Defining and Generating a Binding: BAPI

Prerequisites

You have created a form in Microsoft Visual Basic and have called the SAPforms Designer as an add-in and loaded the BAPI structure. The form controls are shown in the table displayed in the bottom screen area. You have selected the BAPI that you want to call. The interface description of the BAPI is displayed in the top screen area of the SAPforms Designer.

1. Expand the BAPI structure until all the parameters are displayed.
2. Using Drag&Drop assign the parameters that you want to fill with the SAPforms form to the form controls.

You can release the binding by selecting the required row in the table and choosing Binding ® Release.

3. Choose File ® Generate.

The General tab on the SAPforms Options dialog box is then displayed.

4. Select Insert initialization code in Load()- method and Button to trigger the insert action and choose OK.



This step is only necessary the first time you generate your SAPforms form and if the SAPforms form does not already have these pushbuttons. Otherwise, it is possible you will receive an error when compiling the SAPforms form because the declarations and event procedures are contained twice in the source text. You must remove the duplicate source code from the SAPform form by hand.

5. Choose File ® Exit to exit the SAPforms Designer.

The SAPforms form is now complete. You can now start it in Microsoft Visual Basic by choosing Run or create an EXE file.