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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

Calling dialog boxes of same component


In this recipe, we will see how we can display a dialog box based on a view of the same component. We will create a MAIN view in the MAIN window and another view by the name POP_UP in a new window, WIND_POP_UP. We will then create a button on the MAIN view, which when clicked will display the POP_UP view as a dialog box.

How to do it...

We will now carry out the following steps:

  1. We will define a public attribute by the name MY_WINDOW to the IF_WD_WINDOW interface.

  2. We will have a main view embedded within the MAIN window.

  3. In addition, we will create a POP_UP view embedded within a WIND_POP_UP window.

  4. On the MAIN view, we will create a button.

  5. On action button event handler method, we will write the appropriate code for calling the POP_UP view as a pop-up dialog box. We use the WD_GET_API method of the component controller to get access to the relevant APIs. The GET_WINDOW_MANAGER function is then called in order to get reference to the IF_WD_WINDOW_MANAGER...