Tag: CDS

RAP Unmanaged Query through Custom Entity

A RAP query is generally managed because the data can be collected using the modeled CDS entities and the corresponding associations automatically from the underlying tables. There are cases however where the query is too complex, due too many set of dataset exclusions by complex criteria in many steps, or even the record key is […]

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CAP Queries

This article is about providing some samples for CAP Queries, and the context to execute them. Let me mention a small comparison to querying in ABAP at the beginning. Working with Open SQL and with ABAP SQL for decades was very convenient in ABAP. I cannot tell the same for CAP now. While in ABAP […]

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CDS and BOPF Admin Data (create/change user and time) Determination using Annotations

Using the SAP Netweaver Innovation Package 7.51 sp1 you can implement new data models easily with CDS including full CRUD support, where change operations are managed by the BOPF framework. The BOPF Object is generated based on the Object Model annotations you put in the CDS View at activation. This solution using SADL shows a BOPF adoptation/consumption, […]

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Domain Fixed Values as CDS Value Help in S/4HANA

“Fiori Elements” is a great opportunity for rapid application development for simple scenarios. In lot of cases ABAP developers maintain domain fixed values to have a drop-down list automatically generated by one of the UI technologies like GUI and WebDynpro. Domain fixed value often represent a Status or something like that, where we can say the […]

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