Here’s a situation that we FICO types occassionally run into, particularly those of us doing FICO development and technical support. You may come across the need to create effective dates for existing cost centers that are in the past, meaning “Valid from” dates that are prior to the existing “Valid from”. The bad news is that you cannot just go into transaction KS02 (Change Cost Center: Basic Screen) and press a “Change Validity Period” button like you can for profit centers in KE52. So, how do you do it?

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This plugin isn’t intended to revolutionize the world, but it does solve a problem that some of you may have. BWB-ReWriter is a small helper plugin to let you easily add parameters to your “pretty urls” in your Wordpress app. A big thanks to Gamerz and Zoom4 in this WP support topic for their info on how to make this work.

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Well, this one is hard to find on Google, so I’m putting it in WhyPad to make it easy to find…at least for me, and I guess for you too since you here. Welcome! You may see PHP code snippets (PHP 5+ only) that have an ampersand, ‘&’, preceding a variable like &$my_variable. So, what does it do? It sets up a reference to the original variable instead of copying it’s value. The following snippet demonstrates: Read the rest of this entry »

Looking for the holy grail in testing SAP? I am. We’ve got an upgrade from 4.6C to ERP 6 looming on the horizon, and a little testing magic would go a long ways. Wouldn’t it be cool to say, “Replicator, one sales order, 20 line items.” And…presto! “Replicator, pick and delivery on last Sales Order.” Sha-blam! All set. “Replicator, one purchase order with 300 line items, and tell me if it meets this set of criteria.” Dare I dream? Oh, yes, just like butter. Usually, testing feels more like a stint as the Black Knight from Monty Python’s Holy Grail than quality time spent with a Star Trek replicator. The good news is that the SAP world is moving towards that magical replicator experience in automated testing. Albeit slowly, but good progress all the same. Enter Worksoft Certify, HP’s Mercury, et al. This post is an introduction to Worksoft Certify. Read the rest of this entry »

If there is one thing that SAP is not lacking in, it’s database tables. 40,000+ tables is what I’ve heard. They’ve got tables of tables. Knowing which table a particular piece of data is stored in is sometimes extremely useful, essential really if you’re going to do a SQVI or an SE16 query. If you’re lucky, finding the table for a particular data element can be easy, if you’re not lucky, well, you’re really not lucky in this case : Read the rest of this entry »

I ran into a problem with a SQL JOIN in Codeigniter’s ActiveRecord class. This post will help you get past that, but first a little intro to frameworks. If you’re a PHP developer, you have probably considered one of the incredibly useful frameworks that are available today. Cake, Zend, Symfony, and Codeigniter are some of the biggest names in the PHP framework game today. I’ve tried both Cake and Codeigniter, and found Codeigniter less strict, so I’ve been gravitating towards it. If you haven’t tried a framework, I highly recommend doing so. Any of the four I’ve listed are excellent choices, each with strengths and weaknesses, and rabid fans who can take their zealotry to extremes at times. As with anything that requires a computer, there is always a learning curve when taking on a framework, whether it’s figuring out MVC or just learning the syntax and structure of the framework itself. But the payoff is tremendous amounts of functionality that you don’t have to code, somewhat enforced structure, and possibly even cleaner, more manageable code. Check out Codeigniter’s User’s Guide to give you some idea of its features (you’ll have to click the little black “Table of Contents” tab at the very top & right of the page…it’s sort of hidden). Read the rest of this entry »

Wiki provider Wetpaint announced today the availability of Wetpaint Injected, a service/platform that allows website publishers to create a social network/wiki right inside your own site. The platform is evidently more than dropping a snippet of Javascript into your code. There are some serious SEO benefits to this since the content that is retrieved becomes part of your html page. I have only just put in a request to use Injected in one of my own  websites (right now you sign up by email - see the Press release linked above…I’msure they’ll have something more automated soon), so I don’t have any idea of what all comes with Injected. But if it includes most of the social network/wiki features of their regular Wiki’s, this could be a huge boon to website publishers. From a blogger’s standpoint, this could make a killer Wordpress plugin. Especially for those bloggers like me who are writing about topics that lend themselves to Wiki’s.

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If you’re starting to look at SAP Travel Management, a question you’ll likely face is whether to customize your Portal portion using Web Dynpro for Java or Web Dynpro for ABAP. With the introduction of the Java stack in Netweaver 7, you’d think that Java was the logical go-forward platform, but this is not the case with Travel. We are implementing Travel at my company, and have heard from several sources, including SAP, that future development in Travel will be strictly Web Dynpro for ABAP.

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