Common sap r/3 functions manual

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Download Download PDF. Translate PDF. Rl3 Computer file 2. Title '. ISBN a1k. Integrated software. SAP Rl3. I57L Enquiries concerning reproduction outside those terms should be sent to the publishers. The publisher makes no representation, express or implied, with regard to the accuracy of the information contained in this book and cannot accept any legal responsibility or liability for any errors or omissions that may be made.

SAP is no different. Those programs that are written with as much standard SAP code as possible are better equipped to cope with changes in the system that could otherwise cause a custom program to malfunction. Customised code can be notoriously difficult to decipher and change during upgrade proj- ects. It is much better to utilise existing SAP code, which offers a degree of standardisation in programs.

Reducing the amount of re-coding for problems, for which SAP has already writ- ten, tested, and provided solutions, in turn eliminates further sources of program errors and cuts the all-important program development time, and hence costs. The growing complexity of SAP has resulted in over , individual function modules in the 4. With no existing or consistent documentation for most of these modules, the author has undertaken the task of producing the first concise reference of a broad range of modules designed to solve common problems encountered in most ABAP-programming projects.

The modules chosen were based on analysis of thousands of custom developments and the author's own many years of ABAP development. The modules described herein offer applica- tion developers the most complete and consistent documentation available and should be a welcome addition to any ABAP developer's library. As a consultant, he has spent the last 6 years working almost exclusively in ABAP. During this time he worked on three full SAP imple- mentations and numerous version upgrades.

He has also developed several ABAP utilities, such as an authorisation-reporting tool for IMG transactions and a utility program to secure transportable objects between systems. Long Texts Popup Dialogues. Some of the functions are extremely specific, written by SAP to solve a particular problem in a single program. Many of them, however, are generalised enough for repeated use in a variety of circumstances in ABAP programs. These are the foci of this book.

The problem of using SAP's functions is that most of them are either poorly documented or have no documentation at all, and there is almost no information on what functions are actually available, their purpose, or their method of operation.

It is often a long and arduous process of investigation, trial and error, and sheer luck to discover a suitable function. This book intends to change all that by providing a central resource for the most commonly used SAP functions. Each function contains a summary of its purpose, a longer detailed descrip- tion or other pertinent information such as if the function has been superseded or is obsolete , an explanation of the most commonly used parameters input, output, changing, tables with a list of possible values passed to them where appropriate , a fully worked example of the function in action, and ending with references to other related functions documented elsewhere in the book.

Contained within these pages are those functions that are most likely to be required in your ABAP-programming projects. They include time, date, and numeric conversions, popup dia- logue boxes, uploading and downloading MS Excel and ordinary file data, sending e-mail onto the Internet, date and time calculations, and much more.

Functions are arranged alphabetically within each chapter. Lists describing the most commonly used parameters to a function are also provided. These lists offer a clear textual description of the parameter, which can be of help to the more obscurely named parameters.

In some modules, parameter tables list the values that an input parameter takes, and describes each individually. Each function described also contains a simple but fully working example 4.

Authors William Lawlor. Many of the modules in this book are undocumented in text and are organised here for quick and easy reference There is no book like this currently on the market Includes supplementary material: sn. Front Matter Pages i-xxviii.

Pages Dates and Times. Long Texts. Number Ranges. Office Integration. Popup Dialogues. Back Matter Pages Reviews "At last a user-friendly reference that documents hundreds of the most useful ABAP routines currently in use.