Add extra tabs to the standard transaction for sales and access them through menu bar

Introduction:

This post will clearly explain you how to add extra tabs in sales order or standard transactions and display the tab name as the menu item in order to access them through menu bar.

In this post let us see how to add additional tabs in sales order header through BADI.

Enhance SAP objects with great and testable code

The use case is an approval process for quotations. Requirement is to check the margin of a quotation and compare it with a customizable margin value, both total value and percentage value.

The check is based on item level (percentage check) and in accumulation (total value check) for the header.

If it fails a “blocking” order reason is set and a message is added to the application log (SD_MESSAGE_COLLECT).

Implementing search the S/4HANA way

An efficient search is one of the most important feature required in an application. This is what allows us to find objects that we want to work on.

In this blog series, me and my colleague Rajesh Khatwa would like to share our experience of implementing search functionality for a custom object built on top of S/4HANA. We used tools and technologies provided out of the box in S/4HANA to minimize the development effort.

ABAP debugger enhancement or how to speed up your test data creation process

Intro

In this blog we would like to introduce two open source helpers to create test data for abap unit tests.

Regardless of using the test first or test last approach in ABAP, we have to provide test data for our unit tests.

This process can be very time consuming depending on what has to be provided.

Posting FI Documents Using Flat File Interface- SAP FI-CO

Posting FI Account documents is a vital step for any Company to manage business flow. SAP provided different ways to post FI documents. One of the way is using FLAT FILE to upload and post FI documents.

Interfacing is one of the techniques used in SAP and of course in other technologies as well for uploading and then updating/Inserting data to the database. The data loaded must have some validation checks to make sure that the correct data is passed to the application , and saved to the database.

Concatenate multiple records in a single field using ABAP CDS Table Function

“Core data services (CDS) is an infrastructure that can be used to define and consume semantically rich data models in SAP HANA“.

The purpose is straight forward but the technical definition can provoke confusion sometimes, especially because we can find two different types of Core Data Services:

Implement Custom Syntax Check in SAP GUI

Recently for training purpose I need to demo a custom syntax check directly performed in SAP GUI by hotkey Ctrl+F2.

Let’s first have a look what could be achieved:

Open a method in Class builder and click syntax check icon or press Ctrl+F2:

Be prepared for the new ABAP programming model in SAP S/4HANA

You’ve surely already heard about the new ABAP programming model for building state-of-the-art, intrinsically SAP HANA-optimized Fiori apps in SAP S/4HANA and maybe even played around with it, but you are still be on SAP Business Suite – optimally on SAP HANA.

This is the situation for the vast majority of SAP’s customers and partners right now in 2017, but sooner or later they will get in touch with the Digital Core, that is SAP S/4HANA!

Handling Time-Out Scenario in Web Dynpro ABAP

Requirement

There is a common requirement given by client wherein, they expect to display some logical message to end-user if application page is kept ideal for a defined time i.e. instead of application throwing TIME OUT error, giving any of the following utilities:

SAP Certification Recommendation for Partner Solutions for SAP S/4HANA

With SAP S/4HANA, SAP has introduced a new product which is significantly different compared to the earlier ERP systems, and which brings many new features and simplifications with every new release.

Because of that, it’s highly recommended for SAP customers, to only use certified third party software, for integrating with SAP S/4HANA. This is mostly important, if the third party software runs in SAP S/4HANA as an ABAP Add-On.

5 Use Cases of GROUP BY for Internal Tables

ABAP developers target a moving Netweaver platform (7.0, or 7.02 or 7.31 or 7.40 or 7.5x or the Cloud) where the state of the art method to shoot yourself in the foot is a contest between vintage idioms and idioms using recent additions to the language.

* Add line to internal table LT_ENTRY
ls_entry-action = shoot.
ls_entry-aim = foot.
APPEND ls_entry TO lt_entry.