SAP ABAP Programming For Beginners - Online Training

Learn to use the data dictionary to view, create, and enhance SAP database tables by defining fields, data elements, and domains, then validate, activate, and enter data.

Create your first SAP ABAP table by defining a date of birth field with a DATS domain and data element, then set technical settings and activate the table.

Expand your ABAP program by reading from zemployee_list_01 using table and select statements, then format output with write, line size controls, underline, slash, skip, and pretty printer to display rows.

Learn to chain statements in ABAP by using a colon after write to output multiple items with commas and a final period, reducing duplicated code.

Learn to declare constants in SAP ABAP with the constants statement, assign a value, reference but never change it, and note limits on data types, X strings, references, internal tables.

Explore ABAP division operators, including standard division for decimals, integer division with div, and remainder using mod, illustrated with num1 and num2 examples and common syntax notes.

Explore ABAP character string manipulation, including concatenating strings with an optional separator. See destination length considerations and sample data declarations for title, surname, forename, and a separator field.

Learn to determine a string's length in ABAP using the string length function strlen. Declare a LEN field and output the length of the surname, which is five.

Master the ABAP debugger and verify program logic, including bugs the syntax checker misses. Learn to set breakpoints, run to them, and use static or dynamic breakpoints.

See how system fields like SY-SUBRC, SY-TAPIX, and SY-DBCNT from the S-Y-S-T system table update automatically at runtime, show statement-dependent values, and reset to zero on successful execution.

Discover table mode in ABAP debugging, viewing an internal table's records and fields, and switch between table and fields views to inspect contents.

Create foreign keys for the currency key by linking to the WAERS domain and TCURC value table to validate entries and enable drop-down selection.

Learn how key fields affect the underlying database in ABAP tables and how to safely activate changes using SE14, including adjust database with save data.

Learn to declare date and time fields in ABAP, using date type d and time type t, referencing sy-datum and sy-uzeit, and display results with write statements.

Explore date and time fields in ABAP calculations, generating and adjusting dates, computing length of service, adding days to today, and deriving the last day of the previous month.

Explore SAP lock objects and how they lock data across multiple tables during a multi-step transaction, using the ABAP dictionary, central lock table, and related function modules.

Use open SQL in ABAP to access records across databases with the ABAP dictionary, while Mandt automatically filters by the current client.

Learn how to insert a new record into zemployees using a work area for the internal table, including declaring wa_employees like zemployees and inserting from wa_employees, with sy-subrc checks.

Learn to use delete statements in ABAP, deleting by primary key or with a where clause, check sy-subrc, and avoid deleting all records.

Explore program flow control and logical expressions in ABAP, learning how to structure tasks and subtasks, apply conditional loops, and determine the execution sequence using control structures.

Learn to link ABAP logical expressions using and, or, not, with eq and e for equals and not equals inside if statements.

Use the exit statement to terminate the loop immediately, unlike continue, and in nested loops it ends only the inner loop, while outside it can terminate a subroutine or program.