Day: November 25, 2017

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Nowadays all IT professionals are working in a very dynamic environment where professional development and learning the whole life is a must if you want to keep up with the latest trends and technologies. The same principles are applicable for SAP professionals – SAP is constantly striving to provide both – more powerful and user-friendly solutions, upgrading existing or releasing new products.

At the same time SAP community tries to keep up with new products. Currently SAP is doing some step forward to make SAP system less complex, though SAP implementations are still heavily dependent on the consultants and integrators.

As most other software vendors SAP provides an opportunity to prove the knowledge of their products via certification program. Though it doesn’t have the reputation as the only way to show your SAP proficiency for wider audience, SAP is trying to boost the popularity and recognition of its certification program.

SAP offers 2 levels of certification – associate and professional.

Associate level requires only technical knowledge that can be gained during SAP organized training academies or through self-studies of SAP provided training material. Certification questions are built in a way that it can be passed mostly if you are learning from SAP books and have some walk-through in the test system at the same time.  Initially it was created to bring additional value for the participants enrolled to the SAP training academies. Currently there is no requirement to be enrolled on the official SAP training course in order to pass an exam. The exam can be booked after self-studies of SAP material.

Professional level exam is much more complex as you cannot directly learn all the answers from the reference materials (as it is with associate exam). The goal of professional exam is to check your abilities to apply your technical knowledge in the practical situations. In other word, it cannot be directly learned from training books or via test system as you need to answer questions on the problems you are facing during different phases of SAP implementations. Because of that exam is much more difficult to pass. Thereby it can prove your excellence more accurately.

SAP recently launched a website that allows to manage your certifications hoping to gather SAP certified professional in one single place. Company is emphasizing that certification would ensures expected value added to the client if service is provided by certified SAP partners. However I would like to dispel some myths on SAP certification value:

* Certification no longer guarantees that you will get SAP job if another candidate possesses the right skill set and hands on experience acquired in the SAP implementation projects. Though, it can give you additional advantage applying for the SAP entry level positions if you already have any associate level certificate (as employer can skip initial investment dedicated for new joiners). Small exception can be made if you already have the certificate of the new SAP product where demand and supply of SAP consultants in the market is still not in balance. In this way such certificate can open more doors and does it quicker.
* Certification no longer ensure you the promotion, additional pay rise or a daily rate increase. The main key driver for your success is your ability to apply the knowledge in the project environment. Similar parallel can be made with the highest education – regardless of the prestige of your university after 10 years your university mates will never be at the same place as your career acceleration heavily depends on your motivation and personal goals.
* SAP certification cannot secure you long-lasting career. SAP technical knowledge together with your consulting skills must be combined with your creativity and the ability to think out of the box challenging clients’ requirements. In addition, other factors such as your mobility or foreign language skills are also very important.

All in all, SAP certification is an additional way to prove your knowledge and competency together with references from your past projects. It is always worthy to invest some time going through reference books as it could help you not only to pass the exam but also to get additional ideas how to solve client’s requirements using SAP standard. Sometimes it can be much more valuable saving hours of work.

These observations were written after passing 6 SAP certification exams and working in SAP industry over the last decade. They are based on the personal opinion and cannot be associated with any company that I am working on or representing. http://bit.ly/2jZmWTC #SAP #SAPCloud #AI

Preface

Before I start this blog on the complex data structure and features of print work-bench to achieve the complex requirements of different correspondence, hope you enjoyed my previous blog

https://blogs.sap.com/2017/10/18/a-pocket-guide-to-print-work-bench-step-by-step/

on basic features of Print work-bench.

The Requirements

Many a times we come across some requirements which demand to show some manipulated data into a different place (i.e. different text nodes along with some other data) from where they are fetched and manipulated (i.e. the text-exits)

The Solution

In these cases the text nodes are created and marked as inactive (to stop implicit calling for display) and that is called explicitly for display from another text node.

An Example

In the following example it is explained how an inactive (which is suppressed by SAP to be displayed) text node can be explicitly called and displayed.

Along with this, the basic technique of using during loop is explained.

Go To Transaction Code PWB.

Create an application form of form class IS_U_CS_MOVE_IN_WELCOME_LETTER

As displayed below

One installation can have multiple register; here we are displaying those register (logical register number) details.

DATA: LT_LOGIC_NO TYPE EASTL. (Locally Defined)

To access this table from other part of the program we need to pass the values into some custom defined global internal table in ‘During Loop’

DATA: T_EQUIP TYPE TABLE OF V_EGER (Globally Defined, hence can be accessed from any where from the object)

We are creating one text node in the following node hierarchy, and making this text node as inactive (unccheck the check box as described below) and text exit for this node is not created. As the result the implicit calling of this exit during display will be suppressed. To display the output of this text node, we have to call it explicitly.

Activate.

Create the display of the text node.

Give the following details.

Activate.

Create a During Loop as explained.

(‘During exit’ is an exit that is created in the loop of standard data fill flow of PWB(generated function module), in the same manner we can create ‘Before Exit’ and ‘After Exit’ that is called before and after the loop of standard data fill flow of print work-bench (generated function module) respectively.

Activate.

APPEND WA_LOGIC_NO TO GIT_LOGICNUM.

Append the work area into a global internal table, so that can be accessed from other part of object, also create work areas for the internal table GIT_LOGICNUM and T_EQUIP).

Declare the internal table in the PWB top include.

Activate.

Create another text node with text exit (to call the inactive node) in the following hierarchy as displayed.

Create the Exit to write the code.

Write the following code in it.

**************************************************************************************

LOOP AT GIT_LOGICNUM INTO L_WA_LOGICNUM.
READ TABLE T_EQUIP INTO L_WA_EQUIP
WITH KEY LOGIKNR = L_WA_LOGICNUM-LOGIKNR.
IF SY-SUBRC = 0.
PERFORM OUTPUT_TEXT
USING
‘ISU_DISP_REGSTR’
‘MAIN’
‘BODY’
‘APPEND’.
ENDIF.
ENDLOOP.

**************************************************************************************

Activate

Execute with data.

Two rows should come in the output of inactive node calling part, as two entries are there in the table where loop is executed.

Rate type data is not there in the table; hence it is blank in output.

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