SAP Beginners

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Table of Contents Contact the Author 12 Introduction 13 How to Use This Book 14 Chapter 1: SAP System Overview 15 SAP System Architecture 15 Environment for Programs 18 Work Processes 19 The Dispatcher 19 The Database Interface 20 First look at the ABAP Workbench 22 First Look 23 ABAP Dictionary 27 ABAP Editor 27 Function Builder 27 Menu Painter 28 Screen Painter 28 Object Navigator 28 Chapter 2: Data Dictionary 29 Introduction 29 Creating a Table 29 Creating Fields 33 Data Elements 34 Data Domains 36 Technical Settings 45 Entering Records into a Table 48 v Viewing the Data in a Table 51 Chapter 3 55 Creating a Program 55 Code Editor 57 Write Statements 62 Output Individual Fields 71 Chaining Statements Together 72 Copy Your Program 73 Declaring Variables 75 Constants 78 Chapter 4 79 Arithmetic – Addition 79 Arithmetic – Subtraction 80 Arithmetic – Division 81 Arithmetic – Multiplication 81 Conversion Rules 82 Division Variations 83 The standard form of division. 83 The integer form