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How to Find the Customizing Tables for IMG Objects

May 5, 2014

Quite often, developers and SAP consultants have asked me how to find out the database tables that belong to IMG objects. Some seem to know the ones they need by heart, but there is an easy way to find out which tables hold the customizing settings made in transaction SPRO.

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What is SAP CPM? Introduction to SAP Commercial Project Management

Mar 3, 2014

SAP CPM was released as Version 1.0 in 2013. SAP are selling it as the new solution for project based businesses; it’s provided as an extension to the core SAP ERP system. Time to take a good, hard look at it and see what it can do!

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How to Set a Default Value for Download File Endings in SAP ERP

Feb 25, 2014

When exporting files from SAP ERP, for example from an ALV list, we’ve had all this issue: when we pick “Spreadsheet” in the file format popup, the file ending defaults to .txt (or, in older versions of SAP ERP, to .xls), even though that format might not be suitable for the current setup, for example when you’re using MS Office 2010 or an entirely different spreadsheet applicatio

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Using the Extended Clipboard in Transaction SE80

Jun 24, 2013

If you want to copy multiple lines of code from once place to another, the ABAP Editor offers you a highly convenient way to do so – via the extended clipboard.

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Editing SAP Tables with SE16 and SE16N

Apr 17, 2013

When working as developers with SAP ERP®, we sometimes need to change a value in a table – maybe just for testing purposes, maybe permanently. But in most cases, it’s not possible or not worth the effort to create a maintenance dialog or write a small program that does the job. But it is possible to do it with built-in tools such as SE16 and SE16N.

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