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Performing a Successful and Cost-Effective Migration of Your SAP System: Understanding the Export Process
ManagementEver more complex business requirements, and the widening array of technologies that address them, are in turn increasing application development time and pushing the limits of development environments. To address this, SAP Web Application Server 6.40 includes SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio, an IDE that greatly simplifies Java development and enables you to leverage technologies like...…
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An Integrated Approach to Troubleshooting Your ABAP Programs: Using Standard SAP “Check” Tools During Development and Testing
ABAP is a powerful language for building sophisticated applications. But as any developer is painfully aware, even the most carefully written and tested programs can wind up terminating with a runtime error, producing unexpected messages, returning incorrect results, or causing application performance problems. here Eric Sodtke Erik Sodtke studied physics at the Justus-Liebig University in...…
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Ensure Customizing Data Consistency and Smooth-Running Business Processes Across Your SAP System Landscape with Customizing Synchronization
ManagerIf your organization is like most, you no longer rely solely on SAP R/3 to support your business activities. To remain competitive, you need adaptive business solutions that provide best-of-breed functionality, scalability, and integration, so most SAP customers are now tapping into mySAP Business Suite solutions, such as mySAP Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and mySAP...…
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Performance Testing Your SAP System — Strategies for Ensuring a Successful Test Execution
“Learn by doing” is a time-honored maxim, but when it comes to performance-testing your SAP system, there are some things you’d rather not learn by doing wrong. A performance test project involves many highly skilled people from both inside and outside your organization. Once test execution begins, you can’t afford to have these people standing...…
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Ask The HR Expert: ABAP Custom Report Shows Employee’s Current and Past Positions
One of HR Expert’s readers thinks that it would be useful to have a report showing an employee’s current and past positions, including salary and effective dates. Our HR expert agrees that there is a widespread need for such a report. In three steps, he explains how to create a concise, custom ABAP report that...…
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Implement Field-Level Security in HR Infotype Screens
Because SAP’s HR module is fully integrated with other SAP modules, they share data. Therefore, it is important to ensure that sensitive HR data is invisible to unauthorized users. The author explains how to create and configure several infotype screens to block data to some users and allow access to others. The article uses Release...…
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Change Queries in a Worksheet Without Affecting References
The results for multiple queries are often placed in one Excel worksheet, which is then referenced to other sheets in the workbook. This practice, which is embraced by many, can cause problems, however, if a query changes the cell, column, or row structure in the sheet containing the results areas. The author demonstrates a easy...…
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Create New BW Web Printing Controls Your Users Will Love
In the Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) application, the Web browser controls such print settings as page setup, paper size, and page orientation. These settings are not accessible to scripting function, which is problematic for BW teams because they limit end users’ printing options. The author shows how to provide more printing controls to BW 3.x...…
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Best Practices for Allowing Power Users to Develop Queries in BW
More and more businesses now authorize power users to develop queries in the BW production environment. Often the benefits of relying more on power users to create queries outweighs the risks and can even reduce the workload for your BW team. The author examines some of the key issues, policies, and best practices that you...…
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The BEx User Exit: 22 Functions to Automate and Enhance Your BW Reports in Excel
The BEx user exit allows you to perform many valuable tasks and functions in Excel, which can be a great platform for displaying your SAP data when used to its full potential. The author provides 22 ways that the BEx user exit can optimize your Excel reports, with downloadable documents available to help you further....…
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