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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

Introduction


There are three types of screens within the SAP R/3 system, namely dialog screens, list, and the selection screen. Selection screens are used for taking input from the user. They are formed by using ABAP statements without the screen painter. A selection screen may comprise of input fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, tabstrips, and list boxes.

This chapter explores useful recipes that will help you in building better selection screens for your programs as well as allow the addition of certain features for improving the user experience. We will start with the first recipe that will show how to add toolbar buttons to your program's selection screen. Then, we will see how tabstrips and list boxes may be added on screens. Next, a recipe that will show how radio button inputs may be used to hide or unhide other screen fields.

We will also see how standard function modules may be used to provide a browsing facility to the user and take as input names of folder and files residing on...