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AND RETURN.
ENDIF.
CATCH cx_bcs INTO lo_bcs_exception.
* If something goes wrong you probably want to send a simple failure
* message to the user and a more detailed one to the application log
ENDTRY.
Listing 11.31 Sending a Spreadsheet by Email
You will find that the ability to send out SAP-generated spreadsheets by email is
really the jewel in the crown of ABAP2XLSX. You will want to give people a P_
EMAIL parameter on the selection screen of all ABAP2XLSX-enabled reports
together with a Send Spreadsheet by Email checkbox so that when the report
runs (in the foreground or the backgr ound) a spreadsheet is emailed to the
address specified in the P_EMAIL selection parameter.
You can default to the email address of the current user by using BAPI_USER_GET_
DETAIL, or if you are using SAP ERP Huma n Capital Manageme nt (HCM), then
usually you can find the email address in Infotype 0105. Because the email
address is a selection parameter, the user can change his email address and send
the spreadsheet to someone else, or even to a distribution list.
11.2.9 Adding Hyperlinks to SAP Transactions
One of the best features of SAP reports (and SAP in general) is that when you see
something on the screen you are interested in, like a sales order number, you can
double-click it and be directed to the underlying document. However, if you send
people a spreadsheet and they go throug h it and find a sales order number they
really want to look at, then naturally they can’t just double-click the cell and have
the SAP screen pop up to show them—f or example—Transaction VA03 (Display
Sales Order). That would be impossible.
Or would it?
In a normal Excel spreadsheet, you can ha ve hyperlinks that, when clicked, take
you to a web page of some sort. ABAP2XLSX has a hyperlink object, which is concerned
with generating such URLs for embedding in spreadsheets generated from
SAP.
It has been said that one of the great leaps forward SAP has made in recent years
is the introduction of the ICF (Interne t Connection Framework), which enables
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