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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

Creating simple transformations


In this recipe, we will see how we can create a simple transformation comprising of literal texts and no data root. We will use the transaction XSLT_TOOL.

How to do it...

We will carry out the following steps:

  1. Call the transaction XSLT_TOOL. Enter a suitable transformation name in the field provided (we give the name zst6_first). Then, press the Create button.

  2. This will display a dialog box asking you for the description and the type of the transformation. Enter a short description in the field provided. From the Transformation Type list box, make sure to choose the option Simple Transformation. Then, press Enter.

  3. From the screen that appears, choose the SourceCde tab. You will find the source code editor filled with the basic code.

  4. We will now write the code for our "simple" simple transformation. We will delete the root element. Within the template, we will add literal elements along with the necessary literal texts with and without identification. We create a...