1 DATA(my_text) = `my text`. " Option 2 DATA(my_text) = 'my text'. Are you aware of the differences between these ...
Motivation Usually, in R/3 you see a common pattern: Spaghetti-Code within of program includes of a certain function group. Especially, in case of extensions of SAP standard this was required and caused the creation of big monoliths, whereby more tha...
Dear Community, as a programmer I'm always happy when data is structured. That makes working with it easier. Over the years I have been using different formats such as XML for example. A few years ago I heard about JSON for the first time. Unfortuna...
Introduction Further to our earlier posts on SCN Question Read and automation of the task using Python here, let us proceed to now automate the notification mechanism so that everyday at a certain time, an automated task now runs in the background,re...
See Part 1 to see how the data architecture was made. https://blogs.sap.com/2019/08/09/abap-fiori-elements-organizing-your-data-architecture-using-cds-views-building-from-scratch-walkthrough-ui-and-logic/ Note: I will be using ABAP Development T...
Introduction Further to our earlier post on SCN Question Read using Python here, let us proceed to automate the same task on the local machine(Desktop/Laptop) at the end user side for now, later we could explore cloud hosting. Instead of manually ru...
Introduction: In this blog post you will learn a use-case on concatenation of column values from multiple records and bring the data into single record in ABAP CDS views. Overview At some point in time we would have used the Function Module STATUS_TE...
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