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SAP ABAP Advanced Cookbook

SAP ABAP Advanced Cookbook

By : Rehan Zaidi
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SAP ABAP Advanced Cookbook

SAP ABAP Advanced Cookbook

4.9 (7)
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.
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SAP ABAP Advanced Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
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Index

Creating nested tables


In this recipe, we will see how we can create a nested table. A nested table involves two internal tables, an inner and an outer table.

Before we dive into the details of creating our nested table, we will create two tables types in the ABAP dictionary. The first type ZST8_T_PERNR_ADDRESS is based on the line type shown as follows:

The table type ZST8_T_PERNR_GRADES is based on the on the line type shown as follows:

There has to be a connecting field or fields between the two. We keep the PERNR employee number as the connecting field between the two tables. We then create the interface based on ABAP dictionary type using transaction SFP.

We define two variables in the data definition, the interface EMPLOYEE_GRADES and EMPLOYEE_ADDRESS, as shown in the following screenshot:

How to do it...

We will now carry out the following steps:

  1. We create a new form using the transaction SFP. The name of the form is ZST8_NESTED_TABLES_EXAMPLE based on the interface defined earlier.

  2. Within...

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