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Who is this person?
Michelle Crapo Perrigo – produce over the counter
pharmaceuticals. (Rx) 1998 Started in SAP Titles varied by the year:
Programmer/ Analyst, Sr. Project Manager, Business Analyst
I enjoy riding horses. I have 2 horses, 2 miniatures and one pony.
Expectations
Tips – ZMD_CONSTANT
ZMD_CONSTANT contains: MANDT Program or name Subroutine – usually empty Statement - plant Generic count as part of the key Sign – I or E Option – EQ, BT FIELD LOW - Value Field High – Value or empty
Used All over in custom code
Pros/Cons ZMD_CONSTANT
Value – Pros One Place to find all changes. IE A new material
group is added. That material group should work the same in all programs. Normally all programs would be searched for similar constants. In ZMD_CONSTANT there is only one place to change it.
No programming change required. User can not “mess it up”.
Drawbacks – Cons It has be transported. Custom table. Multiple entries for the same thing with the program
field.
ZMD_CONSTANT at work
Demo ZMCSIMPLE ZMD_CONSTANT
document ZMD_CONSTANT E
xample
Tip - Change Documents
Transaction SCDO. Generated code for audit trails. Easy to add to custom code, all the
code has been written.
Pros and Cons Change Documents
Pro Programming for change is done for
you. SCU3 can be used to display changes.
Cons Not all data elements have the change
document checked. Change data uses CDHDR, and CDPOS
Demo Change documents
DEMO ZSPN, ZSPINSTR Example of Change documents
Tips - Search Helps
Quick and easy way to provide for searching tables – custom screens or adding to the SAP search help.
Pros and Cons Search Help
Pros Ease of use No programming
Cons More custom objects on system. Parameter IDs become important.
Search Help Demo
Demo ZM_RID1, ZID_INIT Search Help Example
ALV Grid
Used instead of list reports. It contains functionality that will help users – help themselves. Sub-total, sort, total..
It is like excel. That makes it very easy to learn, and use.
Pros and Cons ALV Grid
Pros Like Excel Easy to code User friendly
Cons None that I know of???
Demo
Link to ALV grid document Layout User-command ZQM0050 – Object ZPP0102
Misc.
Enqueue Dequeue Table Maintenance generator Custom Transaction Read/loop/if/exit/endloop vs. loop
where
Suggestions by the crowd!
Notes: For non-dumps - SM37 - Set the breakpoints for a
scheduled job, then run JDBG to restart from first loop for a canceled job
Triggering debug while on a pop-up screen. Create a file on the desktop. "SAP Debug.txt". The
contents of the file contains four lines of text: [FUNCTION]
Command=/HTitle=DebuggerType=SystemCommand
Drag and drop this on the GUI; it's as if you had typed /H.
Thank you Jeffrey Hopwood for that one.
Suggestions by the crowd – cont.
ABAP Docs is from the monthly SDN. Here's the link: To avoid modification of SAP code - use field symbols in your
user exit. Then you can point to any field in the SAP program. Please note! User exits can be called from many places, if that field is not in the other programs, it will cause them to short-dump.
MM01/MM02 - when recording a BDC - go to the first view and then move to the others. This is a good trick for any screen similiar to MM01 or MM02 that does not have a BAPI.
SE11 - generate table maintenance for a table. Utilities -> table maintenance generator, you can change the table in SM30. To limit so that only that table can be maintained. Create a parameter transaction.
Name of screen - Update value X Name of screen - viewname value - your table name. transaction SM30 - skip first screen.
Suggestions by the crowd – Cont.
You can use these routines to parse any input file, to see if your field definitions in the record layout match the data, or to print a subset of fields from an input file (e.g. list just the vendor number or employee number, etc). The p_any_rec values above can literally be changed to any structured record definition. I mostly use this when working on new interfaces, or when diagnosing a problem with an interface file. From Gordon Tobias
Program for Parsing
