Hi all,
it’s quite some time ago i wrote my last blog. Having two kids make it quite hard to find time and silence to write a blog which also make sense to read
🙂
My topic is ADT and how to get into it…
again?
But before we start. Have a look here and find out if you are able to use eclipse... if not you are welcome... but it won't help you at the moment.. sorry.
https://blogs.sap.com/2013/06/05/adt-feature-availability-matrix-for-as-abap-releases/
There’s some of me available how to do that.
Here
https://blogs.sap.com/2014/03/17/how-to-get-your-colleges-into-abap-in-eclipse/
And
Here
https://blogs.sap.com/2014/06/01/another-cool-features-of-abap-in-eclipse/
Yes.. I see many discussions on how to do it and want to share some strategies how to get there.
A few weeks ago I have seen a post on twitter that it is a timeconsuming task to get familiar with the tool. The short answer is Yes.
Link:
https://twitter.com/ThFiedler/status/1194910425810378752
Long answer: Yes, but it makes you more productive afterwards and also you have a lot more fun to write your statements. And just to extend my twitter-answer I wrote this blog.
Why?
Imagine you have a task to do… what are the typical transactions you use for it? And I do not use the mainly used topics like CDS, BOPF, Refactoring of Methods and all the other stuff which is covered in my other blogs above.
SE11 – Dictionary
SE80 – Workbench (includes SE24 – Class Editor, SE37 Function Modules, ATC...)
SAAB – Break Point ID (We want to make our Quality Management to be happy
🙂 )
And so on… You know what I am talking about and the fact, that we all know all these transaction codes out of the brain tell us, that we use it frequently. And then there is the point… 6 Modes… @**k.. What to close because I need the application to test and one additional window for my debugger….
But what if I tell you, that you can have a lot of them on one screen without navigation and without limited to 6 modes…
And if you still want to use the GUI.. you can see a tab also there. So no problem to know some transaction-codes.. but if you don’t want to know these, there is the ABAP-Favorites Plugin there… this makes it easy to clean up a part of the brain and remember more important things..for example all the shortcuts - F3 and SHIFT+D
🙂
If you want to know a lot more how the transactions and tools are integrated in eclipse this will help you for sure
https://blogs.sap.com/2017/02/20/new-faq-guide-for-smooth-transition-from-se80-to-abap-in-eclispe/
What are your thoughts? Feel free to comment or write your own blog about it.
Cheers Florian
BTW: I think the blogs mentioned are also worth to read. And if you are familiar with eclipse maybe this is something you could try:
https://blogs.sap.com/2017/03/24/taskorientated-work-with-eclipse-and-abap/