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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

Printing several forms in one spool request


In this recipe, we will see how printed multiple forms may be included in a single spool request. We will create a number of form pages comprising employees data. Each page will contain one employee's salary information. The recipe will focus on the important parts of the program related to Smart Form processing. We assume that an internal table EMPLOYEE_LIST exists that contain the employee numbers of all personnel to be processed.

How to do it...

Follow these steps:

  1. First, we call the function module SSF_FUNCTION_MODULE_NAME in order to get the name of the Smart Form function module. The form name is passed to the function module. The myfunction variable is based on the type RS38l_FNAM (not shown in the following screenshot):

  2. Then appropriate variables are defined for the Smart Form control structure and output options based on dictionary structures.

  3. The function module SSF_OPEN is then called.

  4. A loop is run on the internal table employee_list for...