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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

Adding tabstrips and listboxes to report selection screens


Within selection screens, tabstrips and listboxes may be displayed without the need of knowing or using the screen painter. This may be done using a few ABAP statements. In this recipe, we will see how tabstrips and listboxes may be added to selection screens. We will create a program that will contain a tabstrip containing two tabs, each containing a listbox representing country names. By default, we will have USA displayed on the first tab and Canada on the second.

How to do it...

For creating tabstrips and listboxes, follow the following steps:

  1. We create two Text Symbols, 001 and 002, that are to be used in the subsequent steps.

  2. First, we define a selection screen 100 as the subscreen. Within the subscreen we define a block that contains a listbox. On the subscreen, we will create a listbox for country that will, by default, show US (USA) as the country. The subscreen will be shown in the first tab of the tabstrip that we will be...