The Amityville Horror – Part 3 What happens when one of the most widely used custom ABAP reports in your business is so complicated and fragile that you are scared of it and hide under the desk whenever its name is mentioned? Worse still, there are...
How to implement GOS for standard transaction VA01/VA02/VA03 Contents Problem Statement: 1.1 Issue: 1.2 Example. 1.3 Resolution Approach: Process to be followed: ...
SAP API Business Hub is a central catalog of SAP and selected partner APIs to search, discover, test and consume these APIs in order to build extensions or integrations using the Cloud Platform. URL: https://api.sap.com Since SAP API Hub launched in ...
In my previous blog Functional programming – Simulate Curry in ABAP I simulate a very important concept "Curry" in functional programming world using ABAP. In that blog I use the curry idea in the example below: output: jerry-java In this blog, as...
As I mentioned in What should an ABAPer continue to learn as an application developer, function programming language is a mind -blower to ABAPers who have got used to ABAP as an imperative programming language. One of important concept in functiona...
You might have noticed it. SAP has a new cool Help Portal. Associated with the new look and feel is a new Contents Management System (CMS) that we internally call UACP (User Assistance Contents Platform) on which all documentation of SAP should resid...
For space requirements this blog has been split in 4 parts: Link Content This part Hierarchy evaluation using CDS Table Function in S/4 Step 1 – Hierarchies in S/4 HANA Analytics Step 1 – Hierarchies in S/4 HANA An...
Having reliable unit tests not only makes our programs stable, they also give us freedom to look for problems, tweak things here and there, or even make design changes. Why? Well, software development is an iterative process, there's always something...
Industrial IoT (aka Industry 4.0) makes it possible to integrate machines and sensors on the shop floor with IT systems along the entire value chain, even beyond a single enterprise. These connected systems can interact with one another using standar...
Editing Abap code with Notepad++ Maybe like me, you are doing some remote work with using RDP connections or Citrix. It can be very slow sometimes even if you tweak the settings of your RDP connection or Citrix by putting an awkward 8 bit resolution,...
Hi ABAP community, for me the ABAP elementinfo in eclipse is one of the most powerful features of ADT. Whenever you need some information about a development object in the editor just click F2 and you have it. It is even more powerful since we intro...
Hi ABAP community, the new client version 2.73 of the ABAP development tools for eclipse is out now. This is the client that perfectly fits to the AS ABAP version 7.51 SP01 but it comes with a really cool addition to the ABAP editor breadcrump which...
The Amityville Horror – Part 2 What do you do when you have to change a program that is so badly structured the merest touch will smash it like glass? In a prior blog I outlined the general problem:- https://blogs.sap.com/2017/02/17/the-amityvill...
Did you ever need to render some piece of text or html most of which is predefined and just a few spots must be filled with dynamic content? If so, you most probably know about template engines. And most probably you've heard about Mustache. Mustach...
On December 10 of last year I made my first physical event for the SAP community here in Brazil, the ACR (ABAP Code Retreat). For me a mix of great joy and a lot of fear of failure, because as I wrote, it was my first event (what responsibility!). I...
Programming is a really satisfying job. At least most of the time. Personally, I find it very satisfying to be; working on a topic, thinking about the process, the logic, the possible solutions, trying things out, learning and at the end being able t...
In a recent but meanwhile deleted discussion, the question was how to compare fields of one and the same database table in a SELECT statement. For experienced ABAPers or those who have a look into the documentation it is clear that the solution can ...
The Amityville Programming Horror Can an old program be so monstrous and scary, you are terrified to change it? This fine day, I was asked to add some new functionality to a program I had written back in the year 2000. I instantly st...
Introduction: This document shows the usage of the class & method cmd_ei_api=>maintain. It mainly focusses on creation of contact person and deletion of customer/contact person. Customer/Contact person can be created, updated, deleted using...
In a few cases it is necessary to mockup different application designs and with real data. Here is one easy example how to realize this kind of requirement with web scenario in a very flexible approach. To communicate with the SAP application serv...
This post by SAP Product Security Response Team shares information on Patch Day Security Notes* that are released on second Tuesday of every month and fix vulnerabilities discovered in SAP products. SAP strongly recommends that customers visit the Su...
This is an interview question from Wechat development team. The candidates are required to answer with JavaScript. Nevertheless I think it is also beneficial for an ABAPer if we master the design pattern contained in this question - Publish and Subsc...
It is a good development practice to provide value help on selection screen. In contrast with date field month does not come with standard value help. Instead of coding month value help in each report I recommend defining generic one in common includ...
In the previous post I was talking about what makes great software, which according to the Head First OOA&D book that I'm following, it resumes to 3 aspects: Great software satisfies the customer. Great software is flexible. Great software is ...
In a normal case it isn't possible to use NCo inside VBA, because NCo isn't COM visible. Here now a solution how to do it nevertheless. You can use NCo in VBA via a COM bridge to PowerShell. I presented here the possibility to use PowerShell via this...
Forms usually have certain fixed sections like Company Logo, Company Address at the Bottom, Bank details, Legal requirements (like FSSAI number in case of Food materials in India), certain Warnings (like ‘Dangerous goods, Handle carefully’) etc. whic...
International Editable SALV Day 2017 – Year Nine Dear CL_SALV_TABLE Fans, Welcome to February 8th, 2017 which is the ninth International Editable SALV Day. See below for a link to a blog I wrote to celebrate this day exactly one year ago:- https...
Many users safely employ macros to streamline repetitive processes. Unfortunately, many cybercriminals also use macros to hide malicious code in an attempt to steal information or money. After several quiet years, macro malware is experiencing a com...
This is a short blog about the limitations of Olingo oData 2.0, Which i came across while implementing the Olingo OData 2. Refer the previous blogs on Olingo OData 2.0 implementations using JPA based applications. As of now, aggregations is not po...
Chrome 56 has been tested by the SAP test teams with NetWeaver versions 7.02, 7.30, 7.31, 7.40 and 7.50. Tests for UI5 , V1, V2, 1.40,1.42, 1.44 and the latest masterBranch were executed as well. Suite Test Engineering has also executed central qual...
Usually REST APIs produce minimized JSON without any line breaks or indentation, which preserves bandwidth and is fine if a machine is reading the produced JSON. If however the intended audience mainly consists of humans, e.g. if the JSON files need...
Firefox 51 Rapid Release Cycle (RRC) is out on January 24, 2017 and available for download. Users can view passwords in the save password prompt before saving them Added a zoom button in the URL bar A warning is displayed when a login page doe...
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This blog is for the beginners who find difficult to understand binding of odata. All you have to do is to trust Descriptor Editor in manifest.json and it will take care of your complex code to be written in manifest.json and neo-app.json. Make t...
Welcome to the ABAP Code Retreat Last Saturday morning (january 21st 2017) we welcomed 18 eager developer at our office in the Meern. It was time for the first Dutch ABAP Code Retreat. A whole day worth of ABAP programming, under the guidance of Dami...
Sometimes we have to copy legacy data from a SAP system to another one, and some types of data are less easy to copy than some others. GOS attachments are stored on the SAP system. They can be added/managed from the Generic Object Services (GOS) dro...
SAP is in an interesting spot with ABAP. There are a lot of newer and better ways to things, but a lot of old things also work. Trying to get the benefits of the new ways while using existing business logic which was written the old way always throws...
Design Patterns in ABAP – Visitor (Part 3) To recap, the aim of the game is to solve a real business problem I encountered (albeit heavily disguised in my examples) by using the classic “Visitor” pattern. This is to see if this design pattern has a...
Developing intuitive software that users want to use requires many aspects of design coming together. To help you to improve your design skills, we have a variety of design courses starting soon on openSAP. Basics of Design Research – Starts January...
You can translate all node (transaction’s) title texts and the structure title into any logon language. GO to PFCG -> menu tab Select the transaction (node) for which you need to maintain (or translate) the text. Go to-> additional activities->t...
If you want to rename ABAP classes, methods or variables you have two possibilities: Feel the pain or use Eclipse... It's pretty simple! Just right click on the object and choose "Rename": But that's not all - every reference will be re...
ABAP's reflection (and/or type introspection of you want to make that distinction) capabilities consist mostly of the CL_ABAP_*DESCR-classes and the DESCRIBE statement. To get information on a class for example you might have seen code like this: DAT...
Security is all around us. We have firewalls, VPN’s, encryption and policies. Yet still it seems that millions, and in some cases billions of records, (our information, our documents, our money and our private details) are stolen from so called secur...
Design Patterns in ABAP – Visitor (Part 2) To very briefly recap, in this exercise I am trying to solve a real world business problem (heavily disguised using monsters) using the so-called “Visitor” design pattern, implemented in ABAP. In the pr...
ODATA Binding-- Aggregation Binding using Northwind Service I found several articles/blogs for data binding. After going through SAP open portal Courses, here's one more attempt to create a blog for data binding for beginners, highlighting key conce...
Some colleagues complained that when they consume CDS view in ABAP source code, for example the view below: I_Product The reason is our team use "Keyword Uppercase" in Pretty Printer setting, and the printer implementation will not differentiate CD...
Sometimes during system refresh or upgrade, basis team forget to turn off the mail settings in SCOT. This results in sending emails from non productive environment and creates a big impact for business and increases support team effort. In this blog,...
You probably know that it is possible to customize the Code Inspector in order to check the naming conventions of your variables. This is really useful and flexible. But there is a problem: the check is done across all sub-objects of your program me...
In the ABAP Development Tools for Eclipse one useful feature is code templates. With them you can easily insert boilerplate template code and adjust it as necessary. ADT already comes with many available, but you can also define your own, some of whi...
In a recent discussion, sisley_dsi pointed me to something that was not clear in my mind and therefore not made clear in the documentation (although one might have deduced it one or the other way). It is about how the logon language of an RFC sessio...
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