ABAP to the future – my version of the BOPF chapters, part 5 - Properties
8.2.6 – Restricting meaningful BO-interaction using propertiesIn the book “ABAP to the future”, this chapter is named slightly different: “Disabling certain commands using validations”. This original...
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ABAP to the future – my version of the BOPF chapters – Part 6: Validations
8.2.7 – ValidationsIn “ABAP to the future” it is being said that validations in BOPF are meant to check the consistency and prevent saving. This is only partially correct. Validations are those parts...
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One truth, multiple views on it: The various BOPF modeling environments
One particular thing which always causes a headache for BOPF-newbies is the multitude of tools which can be used in order to model a business object.Therefore, I would like to give a brief overview and...
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ABAP to the future - my version of the BOPF chapters - Part 1 Addendum: Other...
8.1.4 Other associationsYou have probably guessed that there are other ways of nodes being associated with each other than compositions. Let’s have a look at them as they kind of define the static...
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8.2.1 Where is my model class?In "ABAP to the future" (A2tF), the author explains in this chapter how his model class (based on the domain model) is structured and why this is necessary. I want to...
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ABAP to the future – my version of the BOPF chapters – Part 7: Actions
8.2.8 Responding to user input with ActionsIn the previous chapters we’ve already been learning various types of behavior (which is in some kind also a response to user input). Actions however are...
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8.2.9 Changing instances and saving to the database In "ABAP to the future" (A2tF), this chapter mainly contains advice on how to implement the monster-model-class and introduces another helper-class...
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8.2.10 BOPF Re-Usables BOPF has been around (internally at SAP) for quite a while. Therefore, many solutions to common requirements have been created. So why not benefit of things others have created,...
View ArticleBOPF Developer Guide available on help.sap.com
There are good news regarding BOPF documentation.As BOPF made it to the NetWeaver 7.5 stack (before it was part of the Application Foundation Layer of the Business Suite and therefore not available on...
View ArticleSAP TechEd Barcelona: what was in for BOPF?
When I was building my agenda for SAP TechEd Barcelona, I didn't find (as last year) any session on BOPF. But Oliver Jaegle and Tobias Trapp pointed my to "DEV106 The ABAP Programming Model in SAP...
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