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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 folder options for page protection


In this recipe, we will see how we can create a folder comprising a number of lines(block of text ) so that they are all printed on the same page. If the space within a page is not enough for printing all the lines, the entire text block is printed on the subsequent page, that is, page protected.

How to do it...

For defining a folder with page protection, follow these steps:

  1. Right-click on the MAIN window. Then, from the context menu that appears, choose the option Create and then select Folder, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. Next, enter a suitable folder name. In the right-hand pane, on the Output Options tab of the created folder, check the Page Protection indicator.

  3. Then add a text under the given folder.

  4. Add three lines to the text.

  5. Save and activate your Smart Form.

How it works...

When the form output is generated, irrespective of the number of lines printed above our three-line text, a page protection is applied. If the space on the page is not...