SAP ABAP Transaction Variants

- Keerthi vasan .M

-  L&T Infotech

Many times people get struck with some kind of requirements in their SAP ABAP Implementation projects and do not know how to proceed further. One of such requirement is “Changing the layout of the standard screen”. These changes may include hiding the existing fields, display default values, etc., Here comes the need of Transaction Variants for such type of requirements.

This article will provide you what all we can achieve through the transaction variants, and a link is provided at the end of this article which demonstrates step by step procedure to create a transaction variant with example and screen shots.

 Transaction variants are very efficient & simple method provided by SAP for customizing the standard screens according to our business needs and implemented using SHD0 transaction. Transaction variants are actually made up of a set of screen variants. The field values and field attributes for each screen in a transaction variant are stored in screen variants. Transaction and screen variants may be created for all dialog and reporting transactions. Transaction variants may not be created for transactions already containing pre-defined parameters (parameter transactions and variant transactions).

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Introduction to SAP ABAP ALV with OOPs concept

- Swarna Munukoti

- L&T Infotech

      In this article we will see of how to make the ABAP report an interactive one.

   One way to make a report interactive is using ALV tool. I will give a brief idea of what ALV is all about using OOPs concept.

 ABAP List Viewers (ALV): 

          The name itself indicates that the output view of a report is in the form of a list. This list can be displayed in two forms

 

1. ALV List Form
2. ALV Grid Form

This article covers only ALV grid  form. This is the most preferable form because of its GUI capability. When coming to the implementation part of ALV Grid using OOPs concept, we can use the existing classes for generating ALV output: Here I am listing some of the widely used classes and its purpose:

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Technology: SAP ABAP Simplified Part-IV

- Swarna Munukoti

-SAP Consultant, L & T Infotech

This is the 4th and last article of the series SAP ABAP Simplified and is also published by GoArticles. This acrticles is morever focused on explaining concepts of function modules and Badis. For your reference earlier articles of the series are as follows: SAP ABAP Simplified part -1, SAP ABAP Simplified part -2, SAP ABAP Simplified part -3

Function Modules:

Function modules are like sub routines which can be called from any part of ABAP program. The difference between sub routines and Function modules is that: Sub routines are useful with in a particular Program where as once a function module is created; it can be used in any program. We can say Function Modules are global where as sub routines are not. The type of the data element used in the import or export parameters of Function Module is to be defined initially in the dictionary. 

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