Beginners guide to start coding and working with the ABAP Workbench.

Settings

• Change some useful User-Specific Settings: Utilities → Settings → ABAP Editor
  • Tab Editor: Select Front-End Editor (New) & Display all syntax errors
  • Tab Pretty Printer: Indent & Convert Uppercase/Lowercase

Click on Web Dynpro Wizard to:

• Generate method call
• Start navigation
• Generate message
• Generate popup
  

Click on the Pattern button to auto generate code

Generate function call

• Search your function name, wild card is allowed.
• On continue, the function call template will be generated automatically
  

Working with ABAP Objects

• Click on the ABAP Object Patterns
• Type in your variable name
• Type in the object type
• You can browse the object's methods and generate the method call
  

Generate SELECT from Data Dictionary

• Select SELECT * FROM and type in or browse the Data Dictionary Type
• Click Enter
• Choose the attribute to be included in the code then click on copy.
  

Finding Reference Documentation

• Check the WebDynpro API Documentation:
  e.g. http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw73/helpdata/en/49/f01032599128f8e10000000a42189c/frameset.htm
  
• View the object description in the ABAP Source Code Editor
  • Declare an attribute with the object name or type in the function call , e.g. <code>wd_context→get_element( )<code>.
    Click on the attribute to switch to the attribute tab and then click on the object type in the Associated Type column
    or click directly in the function call, and the Methods tab of the object will be displayed.
  • To see method's reference you can click on Parameters or Exception button
    

Find the object's / function's references in your application

• Use either the button Where-Used List or right-mouse-click on the function and select the Where-Used List