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Course Title

Module 4: Module 4: ABAP Dictionary

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Housekeeping

Breaks Washrooms Transportation / parking No pagers or cell phones Participation Parking lot issues Questions

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Module objectives

At the completion of the module, the participants should be able to: Use ABAP dictionary fields in the screen Use ABAP dictionary fields in the program Understand ABAP dictionary integration

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Module agenda

The topics dealt in this module are: Academy Awards Table Academy Awards Online program ‘Paint’ Dictionary fields Element list for Dictionary Fields Use Dictionary fields Online Help for Dictionary fields ABAP Dictionary integration

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Academy Awards Table

YMOVIE

Database Table

AAYear

Category

Winner

Notes

Critic

For this module, we will use an ABAP Dictionary table created for the purpose ofdemonstrating Online programming techniques. This table is named ‘YMOVIE’ andit contains information about the Academy Awards.

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Academy Awards Online program

All of these screen fields, except for the Academy

Awards title, will be ‘painted’ from ABAP

Dictionary fields.

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‘Paint’ Dictionary fields

Select the desired fields.

By selecting a ‘Key word’ size, you will get a text field.

To ‘paint’ fields from the ABAP Dictionary, make sure you are in the Layout view. Use the ‘Goto-> Secondary Window->Dict/program fields’ menu path in the Screen Painter.

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Element list for Dictionary Fields

The fields ‘painted’ from the ABAP Dictionary are automatically named

‘<table name>-<field name>’.

Screen Painter

These fields are marked as

referring to ABAP Dictionary fields.

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Use Dictionary fields

** MZA01O01 - PBO Modules **

MODULE INITIALISE OUTPUT.

CLEAR YMOVIE.

ENDMODULE.

** MZA01TOP - Top Include **

PROGRAM SAPMZA01.

TABLES YMOVIE.

PROCESS BEFORE OUTPUT.

MODULE INITIALIZE.

PROCESS AFTER INPUT.

MODULE SELECT_LISTING.

Screen 9000

** MZA01I01 - PAI Modules **

MODULE SELECT_LISTING INPUT.

* code to select record from YMOVIE

ENDMODULE.

When you ‘paint’ screen fields from

the ABAP Dictionary, you definethe program fields with the

‘TABLES’ statement.

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Online Help for Dictionary fields

Data element

short text

Data element documentation

Data element supplemental

documentation

System-wide

Automatic

System-wide

Only if maintained

Screen-specific

Only if maintained

If a screen field is ‘painted’ from the ABAP Dictionary, it points to a data element and the data element’s

online help.

F1

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ABAP Dictionary integration

Notice change in ‘Category’ field length

Execute transaction

If a change is made to an ABAP Dictionary field (for example, category length is changed from 3 to 6 characters) and the appropriate Dictionary objects are

reactivated, the change will take effect throughout the system where this field is used.

Execute transaction

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Demonstration / Practice

Creating a screen with fields having reference to the ABAP Dictionary.

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Summary of the lesson learnt so far

1. To ‘paint’ fields from the ABAP Dictionary, make sure you are in the Layout view. Use the ‘Goto-> Secondary Window->Dict/program fields’ menu path in the Screen Painter.

2. If you go to the Element List (field types view), the screens fields ‘painted’ from the ABAP Dictionary are automatically named ‘<table name>-<field name>’.

3. To create the program fields with the same names as the screen fields ‘painted’ from the ABAP Dictionary, you should use the ‘TABLES’ statement in the Top Include.

4. A screen field that is ‘painted’ from the ABAP Dictionary points to a data element. The data element has online help associated with it. If the cursor is positioned in the screen field and the ‘F1’ key is pressed, the system displays a dialog box with this online help.

5. The ABAP Dictionary is integrated throughout the SAP system.

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Answer a few questions

1. What is the menu path for referring ABAP Dictionary fields to the screen?2. When a screen field is painted from the ABAP Dictionary, does it point to the

data-element’s documentation?

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Module summary

Now that we have completed the module, we should be able to: Use ABAP dictionary fields in the screen Use ABAP dictionary fields in the program Understand ABAP dictionary integration

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