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1. Tricks: (Category); Here you can find smaller and bigger tricks that helps a lot during a daily work as abaper.; Created on 07 April 2013
2. ABAP in Eclipse - Install, Configure, Use, and Enhance Your ADT: (Thoughts); If you follow me on social media, you probably already know that I have written a book about ABAP in Eclipse. The full title is: ABAP in Eclipse - Install, Configure, Use, and Enhance Your ADT and it is ...; Created on 11 June 2021
3. ABAP Extensions - Automatic Logon: (How to...); Yesterday I've announced that I'm working on automatic logon to SAP systems on Eclipse. Today the changes in the plugin ABAP Extensions for Eclipse are published and you can use the first version of the ...; Created on 04 January 2020
4. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - inttype - ABAP data type (C,D,N,...): (ALV Grid in the nutshell); ... fields will be also field and the difference on the screen will be not that huge. Figure 93 Fieldcatalog of the ZDEMO_AIN_CL37 for Internal ABAP type T Possible internal ABAP types ...; Created on 18 December 2019
5. ABAP Code Retreat Tychy 2019 - Organizer Recap: (Thoughts); This year I've organized ABAP Code Retreat in Tychy for the second time. In this recap I want not only tell you about the event itself, but also about how the whole organisation of the event took place. ...; Created on 02 April 2019
6. Creating ABAP type definition from JSON structure (JSON2ABAPtype): (How to...); I'm playing lately with TFS web services in ABAP and as I'm lazy guy I wanted to make my life a bit easier while working with the JSON results. There is already a nice class /UI2/CL_JSON available which ...; Created on 20 August 2018
7. ABAP Favorites Eclipse plugin: (How to...); ... them or you can edit an favorites.xml file which is stored in folder $WORKSPACE/.metadata/.plugins/com.abapblog.favorites/. XML structure is quite easy, so there is no much to explain in here. But for ...; Created on 29 June 2017
8. Speed up your coding with ABAP in Eclipse (SITWRO 2017 session): (How to...); Bellow you can find the record of my session "Speed up your coding with ABAP in Eclipse" at SAP Inside Track Wrocław 2017, which took place on 27th of May. During the session I was not able to cover whole ...; Created on 28 May 2017
9. Why I like to code in ABAP in Eclipse: (Thoughts); Why I like to code ABAP in Eclipse? I was receiving this question very often in the past, but I really thought that most of the developers who can use AiE, are using it. But seems that I was wrong. ...; Created on 27 May 2016
10. WYSIWYG HTML Editor in ABAP: (Tricks); I was lately trying to find an HTML WYSIWYG editor for ABAP, but I failed. I though or this was not needed so far, or the solution was not posted anywhere. So I've tried several times and thanks to ...; Created on 20 January 2016
11. How to teach ABAP ???: (Thoughts); This question seems to be funny as usually you rather read "How can I learn ABAP?". But how to teach? Should we follow any rules ? Should we keep to some path of teaching, special sequences or ...; Created on 24 November 2015
12. Dynamic GUI STATUS & TITLE with ABAP code: (Tricks); ... value(iv_allowed) type abap_bool default abap_true exceptions button_already_filled ...; Created on 11 July 2015
13. Zipping in IZArc with ABAP directly on PC: (Tricks); ... which is stored on PC so if you would like to zip it with cl_abap_zip class then you would need to copy file to ABAP memory, then zip it using cl_abap_zip and then save back file to PC. Sometimes this ...; Created on 15 April 2013
14. ZIP a file using ABAP: (How to...); Although our connections are now so fast we may still need sometimes to compress data before attaching to mail or downloading into PC. SAP has possibilities to ZIP the content in class CL_ABAP_ZIP and ...; Created on 13 April 2013
15. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - Hotspot - ALV control: SingleClick-sensitive: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); ... to show the details of the clicked object, or to move to a transaction in which the object can be modified. As you can imagine, setting column as a HOTSPOT is very easy, you need to pass only the ABAP_TRUE ...; Created on 27 April 2020
16. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - reprep - ALV control: Value is selection criterion for rep./rep.intf.: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); ... deep dive into topic, to understand how we can use this interface and for which purpose. Seems that, using this interface, you can call from ALV grid an BW Query, SAP Query, ABAP Report Program or ...; Created on 13 April 2020
17. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - lowercase - Lowercase letters allowed/not allowed: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); The changes of this parameter are only visible in edit mode and makes sense only for character or string fields. If it is set to ABAP_TRUE (‘X’), then the ALV grid stores in internal table the value in ...; Created on 13 April 2020
18. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - intlen - Internal Length in Bytes: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); As the description says, the meaning of that field is to set the internal length of the field in Bytes. During my whole career as ABAP Developer, I had never filled that field manually. Usually you’ll ...; Created on 13 April 2020
19. Downloading Exchange Rates from NBP (National Bank of Poland): (How to...); ... To download the XML file and to call transformation, you can use following dirty ABAP code. The structure of the XML will be transformed into internal table of ...; Created on 06 April 2020
20. Downloading Exchange Rates from Central Bank of Turkey: (How to...); ... XML from bank site into internal table, which can be then used inside your code to populate values of BAPI_EXCHANGERATE_CREATE FM. There are few ways to download the XML to your ABAP code, I prefer ...; Created on 06 April 2020
21. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - tooltip: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); ... from TOOLTIP will be used as description used to describe the column in the change layout screen. Figure 82 ZDEMO_AIN_CL34 ABAP Code for Tooltip Figure 83 ZDEMO_AIN_CL34 Change ...; Created on 12 September 2019
22. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - do_sum: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); DO_SUM is very helpful when you want to assure that some of the numeric fields are summarized directly after the output, without interaction from the user side. In order to do so, just put the ‘X’ or ABAP_TRUE ...; Created on 28 July 2019
23. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - icon: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); ... table. The corresponding field should be an CHAR4 field. You can use of course the domain ICON_D as well. In my example I’ve filled all rows with the same icon (ICON_ABAP) during the selection of data ...; Created on 24 June 2019

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