SDB4323z Week 4 ABAP Workbench

This week is about ABAP Workbench. ABAP Workbench consists of tools that developers can use to develop ABAP applications. In the lecture, I mentioned that there are 5 tools that is being used in developing ABAP applications.

• Object Navigator - you would see ALL objects including programs in this one program.You can also access other programs in Object Navigator
• ABAP Editor - you write your ABAP programs here.
• ABAP Dictionary - you define your data objects here, among other things. 
• Screen Painter - you develop your screens, the PAI and PBO modules here.
• Menu Painter - you develop the menu bars i.e standard and application toolbars here. The coding for the icons are also developed in Menu Painter.

Students got to experience some hands on on Object Navigator, ABAP Editor and ABAP dictionary. That is the scope of EISD anyway. I wish that we could have EISD 2, then the Screen Painter and the Menu Painter can be covered.

For the lecture, I covered ABAP Dictionary particularly on what is ABAP dictionary and the data objects in ABAP dictionary namely Field, Data Element and Domain. In the slides, there are some screenshots but it is weird to show screenshots whereas we could get to see the real deal. But at least, the screenshots could be an eye opener for the students. These three objects Field, Data Element and Domain was explained further. Next week (Week 5), I intend to show the students the Field, Data Element and Domain directly from ABAP Dictionary.