1. from enjoySAP to mySAP.com
ABAP Workbench
from enjoySAP to mySAP.com
Karl Kessler

2. Overview New user interface of ABAP Workbench
Object Navigator (SE80)
ABAP Editor
Enjoy controls and ABAP Objects programming
Web Application Builder
Modification and Enhancement
Modification Assistant
Business Add Ins

3. New ABAP Workbench User Interface (SE80)
Object list selection
Tool area
Browser area

4. Object Navigator (SE80): Browser Area
Object list selection
Tree control for object lists (classes/interfaces, programs, function groups, development classes, local objects, Internet service)
Context menu for tree items
Display, change, create ...
Object oriented menu entries
Suitable context menu for each node type

5. Object Navigator: Navigation Tool Bar
Previous/Next object list navigation history
Expand/Collapse
Navigation to higher or object list
Object list favorites/favorites management
Refresh object list
Close browser

6. Object Navigator: Tool Area
Tool bar
Previous/Next object
Change/Display
Active/Inactive version
Other object...
Check/Activate/Test/Where used list
Display object list
Display navigation stack
Full screen mode

7. ABAP Editor (SE38): Local Editing
Edit control with local (desktop) features
Local scrolling in Include, method, function module
Local search/replace, fast up-/download
Multilevel undo/redo
Access to application server only when saving, checking or navigating
Context menu
Positioning: Ctrl + double click or double click an empty source line
Comment code with ctrl and >
Goto
Buffers

8. ABAP Editor (SE38): Mark, Copy, Paste
Mark source text
Via mouse
Mark all: ctrl a
Mark block with shift, arrow and scroll keys
Mark words: ctrl and shift with arrow keys
Cut&Paste, Drag&Drop
In Winword style
Block structure
with tab key, reverse function: shift tab
comments are indented as well
no automatic line wrapping

9. Object Navigator: Worklist, Set Operations
Personal worklist
Menu: Utilities è Worklist è Display
Add items from reuse library
Drag&drop items from browser area
Save
Set operations
Multiple selection with ctrl key
Supported set operations in context menu
Add to worklist

10. Drag and Drop, ABAP Objects Patterns
Drag and Drop: Object list è editor
Automatic insertion of patterns
CREATE OBJECT
CALL METHOD
CALL FUNCTION
Menu: Pattern è ABAP Objects patterns

11. Personal settings
Menu: Utilities è Settings
Each tool has its own tab

12. Control Based Architecture of the New Workbench
HTML control
Docking container
Docking container
ALV grid control
Toolbar control
Splitter container
Tree control
Dynpro
Custom container
Editor control

13. Controls: Creating Objects, Calling Methods
Frontend
Automation Handling
Java
OLE
Beans
ActiveX Controls
SAPGUI Client
RFC
Control Framework
Automation Controller
Wrapper Class (Proxy)
Backend
Application Server
ABAP PROGRAM
CREATE OBJECT CALL METHOD ...

14. Event Handling Frontend SAPGUI Client Backend Application Server
Control Manager
ActiveX Control
ActiveX Control
ActiveX Control
SAPGUI Client
Function Code
Java
OLE
Automation Handling
Backend
Control Framework
Wrapper Class (Proxy)
ABAP PROGRAM
METHOD Handler. … ENDMETHOD.
Application Server

15. ABAP Objects: Basics for Controls Programming
Defining object references DATA: objref TYPE REF TO cl1.
Creating objects CREATE OBJECT objref.
Calling methods CALL METHOD objref->method EXPORTING ... IMPORTING ...
Defining event handler classes CLASS cl_event_handler DEFINITION. METHODS: evt_handler1 FOR EVENT evt1 OF cl1. evt_handler2 FOR EVENT evt2 OF cl2. ENDCLASS. CLASS cl_event_handler IMPLEMENTATION. METHOD evt_handler ENDMETHOD. METHOD evt_handler ENDMETHOD. ENDCLASS. CREATE OBJECT handler. SET HANDLER handler->evt_handler1 FOR objref.

16. Controls Class Hierarchy
CL_GUI_CFW
Central services:
Automation Queue
Drag & drop (CL_DRAGDROP)
Context menu (CL_CTMENU)
CL_GUI_OBJECT
CL_GUI_CONTROL
Control container
Visibility
Lifetime
CL_GUI_CONTAINER
CL_GUI_CUSTOM_CONTAINER
CL_GUI_DOCKING_CONTAINER
CL_GUI_SPLITTER_CONTAINER
CL_GUI_DIALOGBOX_CONTAINER
SAP standard controls
SAP Textedit
SAP Tree
SAP HTML Viewer
SAP Picture
CL_GUI_TEXTEDIT
CL_GUI_COLUMN_TREE
CL_GUI_HTML_VIEWER
CL_GUI_PICTURE
CL_GUI_TOOLBAR

17. Demos: Drag&Drop, Tree, Grid, Container...
Via
Environment è
Controls examples
in each workbench
tool
Via transaction code:
DWDM
ABAP Editor
ABAP
Code
Demos

18. Documentation on Controls Technology
New book available on Controls Technology
Programming guide with many ABAP code examples
Complete control reference
400 pages/color print
Costs 25 €
Order online at shop.sap.com
Customers/partners: invoice
Others: credit card
Refer to mat. no

19. Wizards for Table Control and Tab Strip

20. Web Application Builder
Design Goals
Integrated development environment for web apps
Runtime environment: Internet Transaction Server (ITS)
Easy access to function modules (RFC), BAPIs, Dictionary
Reuse support (business building blocks)
Inside out vs. Outside in
Online vs. offline
Debugging

21. 1:1 Relation Between Template and Dynpro

22. How ITS Works Today SAP GUI User Request Call WGate Send Prepared
R/3 Fields
Web Server
AGate
WGate
HTML Page
HTML Page
Changed
R/3 Fields
Load
HTML Template

23. EWT und Transaction Classification

24. Web Application Builder: Integration into SE80
Create/edit Web app components in SE80
Internet service (name and parameters)
Templates incl. generate from dynpro
Language resources
Mimes
Flow logic for outside-in web apps
Link to Transport organizer
Publish to ITS, launch service in Web browser
Version management for service, language resources and template resp. flow

25. Internet services in SE80

26. Business HTML Publish to ITS Launch web browser Business Functions

27. Decoupling (Flowlogic)
HTML
Template
Outside-in approach

28. Flow Logic (XML)

29. SAP’s Universal Internet Platform
Internet Transaction Server
WebGUI
IACs/EWTs
Template
HTML
SAP
system
Flow Logic
XML
Flow
Template
HTML

30. Modifications and Enhancements
Flexibility
Modifications
Assisted modifications
Business Add Ins
Customer exits
Ease of Use

31. Modification Assistant
Techniques to adapt the R/3 applications without modification
Customizing
Report variants, transaction variants
Personalization
Customer exits
menu, dynpro, field, function, keywords
Do not allow for arbitrary modifications
Modification assistant
Built-in support for controlled modifications
Upgrade support

32. Modifications in ABAP Editor
FORM user_command.
CASE sy-ucomm.
WHEN fun1.
*{# SDK /25/1997 Replacement
* IF condition.
IF condition OR mycondition.
*}#
perform handle_fun1.
ELSE.
...
ENDIF.
WHEN fun2.
perform handle_fun2.
*{# SDK /19/ Insertion
WHEN myfun.
perform handle_myfun.
ENDCASE.
ENDFORM.
Replace
Insert

33. ABAP Editor in Modification Mode
Replace

34. Screen Modifications
New elements
Modified elements

35. Menu Modifications
Modified elements
New elements

36. Modification Browser (SE95) and Upgrade Support (SPAU)
(Semi)automatic reinsertion

37. Requirements for Business Add Ins
Delivery of implemented add ins (country-specific versions, IBU solutions, partner software, ...)
Technique can be used by different software vendors
Delivery and correction of default solutions
Filter-dependent implementation possible
Structured filter types
‘Event-like’ add ins (Publish & Subscribe)
Integrated administration and documentation
Trace possibilities

38. Add ins are points in an object’s source code where additional
Add Ins: Definition
Add ins are points in an object’s source code where additional
functions or statements can be inserted. Add ins are defined by
the object’s initial developer and allow other developers to easily
include additional code in a subsequent phase of development
without having to ‘modify’ the original. Additional advantages:
No change licences necessary
Interfaces are upwardly compatible
Less work at upgrade

39. Architecture: Business Add Ins
Customer extension
Add In-
Adapter:
Publish & Subscribe
Filter
Control
Interface
Interface
CORE
R/3
Industry
solution
Interface

40. Solution Based on ABAP Interfaces
Interface: IF_app_exit m1, m2
Application
Customer
DATA:
exit TYPE REF TO if_app_exit.
CALL METHOD cl_exithandler=> create_instance IMPORTING instance = exit
CALL exit->m1 EXPORTING IMPORTING ...
Generated adapter class
CL_imp_app_exit
Method m1. ...
Endmethod.
Method m2.
... m1 m2
...

41. Filter Dependence Type of filter: data element with search help
Sometimes it is important for partners to be able to implement and deliver a single add in with different filter values ( for different countries, for example). For this reason, add ins can be defined for specific filter values.
Type of filter: data element with search help
Parameter flt_val must be suitably filled when the add in is called.
Add in must be implemented for a specific filter value

42. Business Add In Manager
Definition part (SE18)
Specification of common Interface (method collection)
Define Add In Type (publish & subscribe, filter dependent)
Automatic generation of adapter classes
Implementation (SE19)
Select filter value (e.g. country code)
Supply code for interface methods
Activate Add In

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