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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

Changing header and ticket area at runtime


In this recipe, we will see how we can change the IDR header (title and ticket area) programmatically. In this case, the previously statically defined (through IDR configuration) ticket area and title are overridden. This concept applies to both the OIF and OVP Floorplans.

In this recipe, we will write the code for changing within the view (window) shown within a subview. When the particular subview is selected, the header title and ticket area will change. We will write the code in the component whose view is used as an UIBB in a subview. We will write the code in the respective view (WDDOINIT method).

How to do it...

For dynamically changing the IDR title and ticket area, proceed as follows:

  1. First, we define an attribute at the component controller level by the name MY_FPM_IDR based on the type IF_FPM_IDR.

  2. Next, we define a SET_IDR_TITLE_TICKET method in the component controller. Then, we will write the coding in the method. We first define a reference...