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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

Using form elements and scripting to create interactive forms


In this recipe, we will see how we can create a simple interactive form with form elements and some script written in FormCalc language. We will create an example where we create three fields on the screen and a button that will calculate the total of the value of the first two fields and display within the third field.

Getting ready

From the Adobe LiveCycle Designer, choose the menu option Edit and then select Form Properties. On the Defaults tab, within the Preview block, select Interactive Form within the Preview Type drop-down list and Acrobat 8 (Dynamic) XML Form for the XDP Preview Format drop-down list.

How to do it...

Follow these steps:

  1. We create a new interface. We add three amount fields in the global definition of the interface.

  2. We create a new form using the interface and include the three variables defined in the interface. On the layout editor, add three fields for each of the three variables created earlier in the context...