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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

Suppressing messages using pseudo comments


In this recipe, we will see how we can suppress messages (generated from checks) of a particular category so that they do not appear in the results tree. It is not possible to hide all messages. However, there are some that may be hidden. These are known as exception.

In this recipe, we will see the different ways of finding out whether a particular message may be hidden and the code for hiding such messages using pseudo-comments.

How to do it...

Carry out these steps:

  1. From the message results, navigate to the specific message that you like to suppress.

  2. Expand the message to display its details.

  3. Then, check if the icon is displayed before the message as shown in the following screenshot:
  4. Click the icon. This will display the dialog box, as shown in the following screenshot:
  5. Note the comment. This may be included in the coding with the statement that generated the message as shown as follows:

    SELECT * FROM ZTAB.                "EC# CI_NOWHERE

How it...