Advanced ABAP/4 Programming

Beyond the Obvious

Advanced ABAP/4 Programming

• Remote Function Call (RFC)

• Business Application Programming Interfaces (BAPI)

• Application and Linking Enabling (ALE)

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• What is RFC ?

• Use of RFC ?

• Types of RFC ?
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• Automatic Tasks while calling RFC.

• Rules for RFC ?

• Function is RFC Client or RFC Server .. Difference. ?

• How to Create RFC Function?

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• Exercises

• Create a RFC Function Module which will retrieves only

the active Vendor Master data like Vendor No, Name &
Address.

• Create a RFC Function Module which retrieve the

Customer’s Sales Areas belongs to him.

• Create a RFC Function Module which retrieve the

Material description, Basic UoM
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• Types of RFC Call

– Synchronous
• CALL FUNCTION Func Destination Dest
• CALL FUNCTION func DESTINATION 'NONE' ...
• CALL FUNCTION func DESTINATION ’BACK' ...

– Asynchronous
• CALL FUNCTION func … STARTING NEW TASK taskname
• PERFORMING form ON END OF TASK
• RECEIVE RESULTS FROM FUNCTION func.
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• What is Business Object ?

• What is BOR ?

• What is BAPI ?

• Use of BAPI ?
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• How Transaction Model should be for BAPI ?

• Log on
• …
• Call BAPI to read and/or change data
• …
• Log off
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• Points to be remembered while creating BAPI

• It should not contain
– CALL TRANSACTION
– SUBMIT REPORT
– SUBMIT REPORT AND RETURN
– COMMIT WORK
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• Steps in Developing BAPI

– Defining the scenario
– Review the BAPI scenario
– Defining a BAPI and its Interface
– Creating Individual Programming Objects
– Programming BAPI
– Testing & Documentation
– Release
– Enhance existing BAPIs, if required
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• Assigning a Name to the Function Module

– BAPI_<Business Object Name>_<Method Name>
– specify the function group
– The technical name of a SAP Business object ususally takes the
form of BUSnnnn, where n is a number. Use the suffix “nnnn” as
the name of function group
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• Exercises
• Create a BAPI for Customer Object
– Display the Address details
– Display the Credit details
– Display the Sales Areas

• Create a BAPI for Material Object

– Display the Basic details
– Display the Plant Stock details
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• ALE .. ?

• Purpose of ALE ..?

• Layers of ALE …?

• Development Models of ALE ?

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• Message Type .. ?

• Idoc Type ..?

• Processing : Inbound / Outbound …?

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• Idoc Types (basic types) ?

• Segment Editor ..?

• Idoc Type editor …?

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