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Undo with abapGit
Did you know that you can finally make radical changes to a development without fear because there is a simple way to undo all those changes?
The 3 exception parents
OO exceptions always need a parent. They always have to inherit from somebody. And ABAP gives them 3 alternatives.
Message collector
SAP messages are all managed centrally through the SE91 transaction, but can appear to a program in a variety of formats.
SELECT single record using an incomplete key
I was always told that, when selecting a single record, I should use UP TO 1 ROWS whenever the key was not fully provided. My elementary school teacher told me that I should always aks why: why? Nobody ever told me why.
Use & in SAPSript texts
Let’s say you want to show an url in a SAPScript layout. You place the url in a SAPSCript text and assume everything will work fine. Because most times everything does work fine. It’s just that sometimes…
Clean data declarations
While writing code, you should always keep present how easy it will be to maintain. This is particularly important in data declarations. And so easy to do right.
Let go of SE24
In SE24 the class code is partially hidden from the programmer behind a GUI. This is apparently convenient but ultimately limitative.
