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SAP ABAP Advanced Cookbook

By : Rehan Zaidi
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SAP ABAP Advanced Cookbook

By: Rehan Zaidi

Overview of this book

ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming) is SAP's proprietary 4th Generation Language (4GL). SAP core is written almost entirely in ABAP.ABAP is a high level programming language used in SAP for development and other customization processes."SAP ABAP Advanced Cookbook"ù covers advanced SAP programming applications with ABAP. It teaches you to enhance SAP applications by developing custom reports and interfaces with ABAP programming. This cookbook has quick and advanced real world recipes for programming ABAP.It begins with the applications of ABAP Objects and ALV tips and tricks. It then covers Design Patterns and Dynamic Programming in detail.You will also learn the usage of quality improvement tools such as transaction SAT, SQL Trace, and the Code Inspector.Simple transformations and its application in Excel Downloading will also be discussed, as well as the newest topics of Adobe Interactive Forms and the consumption and creation of Web services. The book comes to an end by covering advanced usage of Web Dynpro for ABAP and the latest advancement in Floorplan Manager.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
SAP ABAP Advanced Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Sending e-mail to Internet e-mail addresses


In this recipe, we will see how we can modify the existing program so that, instead of the SAP user, we can send the same e-mail to an Internet address. We will make a copy of the same program and add additional code. The class that is to be used, in this case, is cl_bcs_cam_address (instead of the cl_sapuser_bcs class). The method create_internet_address will be used for creating Internet user addresses.

How to do it...

We will now see the changes we need to make to the given program:

  1. Instead of the myrecipient object reference being based upon the class cl_sapuser_bcs, we will use the class cl_cam_address_bcs.

  2. Next, we will call the method create_internet_address of the cl_cam_addess_bcs class for creating an e-mail address.

  3. We may remove the i_express parameter assignment from the add_recipient method call of the cl_bcs class (since the e-mail is going to an e-mail address outside the SAP system, pop-up express messages are irrelevant).

  4. Next we define...