Quick Assists
Quick assists help you to change ABAP source code in a semi-automated way.
ABAP Development Tools (ADT) provides a set of quick assists that can be divided into the following categories:
- ABAP Refactorings for changing the structure of source code without changing its behavior
- ABAP Quick Fixes for resolving errors and warnings
Various quick assists are neither refactorings nor quick fixes. These are, for example, generating constructors or creation of text symbols.
All supported transformations are available through the quick fix menu that can be triggered from the Source menu or through the Ctrl 1 shortcut. As an alternative the Quick Assist view provides a permanent view on the available quick assists.
The proposals are context-sensitive. This means that, depending on your current source code position, appropriate proposals are provided.
Many of the quick assist options can be triggered on identifiers from the following types:
- Elements describe all named parts of the ABAP source code.
- Variables are named values that stand for a storage location.
- Members represent the data and behavior of an ABAP class.
- Locals are internal data fields within a class that can have any data type.
- And so on
