Practical Guide to SAP ABAP Part 1: Conceptual Design, Development, Debugging
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This book offers a comprehensive practical guide to SAP ABAP for ABAP professionals. Part I of this two-part series lays the groundwork with ABAP basics. Readers will learn fundamental methods and procedures for everyday ABAP use— for example, how to download files from SAP directories to workstations. Dive into the SAP Data Dictionary and how it works. Get detailed information on effective debugging techniques and how to use the SAP Debugger. Clarify when it is best to use standard SAP tables vs. Z-tables. Get expert developer tips and tricks including how to navigate ALV grid lists. Understand the documentation programs available to you and how to use them. Obtain useful reference lists of SAP transactions and SAP database tables. By using practical examples, tips, and screenshots, the author brings readers up to speed on the fundamentals of SAP ABAP.
- How to get the most out of SAP ABAP
- Guide for understanding and using the SAP Data Dictionary
- Beginner and advanced debugging techniques
- Expert ABAP development techniques
Reading Example
2.1 SE11 – Entry to ABAP dictionary
Figure 2.1: Transaction SE11 – the SAP ABAP Data Dictionary
The SAP ABAP Data Dictionary provides data to create, modify, test, activate, delete, and copy:
- Tables
- Views
- Data types (data elements, structures, and table types)
- Type groups
- Domains
- Search help
- Lock objects
In addition, it offers a set of tools for setting the properties of the dictionary objects, their extensions, their uses, and their environmental analyses.
Environment analysis
By clicking the icon, you come to the environmental analysis of a dictionary object. The environment analysis shows the relation of a dictionary object to other dictionary objects (see Figure 2.2).
Figure 2.2: Environment analysis of tables
Where-used list
By clicking the where-used list icon, you can analyze which SAP objects (programs, classes, etc.) a dictionary object uses. Figure 2.3 shows an example of the where-used list of the table BUT000 (business partner).
Figure 2.3: Where-used list of database tables