Time-dependent attributes and language-dependent texts in ABAP CDS views

In the post post I would like to consider how to model time-dependent attributes and language dependent texts in ABAP CDS views.

1. Sales Model Tables

1.1. Table of sales transactions. It contains time characteristics, sales manager, customer and amount. Number of records is 133 848.

ABAP Ray Tracer – Part 2 – The Overloader

Objectives

In this blog you’re gonna get to know the infrastructure powering this project, the content of the chapters, which I have read so far, plus certain C++ language features explained, which are missing in ABAP.

abapGit Branching Strategy Discussion

My team and I are reaching out to you to discuss some development questions which popped up after introducing abapGit in our company, which creates SAP 3rd party software, consisting mainly of ABAP and UI5 code.

This article deals exclusively with the ABAP side.

First of all we love abapGit, and we believe many do…

ABAP News for Release 7.52 – Virtual Sorting of Internal Tables

It is mainly a “major step on the way to efficient development of SAP HANA optimized SAP Fiori apps is the use of the new RESTful ABAP programming model which includes technologies such as CDS, Business Object Processing Framework (BOPF), SAP Gateway and SAPUI5.”

But there are some news in the ABAP language too.

ABAP Development in Eclipse – Part 2

If you need to connect to any system, you have to create a Project.

Project can be created based on the type of implementation Eclipse will be used.

In our case, since we are connecting to SAP system , I am going to create an ABAP project.

ABAP Development in Eclipse – Part 1

As we all know that ABAP and SE38 has been a mainstay for SAP’s code development and most of the companies run their businesses on SAP solutions written in ABAP. All these years ABAP development and SE38 has continuously evolved into what we see in latest and improved SE38 editor.

1990 – First ABAP Editor came

1999 – ABAP Workbench was introduced

2004 – Syntax coloring and Code compilation added

Adding custom tab to billing document Part - 1

1. Requirement

In order to fulfill some requirement, we may need a custom tab for transaction VF01/VF02/VF03 with some custom field(s) in that sub screen, in this document we take GTI (Golden Tax Invoice) for example.

How to develop a transactional app using the new ABAP Programming Model for SAP Fiori

Introduction

The purpose of this how to guide is not to simply duplicate the content of the SAP Online Help, but to provide guidance for the participants of a SAP CodeJam event. Participants of a SAP CodeJam event shall be guided to create their own repository objects and services in one system without messing up the implementation of the other participants. Therefore, all repository objects contain the participant / group number indicated by a hash # as a suffix.