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Ivan FemiaSCN Active Member

@IvanFemia

Generate your professionalExcel spreadsheet from ABAP

abap2xlsx

Date: July 2011

Agenda

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Introduction

Export data AS-IS

• Standard solution

• Custom solution

abap2xlsx solution

Why abap2xlsx?

Orchestration

abap2xlsx on Code Exchange

References

Agenda

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Introduction

Export data AS-IS

• Standard solution

• Custom solution

abap2xlsx solution

Why abap2xlsx?

Orchestration

abap2xlsx on Code Exchange

References

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Mr. abap2xlsx ID

abap2xlsxCommunity Driven project for happier users

BirthdayJuly, 12th 2010

Numbersmost viewed SDN blog of 2010most popular project on SAP Code Exchangemore than 2,500 downloadsmore than 150 project members9 active developers

AddressCode Exchange at https://cw.sdn.sap.com/cw/groups/abap2xlsx

StandardOpen XML supported by MS Excel 2007, MS Excel 2010, LibreOffice, Open Officeand many others

The goal

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Improving ABAP capabilities to create and read rich .xlsx files

“you know, to work I use this Excel but now we need to upload it into the system…”

Some days later…

“well Ivan, you know, to work I need to download from the system an Excel like this…”

The problem space

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The result

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Wow

The result

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“Ivan, you know, everyday the system has also to eMail the Excel to each recipient and

let them download an fresh version from our portal”

“before going home, Ivan remember that recipients need also to update the Excel and

send it back to the system…”

“he’s a bit crazy, whenhe can’t do his simplejob, he begin speakingalone. He believes in a

community…”

“I have to say himeverything to do

but he’s not a badguy”

Agenda

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Introduction

Export data AS-IS

• Standard solution

• Custom solution

abap2xlsx solution

Why abap2xlsx?

Orchestration

abap2xlsx on Code Exchange

References

Standard solution

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Most of the standard SAP components (such as ABAP ALV, WebDynpro ALV, System

menu, etc.) provide the option to export data in MS Excel 2003 or in many other MS

Excel compatible file formats (csv, plain text, mhtml and so on).

What are the limits?

Depend on SAP GUI or Web Dynpro

Are not available for example in case you want to

send it as email attachment or in a batch process.

Have a no professional Look and Feel

Custom solution

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To avoid some limitations and create spreadsheet with a professional look and feel

SAP Mentor Sergio Ferrari proposed in 2006 a great trick: create an HTML file and

open in Excel.

What are the limits again?

Only one sheet for each workbook

No conditional formatting

HTML extension is not associated by default

with MS Excel

No advanced features

Custom solution

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Community was really active, SDN contributors began to create workbooks using the

OLE Object technology; this was a good approach with great results, but…

What are the limits?

SAPGui dependent

Cannot be used in a no dialog process

Cannot send as email attachment (without some

dirty trick)

Is platform dependent

Export data AS-IS

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Which one do you prefer?

New frontiers

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I prefer this one!

abap2xlsx inside – full optional – unlimited miles

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Introduction

Export data AS-IS

• Standard solution

• Custom solution

abap2xlsx solution

Why abap2xlsx?

Orchestration

abap2xlsx on Code Exchange

References

Old scenario

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It is so difficultto analyze the

data

abap2xlsx scenario

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Green light!I can get my

bonus this year!

abap2xls solution

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On June 2010 I had an idea; use ABAP to create Excel from scratch based on Open XML

standard.

Basically abap2xlsx is a powerfull ABAP framework that creates pure Excel files

directly from ABAP without any plugin.

Open XML was developed by Microsoft starting from 2000 and has been standardized

in 2006 by Ecma International (as ECMA-376) and in 2008 by ISO and IEC (ISO/IEC

29500).

In Microsoft Office 2007 Suite, Open XML become the default file format for all

documents (Excel, Word, Power Point).

Open XML

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Open XML

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An Office Open XML file is a ZIP-compatible OPC package containing XML documents

and other resources. That is, one can see the contents of an OOXML file, for example

by renaming it to a .zip file and opening it with any zip tool. The actual .xml files can

then be viewed in a web browser or a plain text editor.

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Introduction

Export data AS-IS

• Standard solution

• Custom solution

abap2xlsx solution

Why abap2xlsx?

Orchestration

abap2xlsx on Code Exchange

References

Compare tecnologies

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SCN Olympic Games2011

CSV Properties

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HTML & MHTML Properties

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Cell style

Images

Formulas

External Hyperlinks

Column merge

Text alignment

Row merge

Font styles

OLE Properties

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Font styles

Cell style

Data validationImages

Sheet protection

Workbook protection

Sheet hiding

Formulas

Password protection

Page layout

External Hyperlinks

Internal Hyperlinks

Freezing panes

Ranges

Column merge

Row merge

Column size

Row height

Column hide

Row hide

Iconset

Conditional formatting

Text alignment

Shrink text

Hide zerosPrint settings

Gridlines control

Hide/Show cell labels

Cell formatCell lock

Table auto filter

Table totals Multi sheets

Table style

abap2xlsx properties

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Font styles

Cell style

Data validationImages

Visual Basic forApplication

Sheet protection

Workbook protection

Sheet hiding

Formulas

RGB Colors

Color tynts XLSX Reader

Password protection

Table binding

Table style

Page layout

External Hyperlinks

Internal Hyperlinks

Freezing panes

Ranges

Column merge

Row merge

Column size

Row height

Column hide

Row hide

Iconset

Conditional formatting

Text alignment

Shrink text

Hide zerosPrint settings

Gridlines control

Hide/Show cell labels

Cell format

i8n compliant

SU01 proprerties

Export in CSV

Export in XLSM

Cell lock

Table auto filter

Table totals

DDIC Field Label

Batch support

Multi sheets

Final result

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CSV

OLE

MHTMLabap2xlsx

Demo time

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Introduction

Export data AS-IS

• Standard solution

• Custom solution

abap2xlsx solution

Why abap2xlsx?

Orchestration

abap2xlsx on Code Exchange

References

Orchestration

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Is abap2xls ready for orchestration?

Orchestration

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Ok serious! Is abap2xls ready for orchestration?

Orchestration

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SAPGui NetWeaver Business Client

Orchestration

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Introduction

Export data AS-IS

• Standard solution

• Custom solution

abap2xlsx solution

Why abap2xlsx?

Orchestration

abap2xlsx on Code Exchange

References

Informations: Download, Install and Learn

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abap2xlsx is the leading project on SAP Code Exchange platform

It has more than 150 active members and 9 contributors

It is free and it is released under SAP NetWeaver Developer License Agreement (NDLA)

Stable releases are distributed as nugg file (SAPLink) and Transport Request

There are about 30 demos available to test and learn abap2xlsx

Code Exchange

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References

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Open XML definition

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML

Standard ECMA-376

http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-376.htm

Standard ISO/IEC 29500-1:2008

http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail?csnumber=51463

abap2xlsx SDN related blogs

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/u/251856298

abap2xlsx Code Exchange project

https://cw.sdn.sap.com/cw/groups/abap2xlsx

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