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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


FPM may be simply defined as templates that allow us to create large, complex, and big Web Dynpro applications quickly and easily without the need for excessive programming. Using the Floorplan framework, interface views of multiple components may be combined together to form an application. The interface views, within the FPM arena, are termed as a UI building blocks (UIBB).

We first create an application based on one of the four supported Floorplan designs. Then we create the application and component configurations using the configuration editor. There are four types of Floorplans:

  • Object Instances Floorplan (OIF)

  • Guided Activity Floorplan (GAF)

  • Quick Activity Floorplan (QAP)

  • Overview View Floorplan (OVP)

Our main emphasis in this chapter will be on the OIF and GAF Floorplan designs.

Here is a brief introduction of the two:

  • OIF: This Floorplan focuses on a particular object type such as an employee or sales order. It provides functionality such as Create, Change, Display, or...