ALE / IDoc Examples Documents for Novice ABAP Users

This document aims to help the ABAPers to set up the necessary configurations to send IDoc from one system to another. This document will provide developers a good starting point on how to start and where to start after studying all the theoretical aspects of ALE/IDoc.

Scope of scenarios on EDI systems is outside the scope of this document. Also, sending Idoc by message control mechanism is not described here. Not there is any discussion of sending Idoc using BAPI.

  • Client to Client ALE Setup
  • System to System ALE Setup
  • Two way Server to Server Communication with IDoc
  • Some important topics on IDoc
  • Developing and Transmitting New IDoc
  • Standard SAP Idoc Extension
  • Configurations and Programmings to Maintain Change Documents for new information
  • Configuring and Developing for Change Pointers for a custom message type
  • Downloading IDoc into Application server

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Adobe PDF Based Interactive Print Forms Guides for SAP ABAP Users

In this post, you will find links to a set of presentations which you will learn how to design Adobe Interactive forms and how to integrate them into ABAP print scenarios with the tool “Interactive forms based on Adobe Software”. After reading documents, you will be able to:

  • Use transaction SFP
  • Create and model Interfaces
  • Use Adobe LiveCycle Designer
  • Create and Design complex forms for printing with the tool “Interactive forms based on Adobe Software”
  • Integrate forms into ABAP prints.

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SAP ABAP Development Standarts Guidance for Beginners

This Guideline provides development standards and examples for the Spares SAP R/3 system. Therefore design, style, naming and documentation conventions for an optimized Customizing and Development are defined in here. The document is created for all internal and external employees, which are involved in SAP- development, customizing and maintenance.

All conventions and procedures of this document have to be considered. Objects that does not fulfil the defined standards within this guideline, will not be accepted and not transported from the development instance.

The relevant official SAP-guidelines are the base for all developments and are linked within this document. This document is a further detailed guide for Spares development.

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An Up to Date LSMW Guide: Migration of Vendor Master in SAP

In this up-to-date LSMW document, author covers creation of Vendor Master data in SAP with accounting view using LSMW tool. You will find detailed explanations and screenshots from SAP ECC 6.0 of the following LSMW’s popular steps:

  1. Maintain Object Attributes
  2. Maintain Source Structures
  3. Maintain Source Fields
  4. Maintain Structure Relations
  5. Maintain Field Mapping and Conversion Rules
  6. Maintain Fixed Values, Translations, User-Defined Routines
  7. Specify Files
  8. Assign Files
  9. Read Data
  10. Display Read data
  11. Convert Data
  12. Display Converted Data
  13. Create Batch Input Session
  14. Run Batch Input Session

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Exercise on SAP ALV and SmartForms

The purpose of this document is to display Sales Order acknowledgement. The smart form displays detail of the order which can be printed

  1. execute custom transaction to display the sales order data based on selection screen entries
  2. display of an ALV report based on the layout selected in selection screen with sales order fields
  3. proving an option to the user to view smart form with organization details

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SAP Exercise on ALV Report

The purpose of this development is to display sales order flow information like sales orders, delivery orders and billing documents. User can download or send email this report.

  1. Report need to contain sales order information, delivery information and billing information and need to display totals and sub-totals of the amount based on the sales order no delivery document number and billing document number.
  2. User can display or download or send mail based on selection of check boxes.

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