Part I Scripts and Forms
Chapter 1. SAP Script: Forms, Styles and Standard Text
Generate Business Documents or Outputs incorporating styling, Font Control, Graphics etc. with SAP Scripts
SAP Script Forms Architecture.
Language Independent Components of Forms
Language Dependent Components of Forms
SAP Script Form Painter
SAP Script Symbols
SAP Script Formatting Options
SAP Script Control Commands
SAP Script Form check, Form Testing
SAP Supplied SAP Script Forms for Business Documents
Chapter2. SAP Script Hands-on Exercises
ABAP Program interaction with SAP Script Forms
Function Modules for SAP Script Form usage and invocation in ABAP Program
Create Form - Output Customer Wise Sales Summary with SAP Scrip
t Form
Create Form - Output Purchasing Document Business Document with SAP Script Form
Create Form - Output Address Labels with SAP Script Form
Create SAP Script Form. Create ABAP Program to invoke Form and test
Copy SAP Supplied Form into User Name Space and Modify: Modify a Copy of MADRUCK the SAP Supplied Form to Output the Business Document Purchasing Document
Options Available to Test Modified Copy of SAP Supplied SAP Script Forms for Business Documents
SAP Script Tit Bits
Chapter 3. Smart Forms: Forms, Styles and Text Modules
Generate Business Documents or Outputs incorporating styling, Font Control, Graphics etc. With Smart Forms
Smart Forms Architecture Enjoy Transaction Code SMARTFORMS
Improvements and Enhancements in Smart Forms over SAP Script
Form Components
Sm
art Forms Processing: Output Conditions, Branching, Looping and Page Sequencing
Style Maintenance: Paragraph Formats and Character Formats
ABAP Driver Program to Invoke Smart Form and Output Data: Considerations
Chapter 4. Smart Forms Hands-on Exercises
Output Customer Wise Sales Summary with Smart Forms
Create ABAP Program to invoke Form and test
Output Billing Document Business Document with Smart Forms
Create ABAP Program to invoke Form and test
Output Address Labels with Smart Forms
Create ABAP Program to invoke Form and test
Supplied Form to Output the Business Document Purchase Order
Options Available to Test Modified Copy of SAP Supplied SAP Script Forms for Business Documents
Transaction Code: NACE
Smart Forms Tit Bits
Part II Data Migration
Chapter 5. Data Migration: Using Batch Input Session and Call Transaction Methods
Introduction, Data Migration Scenarios
Reading Input Files from Presentation Server
Reading Input Files from Application Server
Hands-on Exercise to demonstrate Reading of Files from Presentation and Application Server
Run BDC Session with different data in Foreground and Background
Describe a Method for Error Log File Creation with Call Transaction Method
Program further to be able to Create Error Log File When using Call Transaction Method
Chapter 6. Data Migration: using Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW) I
Description of the LSMW Environment
Hands-on Exercise: Data Migration with LSMW
Hands-on Exercise: Data Migration with LSMW
Conclusion
Chapter 7. Data Migration: using Lega
cy System Migration Workbench (LSMW) II
Hands-on Exercise: Data Migration with LSMW
Hands-on Exercise: Data Migration with LSMW
Conclusion
Master SAP scripts, Smartforms, and data migration with hands-on exercises. The information provided in this book will help you decode the complexities and intricacies of SAP ABAP programming.Pro SAP Scripts, Smartforms, and Data Migration begins by describing the components of a SAP script: forms, styles, and standard texts. It then shows you how an ABAP program can invoke a SAP script form and send data to the form to provide output.
You will then apply these concepts to hands-on exercises covering real business scenarios. These scenarios include creating a custom form from scratch to output purchase orders. Smartforms will then be introduced as an enhanced tool to output business documents. The book will show you how to apply the concepts of Smartforms to real-world problems.
The data migration material includes details of the Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW). This is intro
duced as a platform from which every data migration task can be performed, minimizing or eliminating programming.
What You Will Learn
- Create and deploy SAP script forms and related objects
- Modify a copy of a SAP-supplied SAP script form, configure it, and deploy it according to transaction code ME22N
- Build Smartforms forms and deploy them
- Carry out data migration using the batch input and call transaction methods
- Perform data migration using all four methods available in LSMW
- Modify a copy of a SAP-supplied Smartforms form, configure it, and deploy it according to transaction code NACE
Who This Book Is For
Readers new to SAP ABAP programming (close to three years of experience or less) are the primary target audience for this book. Intermediate users can also utilize this book as a reference source.
Based out of Delhi, India, Sushil Markandeya holds a B.E. from Osmania University (1973) and M.E. (Electrical Engineering) from B.I.T.S. Pilani. (1975). He shifted to the field of I.T. In 1977. He was constantly involved in creating business application software on a number of platforms. Since July 2006, he has been providing corporate trainings in SAP ABAP for beginners/graduates fresh out of college. He has also conducted training sessions for organizations like Accenture, Wipro, Sony (India), Mphasis. (part of H.P), ITC Info tech., Hyundai Motors Corp. to name a few. Sushil is one of the authors of SAP ABAP Hands-On Test Projects with Business Scenarios, published by Apress, in November 2014.