SAP Development

Master data is data which does not change very often such as an employee or customer name, address or telephone number. It is generally data which is used within your ABAP code rather than updated, such as using the customer data to fill in an invoice form. You would start with a customer number and

Unlike master data, transaction data is the data that you create on a day to day basis i.e. the purchase order! When a user creates a new purchase order all the information added to this order such as item, number of items, cost per item etc etc is stored in one or more transaction data

A structure is just a definition containing a list of fields under a name and does not contain any data within the SAP data dictionary. Although there is not data you can still view the definition within SE11 as you would a table. A table is also a definition of fields within the data dictionary

In-order to see the parameter ID value within the SAP debugger simply got to the menu option Goto->System Areas->SAP Memory. All Parameter ID’s used by current program should be listed here. Please note you will need to go into classic debugging mode to view this option if using a newer version of SAP..

Below is a list of useful SAP transaction code and a description of what they are used for. SE80 – Object Navigator The Object Navigator Se80 is the main transaction used by any ABAP developer. Within it you have access to edit/create all the SAP objects available within your SAP system. For example you can

Below is a list of useful SAP tables and a description of what they are used for. EKKO – SAP Purchase Order documents EBELN – Purchase document number EKPO – SAP Purchase Order document items EBELN – Purchase document number EBELP – Purchase item number EBAN – Purchase requisition within SAP BANFN – Requisition number BNFPO – Requisition