Tips

Tips

• 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

• XI: Search through the payload of a message... without TREX!

  Are you wading through thousands of messages in XI searching for the the one you want? This short ABAP based search engine will give you the speed boost you need.  Continue Reading

• Adding special characters in SAP BI

  Are your SAP BI extractions failing too often? It could be a problem as minor as an invalid character within the report. Learn the acceptable characters as well as how to fix the issue all together in this tip by Aaron Wang.  Continue Reading

• Budgeting Best Practices with SAP Business Planning -- Part II

  In part two of Muthu Ranganathan's tip series on business planning he compares and contrasts popular scenarios and points out apparent flaws within each of their separate structures.  Continue Reading

• Your first SAP NetWeaver 2004s ABAP object

  With the new build of the SAP NetWeaver 2004s ABAP trial version (SP11), you may need to update your ABAP developer skills (beginners and experienced) to understand the new version. By the end of this tip series, you should have a good understanding...  Continue Reading

• Budgeting best practices with SAP business planning

  Why should companies bother with budgeting? Learn why and get best practices for budgeting for the corporate culture and synchronizing strategic and operating plans in SAP.  Continue Reading

• Beating back BSP bugs

  Every software developer needs to know how to combat errors and SAP ABAP developers are no different. In this tip Nigel James gives us the goods on how to defeat pesky bugs in BSP.  Continue Reading

• Using Folders in PI 7.1

  Folders are introduced with the development tools in NW PI 7.1. Learn the pros and cons of using folders in PI 7.1 to organize projects and interfaces.  Continue Reading

• Troubleshooting the ALE process

  This tip by Raja Thangamani on troubleshooting ALE processes will show you how to determine what code an IDoc is executing and take you step by step through high level error resolution for outbound and inbound IDocs.  Continue Reading