bapi

Calling an existing SAP report in ABAP, with GUI suppression

I want to expose the functionality of an SAP program (transaction) as a BAPI. I need to call a report and supply range filters such that the GUI is bypassed. Does anyone have a working example of the SUBMIT ... WITH ... ABAP construct, or other suggestions on how to accomplish what I need to do? ...

Where to find novice SAP BAPI coding guides?

I've been working with applications interfacing with SAP via a web service for a little while now and I want to get into programming the BAPI's behind the web services as well. My company has been using a SAP consultant for the BAPI programming and I'd like to move into filling that role also. I have a decent amount of experience with t...

SAP Business Intelligence (BI): Updating a Cube with Java

I'm a relative newcomer to SAP, so please pardon my ignorance. I'm looking to use Java to work with an SAP BI Cube (select, insert, update, delete type of work). At this point, I'm planning on using JCo to execute the appropriate function modules, but I don't know which function modules to use or how to use them. Does anyone have any ex...

Are SAP's BAPI APIs propritary, or just a wrapper for something else?

So, I've just been dumped into the middle of a project involving SAP. Specifically, I need to use SAPs BAPI APIs to pull a bunch of information out of "The Client's" SAP system. Given that SAP is a closed platform, I've been having trouble finding a high level overview of the who/what/where/when/how of SAP and BAPI. Specifically Is B...

What is "POSNR" an abreviation or acronym for?

I'm working with some data that's coming out of an SAP system. There's a field named POSNR that appears to be a line item/database identifier of some kind. What is this an abbreviation for? It's not hyper-critical to what I'm doing, but every time I stare at the word it looks like pure gibberish and can be slightly distracting. ...

Integrating Magento with SAP ECC 6.0 Backend

I'm a freshly graduated (read: inexperienced) developer who's been tasked with determining the feasibility of integrating Magento with an SAP-based backend. No developer at our company has any experience working with either SAP or Magento, so I was hoping that the Stack Overflow community may be able to point me in the right direction wi...

How to populate object dependencies with routing bapi

I'm using BAPI_ROUTING_CREATE to interface routing creation/changes from an external system. There doesn't seem to be a way to pass VC object dependencies for each operation. Does anyone know of a way to programmatically update object dependencies? I'd prefer to avoid BDCs if possible. ...

"NOT_SUPPORTED_BY_GUI" Exception in JCo

We are having a BAPI that uploads the specified document to SAP. The BAPI accept three parameters: ID, FILE_LOC and FOLDER_NAME. And I'm setting the values as follows in the JCo code: JCO.ParameterList paramList = function.getImportParameterList(); paramList.setValue("101XS1", "EXTERNAL_ID"); paramList.setValue("tmp", "FOLDER_NAME"); p...

How to fill a webdynpro table binded to a BAPI initially?

Hello SAP-Gurus, im fairly new to webdynpro abap and have the following problem: I created a service returning a set of all existing customers. This function works well, if i test it in a litte program simply printing out the lines. now i created a webdynpro containing a table to display these customers. I also did the binding! AND it ...

GLAccount Information - Simulate BAPI_INCOMINGINVOICE_CREATE

I am currently working on an application that posts invoices to SAP using Java/JCo. I am using BAPI_INCOMINGINVOICE_CREATE for the purpose and it works perfectly fine. Now I have an additional requirement to preview the GL Account distribution of the gross amount (credits and debits) before confirming the transaction through BAPI_TRANSA...

How can I get a list of SQVI queries by User ID?

Just as some background, I intend to write an Excel add-in with .NET that can execute queries from an SAP system. Thus, I'm looking for a list of function modules for SAP's SQVI transaction. I can't seem to find much information about them; the few forum posts I had found before seem to have gone into the internet oblivion. Specificall...

How to search for available functions and tables on a SAP system

I've got to admit that I'm not an expert on SAP R/3 programming, so this is more of a basic question on that matter. Is there any way to get a list of accessible RFC modules and/or tables on a SAP system? On many examples on the internet I've found one RFC modul that seems to be available on every SAP system ("SD_RFC_CUSTOMER_GET") and...

Access SAP R/3 data directly from VB.NET

We have an assignment to create some XML outputs from data in SAP R/3. We are using SAP .NET Connector, for doing this. The problem we are facing is that there are some fields which are not exposed by any standard BAPI. Unfortunately we cannot create customized BAPI on this particular system. We are therefore restricted to whatever stan...