Application Development and Automation Blog Posts

Label Printing in SmartForms

NAVIGATION FOR LABEL PRINTING IN SMART FORMSSTEP 01: Open the smartForms application with Transaction Code ‘SmartFroms’.STEP 02: Go to the Form Interface and click on the Table Tab and enter the internal table name from the Driver Program (Suppose: ...

How to get your colleagues into ABAP in Eclipse

Hi,as the title provides, my new blog is about AIE. Now you can think, there is a own space out there and there is a lot of good content included, how eclipse work and what it does. indeed, you’re right, but this blog should give you some points, how...

Updating / Installing ADT behind a firewall

At my current client the internet connection works thru a firewall / proxy server.If I want to install or update the ABAP Development Tools for SAP NetWeaverSAP HANA ToolsUI Development Toolkit for HTML5etc.Eclipse always told me, that it can’t find ...

Usage patterns of ABAP SELECT-OPTIONS while consuming SAP HANA artifacts

What's in this documentThis document explains the different usage patterns of SELECT-OPTIONS while consuming SAP HANA artifacts from within ABAP.Introduction ABAP reports generally have SELECT-OPTIONS to enable end users to provide the selection...

Video Tutorials: How to model FPM applications and Gateway Services based on Business Entities (via SADL)

What's in this documentThis document explains how, using the tools available since SAP NetWeaver 7.40 SP5, you can quickly with ease model end-to-end FPM application and Gateway Service based on Business Entities via SADL.How to Create FPM Applicatio...

Tutorial: How to Configure Fuzzy Search in Search Help using CDS View

What's in this documentThis document describes how to configure Fuzzy Search in Search Help using CDS Views for ABAP. This feature is available in SAP NetWeaver 7.4 SP5 and higher.Scenario The objective of this document is show, how easy it is to ...

Parallel Processing Framework

The purpose of this post is to share a tool, well, not only a tool, a framework ... I like the term framework kind of sounds geek :grin: . This framework will always be under development ... so, feel free to provide some feedback. In order to keep ...

How to use C code via FBSL inside ABAP

Freestyle BASIC Script Language (FBSL), which is unfortunately not longer available, integrates a dynamic C JIT compiler, so is it possible to use ANSI C code inside FBSL. Here an example how to use ANSI C inside ABAP. "-Begin----------------------...

Dumps are your friend. A different way of thinking.

When I talk with people about ABAP quality, the way they think of dumps always amazes me.Most people believe dumps are their worst enemy. Actually they are not. Actually you're lucky if your software dumps.How is that?In order to understand this, we ...

General properties of ABAP Classes / Interfaces

Every day you create or change ABAP class in class builder. When you activate your change, have you noticed a series of objects with several "=" in the middle part of each? Technically speaking, an ABAP class consists of several parts. In order to ...

Automatic setting lock when creating the purchase requisition. BADI ME_PROCESS_REQ_CUST.

Task essence:My task was to set Block ID and Text automatically while end-user created purchase requisition in ME51N.Why do it? Because, it should be approved in another SAP module (PSM-FM) and only after this it can be converted to PO. ...

Delta Queries (Part 3)

Hi, The next piece of the Delta Queries puzzle is identifying deletes on the backend service collection. In order to do highly efficient change detection you need to be able to detect when a record has been removed from the collection on the se...

SAP HANA Tools now also available on Eclipse Updatesite

I'm really really happy to announce that since this week also the SAP HANA Tools are available on our Eclipse Tools Updatesite:SAP Development Tools for EclipseThat means you now have all the tools available in one place that you need for your develo...

A $batch and $filter tale of woe

Recently I had quite a complex query I needed to run over multiple dimensions so the most efficient way to do this was to create multiple OData Queries and put them into a batch. The code looked like: var oModel = sap.ui.getCore().getM...

Do you agree to write IF 1 = 0 in your production code

IMHO one purpose to write IF 1 = 0 code is to enable the cross reference of message raised in application code. I have written several blogs to discuss the tip how to find the source code where the error message in UI is raised. Most of the time you...

Delta Queries (Part 2)

In the first article we looked at what Delta Queries were and the use cases that it addresses. Now we will look at the mechanics of doing a delta query call and what the requests and responses will look like. As we mentioned at the start a typi...

Beyond Spreadsheets – Building a Successful Export Business for Kraft

Organizations around the globe continually face new challenges as they expand their businesses – and the Kraft Foods Group is no different. With a heritage that goes back more than 100 years, the company is one of the largest food and beverage compan...

Who Is On the Ideal Design Thinking Team? Part II

How to Assemble Your Team and Utilize Their Full PotentialIn the last post on this topic, we explained some of the different shapes of people you might find among your colleagues when it’s time for a design thinking session. This time around, we woul...

Hyperlink in Standard Text

Hello Guys,I would be explaining you a peculiar scenario that I have come acrossduring a Function Module development.It is about creating hyperlinks in standard texts.We had a requirement wherein the Portal Team had to trigger an applicationwhich int...

Multipart Emails

One of our customers requested data from SAP sent to him via Email. The data was a table and the customer complained that the presentation wasn't a in tabular form. Well, that is how plain text emails are working, you are sending text and the client ...

Synchronising custom programs across system landscape as part of housekeeping activity

Sometimes as part of housekeeping activity we need to bring the custom programs/ function modules in synch with the Production System across all the SAP Boxes in the landscape.Here, I give a brief overview of how that can be implemented with a custom...

Denormalizing Authorization Tables For Easy Audit Of User Authorizations

Here is the situation:You come to a new customerYou don't want to change anything in already existing systemsYou don't want to depend on anything but your own scripts and tools.You want to get an overview of the security settings quickly....or you ar...

New ADT Features available now for NW 7.31 with Support Package 11

Last year before Christmas we have shipped a new version of the ABAP development tools for eclipse. The version 2.19 contains some new cool features in the code editors and the eclipse debugger. You find the details in my blog post: Get ABAP Deve...

Vendor classification in Vendor master

I was searching for reports which can give up a report of Vendor classification used in vendore master.This blog is about getting the report for vendor classification in the Vendor master data. Also you can use this in many places to build your own l...

SMARTFORMS using BIDIRECTIONAL LANGUAGES

Requirement: We have a current requirement where we need to print both ENGLISH and ARABIC texts and numerals in the same output form for Purchase Orders, Sales Orders, and Invoices etc.Issue Faced: The smart forms while getting printed either shows ...

Change Pointers in R/3

Introduction:This document explains how to track the Material Master Data changes using change pointers in SAP R/3 environment.Let us understand by taking following example - The requirement is to track the Material Master changes in SAP R/3 environm...

Generic Program for Table Update

To update transparent database tables, ‘create entries’ option in transaction SE11, or creating and using a table maintenance generator for tables, or creating custom programs could be used. However, using ‘create entries’ or maintenance generator, a...

Delta Queries (Part 1)

This is to my mind the greatest new features for OData and for Gateway 7.4 SP7 is the support for OData 4.0 Delta Queries. Recently I was running one of the partner enablement bootcamps for SMP 3.0 and found out there was little documentation ...

Securing SAP HANA with the Operating System

IT security is a very important topic in almost any organization. Newspapers report frequently about new IT security incidents like hacked websites, successful Denial-of-Service attacks, stolen user data like passwords, bank account numbers and other...

ABAP Block Highlighting

Recently, I saw some questions in this community related to the structure of your ABAP coding: "How can I navigate to the end-statement of an IF-Block?" or "Where does my current ABAP code blocks start or end?"I would like to show you in this blog ho...

How to Find attachments in SAP documents.....!!!

* To check if the document contains any attachments. *In many scenario we need to check if the document contains any attachments and I have also explored and found one function module which works for all documents types. The name of function module i...

Neuer kundenspezifischer Design Thinking Workshop verfügbar und buchbar!

Seit einem Jahr lernen SAP Kunden und Partner bereits den Design Thinking Ansatz in einem 2-tägigen Workshop kennen und erfahren Design Thinking anhand konkreter Anwendungsfälle. Dieser Workshop ist offen für alle Interessierten und wird regelmässig ...

How to add a view into favourite

The idea comes from Sougata Chatterjee's anwser in this thread: Suppose I need to add the maintenance view COMV_PARTNER_FCT to my favorite list. I expect once the entry in the favorite list is double clicked, it will automatically navigate to the vie...

My favourite cryptic ST22 dumps around CL_GUI_ALV_TREE

Before you read this: I’ve spent some time debugging the things I describe here, I thoroughly searched SCN, I used my brain and although it can sound like one big low-brainer what I describe here, I still think it is worth writing about it. I don’t t...

MAKE SPACE - but do you really do it?

Yesterday I had a very interesting and inspiring discussion with two researcher from the d.school Stanford about the AppHaus in Heidelberg regarding usage of space and the importance of space for collaborative and creative (team) work.As we all know ...

Purchase order and Sales Document maintain in dialog mode

Sometimes the task is not to create order through Bapi, because in this case it will be saved,if not error occured. If you need to go into a standard transaction, passingwith some header information and items. Here are fragments of programs thatmake ...

Compliance Qualification Tracking via Assessments & Tests

Knowledge, Skill & Performance Assessments and Tests are more critical than ever, especially within such industries as Utilities, Financial Services, Public Sector, and High Tech where knowledge needs to be assessed through testing and certifications...

Is Kernel BADI 'really' faster than Classic BADI ?

Author: Abyson Joseph Chavara Created on : 04.03.2014 Introduction SAP Business Add-Ins (BAdIs) are one of the most important technologies used to adapt SAP software to specific requirements. As of Release 7.0 of the SAP NetWeaver Applicatio...

First Screen Personas Project

We just recently completed our first Personas project for a customer and are having the handover today. It was quite an interesting project and we learned a great deal. Working with our customer we were able to significantly simplify and consolidate...

XSOData and UI5

Recently I was building an internal project using Hana and UI5. The basic idea was to create some tables on the backend and expose them with XSOData patched with a custom exit for creating the record on the backend. That aside, the XSOdata code...

Mock specific classes with mockA

With mockA it is quite easy to mock interfaces for unit tests. But it is also capable of creating mock objects that are not based only on interfaces, but specific classes. This blog post shows how it works and what needs to be considered.BasicsCreati...

Change fieldcatalog and layout of ALV after its initial display.

We can do any number of modification to the fieldcatalog and layout of ALV grid even after it has been displayed on the screen, we can hide certain columns , change the column text, change the column position etc. We can achieve all this simply by us...

A handy RTTC tool

In one of my project the data type of the variable to hold service consumption result is not known in design time so I have to generate the data type dynamically via code, using ABAP RTTC( runtime type creation ). For detail of RTTC and dynamic pro...

Data not displayed in Excel in ALV report

In ALV report , when we click on Microsoft Excelbutton(CTRL+SHIFT+F7) as shown below, the excel sheet does not display data. For data to appear here do the following :1. Open Excel2. Click on Office Button at the top and click > Excel Opt...

Scheduling Periodic Job within a particular timeframe

Scheduling Periodic Job has one limitation , We can not schedule the job for a particular time frame . Lets Say if you want to schedule the job every one minute for one week only .In order to achieve this , we have to schedule the periodic job whi...

Changing a private attribute from outside the Instance/Class

Hello my fellow ABAPers(others are welcome too!).When first facing object orientation in ABAP, some of you have probably tried to do something like this (at least I did..): CLASS lcl_fs_test DEFINITION. PRIVATE SECTION. DATA: priv TYPE c LENGTH...

Controlling the domain fixed value append from a switched package

Value range of a domain can be restricted by maintaining the fixed values while creating the domain. These fixed values are used for the input check on the screens. If no fixed values are maintained or if few fixed values are already defined for a do...

Create scheme from DDIC

Did you ever had the need of creating a xml scheme out of DDIC tables/structures ?I was searching in google for some ideas as this should be a quite common problem. But most of the solutions ended up in too much coding (using functions from function ...

Customizing ESS Welcome page In Sap

This document explains how to add text on Employee self-services Welcome page.To achieve this we need to copy the below configurations into Z name space and customize them as shown in the below steps. a. Component confi...

Automate distribution of quantity in MIGO

Requirement:With respect to a production order AUTOMATE the distribution of quantity (basically split production order quantity) and assign batch numbers from an existing ztable to each line split while doing a Goods Receipt with reference to a produ...

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