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

Monitoring an Archiving Run There are various system administration tools available to monitor archiving runs: • Background processing tools – Job logs – Spool lists (if created) • System monitoring tools – Data Archiving Monitor in the CCMS monitor sets A log is created during an archiving run. If the application creates a specific log, this is used; otherwise, the standard log is used. The standard logs contains the number of archived data objects, the affected tables, the number of processed table entries, and the file sizes. The contents of the archiving can be stored to document level in application-specific logs. Note: The archiving logs are deleted by the regular cleaning of spool jobs. You must therefore consider the destination of these logs. You could, for example, store the logs on an external storage system. You can trace the process of an archiving run with the monitoring of the background work processes using the transaction Simple Job Selection (transaction code

  Table of Contents Useful MM tips to help those supporting the SAP MM modules.  The Materials Management (MM) module is fully integrated with the other modules of the SAP System. It supports all the phases of materials management: materials planning and control, purchasing, goods receiving, inventory management, and invoice verification. Material Master Plant Maintain Material Master - Introduction Maintain the Material Type Screens in Material Master Block materials from inventory posting Create Delivery Log - Material xxx is blocked Maintain Storage Location Block Storage Location from further posting Accounting document number range for MM Valuation Class for Material Group G/L Accounts in MM Account Determination Compare fields status for movement types against General Ledger Material Master Value Defaults Inventory Management System Messages - M7 - Inventory Management and Physical Inventory Inventory Posting Copy, Change Movement Types Inter Plant Purchasin

 ALV Tutorials Radio Buttons in the output of an ALV ( More details )  NEW Display more than one Internal Table in ALV using Object Oriented ABAP Programming ( More details )  NEW Word Wrap Functionality in ALV ( More details ) ALV - Consistency Check ( More details ) ALV Utility prgram ( More details ) Displaying ALV in a docking container ( More details ) Creating dynamic ALV with dynamic editable columns and dynamic colors to the columns based on condition ( More details ) Adding PF-Status, Header and Footer in ALV using class CL_SALV ( More details ) Hiding the print info of the ALV list in the spool ( More details ) Create, Modify and Delete entries dynamically from any custom table by using Object Oriented ALV ( More details ) Coloring of the cells in the F4 help of ALV ( More details ) Printing a line after every subtotaling in ALV ( More details ) Increasing the width of the spool when using ALV List ( More details ) Simple interactive ALV Tree calling ALV list

Logical Spool Servers Task: Create a Logical Spool Server 1. Create a logical server, Logical<##>. If possible, enter two different spool servers as mapping and alternative servers and activate load distribution. Classify Logical<##> as a test server. a) In the SAP system, choose Tools → CCMS → Print → Spool Administration (transaction SPAD). On the Devices/Servers tab page, choose Spool Servers (leave the field to the right empty). If you cannot see a Create pushbutton, choose Change to switch to change mode. Now create the logical spool server Logical<##>. Choose Logical server and enter at least one spool server for Mapping. Enter the other details as described in the exercise and choose save. 2. Change the output device Local<##> so that the logical server Logical<##> is used as its spool server in the future. Classify Local<##> as a test printer. a) From transaction SPAD, choose the Output Devices pushbutton on the Devices / Server