SAP Screen Personas for Web Dynpro ABAP – Cross Session Scripting

Introduction

With SAP Screen Personas there is now the option to add client-side scripting to existing Webdynpro for ABAP applications.

With scripting it’s now possible to automate re-occurring or complex tasks. However there is a technical restriction: The script is always tied to the (technical) application. There is no possibility to define a script, which runs across different applications or even different browser windows. This heavily limits the applicability of scripting for automation.

How to use C code via FBSL inside ABAP

The actual release candidate of Freestyle BASIC Script Language (FBSL) integrates a dynamic C JIT compiler, so is it possible to use ANSI C code inside FBSL. And with FBSLX, a COM library, you can use FBSL inside ABAP.

Here an example how to use ANSI C inside ABAP.

"-Begin-----------------------------------------------------------------
  Program zCMandelbrot.

MD5 calculation via ABAP and JavaScript

1. Calculate MD5 for string “Jerry” via ABAP
2. Calculate via JavaScript

1. Calculate MD5 for string “Jerry” via ABAP

Source code:

DATA: md5_160 TYPE hash160.
CALL FUNCTION 'CALCULATE_HASH_FOR_CHAR'
  EXPORTING

Converting Excel file data with multiple sheets to an internal table

PREREQUISITES

It is expected that the readers have the basic knowledge of Function modules and considerable experience in ABAP workbench.
Also Check that EXCEL is registered in R/3 via transaction SOLE.

INTRODUCTION

Reading data from files is a very common requirement in project implementations. Excel spread sheets are simpler and better readable to text files. The standard ABAP function module ALSM_EXCEL_TO_INTERNAL_TABLE reads data from Excel file into internal table of type ALSMEX_TABLINE.