HCM Processes & Forms: A Concise Commentary on Comments

This time, I thought I would finally get around to covering one topic that has come up probably the most of all over the years with HCM Processes and Forms….how do we access the comments (aka. notes) that are put into the form?!?!?!? Well, there are multiple ways depending on what exactly you need to do, and I hope to cover those here. Sooo come along and let’s all get reacquainted!

Implementing Unit Tests for an ABAP Report Program

In this blog, I will walk you through unit testing for an ABAP Report. Also, I will showcase an example where I have implemented Unit Testing for a simple report program.

Well, so, you have a report program in place and now there is a need to implement Unit Testing for the same. One thing is thus clear, that the CUT here is the report program for which unit tests are to be written. If you just got confused with the term ‘CUT’ I used here, I would recommend you take a glance through my first blogpost of this series I listed above. There is a glossary of all the terms used in the world of ABAP Unit Testing listed out, which would probably help.

Constants management

In every system i work i usually have a table for constants management, some tables are designed for single values, some tables to accept ranges too, but generally each table i found for constants management have some limitations.

I’m actually using a solution that give me enough freedom to accomodate any kind of constant i need and i’ve been built a class to work with the table in a way i feel comfortable, i’m going to share some code to work with single values and SAP ranges, but the class is expandable and the table fields can hold anything you need, while reading i recommend you to see the code in the github repository at the end of the post, without full source code it may be hard to follow the explanation.

Implementing DCL with CDS Views and Roles

I am going to write here about how to use the concept of DCL with CDS views and using roles to provide row based authorizations in UI.

So, DCL stands for Data Control Language. It provides an access control mechanism to restrict the results returned by the CDS view from the database according to conditions. With the help of roles (PFCG), we can also use the same DCL and restrict the results for different categories of users.

Let us look into the process, with the help of an example.

Formatted excel using XML

In every business, it is necessary to convey data within or outside of SAP. When we think about exporting data from SAP to a non-SAP system, the very first option that comes in mind is excel. Because, it is a fast and easy way but the only drawback is, it gives plain text without color, alignment, and style. So in this blog post, you are going to learn, how to generate a formatted excel file.

Understanding Polymorphism

In this blog-post i want to give you a deep understanding of polymorphism with interfaces.

The object-orientated memory allocation model

In context of object orientation the terms “class”, “object” and “instantiation” are very common. But what does this really mean? Let’s consider a simple class:

Navigation from SAP S/4 HANA to SAP ECC 6.0 to view the replicated sales order

Recently I was assigned an interesting development, the requirements was to have a button “View legacy Sales Order” on standard sales order screen (VA03) on SAP S/4 HANA system if user clicks that button the system should open VA03 – display sales order that got replicated in the legacy ECC system using a RFC – single sign on (Different system).

Below are the step by step development that I did to accomplish the same.

Analyze ABAP Performance Traces with the Profile Data Analyzer

In this blog, we would like to introduce the “profile data analyzer”, a new standalone tool to analyze performance trace, including the idea behind it and the analysis steps. The profile data analyzer supports both ABAP performance trace and SAP JVM Profiler performance trace (*.prf format) as documented in KBA 2879724, but we will focus on the analysis of ABAP performance trace in this blog.

It provides additional graphic and interactive views comparing to SAT/SE30/ST12 to make the performance analysis easy, for example, in the following scenarios.