This document provides an overview of key SAP concepts for functional consultants, including: - Dispatcher program that manages application server resources and balances workload between work processes. - Important ABAP skills like understanding SAP tables, LSMW/BDC for data uploads, interfaces, queries, debugging, smartforms, SAP notes, and transaction codes. - Testing ALV reports by checking tables used, performance, field catalogs, tools, and authorizations. - Differences between smartforms and sapscript - smartforms are client independent while sapscript is client dependent, smartforms allow logical conditions while sapscript only simple conditions.

1. SAP : Little for all
Compiled by
Anuj D. Raina

2. Contents…
 Little Basics
 Abap for Functional consultants
 Testing Reports
 Debugging skills
 Tables
 Smartforms / Sapscript

3. Software-Oriented View of R/3

4. Presentation . . . Internet
Application
Database
SAPGUISAPGUI InternetOffice
Work-Work-
processprocess
Work-Work-
processprocess
Work-Work-
processprocess
DispatcherDispatcher
TCP/IP
Remote SQL
Local BufferLocal Buffer
for R/3 Data,for R/3 Data,
DW-Objects,DW-Objects,
ABAP-ObjectsABAP-Objects

5. Dispatcher
 Program which manages resources of the R/3
applications
 Receives requests from user and passes them to
the corresponding work processes
 Only one dispatcher per application server
 Balances the workload between the processes
 Buffer management in main memory
 Connection with the presentation level
 Organization of the communication processes

6. Different Workprocess
 Dialog
 Batch
 Spool
 Enqueue
 Update

7. ABAP Skills for Functional consultants
1) SAP TABLES - This is the first & most important skill a functional
consultant must have.
2) LSMW/BDC - Whenever there is mass upload of data to SAP system,
knowledge of these data upload technique becomes handy tool for
functional consultant. While dealing with BDC’s though functional
consultant not supposed to write code of BDC but at least they should
aware of SHDB & recording.
3) Interface & EDI - Whenever SAP system interacts with another SAP or
non-SAP system, data transmission takes place through EDI i.e.
Electronic Data Interchange.EDI is The computer-to-computer
electronic exchange of machine processable business documents in a
standard format Knowledge of interface technologies becomes
imperative when we are dealing with the client which is dealing with its
vendors & customers through electronic transmission of data.
4) SAP QUERY - This is a handy tool if you want to create a small report
having few numbers of fields from a single table or joining two tables.

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5) DEBUGGING – In day to day operation, in the absence of
desired output from a transaction, it becomes very critical to
find out root cause of the given issue. At that time this skill can
act as magic
6) SMARTFORMS – Wherever there is print output, there is a
smartform. If you are in support operation, you will face
majority of print output issue.
7) SAP NOTES – SAP Notes are provided by SAP itself as
correction in code. SAP Notes contains instructions to remove
errors from SAP System.
8) TCODE – For any operations/transactions, in SAP system you
can create ‘Y/Z' 'T-Codes as per client requirement.

9. Testing ALV reports
 Check for table used
 Check basic performance optimization issues
 Check final field catalog table
 Check basic ALV tools like Filter, Sorting,
Import.
 Check for ALV layout settings and
authorization
 Version Management

10. Smartform vs Sapscript
SMARTFORM SAPSCRIPT
Client Independent Client dependent
Possible to create without
main window
Not possible
On activation function
module is generated
Not available

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SMARTFORM SAPSCRIPT
Logical conditions are possible
including select query
Simple conditions allowed like
if,,endif,,case..endcase inside
window
Advance formbuilder Restricted formbuilder
Easy to download and use. Can be converted to smartform,
complex operation and for every
unit testing request need to be
transferred to testing client using
SCC1 transaction.

12. Thank you…