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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


This chapter explores useful recipes related to the programming of e-mail sending. We will start with a brief overview of BCS and the various classes available. Then we will see a simple recipe that will generate an e-mail to an SAP user in his or her inbox. Then, we will show how the same program may be changed in order to send the e-mail to Internet e-mail addresses.

We will then add attachments such as an Excel (XML file) to the e-mail. Creating HTML documents will also be discussed. Finally, we will create a program that will execute another ABAP program, convert its output into PDF, and attach the PDF to an e-mail message.

We will see the most important and commonly used classes (and their methods) used for e-mail creation. In addition to e-mail programming classes such as CL_BCS and CL_BCS_DOCUMENT, we will also see classes such as CL_CONVERT_BCS that are used for converting files into appropriate formats suitable for attaching to e-mail documents.

Throughout the chapter...