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Happy New year SCN and Happy New Excel with abap2xlsx
01 month ago
Dear community, it was in the far July 2011 that I gave you updates on the abap2xlsx project with the reporting of my adventures at SAP Inside Track in Chicago (blog). In the last weeks, I had the idea to write a blog and few days ago a great present by SAP Mentor Gregor Wolf to the project (I will give you more detail below, keep reading) gave me the final sprint to be there on time for the New Year celebration.
Abap2xlsx is still the most popular project on Code Exchange with more than 3,500 downloads and close to 300 members. There is a great interest for this project, discussion board on Code Exchange is very hot, many people are asking and helping and many members are contributing (thanks you all) to improve this project adding new features and fixing some bugs ( yes, we had some 
).
Dropdown by key or Dropdown by index, that is the question of a WDA developer
04 months ago
Introduction
During my experience as a Web Dynpro for ABAP developer, I often had the doubt if it was better to use the UI element DropDownByKey or its brother DropDownByIndex.
In these last days, I realized that I always prefer and use the DropDownByKey, it doesn’t matter if the list is inside a table, an ALV table or a simple element in a view.
Clearly the index approach is also working well but I feel it as a more complex task that requires spending more time, and I’m wondering to know about your experience.
As a reference, I’m sharing below the step-by-step guide to build a DDL even without necessarily entering the fixed values associated to a domain of the field.
SAP Mentor Outreach is now available on JQuery Mobile
04 months ago
by Ivan Femia
in SAP
Many of you already know the application SAP Mentor Outreach published by Thorsten Franz about 6 months ago. This application is designed basically to “help SAP Community to connect o SAP Mentors” as Thorsten wrote. Recently Bjoern Weigand and John Moy published the iOS version porting for iPhone and iPad.
What is still missing? An application that would be useful for all the other mobile devices; few weeks ago I decided to think about a porting of this application in JQuery Mobile and today I’m proud to present SAP Mentor Outreach cross mobile version. I’m just a bit in late for TechEd Bangalore but in time for TechEd Madrid.
Check it out at http://www.plinky.it/SAPMentorOutreach/
SAP Inside Track Milan 2011 – First Italian SAP Community event
05 months ago
by Ivan Femia
in SAP
Blog on SDN: http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/26440
Less than 3 weeks and SAP Inside Track Milan 2011 will be live.
This will be the first SCN Community event organized in my country and it will be a great opportunity to meet in person many SCN members.
Event in details
The response from Italian community goes over any expectation, we have already more than 70 members from 23 different companies, 4 SAP Mentors (yes I’m in 
) and a fully session schedule. Sessions are organized using the new DemoJam like formula as explained in this blog by 
Sergio Ferrari; 17 sessions hosted by 14 speakers covering lot of different topics.
I want to underline that this will be an international event with people coming from 3 different countries (Italy, Germany and Spain).
Here again abap2gapps on SAP SDN and SAP Code Exchange Home page
05 months ago
by Ivan Femia
in SAP
Project abap2gapps, that allows you to connect your ABAP system to Google Cloud services has been selected for the SAP SDN and SAP Code Exchange Home Page this month.
Congratulation also to my colleagues Alessandro Iannacci and Giacomo Morittu for their contribution.
On SDN
On Code Exchange
