Simple event handling in ABAP OOPS

Introduction:

This document is to show how to make a simple interactive report in OOPS by using event 'HOTSPOT_CLICK' present in standard sap class 'CL_GUI_ALV_GRID'.

I have taken a scenario of displaying the PO (Header and Item) data for a vendor by creating event driven interactive report. The program is created in ALV+OOPS. The interaction will be done on vendor number and PO document number.

The flow will be: - Vendor Details -> PO (Header) -> PO (Item)

Language Translation Tool for SAP Technical Objects

Purpose:

The tool developed increases the efficiency of language translation objects as it helps in avoiding human errors. This tool also does the translation for Reports, Function groups, Includes in seconds. This tool not only saves time for translation but also helps in reviewing the translation done with an additional Excel tool.

Traditional method of LT

In most of the cases the Language translation for various Custom Texts is made available in Excel worksheet.
Below is sample screen shot of the same.

ABAP News for Release 7.50 - ABAP Channels Reloaded

ABAP Channels (ABAP Messaging Channels AMC and ABAP Push Channels APC) were introduced with ABAP 7.40, SP02, SP05. They enable an event based bidirectional communication between ABAP application servers and with the internet. For that, a dedicated Push Channel Protocol (PCP) can be used since 7.40, SP08. Before ABAP 7.50, the communication between ABAP servers and the internet was restricted to the Web Socket Protocol (WS) and the AS ABAP acting as a stateless APC server. The following features are new with ABAP 7.50:

Output Catcher for ABAP

Output Catch is a small SAP server application to catch text on the presentation server from ABAP on the application server. You can send text direct to the editor of output catch, to a specific log file on the client, to a Windows debugger or to the Windows event protocol of the client.

It is very easy to use Output Catch:

1. Register the Destination OUTPUTCATCH with the TAC SM59.
2. Start the program OutptCatch.exe.
3. Fill the connection parameters.