New Features in Release 4.6C 

The principal new feature in Release 4.6C is the integration of Internet services in the ABAP Workbench using a new tool called the Web Application Builder. As well as this, wizards for creating table controls and tabstrip controls have been introduced into the Screen Painter. There are also additional navigation functions and new features in some of the individual tools and in Business Add-Ins.

The New Features

Integrating Internet Services in the Object Navigator

Screen Painter

 
 
  • References to the ABAP data type STRING are now allowed for input/output fields on screens. Refer to the Name attribute in the General Attributes section.
 
  • New screen attribute: Hold scroll position. For further information, see Creating Screens.

Additional Functions in the Object Navigator

 

  • History for object list navigation.

ABAP Editor

 

Additional functions avaiable in the context menu of the frontend editor:

Transaction Classification

 

Transactions can be classified as Professional User Transactions or Easy Web Transactions. The GUI Support group box allows you to specify the GUI that is launched when a user starts the transaction from the mySAP.com workplace.

New Functions in Business Add-Ins

 
  • Create example and default implementations

For a defined Business Add-In, you can provide an example and a default implementation with the corresponding source code.

 
  • Extendable filter types

If implementations of filter-specific definitions of Business Add-Ins were only possible for existing filter values, it is now possible to create implementations for filter values that do not yet exist.