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Mastering SAP ABAP

By : Paweł Grześkowiak, Wojciech Ciesielski, Wojciech Ćwik
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Mastering SAP ABAP

By: Paweł Grześkowiak, Wojciech Ciesielski, Wojciech Ćwik

Overview of this book

Advanced Business Application Programming (ABAP) is an established and complex programming language in the IT industry. This book is designed to help you use the latest ABAP techniques and apply legacy constructions using practical examples. You'll start with a quick refresher on language and database concepts, followed by agile techniques for adding custom code to a modern ABAP system. After this, you will get up to speed with the complete ABAP toolset for importing data to and from different environments. Next, you'll learn how to print forms and work with the different ABAP tools for Extensible Markup Language (XML) manipulation. While covering further chapters, you'll gain insights into building stunning UI5 interfaces, in addition to learning how to develop simple apps using the Business Object Processing Framework (BOPF). You will also pick up the technique of handling exceptions and performing testing in ABAP. In the concluding chapters, you can look forward to grasping various techniques for optimizing the performance of programs using a variety of performance analysis tools. By the end of this book, you will have the expertise you need to confidently build maintainable programs in Systems, Applications, and Products (SAP).
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Classic DynPro


As some may not know the basics of classics DynPro, I will start with a short introduction explaining how we can call screens or types of screens. If you have some knowledge of screens, you can skip this part.

Firstly, we need to know what types of screens exist. The classic DynPro screen is divided into four different types, as follows:

  • Normal
  • Subscreen
  • Modal dialog box
  • Selection DynPro (also known as the selection screen)

Normal is a regular screen, which is mostly used to create a screen. Subscreen is used when we want to embed another one. The modal dialog box is a screen that does not take up the whole screen, like a popup.

As previously stated, classic DynPro is called using the CALL SCREEN. All screens are numbered with up to four digits. We can use a number from 1 to 9999. The number 0 is not allowed.

When we click on CALL SCREEN, we can create a screen using a number of our choice.

For example, when we use CALL SCREEN 100, we are asked whether we want to create a screen; if...