ABAPblog.com - by Łukasz Pęgiel

1. Thoughts: (Category); Post not connected directly to any other categories. Mainly for some thoughts which goes from time to time around my head.; Created on 24 November 2015
2. For beginners: (Category); I'll try to put here some basic stuff so beginners can learn from here; Created on 02 June 2013
3. Downloading Exchange Rates from NBP (National Bank of Poland): (How to...); Following the example of downloading exchange rates from Central Bank Of Turkey using transformations, please find bellow the same way for National Bank of Poland. Again, lets create an RFC destination ...; Created on 06 April 2020
4. 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
5. Creating ABAP type definition from JSON structure (JSON2ABAPtype): (How to...); ... can deserialize JSON and also it can generate a dynamic structure from JSON file but at the end to make programming easier you need to create local or global structure that will be matching the structure ...; Created on 20 August 2018
6. Create XLSX file from internal table in background v2: (Tricks); You may saw before the article Create XLSX/MHTML file from internal table in background and you may have use it without any issues before, but it seems that in newer releases of SAP (definitelly >= 7.50) ...; Created on 01 June 2018
7. Direct access quality notification attachments from action box: (How to...); ... your new FM name and following parameters: This will create an action like this. Then let's create our FM. As you can see bellow, old trick of assigning data from program found in stack is ...; Created on 22 October 2015
8. Create fieldcatalog from internal table: (How to...); ... XLSX/MHTML file from internal table in background and probably also somewhere in the net. To make it easier here are ready methods to create LVC and SLIS field catalogs from internal table using CL_SALV_CONTROLLER_METADATA ...; Created on 08 May 2015
9. GOS - Link Business Documents from PR to PO: (Tricks); In article Link Attachments of Purchase Requisition to Purchase Order I've shown how to link standard attachments from purchase requisition to purchase orders, but to have full set of options we also ...; Created on 25 April 2014
10. Enhanced MB51 Part 5 - Export from MB51: (Tricks); I can already call MB51 from previously created method but still I need to add an implicit enhancement into RM07DOCS so I'll be able to export results from MB51 and leave the program without displaying ...; Created on 28 March 2014
11. Create XLSX/MHTML file from internal table in background: (Tricks); I think that any of us had meet the situation when we needed to create an Excel output from internal table in background. There is a really nice project called ABAP2XLSX which gives you to possibility ...; Created on 12 May 2013
12. Get filename and extension from full path: (How to...); ... help you, then you have to helpyourself with ABAP. There is a really simple way to split filename/extension without any restrictions known from standard FM. Here is a code for a method, but you can use ...; Created on 13 April 2013
13. Convert date to and from external date type: (How to...); ... month, interval) Exceptions: FAILED → Exception Now it's time for the ABAP code of a method to convert dates from and to external format: method date_convert. *This is the code from http://abapblog.com. ...; Created on 11 April 2013
14. ABAP in Eclipse - Install, Configure, Use, and Enhance Your ADT: (Thoughts); ... pointed to all ADT users as it covers the topics from installation up to extension of Eclipse. If you have the book, let me know your feedback, as this is most important for an author to see where he did ...; Created on 11 June 2021
15. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - sp_group - Group key: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); ... selection of fields to display in layout change window, you’ll be able to choose to see all hidden fields or the hidden fields from the group you’ve created. If you don’t pass the group name into IT_SPECIAL_GROUPS, ...; Created on 18 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 - reptext – Heading: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); ... automatically from the data element of the referenced field. Figure 97 Texts of Data Element S_FROMAIRP When you do not use reference to data dictionary and you set REPTEXT manually, ...; Created on 13 April 2020
18. ABAP Extensions - Automatic Logon: (How to...); ... automatic logon on your installations. ABAP Extensions plugin you can find in Eclipse Marketplace or by doing direct installation from this link http://abapblog.com/eclipse/plugin/ABAPFavorites/ or ...; Created on 04 January 2020
19. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - rollname: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); ... then the column description, tooltip and column short and long texts are taken from the data element. Figure 86 ZDEMO_AIN_CL35 Results with ROLLNAME Figure 87 ZDEMO_AIN_CL35 ...; Created on 12 September 2019
20. 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
21. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - seltext: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); ... Figure 79 ZDEMO_AIN_CL33 Column description in the layout popup In case the TOOLTIP field is empty, the value from SELTEXT will be also used as tooltip and will appear when you ...; Created on 12 September 2019
22. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - outputlen: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); ... you create it manually you can setup it to whatever value you want. Figure 72 ZDEMO_AIN_CL31 Output length for field CITYFROM My experience shows that it is useful when you ...; Created on 29 July 2019
23. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - no_out: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); NO_OUT is useful when you want to hide the field on the output, but still allow users to unhide it on demand. As lots of fields from field catalog, it can be filled with ‘X’ or space (default). If ...; Created on 29 July 2019
24. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - no_sum: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); As you can imagine from the name, NO_SUM does mostly opposite what DO_SUM, but in more secure way. If you don’t want that the field is allowed to be summarized, then set the value of this field to ‘X’. ...; Created on 28 July 2019
25. 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
26. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - fix_column: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); ... so the full grid is not visible. Figure 62 ZDEMO_AIN_CL26 Field catalog fixed on AIRPFROM field Figure 63 ZDEMO_AIN_CL26 Field catalog fixed on AIRPFROM field ...; Created on 28 July 2019
27. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - edit_mask: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); ... ‘LL’ on the beginning of the mask means that the underscore characters of the mask (“_”) will be replaced starting from left side, for example mask ‘LL__:__’ for value 123 will be displayed as ...; Created on 28 June 2019
28. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - col_pos: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); ... from field catalog, then it displays the rest. If I would not pass parameter I_STRUCTURE_NAME then only this fields which are in table FCAT would appear on the screen. Figure 12 ZDEMO_AIN_CL05 ...; Created on 24 June 2019
29. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - fieldname: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); ... from the table and you don’t pass the dictionary name to parameter I_STRUCTURE_NAME of SET_TABLE_FOR_FIRST_DISPLAY method, then it will only display this fields, which are in field catalog. In Figure ...; Created on 24 June 2019
30. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - currency: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); ... entries from TCURC table). You can leave this field of course empty and in many case you will, especially if you use CFIELDNAME instead. In many situations changing the of currency here will not make ...; Created on 24 June 2019

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