Practical SAP Program Development - Learning SAP ABAP Programming from Examples

Author: Wang Hong
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: This book is a truly comprehensive description of ABAP programming technology in Chinese, summarizing the author's experience in learning and working with ABAP. It presents the rather complex SAP technology in a very simple way, directly describes SAP technology, and uses a wealth of illustrations to help readers clearly understand SAP technology. The content includes: the development environment required for ABAP, the main content of ABAP development, and the development of transaction code summary indexes; important ABAP knowledge, editor usage, key syntax, and common techniques; the basics of ABAP database programming, data dictionary, and database programming access. SAP (System, Applications, and Products in Data Processing) is the world's largest management software supplier, and its flagship product, the R/3 system, is a leader in ERP products, covering all aspects of enterprise management business. ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming) is the development tool for SAP/R3 systems, a fourth-generation language supporting structured programming. This book presents the rather complex SAP technology in a very simple way, directly describes SAP technology, and uses a wealth of illustrations to help readers clearly understand SAP technology. The book mainly introduces: the development environment required for ABAP, the main content of ABAP development, and the development of transaction code summary indexes; important ABAP knowledge, editor usage, key syntax, and common techniques; the basics of ABAP database programming, data dictionary, and database programming access; the basics of report programming; importing and exporting Excel files; screen programming, as well as important screen controls such as TableControl, ALV, ALVTREE, and TREECONTROL; the two most commonly used tools for document printing—SMARTFORMS and FORMS; permission control programming; the Query tool, which requires no programming; the data import tools CATT and BDC; and SAP export technology. This book serves as a reference for those engaged in ABAP development and actual SAP business work, as well as an introductory guide for those who have not yet been exposed to the SAP industry but are eager to enter it.