Editor for message classes in Eclipse? (ABAP in Eclipse)

[Former Member]

Hello everybody,

i'm really very happy about the AiE, I started earlier with Java and waited nearly a decade till SAP came with this great tools for Eclipse! Finally developing in ABAP is (almost) fun.

To my question: Is it possible to edit Message Classes (which are usually edited in SE91) in Eclipse? I mean native ADT Tool.

When I click on some message class I get an error: Feature COM.SAP.ADT.MESSAGECLASS.messageclass_0.1.0 not available

I checked the Eclipse folders and there is nothing with messageclass in Folder Features (nor it is in the zip Package downloaded from SAP Download center), but there are two files in Plugin folder:

com.sap.adt.messageclass.ui_2.13.2.jar

com.sap.adt.messageclass_2.13.2.jar

Does anyone get this error too? Is there any solution, or do I have to edit message classes using "Open with SAP GUI..."?

I'm using newest ADT Version 2.13, Eclipse 4.2 and the Backend System is ECC 6.0 with SAP_ABA and SAP_BASIS 731 SP 007.

Thanx a lot and have a nice day!

[former_member186016]

Dear Ondrej,

Please refer to this SAP Note: 1861729 for the fix.

Best Regards,

Ashwani Kumar Sharma

[Former Member]

Thank you! Now it works. I had to use Package SADT_COMPATIBILITY (this is not mentioned in the Note but the correction program asks that) and restart Eclipse.

[former_member186016]

Great

Do provide your feedback on how you feel about existing editor and what you miss there.

Thanks and Regards,

Ashwnai Kr Sharma

[Former Member]

Hello Ondrej,

Thanks for the info. I had corrected the note with the package information.

Thanks

Prakash K

[Former Member]

Hi Ashwani,

I was just using the editor. Whenn I click on the message number (e.g. E032 in the coding line

message E032(ZLE_WD_SENDBILD) into result_data-message.) it will jump to correct message class, but not to the message 32 as I'm used to inside SAP GUI (SE80). This would be nice to have.

Another nice-to-have feature would be to show & and &1 - &4 with different color, so that it's more visible. (of course, this is not that important).

Have a nice day!

O.

[former_member186016]

Hi,

Thanks a lot of your inputs.

We have started working on the navigation to a specific message from source code already. This is expected to get enabled soon.

The other requirement is interesting. Would you like to see all parameters i.e. &1, &2 with same color or all of them with different colors ?

Regards,

Ashwani Kr Sharma

[Former Member]

Hi,

well, that is a good news!

About the colors: For sure only one color for all parameters, otherwise it may look like a clown.

Have a nice day!

O.

[former_member186016]

Thanks Ondrej.

We will take the input in implementation.

Best Regards,

Ashwani Kr Sharma