Modularizing CDS Annotations

You use CDS annotations to enrich your data model with metadata. In some cases, this can reduce readability and make it hard to maintain your data definitions. To improve this situation, metadata extensions have been introduced.

Fiori Elements-Value help on a selection field within a value help dialog

This is about featuring the capability of Value help on a selection field within a value help dialog in Fiori Elements based List Report.

Business Scenario

Let’s consider Business scenario where Fiori Elements based List Report displays Purchase Order with Vendor as one of the selection field.

Selection Screen Variants – Part II

In my previous blog we discussed about types of variants, protection of variants and tables storing variant values and directory.

This blog will cover the details about the variant attributes and their usage.

Custom Data from FI-CA to RAR (Part II – Development Procedures)

Introduction

The purpose of this two part blog is to describe a solution that allows custom values to be populated on the provider contract and then transferred to SAP Revenue Accounting.  The custom values can be populated using both the provider contract create transaction and the standard creation BAPI.  The standard provider contract transactions are enhanced using the Business Data Toolset (BDT).  Using event 8205, the custom values are transferred to Revenue Accounting as both main and condition items.

Selection Screen Variants – Part I

What are variants?

In SAP ABAP reports have a mechanism for entering values for database selection or for performing different calculations through SELECTION SCREENS.

Custom Data from FI-CA to RAR (Part I – Overview)

Introduction

The purpose of this two part blog is to describe a solution that allows custom values to be populated on the provider contract and then transferred to SAP Revenue Accounting.  The custom values can be populated using both the provider contract create transaction and the standard creation BAPI.  The standard provider contract transactions are enhanced using the Business Data Toolset (BDT).  Using event 8205, the custom values are transferred to Revenue Accounting as both main and condition items.

ABAP CDS Consumption View Features Ultimate Test: Part 5

In first part, second part, third part and fourth of my blog I put ABAP CDS Consumption View to test and fulfilled some of most typical BW Query requirements. In fifth part of my blog I will challenge ABAP CDS Consumption View again. This time demonstrating exception aggregation using formula and count

I created CUBE views and finally created CONSUMPTION view. I will not go much into details of implementation because all that you can explore on your own. What is more important is to understand ABAP CDS views capabilities.

Extraction from SAP S/4HANA and other ABAP sources into HANA SQL DW with Smart Data Integration

Have you ever tried to stage data from an ABAP source system into native SAP HANA or the SAP HANA SQL Data Warehousing solution? Have you tried leveraging BW extractors or CDS Views to do this? With the Feature Pack 1 update of SAP Web IDE for HANA, launched end of October 2018, extraction from ABAP source systems like SAP S/4HANA has become a lot easier. Flowgraphs in the SAP Web IDE now support ODP, complete with delta load support. The same goes for the Full Stack Web IDE on the SAP Cloud Platform. This blog describes how you can use these features.