Introduction to ABAP Programming

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Introduction to ABAP

Programming

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Objectives

• The participants will be able to:

– Discuss the basics of ABAP Programming

– Discuss the basic functions of the ABAP

Editor

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Terms to Remember

Report:

•

An ABAP program whose

output is a list

Module Pool:

•

A dialog program which is a

collection of screens

List:

•

The output generated by an

ABAP report program

Program:

•

A series of ABAP statements

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Reporting

ABAP
Development

Reporting and ABAP Development

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Programming Environment -

The ABAP Editor

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Programming Environment

Online Debugging

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Basic Functions of the ABAP Editor

Program source entry area

Find and

Repeat Find

Undo

ABAP Help

Syntax Check

Cut, copy and paste

to and from a buffer

Toggles from

display to

change mode

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The Program Menu Option

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The Edit Menu Option

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The Goto Menu Option

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The Utilities Menu Option

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The Block/buffer Menu Option

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The Settings Menu Option

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DATA COUNT TYPE I.
DATA TITLE(25).
MOVE 1 TO COUNT.
MOVE ‘President’ TO TITLE.
WRITE TITLE.
WRITE COUNT.

Basic ABAP Program Syntax

ABAP Program

Statement.

Word 1

Word 2

Word 3

Word 4

Key wordParameter, field, or constant

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Chaining Statements in ABAP

DATA COUNT TYPE I.
DATA TITLE (25).
MOVE 1 TO COUNT.
MOVE ‘President’ TO TITLE.
WRITE TITLE.
WRITE COUNT.

WRITE: TITLE, COUNT.

DATA: COUNT TYPE I,

TITLE (25).

MOVE:

1 TO COUNT,

‘President’ TO TITLE.

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Comments in ABAP

A double quotation
mark (“) anywhere
on a line makes
everything that
follows a comment.

An asterisk (*) in
column
1 makes the entire
line
a comment line.

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ABAP Program Structure

Program Name Area
Use REPORT for listing programs
Use PROGRAM for online programs

Declaration Section
Used for defining tables, variables
and constants

Statement Section
Used for coding executable
ABAP statement

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ABAP Program Attributes

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Running an ABAP Program

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Summary

• The participants should be able to:

– Discuss the basics of ABAP Programming

– Discuss the basic functions of the ABAP

Editor