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Mastering SAP ABAP

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

By: Paweł Grześkowiak, Philipp Deth, 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 (19 chapters)

Layouts and floorplans


Keeping in mind the philosophy of making simple, responsive, and task-oriented applications, while keeping them visually consistent and appealing, the SAP team delivered a bundle of several predefined and preconfigured templates and frameworks with SAP Fiori. Depending on the use case and complexity level, the bundle can be described in three categories—SAP Fiori elements, layouts, and floorplans. The first of these is a purpose-oriented set of ready-to-use templates, whereas layouts and floorplans are simple designs that comply with the Fiori guidelines, simultaneously allowing freedom of development.

 

SAP Fiori elements

The increased need for more and more SAPUI5 applications, which accompanied the introduction of the S/4 HANA suite, eventually led to the conclusion that most of them share some similar parts and concepts. Thus, it seemed inevitable that a set of predefined templates should be developed, which can be used almost without any major changes, to speed up...