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Assigning info objects to info area for the DSO creation

I have been trying to assign info object to info area for the creation of DSO. My data source is customer master data(2LIS_01_00). Please help how to assign info object and inturn activate my DSO. ...

Importing an HTML table as excel file into SAP

We need to create an .xls file in asp.net which will be imported into SAP. Currently we're writing an HTML table into the response object. I'd like to know if SAP can import .xls files that are in fact HTML tables. ...

Newbie ABAP Question

I am new to ABAP coding and I am confused as to why the commented out query doesn't work. REPORT z_hello_world_local. TYPES: BEGIN OF bkpf_type, xblnr TYPE bkpf-xblnr, END OF bkpf_type. DATA: t_bkpf TYPE TABLE OF bkpf_type. FIELD-SYMBOLS: <bkpf> TYPE bkpf_type. *This query does...

pull the data from SAP BW System and process in java

We have a requirement to develop an application that pulls the data from SAP BW system and display it on a Flex chart. The Flex guy wants the data in the XML format. Am the middleWare guy who sits in between the SAP BW and the flex. I need to pull the data from SAP BW system and feed the flex components in XML. Question: How do I need ...

Does SAP support XBRL as standard?

Does SAP support XBRL as standard? If so, from which version? Are certain SAP components required for XBRL? Thanks. ...

learning SAP for experienced Java enterprise programmer

I am a Java freelancer with vast experience in many Java Enterprise technologies (EJB, Spring, Databases, JSP, Struts & more). I am looking to widening my professional horizons and have been thinking in learning about SAP. There is a local SAP partners that delivers a wide array of SAP courses, and I have the money, time and inclination...

Set Categories on DateNavigator

Hi. My friend seems to be having some trouble with ABAP. Here's a copy of his question - posted on the SAP community forums. Hey Everyone, I am trying to mark the DateNavigator with two categories. I made a context called Marking, with attributes Date, Category and Tooltip. Node: Marking Date: Category: Tooltip: I filled category ...

Online reference for learning SAP-ABAP

Pretty simple question, Does anyone know of any teach yourself ABAP online resources? Google wasn't too helpful... I'm pretty much well versed with SAP, and can manage C++. ...

ABAP Unit Test Classes - Good References

I'm looking for good reference material regarding the use of ABAP Unit Test Classes. I'm interested in any of the following: Documentation on the functionality Best Practises "How To Guides" Blogs/Books on people's experience in using test-driven development in a SAP environment, particularly what sort of scenarios leans themselves to...

Is this possible to reset a SAP installation process?

hello: As part of a testing process I finished the installation in "System Copy" mode of a SAP 46C SR2 system under Solaris/Oracle. Database already has data. Something was wrong in the installation althought it finished without troubles, so I need to begin all the installation process again without having to re-install the database an...

Easiest way to interface between a web app and SAP

Greetings! I've spent some time researching how to communicate with SAP from a PHP web application, but the documentation is more than spare. The ways I found are: Creating IDoc files, some sort of proprietary plain-text format. But how do I stick them in SAP when they are created on the webserver? Coding a Windows Application using t...

SAP Background Job: How's it Running?

I have to move an SAP background job(ABAP report for A/P) into Cronacle and can't figure out how to stop the job in SAP so I can start running it with the Cronacle schedule. The job runs in SAP from user SAPSYS every morning at 7:15am, but if you look it up with sm37 there is no time scheduled for it and it's not triggered by an event; ...

Differences between DEV and PRO in using /usr/sap/trans

hello: I am configuring transport System, PRO is the domain controller. I recently made a 46C system copy/installation from PRO (production) to DEV (development/test) system and need to reconfigure transport system. After the copy two domain controllers exists, one in DEV and another in PRO. I have 2 questions here: 1) Using STMS, sh...

Can SAP work with Python?

Let's focus on using SAP as the database engine and just doing different queries. Can I do it in Python? ...

How to learn ”the way of ABAP"?

I never worked with SAP. I have a reasonable understanding of business, but no accounting background. How to learn ABAP on examples that will simultaneously enlighten me with the "way of SAP"? It doesn't have to be a deep knowledge, just something to start for somebody who was in the world of Python and C# but needs understand how SAP w...

Transition to OO ABAP?

It appears that most of our SAP programmers are using the old version of ABAP, the one before object-oriented stuff. I also noticed that the language is much cleaner and more modern with OO (they apparently took the opportunity to get rid of deprecated things). As the system is not rolled out yet, the time to make any redesign is now r...

Does a mixed .net/sap system make sense?

This might be a bit vague question, but real life is like this. Our company is rolling out SAP system. I know they now do Web Services so we could simultaneously roll out the .NET thing for anything we know we can do in C#. What are the pitfalls along the way of SAP - .NET integration? I understand that SAP's logic is quite different ...

Is this possible to transport orders from a system in ECC 6.0 to a SAP R3 system in 46C?

Sounds not logic but I think there are many cases when a production system is in 46C and (for budget restrictions) the corresponding test system was recently upgraded to ECC 6.0 before doing the same in production. If not possible, which is the best solution under the indicated scenario? My best regards. ...

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...

values are scrambled when we call a RFC method in .net with sap .net connector 2.0

With .NET SAP Connector 2.0 we invoke a RFC Method. When we pass only one character in the parameters, the values are stored in the SAP system and readable when we query the table in the SAP system. When we pass only more then one character in the parameters, the values are stored in the SAP system and not readable when we query the tab...