Renaming Identifiers

ABAP Development Tools (ADT) provides an intelligent search and renaming function that can find and rename variables, methods, and form routine names, as well as other elements of an ABAP program. ABAP classes and ABAP interfaces can be renamed as well.

You can only change the names of elements that are used solely in the local ABAP program, as shown in the editor (class pool, program, function module include). If you try to rename an element that is used in another activated program, the Rename reports an error and does not make any changes. This check ensures that changes to a local ABAP program will not cause unintended errors in another program.

In addition, you can rename global ABAP classes, interfaces, or their members (such as fields or methods of classes or interfaces) that are used globally in other programs. All external references in other classes, interfaces, or other program types are then automatically updated accordingly.