ABAPblog.com - by Łukasz Pęgiel

1. Tips: (Category); When you create the code sometimes you forget about optimizing of your code or you don't know how to properly use a statement. This is category for you.; Created on 08 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. Copying is not poss.because an entry is missing in Table TVCPL VL473: (How to...); ... any issues, then when I tried to do it in ABAP, I always received the error VL473 - Copying is not poss.because an entry is missing in Table TVCPL. I thought that this is some kind of nonsense as ...; Created on 15 February 2017
4. Send mail in BADI or User-Exit without commiting: (Tricks); ... only when sending emails but also during adding of attachments. In this case it's really not safe to use this class in BADIs or User-Exits, but there is one replacement for CL_BCS -> CL_BCS_MESSAGE. ...; Created on 22 February 2016
5. Characteristic's own input screen - Part 8 - example of use ...: (How to...); ... * This program was prepared by Łukasz Pęgiel for presentation purpose * at http://abapblog.com . * You can use it in your SAP instance without any warranty * for non-commercial and commercial use but you cannot sell it as ...; Created on 17 November 2013
6. Classifications - Part 4 - example of use: (How to...); As I promised I will show how to use the methods we've prepared in previous parts of this tread. I will write simple program that calls the method get_objects_of_class and then loops through the results ...; Created on 26 May 2013
7. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - Hotspot - ALV control: SingleClick-sensitive: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); Hotspot fields are very widely used in ALV, such fields have the behaviour and style of hyperlinks, which means they are triggering the single-click event of ALV called HOTSPOT_CLICK. It is commonly used ...; Created on 27 April 2020
8. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - sp_group - Group key: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); Group key is not widely used but it has nice feature. Once you group the field catalog fields and you pass the group name into parameter IT_SPECIAL_GROUPS of method SET_TABLE_FOR_FIRST_DISPLAY, then in ...; Created on 18 April 2020
9. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - domname - Domain name: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); ... Maybe just for information and for Report-Report interface, where this field is use as one of the matching criteria for selection-screen parameters. As you can see on the next image, although I gave ...; Created on 18 April 2020
10. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - reprep - ALV control: Value is selection criterion for rep./rep.intf.: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); Before writing this part, I was never using Report-Report Interface, so probably it is not common scenario to do so, or it is not used with the systems I had possibility to use. But anyway I’ve made a ...; Created on 13 April 2020
11. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - reptext – Heading: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); This field allows us to set (or change) the header text of the column. It can consist up to 55 characters in lowercase mode. When you use data dictionary reference ( REF_FIELD, REF_TABLE ) it is populated ...; Created on 13 April 2020
12. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - intlen - Internal Length in Bytes: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); ... then although I’ve entered the value of ‘12’ into the column, system didn’t allowed me to save it. Figure 94 Error in edit mode caused by wrong value of field INTLEN (ZDEMO_AIN_CL38) ...; Created on 13 April 2020
13. 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
14. 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
15. 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
16. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - inttype - ABAP data type (C,D,N,...): (ALV Grid in the nutshell); As you can imagine, INTTYPE is just a presentation of DATATYPE in internal SAP format in most of cases. I wrote most of cases because it can also say if the field in internal table is a reference to other ...; Created on 18 December 2019
17. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - datatype: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); ... that easily visible. For example, if you use TIMS data type, you’ll noticed that the length of the columns CONNID, FLTIME and DEPTIME is set to 8, additionally justification is set to L (columns 2, 8,9) ...; Created on 11 December 2019
18. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - rollname: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); ... the demo program I’ve used data element S_CONN_ID to show you how does it work. Figure 85 ZDEMO_AIN_CL35 Selection Screen On the first sight you can notice that if you’ll use ROLLNAME, ...; Created on 12 September 2019
19. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - tooltip: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); TOOLTIP, as in any other places in on your PC, is responsible to show short info about the column when you hover your mouse over the column header. It’s very useful when you have a lots of fields in you ...; Created on 12 September 2019
20. 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
21. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - convexit: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); ... easier than 000000000000000123, that’s why field MATNR uses conversion exit ALPHA which deletes the leading zeros in case there are only numbers inside the fields. There are many standard conversion ...; Created on 29 July 2019
22. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - outputlen: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); OUTPUTLEN can be used to setup the width of the column (if you don’t use automatic column width optimization). When automatically created, usually it have the value of the maximum field width, but when ...; Created on 29 July 2019
23. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - tech: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); Technical field allows you to do similar thing as NO_OUT, you can hide the field on the output, the difference is that, users are not able to unhide this field. As NO_OUT, in order that TECH field work, ...; Created on 29 July 2019
24. 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
25. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - no_sum: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); ... It will not only not show the sum, but also it will forbid to set it the GUI. Figure 66 ZDEMO_AIN_CL28 DO_SUM for DISTANCE field Once user will try to summarize the values ...; Created on 28 July 2019
26. 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
27. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - fix_column: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); FIX_COLUMN can be useful when you have a lots of fields in the field catalog and you want to make sure that some of the key fields are always visible, for example sales order number and position or posting ...; Created on 28 July 2019
28. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - emphasize: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); EMPHASIZE allows you to change the colour of the whole column if there is such need. This field can be filled with following values: Space - this means you use the standard behaviour of ALV ...; Created on 01 July 2019
29. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - edit_mask: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); ... conversion-exit name. Using manual mask, where you can use following possibilities: Each underscore character (‘_’) in the mask will be replaced by the characters of the source field ...; Created on 28 June 2019
30. ALV Grid in the nutshell: Field catalog - col_pos: (ALV Grid in the nutshell); This field is responsible for setting up columns in proper order while displaying the grid without using of saved layout. It may be useful if you don’t allow your users to save their own or global grid ...; Created on 24 June 2019

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