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Terms to Remember

Report: An ABAP program whose output is

a list

Module Pool:

A dialog program which is acollection of screens

List:

The output generated by an ABAPreport 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

Toggles from

display to

change mode

Undo

ABAP Help

Syntax CheckStandard toolbar

Cut, copy and paste

to and from a buffer

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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

To set Editor mode,

use the menu pathSettings-> Editor

mode

Preferred settings:

PC mode with line

numbering

With compressionlogic

Key word large

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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 word Parameter, 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

Type:

1 - Executable Program

I - Include Program

M - Module Pool

F - Function Group

S - Subroutine Pool

Program title is required

Application:

S - Basis

U - EDM (Enterprise Data Model)

V - Sales and Distribution

Y - Customer Head Office

Z - Customer Branch

* - For all Applications

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Running an ABAP Program

From the ABAP Editor:

With the programdisplayed,

ProgramExecute

An Alternative

Method:

From the System

Menu, choose

ServicesReporting tolaunch

the programOne Final Method:

From the ABAP Editor: Initial Screen, type

the program name, then click on the Execute

push-button