Enhancement-point VS Enhancment-Section

[Former Member]

HI All,

Could you please let me know the use of Enhancement-Point and Enhancement-Section.

Thanx in Advance.

Regards

ambi

[Former Member]

HI All,

Could you please let me know the use of Enhancement-Point and Enhancement-Section.

Thanx in Advance.

Regards

ambi

[Former Member]

Hi,

For Enhancemnet Pls refer to this link-

Enhancement Framework

OR

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/94/9cdc40132a8531e10000000a1550b0/content.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/42/d356adddec036fe10000000a114cbd/content.htm

Reward if Helpful.

Regards

Chandralekha

[Former Member]

Hi Ambika,

Whenever enhancement needs to be incorporated directly into the ABAP source code, source code enhancement technology shall be provided. Implementing this technology is also called as Source Code Plug-In. There are two types of Source Code enhancements possible.

u2022 Implicit enhancement option

u2022 Explicit enhancement option

Note that, in order to implement any of these Source code enhancements, you need to be in the u2018Change Enhancement modeu2019 (the spiral icon available in the editor).

Technically the source code plug-in implementations are stored in a separate include program and not as part of the original source program.

Implicit enhancement option

Throughout the ABAP system, enhancement options are automatically available at certain pre-defined places. Some of the implicit options are:

u2022 At the end of all the programs (Includes, Reports, Function pool, Module pool, etc.), after the last statement

u2022 At the beginning and end of all FORM subroutines

u2022 At the end of all Function Modules

u2022 At the end of all visibility areas (public, protected and private) of local class

To view all the implicit options available in a source code, choose u2018Edit -> Enhancement Operations -> Show Implicit Enhancement Optionsu2019 from the editor.

You donu2019t need to have an explicitly defined enhancement spot in order to implement these enhancements. Just position the cursor on any of these implicit points and choose u2018Create Enhancementu2019 from the menu to implement it.

Explicit enhancement option

The Implicit enhancement options are provided at specific source code places explicitly by SAP (Note that these enhancement definitions can also be created by partners and customers in their code).

There are two types of Explicit Enhancement options available. One which can be provided at a specific place - called Enhancement Point, and another which can be used to replace a set of statements u2013 called Enhancement Section. For this, we now have two new ABAP statements, viz.

u2022 ENHANCEMENT-POINT

u2022 ENHANCEMENT-SECTION

When the Enhancement-Section is implemented, only the implementation gets executed and the original code doesnu2019t get executed. This is a new technique, which didnu2019t exist previously in any of the old ways of enhancing, to exclude any standard SAP code from execution. Because of this, there can be only one active implementation of an Enhancement-Section. On the other hand, there can be multiple active implementations of an Enhancement-Point, in which case all the implementations will be executed with no guarantee in the order of execution.

For more information refer the following link.

[https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/nw-development?rid=/webcontent/uuid/2342e1f3-0b01-0010-a186-fdd404884050] [original link is broken];

Refer the pdf in the link.

Thanks,

Surya

[Former Member]

Hi,

Also chck out these links,

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/9cd334f3-0a01-0010-d884-f5612003...

/people/thomas.weiss/blog/2006/03/15/the-new-enhancement-framework-part-2--what-else-you-need-to-know-before-building-an-enhancement

/people/thomas.weiss/blog/2006/01/24/what-the-new-enhancement-framework-is-for-150-its-basic-structure-and-elements-for-beginners

/people/thomas.weiss/blog/2006/04/03/how-to-define-a-new-badi-within-the-enhancement-framework--part-3-of-the-series

/people/thomas.weiss/blog/2006/04/18/how-to-implement-a-badi-and-how-to-use-a-filter--part-4-of-the-series-on-the-new-enhancement-framework

/people/thomas.weiss/blog/2006/05/03/source-code-enhancements--part-5-of-the-series-on-the-new-enhancement-framework

Reward if helpful

Regards,

Chandralekha

[Former Member]

HI Chandralekha,

I could understand somewhat after reading those blogs, but could not understand what is the difference between enhancemnt-point and enhancement-section.

As I have read both are used for explicit enhancement options. If both are for the same purpose, then why we are using both....

thanx in advance

[Former Member]

Hi Ambika,

Please check this link

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/91/f1e540f8648431e10000000a1550b0/content.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/81/9a3942ec4ae22ce10000000a1550b0/content.htm

The ABAP statements ENHANCEMENT-POINT and ENHANCEMENT-SECTION identify positions where code can be inserted or replaced. The enhancement implementations are regular repository objects and are assigned to a development package in the customeru2019s namespace when they are created.

The enhancement spots are used to manage explicit enhancement options. Enhancement spots carry information about the positions at which enhancement options were created. One enhancement spot can manage several enhancement options of a Repository object. Conversely, several enhancement spots can be assigned to one enhancement option.

Best regards,

raam

[dinesh_kumar45]

There are two types of Explicit Enhancement options available. One which can be provided at a specific place - called Enhancement Point, and another which can be used to replace a set of statements – called Enhancement Section

[former_member196768]

Hi Ambika,

Enhancement Point and Enhancement Section are used during explicit enhacement.

The basic difference is

Enhancement Point -

If you have written code using enhacement point your custom code will be executed along with the standard code.

Enhancement Section -

If you have written code using enhancement section, only your custom code will be executed replacing standard code. standard code will not be executed.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Siddhesh Satghare.

[pramodrepaka]

This one is very clear in saying their difference. Good one siddhesh.