Tips

Tips

• Adding custom fields for retail product comparisons in SAP BW

  Need to analyze and compare product sales, product cost and suggested retail price etc? This tip shows you how to customize the R/3 BW datasource/extractor to get elementary fields such as AFS color and size into BW.  Continue Reading

• Easily debug error messages in SAP processes

  Sometimes, an SAP process will stop working with an error message, or an abend. Unlike with a dump, it can be difficult to find exactly where the problem occured.  Continue Reading

• Accessing private attributes in ABAP Objects

  In the ABAP Objects, it's often useful to be able to access attributes which for some reason, the SAP developers have made private!  Continue Reading

• Improving performance with ABAP Objects in SAP Workflow

  Using Object Oriented ABAP in SAP Workflow will provide improved performance over a traditional Business Object Repository (BOR) approach.  Continue Reading

• How to make your SAP upgrade succeed in ten easy steps

  An SAP upgrade can be fraught with obstacles. Here are ten steps for taking the hassle out of an SAP upgrade.  Continue Reading

• Find a BADI in a minute

  The contest winning tip from Lakshmi Narayana. Find a BADI quick and easy, use "Find a BADI in a minute."  Continue Reading

• How to transport an SAP query in R/3 4.6x

  Learn how to quickly transport an SAP query in this handy tip.  Continue Reading

• How to switch off message determination in BAPI_PO_CREATE1

  Want to switch off message determination in BAPI_PO_CREATE1 and BAPI_PO_CHANGE? Learn how here.  Continue Reading

• How to include an authorization group restriction in an SAP query

  Some reports can be sensitive and should be protected. Here's a quick method for restricting access for unauthorized users.  Continue Reading

• How to use quick-views of other users

  Quick-views can be great time-savers, but users get their own system groups which can make it hard to work with peers. This handy tip allows you to work around this.  Continue Reading

• Find the BADI related to your transaction in minutes

  These steps should enable you to find any BADI related to any transaction in a matter of minutes.  Continue Reading

• How to test queries before transport

  This tip offers a quick way to test your queries before running in either QA or production environments.  Continue Reading

• Retrieve BI data with Web Services

  Did you ever want to know how to display BI information at the same time as CRM information? This tip will show you how to manage this with the BSP application (in an HTMLB table).  Continue Reading

• Eliminate database read/write times with ABAP shared memory

  The average SAP developer has never even heard of ABAP shared memory much less utilized it to help them decrease database read/write times. This was the subject of a tip presented at TechEd '07 in the session titled "Pimp mySAP."  Continue Reading

• Model-driven development in the enterprise

  Modeling will raise the level of abstraction at which we develop and allow platform independence. Axel Uhl does a reality check in this tip and verfies where we're at and what's still missing from model-driven development.  Continue Reading