Table of Contents

Chapter I – ERP and SAP Overview, SAP R/3 client server architecture, ABAP NetWeaver architecture, logging in, introduction to ABAP work bench environment















Chapter II - ABAP/Data Dictionary/DDIC 

1. Data Dictionary in SAP
2. Data Dictionary objects
3. Dictionary Types
4. Enforcing standardization, uniformity in a large database – domains, data elements
5. Database tables: transparent, pooled, clustered
6. Index files
7. Views, view types: database, projection, maintenance, help
8. Search helps: elementary, collective
9. Type Groups
10. Lock objects
11. Data utility for adjusting the data base tables
12. Table maintenance generator
13. Enhancements to DDIC objects

Chapter III - ABAP language basics

1. ABAP text editor features & facilities, ABAP data types, data objects, data declarations
2. Arithmetic operations, data movement, string operations
3. Internal program flow control: conditions & looping

Chapter IV - Classical reporting, using ABAP debugger

1. OPEN SQL introduction
2. Write statement, output positioning, formatting, Width of output – columns in a line, Size of page – lines in a page, STANDARD HEADER – Text Element List Heading, NON STANDARD HEADING - TOP-OF-PAGE , Footer - END-OF-PAGE
3. Text Elements – TEXT SYMBOL
4. Events START-OF-SELECTION, END-OF-SELECTION.
5. COLOR in lists
6. Ensuring specified output not splitting from page to page – RESERVE LINES
7. Printing Lists – sending to spool, sending lists to SAP Folder, Report Tree, Desktop soft wares viz. WORD, EXCEL, HTML
8. Outputting blank lines, Icons, Symbols, Check box
9. ABAP debugger settings, ABAP classical debugger, ABAP new debugger
10. ABAP debugger - break points: static & dynamic
11. ABAP debugger – going through source code
12. ABAP debugger - displaying, changing data object (including internal tables) contents

Chapter V - Internal tables

1. Internal Table Declarations: 3X notation, STANDARD tables; 4X notation, STANDARD, SORTED, HASHED tables
2. Structure, HEADER LINE
3. Operations: Filling Internal Table - adding rows, retrieving rows, updating rows, deleting rows, SORT, TEXT SORT, searching, copying, assigning, internal table controls, DESCRIBE TABLE

Chapter VI – Maintaining Messages, Modularization

1. Message Id/Class, maintaining messages
2. Types of messages
3. MESSAGE command, issuing messages
4. Macros - include programs, Subroutines, internal subroutines, external subroutines
5. Function builder
6. Function groups, Functions Modules. Function module types: NORMAL, RFC, UPDATE. Function module parameter interface. TABLES parameter. Raising exception with MESSAGE command
7. Some SAP provided/built in Function modules
8. Calling Function modules

Chapter VII - Retrieving, adding, updating, deleting data to Database tables – Open SQL, Native SQL

1. Retrieve data – SELECT command
2. Columns’ specification, destination, conditions (WHERE), SORT specification
3. Aggregate functions, ALL ENTRIES IN.., PACKAGE SIZE..
4. Inner join, Outer join, Sub query
5. Columns’ specification, conditions (WHERE), SORT specification in internal table
6. Insert, Update, Delete data
7. Native SQL

Chapter VIII - SELECTION-SCREEN

1. Formatting SELECTION-SCREEN, positioning & sizing objects: Text (COMMENT) & (Text Elements SELECTION TEXT), Text box (PARAMETERS), Push button, Check box, Radio button, SELECT-OPTIONS (multiple, complex selections), Blocks
2. Program variants, maintaining program variants, retrieving variants
3. SELECTION-SCREEN Events: INITIALIZATION, AT SELECTION-SCREEN OUTPUT, AT SELECTION-SCREEN,  AT SELECTION-SCREEN ON HELP REQUEST, AT SELECTION-SCREEN ON VALUE REQUEST, AT SELECTION-SCREEN ON field, AT SELECTION-SCREEN ON BLOCK
4. Declarative statement: .. TYPE RANGE OF
5. SELECTION-SCREEN Definition & CALL

Chapter IX - Interactive reports

1. Generating multiple lists: primary lists, secondary lists
2. Events AT LINE-SELECTION, AT USER-COMMAND, TOP-OF-PAGE DURING LINE SELECTION for header of secondary lists
3. Creating application tool bar using menu painter
4. Retrieving previous list data
5. Lists in dialogue boxes
6. Scrolling in lists

Chapter X – Brief on ABAP OOPS

1. Classes in ABAP, local classes, global classes, class builder
2. Built-in classes: CL_GUI_FRONT-END_SERVICES
3. Class based error handling & exceptions

Chapter XI – ALV reporting

1. Built-in classes:CL_GUI_CUSTOM_CONTAINER, CL_GUI_DIALOGBOX_CONTAINER, CL_GUI_ALV_GRID
2. Using built-in class CL_GUI_ALV_GRID to generate lists in ALV grids Changing layouts, saving layouts, controlling grid properties, controlling Column properties (field catalogue)
3. USE CL_GUI_ALV_GRID Events to create interactive grids, control grid tool bar etc
4. ALV reports using Function modules

Chapter XII - Module pool programming

1. Screen painter, flow logic. creating screens, programs demonstrating all controls including SUB SCREEN AREA,TAB STRIP, TABLE CONTROL
2. Validations on screens (FIELD...MODULE and CHAIN...ENDCHAIN)
3. CALL SCREEN, SET SCREEN, LEAVE SCREEN etc.

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