First ABAP Program

January 2, 2011 v ABAP Tutorial 12

Let us write a “Hello SAP ABAP” program.

Navigate to ABAP editor under Tools node in SAP easy access.

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Double click on “ABAP Editor” to open the editor. ABAP editor can also be opened by entering t-code SE38 in the command field.

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This is the ABAP editor’s initial screen. Enter the name of the program you want to create and press create. All the customer programs must begin with “Y” or “Z”.

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In the next popup screen(Program attributes) enter the title for your program, select Executable program as type and press save.

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Press Local Object to store the program in the temporary folder.

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This is the screen where you can write the ABAP code.

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Write the code. Press save, then syntax check( Ctrl + F2 ).

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If there are any syntax errors, it ill be displayed at the bottom of the screen as shown above. Correct the errors and again check the syntax.

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Successful syntax check message will be displayed in the status bar. Then activate( Ctrl + F3 ) the program.

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In the following screen select your program and press continue. Then run(F8) the program.

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The output will be displayed as shown above.

12 Comments

  10. This is very good explanation.
    I’m learning SAP by looking your website.
    Please share is there a way to get hands on experience ? like is there any websites or tools to do practice ?

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