Understanding ABAP Dictionary
Build your flexible, consistent, and reusable SAP database with me through practical exercises. If you want to get familiar with the concept of Domains, Data Elements, Structures, Table Types, Database Tables, Views, Maintenance Dialogs, Two-Level Domain concept or Foreign Key Relationships, and you want to see them working in a real SAP system, then this course is for you.
What you'll learn
As you complete this course, you will acquire the necessary knowledge to plan and construct ABAP Dictionary objects in your SAP system, and you will be able to create and manage a central meta-data repository for your database that reduces the redundancy, the maintenance costs, and improves the efficiency. After the course, you can apply this knowledge whether you work on a simple in-house development, or a complex project. To understand the concept of the ABAP Dictionary in every detail, we will go through its objects one by one, discuss their roles in the system, and I will demonstrate that how to build them up during the exercises.
Table of contents
- Overview 1m
- Two-level Domain Concept: Domain 5m
- Decrease the Maintenance Cost with Domains 4m
- Provide Consistency with Domains 7m
- Development Workflow: Domain 4m
- Group Exercise: Creating ZOSTATUS 7m
- Group Exercise: Creating ZDATE 2m
- Group Exercise: Creating ZPRICE 2m
- Group Exercise: Creating ZEMAIL 1m
- Individual Exercises 4m
- Summary 2m
- Overview 2m
- Database Objects: Database Table 16m
- Development Workflow: Database Table 3m
- Group Exercise: Creating ZAUTHOR 9m
- Group Exercise: Creating ZORDER 4m
- Individual Exercise: Creating Database Tables 4m
- Value Table 1m
- Group Exercise: Set Value Table for ZCUSTOMERID 2m
- Individual Exercise: Set Value Tables for Domains 1m
- Foreign Key Relationship 2m
- Group Exercise: Set Foreign Key Relationships for ZORDERITEM 8m
- Individual Exercise: Set Foreign Key Relationships 2m
- Summary 2m
- Overview 2m
- Maintain Database Tables in an Easy Way 7m
- Development Workflow: Maintenance Dialog 2m
- Group Exercise: Creating Maintenance Dialog for ZAUTHOR 5m
- Individual Exercise: Creating Maintenance Dialogs 2m
- Group Exercise: Fill ZAUTHOR up via Maintenance Dialog 4m
- Individual Exercise: Fill Tables up via Maintenance Dialogs 3m
- Summary 1m
- Course Summary 4m
About the author
Alex is an ABAP Developer and Trainer with over 6 years of experience. He is a member of Expertise-Team, a consulting, training, and software development company (expertise-team.com), a group of SAP professionals developing in SAP Business Warehouse, Business Objects systems, programming with ABAP and delivering Mobile solutions. Alex is an experienced ABAP Developer with a wide range of IT skills and experience such as Test Driven Development in ABAP, Object Oriented ABAP, XML and WebServices i... more