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Are there any good public SAP Business Intelligence developer networks out there?

So far I just use the SAP Developers' network at sdn.sap.com but I would love something a bit more grassroots with bleeding-edge social features. Blogs and forums and any opportunity to seek help and critique outside of my immediate team would be great......

ABAP Column Tree Model doesn't expand node after EXPAND_NO_CHILDREN event

I am displaying a list of items using a SAP ABAP column tree model, basically a tree of folder and files, with columns. I want to load the sub-nodes of folders dynamically, so I'm using the EXPAND_NO_CHILDREN event which is firing correctly. Unfortunately, after I add the new nodes and items to the tree, the folder is automatically colla...

Alternative Style(CSS) methods in SAP Portal?

I am overriding a lot of SAP's Portal functionality in my current project. I have to create a custom fixed width framework, custom iView trays, custom KM API functionality, and more. With all of these custom parts, I will not be using a lot of the style functionality implemented by SAP's Theme editor. What I would like to do is create...

Options for Connecting SAP to .NET

Need to integrate SAP with .NET applications. Is .NET Connector the best choice? What about NetWeaver? Simply looking to push data to and pull data from SAP. ...

when using a FTPS connection to transfer a file, what is the difference between a 'Binary mode taransfer' and 'ASCII mode transfer' ?

I am using a FTPS connection to send a text file [this file will contain EDI(Electronic Data Interchange) information]to a mailbox INOVIS.I have configured the system to open a FTPS connection and using the PUT command I write the file to a folder on the FTP server. The problem is: what mode of file transfer should I use? How do I swit...

Big pdf attachemts in e-mails from SAP

I use ABAP program to send e-mail invoices to our customers. Invoice is pdf attachment created by function SX_OBJECT_CONVERT_OTF_PDF. Problem is that when language is PL (Polish) attachment is 10 times bigger comparing to EN language. Why? ...

What is the simplest way to interact between a SAP OMS and Websphere Commerce??

Would it be using a Websphere Adaptor for SAP or webmethods or something else?? Does something else need to be considered while opting for one of these??? The final system needs to be synchronous between SAP and the WCS front end.No ques..no delays.... ...

Connectivity of Winform Applications/ASP.NET application with SAP databases

How can I fetch data in a Winforms application or ASP.NET form from a SAP database? The .NET framework used is 2.0. , language is C# and SAP version is 7.10. ...

SAP R/3 package code modification

I'm trying to determine how to modify SAP R/3 package code of an installed system. Can anyone suggest the module/tool for that? ...

Portal Style & Theme

Hi Guys, I have integrated SRM 5.0 into Portal.Most of the iviews are IAC i.e., all are ITS based services. The issue is that the Portal Theme does not get reflected on these services after integration. When a BSP or Webdynpro is integrated then the application reflects the Portal Theme when executed from Portal but the ITS services a...

Get the contents of a server-side directory in SAP ABAP

I need to get a listing of a server-side directory inside SAP. How do I achieve this in ABAP? Are there any built-in SAP functions I can call? Ideally I want a function which I can pass a path as input, and which will return a list of filenames in an internal table. ...

how to SOAP with PHP to a SAP Erecruitment database

Our team is working on SAP and getting a website frontend written with PHP and MySQL to connect with the recruitment database on SAP ... we've tried making SOAP clients and everything but it seems we're missing something.. what are the steps to ensure that they can synchronize with or without a wsdl.. ...

In SAP SCRIPT, how to add a page break or print the records in a new page

I would like to print the records in a new page every time the contract number changes. What is the syntax for new page in the SAP SCRIPT. Kindly let me know if you know how to achieve this. ...

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? ...

How to set (unix) permissions when creating a file in SAP ABAP?

you would think this would be obvious, but searching through documentation, SAP forums, Googling, etc., I've been spectacularly unsuccessful. I'm creating a file in ABAP on a solaris filesystem using the following code: OPEN DATASET p_file FOR OUTPUT IN TEXT MODE ENCODING DEFAULT. the resulting file is owned and grouped according to ...

Time estimate for SAP/ABAP

Hi all there, I'm looking for a table or list of standard time estimations for developments in SAP/ABAP, something customizable in some variables according to the development team, complexity of project, etc... Something similar to: Simple Module Pool -> 10 hours Complex Module Pool -> 30 hours Definition of Dictionary -> (0,4 * numbe...

SAP HR Relationship models

SAP HR apparently has several models for describing the relationship between Position (S), Job (C), Organization (O) and Person (P) objects that the Organizational Management (OM) module is used to maintain. P (Person) objects are usually Holders of Positions (S). There is the S-S relationship model, which I am told is called Superviso...

Managing ABAP Source Code in Source Control

Our product currently spans a large number of technologies, including Java, PL/SQL, VB.Net and ABAP. We have a fairly mature source control and build system set up for all of the languages except ABAP, which is still in the stone ages. Since SAP has a build system set up within it, our engineers do all of their development in an SAP envi...

Java or ABAP Web Dynpro? (SAP Web Development on Netweaver)

Are there any good arguments for using Java Web Dynpro over ABAP Web Dynpro? I've heard that the Java version is more mature by about 18 months because Dynpro was made for Java, and then ABAP devs wanted it once they saw it working. I know ABAP is propriatary to SAP and the Java is much more widely used. Does this fact, plus the maturit...

XML Parse error while processing the SOAP response

I am using C# .Net 2.0 to write a webservices client. The server's soap implementation is tested and is pretty solid. gSoap/C++ applications had no problem reading the responses. However the .Net implementation complains "There is an error in XML document" while calling one of the methods. Similar responses recieved from the server were ...