Posts Tagged ‘Abap’

abap2xlsx – Business charts

In July 2010, SAP Mentor Ivan Femia released the first version of the open source project abap2xlsx that allowed ABAP developers to generate professional spreadsheets from scratch with all the advanced features that stand alone Excel editors provide like: style and cell data formats, drawings support, conditional formatting, formulas, and so on. This project has [...]

Happy New year SCN and Happy New Excel with abap2xlsx

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 [...]

Dropdown by key or Dropdown by index, that is the question of a WDA developer

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 [...]

abap2gapps: is your ABAP ready for the Google cloud?

Ladies and Gentleman did you ever thought to use you old ABAP system to use modern cloud services? Last year SAP Mentor Uwe Fetzer (@se38) published his Twibap, a simple Twitter API to use in order to read and post Tweets on Twitter, today I will present you abap2gapps an API prototype in order to interact basically with [...]

OAuth2: Next generation authentication API

OAuth2 is the new Code Exchange project that allows you to authenticate on a web based service provider like Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Foursquare using the OAuth 2.0 protocol. OAuth 2.0 is the next evolution of the OAuth protocol and is not backward compatible with OAuth 1.0. OAuth 2.0 focuses on client developer simplicity while providing specific authorization flows [...]