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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

Creating GAF applications


In this recipe, we will see how we can develop and configure Guided Activity Floorplan (GAF) applications. By default, one single step is automatically added to the component configuration. We will create one main step (step 2) that will comprise of one substep. We will write coding that will display the substep after the Next button of the step 2 is clicked. There is no ticket area for a GAF application.

In this recipe, we will focus on the steps relevant to GAF applications.

Getting ready

We create a component by the name ZST8_GAF that comprised of views and windows shown in the following screenshot for the steps and substep:

The defined application is based upon the component FPM_GAF_COMPONENT and interface view is FPM_WINDOW.

How to do it...

Follow these steps:

  1. Within the configuration editor, one main step already exists. In addition, two toolbar buttons, Previous and Next buttons also exist.

  2. Select the main step and in the Attributes UIBB: WINSTEP1 panel, assign the...