SAP: Quick Tip - T-code for Customer Master - VD03

Looking for the SAP Customer Master data? VD03 is the transaction code you need.

[Update] From Sebastien in comments:

VD03 Display Customer (Sales)
XD03 Display Customer (Centrally)

And also:
S_ALR_87012179 Customer List
S_ALR_87012180 List of Customer Addresses

Thanks, Sebastien!

SAP: Quick Tip - SE38 to Run/Edit ABAP programs

[Updated] This post is because I had to dig around a bit for this information and I wanted to make it easy to find. T-code SE38 is the ABAP Editor. Here, you can edit and execute SAP programs. If you are only looking to run programs, use transaction SA38 (thanks to reader Tuncay who pointed me the right direction below). You have several options including execute with Debugging (SE38 only) and execute with variants. [Updated] I’m still searching around for a t-code that only let’s you execute programs without the editor part. As mentioned above, Tuncay points out that SA38 is the transaction for Execute only.

Script.aculo.us Autocompleter Woes

Sometimes programming can make you question your sanity. If you don’t think you’ve crossed the line there, you might at least wonder whether you should take up something a little more tangible, like backhoe operator. Such was the case as I scoured the documentation for the Script.aculo.us Ajax Autocompleter. Ultimately, I was to blame it on the lack of a crystalline, 100% matched example for my problem. I must state for the record that Prototype and Scriptaculous are nothing short of miraculous when it comes to making Javascript accessible to the unwashed like me. All the same, I have spent many hours over the last couple of days getting the Autocompleter to work.

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Tip: Remove Page Breaks from RTF

This is for an obscure set of readers, I’m sure. But if you ever need to remove the page breaks from a RTF (rich text format) file, here’s how to do it:

  1. Open the RTF file in NotePad (I use NotePad++, which is an absolute must have replacement for anybody doing web dev)
  2. Search for “pagebb\” and replace with nothing (empty string)

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Excel Tip: The Camera Tool - a cool view

Excel’s Camera tool is a really cool, but relatively obscure tool that lets you create a window on your spreadsheet that shows a vignette of a block of cells. The screen clip shown here demonstrates it in action. The Camera tool is pretty well hidden, so the first trick is finding the button to add to your toolbar. Here’s how: Read the rest of this entry »

SAP: Quick Tip - Display Cost Centers Master Data

Had a question today from one of our Tax guys who was wanting to compare our SAP R/3 Cost Centers and Profit Centers with what they have in Vertex. To run a report of your cost centers that you can export or download to Excel, the T-code is: KS13.

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Now Using Wordpress 2.5

WhyPad is now using Wordpress 2.5. This latest version of Wordpress has a ton of new and exciting features, including a built in photo gallery, the ability to easily upload multiple files, and some changes to the Post authoring. The biggest changes are visible in the Admin pages. I won’t belabor the stuff that has already be written about by the experts, so you can read all about it here.

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SAP - Budgeting and Planning Roadmap

Okay, freshly back from the SAP Financials 2008 conference in Orlando this year. It was a good time had by all, except for probably those poor WIS Pub employees who made it run so smoothly.

The highlight of the conference for me were a couple of sessions dedicated to the roadmap of BI-Netweaver & Business Objects. As I’ve written previously, SAP’s acquisitions have been a source of consternation to customers that are trying to implement functionality in the areas of Budgeting & Planning or Corpoarte Performance Management (CPM). That said, it was good to get a glimpse into the future.

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