SAP ABAP Training - in Plain English

Create a hello world ABAP program in the SAP ABAP editor using SE38; name it with a Z prefix, make it executable, activate after syntax check, and add comments.

Learn how to build a two-screen SAP ABAP program that lists materials and filters by creator using parameters, the Mara table, and the data dictionary concepts.

Generate and customize a sales orders table with the table maintenance generator, define data element labels for multiple lengths, and manage activation and data entry.

Create vendor and purchase order tables in ABAP, define vendor number and name, and establish a composite primary key with order number and line item.

Learn to adjust a sales order table's primary key to a composite key of order number and item, regenerate data, and update maintenance screens for proper key order.

Normalization splits data into three tables to eliminate redundancy and improve data integrity, enabling reliable joins across customer records using primary and foreign keys.

Learn how primary keys and foreign keys link tables to enforce referential integrity, reduce redundancy, and support normalization, using example table relationships and data element practices.

Review the building blocks of ABAP, from Hello World and reports to internal tables, program flow, and open SQL; reinforce data dictionary concepts and basic debugging for day four.

Explore how to extract and join sales order header (VBAK) and item (VBAP) data in SAP ABAP, build internal tables, and format reports with color, boxes, and justification.

In this ABAP program, list sales orders by header and line-item data using an inner join of header and line-item tables, with selection parameters for order number, creator, date, and material.

Demonstrate selecting from order header and items, looping into a work area of an internal table, and writing a formatted, headered report with aligned fields.

Learn select options in ABAP, compare them with parameters, and use in for multiple order numbers or materials for flexible reporting.

Explore select options in ABAP, learn how to manipulate them with append, set mandatory fields such as last name, and assign default values for select options, parameters, and checkboxes.

Learn how to read from an internal table using index or key, read into a work area, and append single rows or entire tables to form final results.

Coordinate multilingual material descriptions by pulling English and language-specific descriptions from internal tables, applying language priority for the logged-in language, and falling back to English when missing.

Explore the three internal table types: standard, sorted, and hashed, with their key features, read speed advantages, use cases for large data, plus how to describe number of lines.

Explore interactive reports in SAP ABAP by contrasting header and item reports, using a selection screen and drill-down index levels to display order headers and line items.

Develop a two-level interactive sap abap drill-down report on order header and order items, showing types-based and work area internal tables and line-selection events for navigation.

Use get cursor in an ABAP interactive report to identify the clicked column and display either order data or customer data. Define fields and values to drive the conditional logic.

Learn ABAP subroutines as modular within-program units, using form and end form, and perform calls to concatenate first and last names, including basic debugging to step into the subroutine.

Learn how pf-status enables programmable menus and toolbars in sap abap, define a status, and respond to user commands to download materials to excel or text files.

Create a toolbar icon for download to Excel, assign a keyboard shortcut, and implement back, exit, and cancel behavior using status in SAP ABAP module pool programming.

In SAP ABAP training, learn how to use the field catalog with the reuse_grid_display ALV grid to format and display two table columns, with customizable descriptions and positions.

Expand the field catalog in a v2 program by refining internal table and work area formatting, with subtotals by sort criteria and dynamic, programmatic subtotaling for purchase orders.

Learn how to specify sorting information programmatically in SAP ABAP, building a sort internal table and optional subtotals, and calling the sort info function module with field catalog and data.

Learn how ABAP reports handle events, wire the top of page event to a form subroutine, and display data with LV grid display using internal tables and list header formatting.

Wire the PF-status event to a function module in the LV grid to set the report status and populate the top of the page.

Open SQL in SAP ABAP links in-memory internal tables to persistent relational databases like Oracle and MySQL, emphasizing select operations and cautions about updating standard tables.

Create a custom z table in SAP on top of the standard Ekpo purchase order data to track purchase orders, statuses, and descriptions from a back-office workflow across teams.

Implement delete rows by enabling row selection with a box, wiring a delete action to a case statement, and deleting from the database, then refreshing the grid.