Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) – Field Masking scenario in EPM Purchase Order application of Web Dynpro ABAP

UI Web Dynpro ABAP

Introduction In this blog post, we will learn how to mask “Total Gross Amount”, “Total Net Amount”, and “Total Tax Amount” fields for those Purchase Orders whose “PO Approval Status” is “Initial” in EPM Purchase Order application. Attribute based authorizations are dynamic determination mechanism which determines whether a user is authorized to access specific data […]

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SAP HANA and S/4 HANA – a simple guide

SAP S/4HANA, SAP Fiori, SAP HANA, SAP S/4HANA Finance

Recent years have seen a resurgence in large organisations taking on major SAP upgrades with the relatively new SAP business suite 4 HANA (S/4HANA) collection of applications. But what exactly is HANA? and what is S/4HANA? How is implementing or upgrading to it different from the R/3 upgrades that were significant programs for many organizations […]

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Variant Conditions in Purchasing using reference characteristics

MM (Materials Management), SD (Sales and Distribution)

I had opportunity and privilege to work for an automotive organization which used to manufacture ‘‘Tyres”. Any industry which has variants in their business from Sales, Purchasing and in production heavily depend on characteristics and variants of materials and inevitably ”Variant Configuration” has to be implemented. Though client was not using VC, during our system […]

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Creating Simple Report in SAP Cloud Platform ABAP environment. Step-by-step guide

SAP Cloud Platform, ABAP Environment is the SAP Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering for ABAP development that enables developers to leverage their traditional on-premise ABAP know-how to develop and run ABAP applications in the SAP Cloud Platform, either as extension to SAP software or as standalone applications. Also Read: What is SAP ABAP 7.4 Certification? This blog […]

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Implement ADF: ABAP Daemon Framework

The example below depicts one of the possible use case of abap daemon, with the integration between interface technologies: AIF(Application Interface Framework), IDOC’s, Asynchronous RFC, Business events(workflow) & class events, Report program, email and ABAP Daemon. Disclaimer: In example, no actual document is created but used some dummy number (assuming SAP Document number) to update […]

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