Create a Geo-Analytical application powered by SAP Lumira, ESRI Maps and ABAP CDS views

Continuing our series about SAP Lumira and ABAP CDS views I would like to explore another interesting functionality, the data visualization based on maps.

If you didn’t check the first post of this series I advise to have a look before you proceed this reading, I shared some interesting information about the architecture, predefined templates and how you connect a Lumira application with a data source constructed on top of ABAP CDS views.

Understanding & Implementing ILM Part 1

Recently I was assigned to a prototype development which needs to consume ILM framework in ABAP on-Premise system. I have divided the whole ILM topic into two separate blogs. The first one which we are going to discuss in this blog is to have the ability to automatically detect and destruct destroyable data (and its related component). Destroyable data is defined as data that are expired or no more needed based on pre-defined customizable business scenario. One such business scenario could be “retention period”.

A simple way to increase maintainability of ABAP unit tests – with BOPF example

These two gave me very good perspectives and tools to up my unit testing game.

While the core lessons have been written about several times, I think the most important lessons are

1. Unit tests must be easy to write, read and maintain.
2. While the first test might take a while to write, the subsequent ones should take very minimal time.
3. Most important of all. The unit test must be self contained. So setting up the data (for the dependent object calls), running the code under test and verifying should be in the same unit test.

Cardinality of Association in CDS View

Purpose

This blog explains how the Cardinality of Association in ABAP CDS View works.

Association is used to link a view (or table) to the source view (or table) in CDS View. In Association, Cardinality is defined. Cardinality is the relationship between the source and associated view in the form of [ min .. max ] (only the target cardinality is stated). When Sales Order is the source and Sales Organization is the target, the cardinality is [0..1]. This blog explains how the internal behavior is changed by the setting of Cardinality in Association.

ABAP new Open SQL and CDS runtime

With the introduction of NW AS ABAP 740 SPS5, the New enhanced extended Open SQL was introduced. The new enhanced open sql has some good features such introduction of aggregate functions, right outer join, casting, etc making it a starting step for Code-Push down paradigm.

Copy Customizing Path

I developed useful functionality for SPRO

I detected that is common the necessity of copy IMG path when you navigated of SPRO Tree Customizing .

With the following code you can copy the path very easy

Create a Self-Service BI application powered by SAP Lumira and ABAP CDS views

SAP BusinessObject Lumira (a.k.a. Lumira) is a business intelligence tool focused on analytics and data visualisation, it provides the ability for business analysts to alter data structures and the correlation in the way they need without help of a professional designer or IT specialist.

Soft State Support for OData Services

Soft State Support for Odata Services

• Index

1. Sample Service Details
2. Steps to Configure soft state
3. Steps for Technical implementations
4. Testing soft state in browser
5. Comparisons of response time
6. Implementation considerations

Use ABAP code to fill CRM Survey question and submit

Suppose I have created a Survey in CRM:

Installing SAP NW ABAP into Docker

In the last part of the blog series you learned how to install the SAP Cloud Connector (SAPCC) into Docker running on your own machine. The corresponding YouTube video showed you how easy it is to connect your SAPCC to an SAP Cloud Platform (SAPCP) account. Furthermore, you learned some basics of Docker; not everything, but hopefully enough to serve as a good motivation to dive deeper into containers and Docker. Now we want to continue installing NW ABAP into Docker. The beginning of this blog is a little “chatty”, feel free to scroll down to the technical sections or jump directly to the YouTube video linked below which contains all the details.

GLADIUS – The Next Level

The first part is here: Introducing GLADIUS – A Test Unit Framework

What Happened Before

I will give you a short overview of the current progress of the test framework. GLADIUS is the project name of something that some day will be similar to codefights or codewars – but for ABAP.

Getting comfortable using the Object-Oriented design model with ABAP – Part 6

To recap from the preceding blog, we took a program having virtually identical classes and removed the unnecessary duplication. Here is the source code as we left it in the previous blog:

Adobe form output using Gateway Services [OData]: SAP

Introduction

Advanced adobe uses OData services as data provider to fetch data from backend system. The OData service converts the data that it fetched from backend, converts the data into XML format, and returns it to the Adobe layout. Adobe layout uses that XML data to print the form using the concept of binding available at Adobe layer.