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Procedure

If you want to modify SAP forms, set up your development environment as follows:

  1. Make sure that no SAP standard forms are stored as client-specific copies in your development client.

    Such forms should be stored only in client 000. This is the SAP development and installation client. If you access an SAP standard form from another client, then the central copy in client 000 is used.

    If you must delete SAP standard objects from your development client, read SAP Notes 10388 and 3355. These notes explain the procedure for saving modified forms and then deleting all forms.

  2. To modify SAP standard forms, copy the forms you need from client 000 to your development client. Then proceed as follows:

    • Assign a name from the namespace reserved for customers to these objects (these names start with Y or Z).

    • Copy these objects into one of your own Y or Z development classes.

    Renaming SAP standard objects enables you to maintain and transport your changes using the Workbench Organizer. The Workbench Organizer is not available for SAP standard objects edited in clients other than 000.

  3. To put your modifications into effect, you must also modify the ABAP print program used to print documents that use this form. You should rename such print programs and store them in your own Y or Z development classes.

You can use SAP Customizing to replace the SAP print program with your modified print program in the affected applications.