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Use

You use local editing to transfer an ABAP program to a file on your local machine, make changes to the code with an editor of your choice and then upload the file back to the ABAP Editor.

Procedure

Downloading and Uploading

  1. On the ABAP Editor screen, choose Utilities → More utilities → Upload/Download → Download (or Upload).
    Note  
    • To upload a local file into the Front-End Editor (Plain Text Mode), choose GUI_ICON_IMPORT with the quick info text Load local file. Then select the required local ASCII file.
    • To download the contents of the Front-End Editor to a local text file, choose Save to local file GUI_ICON_EXPORT with the quick info text Save to local file. Enter the path name for the local text file.
  2. In the dialog box, enter a path and name for the file (with an appropriate file extension).
  3. Choose Copy.
Note

Note that when you upload a file the existing source code is overwritten.

Starting Local Editing

  1. On the ABAP Editor screen, choose Start of the navigation path Utilities Next navigation step Settings Next navigation step ABAP Editor End of the navigation path.
  2. On the User-Specific Settings screen, specify a Path for local editing.

    The source code is buffered under this path.

  3. Choose Start of the navigation path Utilities Next navigation step More utilities Next navigation step Edit locally End of the navigation path. 

    The system downloads the program source code to a local editor. When you leave the editor, the source code is reloaded into the ABAP Editor.

The following formats are supported in the Back-End Editor:

Extension Upload/Download

ASC

ASCII

BIN

Binary

DAT

ASCII data table with column tab

DBF

DBASE format (available for download only)

IBM

ASCII with IBM code page conversion (DOS)

WK1

Spreadsheet format (available for download only).