ABAP_to_the_Future

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Business Object Processing Framework (BOPF)
automating steps that are often done one after the other when creating a new
application.
For each field, the wizard will propose a name. However, because every company
and developer seems to have its own naming conventions, you’re free to change
the proposals to whatever makes you happy, for example, ZCS for combined
structure, ZTT for table type, and T for table. If you get into trouble, then you can
click the Propose Name button under each field to populate the SAP-proposed
name.
Figure 8.4 Defining the Database Table
In the last window in the wizard, all you see is the Complete button. When you
click that button, if you look at the bottom of the screen, you will see a vast array
of objects being created.
8.1.3 Creating an Item Node
Once everything is generated, you’ll s ee the screen shown in Figure 8.5; now,
you’ll add another level to store the item table.
If you’ve ever defined an IDoc or an XML structure in SAP Process Integration
(PI), then you’ll be familiar with building up a tree structure in which each node
can have zero to many child nodes. BOPF isjust like that. There isn’t much to this;
in the screen shown in Figure 8.5, you just right-click your header-level node and
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