Flexible MS Excel documents with ABAP/4
I had a dream. Imagine document designers who don’t need to ask developers how to create or change an output layout of documents. Imagine developers who have one simple tool to work with MS Office...
View ArticleEnsuring Program documentation with ABAP editor capabilities
As per the ABAP programming standard of clients, we have to always maintain header text, Insert , Replace, Comment and Delete comment lines for future reference. If the program inline documentation...
View ArticleUnderstanding the basic flow of a program
I was going through the se93 transaction and came across Utility-->Call GraphThis Give us the hierarchical view of the source code. As an example go to se93 and put in a transaction code and click...
View ArticleIssues with copy window in Smartform and its solutions.
Issues with copy window in Smartform and its solutionsScenario :We got the scenario in which client wants 4 copies of the form with 4 different texts or multiple copies of smartform . As we all know,...
View Articleconvert word document into PDF via Adobe Livecycle Enterprise service
Hi Friends, currently I am working on a customer project regarding the usage of SAP document builder. Document builder is an ABAP webdynpro application which could allow you to main template part with...
View ArticleMild Rant: SAP Notes are getting harder to find
When I'm not on a project, or racking up points in Coffee Corner, my day job is SAP technical support at a government office. Often, a support issue presents itself as a weird error message that alarms...
View ArticleSAP 7.30 - Theme and Colors
Hello, Just wanted to share a few things concerning SAP 7.30. First of all, there exist a new theme called Corbu Theme in SAP 7.30. Option Icon > Options And choose the Corbu Theme, you'll get the...
View ArticleSix kinds of debugging tips to find the source code where the message is raised
I would like to share with you my debugging tip in my daily life, which makes my life much eaiser. In case you found your own tip are not listed here, please kindly comment it so that it could benefit...
View ArticleDark is the Sun ; Bright, the Sky
Dear All, First off this is very, very, technical, so unless you are in love with the minute details of ABAP programming you might not be that interested. Luckily, lots of people have just such a love...
View ArticleSingle step debugging on Macro
Hi Friends, I use a quite simple example to demonstrate: Execute the report, debugger will stop at line 23. Click this button: The debugger will automatically show tab as below: then we can execute...
View ArticleExtended Factory Design Pattern in ABAP
Factory pattern is one of the creational design patterns in object oriented design. This blog explains one of the approaches on how this pattern can be extended and implemented in ABAP Object Oriented...
View ArticleConceptual differences between OO ABAP and JAVA
I have been associated with JAVA and ABAP worlds from the start. Object Orientation in programming has gained more and more importance. OO ABAP and JAVA are object oriented programming styles. ABAP/4...
View ArticleResumable exceptions
Resume code execution after an exception has been thrown can be very useful in several different scenarios (i.e. processing multiple materials and you want to process all but skip only those where...
View ArticleHave fun with system log - your debugging activity is being recorded by System
Hi developers, I guess most of you have ever changed the variable content in the debugger every day, right?Suppose you are doing some evil thing ( for example, bypass the authorization check via...
View ArticleHow to Protect Your ABAP Code Against SQL Injection Attacks
SQL injection is one of the most common code injection attack methods, in which malicious SQL statements are inserted to execute unauthorized SQL statements in the database, e.g. read data or modify...
View ArticleFour different TEST ISOLATION techniques to build your ABAP unit test
Hi friends, As far as I know test isolation is widely used in SAP internal to build unit test code, at least in my team. Test isolation in unit test means that in your production code you make use of...
View ArticleA compare tool: Download and analyze the runtime performance result from SAT
I once participated one project which needs to do benchmarking about how much performance gain we can benefit after we move the whole CRM system on top of HANA.we plan to do it via steps below: 1. Run...
View ArticleWORK AROUND: NOT AUTHORIZED TO A TRANSACTION
Many abap developers may not have authorization to use many of the transactions. E.g. There is a way to use any transaction even though you don't have access. The Function module C14Z_TRANSACTION_CALL...
View ArticleA Generic way to find the place to store SAP GUI settings in your OS Registry
Hi Friends, Rahul Mahajan has written a great document to demonstrate where does the tcode lists in your SAP gui get stored. You may wonder how does he found that place.I will show you a generic way on...
View ArticleMIGRATE USR03 TABLE
Replace use of USR03 table SELECT * FROM usr03. CLEAR w_usr03. MOVE-CORRESPONDING usr03 TO w_usr03. I start with that, and then I have the this requirement "Due usr03 table is considered...
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