POWL Enhancement in SAP TM: Standard Hidden Field and Custom Field in Freight Unit Overview Screen

Introduction

I have provided a detailed guide on how to add custom Date/Time Field in your FPM Application. In this blog post, you will learn how to enhance the Overview screen and add custom field as well as Standard hidden fields in your active Query in the Overview Screen.

POWL Enhancements are a tad bit different than enhancing FPM applications. They are subject to the Active Query in POWL which is present in the Planning component of NWBC screen in SAP TM.

HCM Processes & Forms: FPM forms? Let there be light…er uhm….PRINT!!!!

I have not blogged in a good while and figured if I came back, I better drop a banger (that’s what the “kids” call it, right?). Well, I guarantee you, this one is quite a doozy! (that’s what the “old folks” call it, right?). I will worry about which crowd I most appeal to later. For now…..let’s do this! I am about to rock your world and show you a “new” way to make printing your FPM forms for HCM P&F a whole lot easier….like super simple easy! Don’t believe me? Read on!

Background

Way back when SAP announced and released the FPM options for HCM Processes & Forms which effectively replaced Adobe Interactive Forms, the world rejoiced. When SAP said “nuh uh uh…not so fast” and let it be known that the only way to “print” FPM forms was to develop and Adobe form/layout in parallel and assign it in the configuration, the world let out a collective sigh. That just did not sit right with us HCM P&F folks. In fact, I can say that in all of my projects implementing FPM HCM P&F processes, not a single one ever implemented the “Adobe print form option”. Not ONE! In most cases, the customers would tell their users either:

Add Custom Date-Time Field in FPM Screen for SAP TM

Often the standard FPM fields provided by SAP is not enough to satisfy all the business requirements. You need additional fields on the screen. This is where enhancements and customizations come in.

In this blogpost, I am going to show you just that. This is a step-by-step guide for adding custom Date/Time fields on FPM screen for Freight Order General Data tab.

Requirement: Add Vehicle Placement Date/Time/Time zone field in the General Tab of Freight Order Screen. During Save, the data will get saved in TOR structure as Timestamp.

Web Dynpro ABAP: New Customizing UI with UI Guideline FIORI

Introduction

The UIs of your Web Dynpro ABAP applications (including those built with Floorplan Manager) don’t always meet your exact requirements and you must adapt them accordingly.

And, you as an administrator, can make these UI adaptations using the customizing UI.

Until recently, the customizing UI had plenty of functionality but wasn’t the easiest to work with. Things have changed! Starting with SAP_UI 7.54 (for ABAP 1909), there is a totally new UI for customizing.

This UI is only available with UI guideline FIORI. Of course, the adapted applications can also be used with other guidelines.

** TEAM FPM ** Get in Touch with the New FPM Mobile Enabler!

How to easily adapt your FPM applications for mobile devices.

Ever wondered how to transfer your existing FPM applications to a mobile environment? Have a look at the example below for a quick look at how to do just that using the new FPM Mobile Enabler.

I’m using an FPM test application that uses a Search GUIBB and a List ATS GUIBB to display hardware products. The list contains quite an extensive number of columns. Underneath the list a Chart GUIBB shows the products by supplier.

Memory wasted by spring boot application

One of the widely wasted resources in the world today is: Memory. Due to inefficient programming, surprising (sometimes ‘shocking’) amount of memory is wasted. We see this pattern repeated in several enterprise applications. To prove this case, we conducted a small study. We analyzed the famous spring boot pet clinic application to see how much memory it is wasting. This application has been designed by the community to show how the spring application framework can be used to build simple but powerful database-oriented applications.

SAP UI and Salesforce UI development Go-through

SAP UI

SAP GUI + Dynpro

It seems that SAP GUI plus Dynpro was used to develop application UI in Stone Age. Although there are still lots of transaction codes in S/4HANA backend available for end user, they could still be directly launched in browser by leveraging SAP Internet Transaction Server(ITS), even with Fiori-like appearance.

How to implement Link to action in ABAP webdynpro ALV

If you include the standard webdynpro ALV component SALV_WD_TABLE into your own component, you could not directly change the ALV table column as usual. In ABAP Webdynpro an example of link to action element used in ALV looks like below. Once the column “Social Media Post ID” is clicked, it is expected our application could catch the event and implement our own event handling logic.

Displaying Rich (Formatted) text in SAP ADOBE form

Requirement

There is a common requirement given by client wherein they ask to generate PDF files based on the data entered in SAP WebDynpro ABAP input screen. Approach to achieve this is quite simple for most of the UI element i.e. transferring/displaying the data from WebDynpro ABAP screen to SAP Adobe form.

How to add an embedded ABAP WebDynpro in Freestyle Portal

Freestyle Portal comes with many great capabilities for presenting content and applications to customers and employees. It is an ideal solution when you would like to have more information, graphics and/or context around the applications you want to present in customer facing, supplier facing, or HR portals, etc.

There are a couple of features that require some more focus and in this blog I would like to explain how we are adding backend ABAP WebDynpro applications to the Freestyle Portal.

Code Review, Code Inspector, Code Pushdown & Key Changes in ABAP – S/4HANA

Overview

This Article will help SAP Application Consultants who have passion for ABAP coding. It will cover followings:

1. S/4HANA Conversion & Custom Code
2. Changes in ABAP Dictionary Objects
3. Essential ABAP Code Review
4. Performance Booster ABAP Code Review
5. Tools for ABAP Code Review

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:

Configure ABAP webdynpro component into CRM system via Transaction launcher

THINK twice why you want to include an ABAP webdynpro component into CRM UI, as in CRM application it is not recommended to use ABAP webdynpro to develop UI. In some case for example, PDF preview is far more convenient using standard ABAP webdynpro control “Interactive form”. However if you would like to achieve the same via webclient UI, much more development are unavoidable.

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. For a first introduction to scripting please have a look at the Overview Blog of Matthias Heitmann.

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.