Local Editing  

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

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       1.      On the ABAP Editor screen, choose Utilities ® More utilities ® Upload/Download® Download (or Upload).

 

·         To upload a local file into the Front-End Editor (Plain Text Mode), choose  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   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 that when you upload a file the existing source code is overwritten.

Starting Local Editing

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       1.      On the ABAP Editor screen, choose Utilities ® Settings ® ABAP Editor.

       2.      On the User-Specific Settings screen, specify a Path for local editing.

The source code is buffered under this path.

       3.      Choose Utilities ® More utilities ® Edit locally. 

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).