Displaying or Changing an Existing Program

  1. The Object Browser displays the overview of all components (object types) of a program.

    2. For the above screen shot, we used the program SAPMTALE from ABAP training, which also exists in your system. This program is an example from dialog programming.

  2. Position the cursor on the program name and double-click or choose Display or Change.

This opens the ABAP Editor for the program and you can start editing the program.

Note that selecting other components of the program does not open the ABAP Editor to display the source code of the program, but always the appripriate tool for the selected component. In special cases, such as for include programs, this can also be the ABAP Editor. However, you then edit only the component and not the source code of the entire program (see also Opening Programs Using Forwards Navigation).