This being my first SAP TechEd, my experiences are countless and still I’ll try to summarize some of the things I felt.

Reports which has the capability to drill down to multiple levels are of good use. It serves as a simple overview as well as more detailed report when you want to look into a particular record in detail. SAP makes it easy to create Tree List reports with Function Modules RS_TREE_CONSTRUCT and RS_TREE_LIST_DISPLAY.

SAP provides many ways to accomplish a task, creating an ALV Grid is no different. Though there are simple Function Modules available to create an ALV grid, Object Oriented methodology is more preferred due to its own advantages which are always debated in the ABAP world. As far as OO is concerned, my advice to ABAP developers is “Sometimes, you have to take a leap of faith first. The trust part comes later” (from the film Man of Steel) . Debates apart, we are going to try our hands creating an ALV grid display using the class CL_GUI_ALV_GRID.

There are requirements where documents has to be uploaded and associated with business data available in the system. When we store files in tables, it will be easy to link it with other tables data. This article is aimed at storing files in databases and downloading or uploading them.

We generate different kinds of files varying from Excel sheets to Text files based on the data available in SAP. It is very much possible to zip multiple reports within a single zip file and download the zip file from SAP.

Random Numbers are used for a variety of purposes in programming, and in this article we will see how to generate a Random Number or Random Number Sequence in ABAP

While SAP has created most of the Search Helps that we will ever need, we still face situations where a Search Help has to be shown dynamically from data that we have in the an internal table. SAP has provided us a powerful Function Module to acheive this, and that is F4IF_INT_TABLE_VALUE_REQUEST.

The time taken for an ABAP report to run is mostly spent in database queries and internal table processing. While the responsibility of database query optimization is spread across so many different levels, optimizing internal table processing remains solely the developer’s responsibility. In this article, we will see the advantage of making using of Field Symbols instead of Work areas in LOOP AT.

Sometimes certain processes has to be run at Application Server level and the results has to be used within SAP system. They could be some simple OS commands or Shell scripts that does works like backup of files or database. In this article we are going to see how to achieve that.

There are situations when you need to run a report program and get its result list programmatically and display or process as you need. This article helps you to achieve that.

Integrating two different applications in Web Dynpro ABAP is quite a challenging task. Most of the time we choose to integrate applications by making component usage of one component in another. But sometimes this becomes a tedious task, especially when both component are dependent on each other. Here we are going to see an alternative option which is redirecting URL by using Suspend, Resume & Exit plugs.

Text symbols are one of the great and most used feature in ABAP. It is very helpful when it comes to internationalization of your application and also manages all your text at one place. ‘Is this feature available in Web Dynpro?’ Yes indeed, but it seems Web Dynpro has complicated accessing it. So this article is all about creating a simple application that gets the text from Text Symbols and places the text in a caption.

Creating customized menu for right click is always cool and creating such menu’s in Web Dynpro ABAP is quite easy. In this article we are going to see creating context menu for a TextEdit UI element which has to be filled with the text ‘Hello World’ on clicking an action in the menu.

Whenever we want to create a Table UI dynamically, we go to CREATE_TABLE_FROM_NODE method of CL_WD_DYNAMIC_TOOLS (see here. However in some cases we want the Table to be very much customized. For example, you may need to create a Table UI bounded to only three attributes of a node which already has four attributes and you may also want to represent each column with different UI element. ‘Yes, situations like this are there’. If you are making a service call, it will create a set of context nodes in the component controller. Now if you want to create a table dynamically and bind it to an already existing node, where you don’t want all the fields to be bound.

Many a time you come across a situation of creating a Table UI dynamically. Especially, when you want to create Table UI based on certain conditions which will be known only during the run time. However, Table is not a simple element, it comprises of Columns, Cell Editors and Popins. To make our job simple, SAP has provided a built in method to create a simple table which can only display data. In this article we are going to use this method to create a Table UI dynamically.

Google Maps integration with Web Dynpro ABAP is one of the most sought out thing. There are a lot of possible ways to this. Google is providing many ways to access map data and we are going to use static maps for this tutorial.

SAP Web Dynpro ABAP is an excellent tool to create huge data related applications easily and efficiently. However most of the time we create applications that has predefined screen design. So most of the people are quite unaware about manipulating UI elements dynamically. But Web Dynpro indeed has the capability to do anything dynamically. It is a perfect Object Oriented System just like Java Swing or .NET’s Forms. I would like to give a brief introduction on creating UI elements dynamically.

Few days back I wrote the blog Star Rating Display Component which can be used to show the average rating of an item. Now in this document I wish to share you how to create a reusable star rating input component through which we can give rating to items by just clicking on stars.

Most of the time ratings are expressed in terms of stars, which is more appealing and easy to interpret. I came across a similar situation and I developed a reusable component to show star rating.

Object Oriented Programming has been a boon to the programmers without which development of huge systems is almost impossible. ABAP is no exception to that which is why Object Oriented Programming was added to ABAP.