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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

Carrying out a full-fledged inspection


For checking over 50 programs, you may use a reusable inspection. In this recipe, we will see how we can carry out such an inspection. Existing standard and custom variants may be used for this recipe. However, we will create variant and object sets from scratch. We will create a global inspection that will check all programs that begins with ZST9_*, and as well as create global variant and global object set.

As the name indicates, an object set is a collection of objects that may be comprising of ABAP programs, class, function groups, and classes. All repository objects may be assigned to an object set. An object set may also have a number of versions such as 001, 002, and so on.

How to do it...

Follow these steps:

  1. Call the SAP transaction SCI. The screen appears as follows:

  2. We will first create an object set (that is, the set of programs on which we need to run the inspection) of type global. For doing so, we will toggle the local icon so that the global...