This is a funny Note

[petr_solberg]

Good morning Slackers Cool People in the Coffee Corner,

I just came across a funny OSS Note.

Why do I find it funny ? As a technician, it's always nice to know little secrets for working with SAP's products,

little gems of information, short cuts and tips and tricks, and this OSS Note describes the steps to find some

information on Fiori, and the funny thing is, the steps involved take unintuitive to a new level.

Just when you thought things couldn't get any more unintuitive, then this little gem comes along.

Nice one.

Best regards,

Andy.

p.s. please respect the OSS and do not quote the contents of the OSS Note here

[Ritz · Accepted solution]

How about this one

http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/330437

what a gr8 root cause & super fantastic solution.

Ritesh

[petr_solberg · Accepted solution]

nice one Ritesh,

Andy.

[Lukas_Weigelt · Accepted solution]

awesome! I've yet to find one of those OSS-gems, I seem to have more look finding such stuff within Source Code Comments and Documentation

@Matt /high five for nerdy Haikus

[amit_anasane · Accepted solution]

LOL

[petr_solberg]

ok, a colleague just showed me this one

again - please do not quote the Note publicly

so, go to 60233

select version 32

search for

Step 8

then read that section

do not quote it - thank you

Andy.

[Steffi_Warnecke]

It's like a scavenger hunt and the price is so... priceless! Stuff like this makes my day.

[Lukas_Weigelt]

Keep 'em coming, Andy!

[SuhaSaha]

Almost fell off my chair

[matt]

Oh so long, so long.

Winter death  but hope not lost

Summer drinks are good.

[Lukas_Weigelt]

The machine is weak.

Sweet beer, grant me strength to fight.

Foolish computers.

[Former Member]

All that is gold does not glitter?

[matt]

Oh yes. That's much better than mine.

[matt]

...not all who wander are lost

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are quick to anger and not all that subtle...

[Former Member]

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.

[marilyn_pratt]

If it was in Japanese would the author be drinking sake instead of beer?

Thanks for the biggest smile of the day

[Former Member]

I couldn't stop laughing! That made my day! If I'm frustrated once again because of long running reports in BW I will remind this note and follow the steps mentioned!

[former_member191643]

LOLZ!!!!!

[martin_E]

Andy,

As a BASIS guy, I'm sure you'd appreciate the advice offered in the following notes....

See note 1668154 version 3. Of course, the original author may have been having a particularly bad day (see 1689771 version 1). But curiously, the current version of 1687058 hasn't been altered to follow suit.

Of course, SAP being SAP, the solution is configurable; the "point of contact" is left to the implementer to determine...

[petr_solberg]

Hi Martin,

I tried yesterday, and again this morning, when I try to open Version 3 of the first Note I get this error:  W:/SNO/CORE_ERROR_MSG:346 0003 0008

But, I was able to get Version 1 of this one

1689771 - SCC1 : incorrect status.

and love the solution, you know what, in this business, a bit of divine intervention never hurts.

Andy.

[Lukas_Weigelt]

--> 2000955

Not funny or bizzare, but can somebody explain to me what this note is technically good for? O.o

[former_member184737]

Hi Lukas,

     Really too interesting. A big NONE.

Thanks

[Former Member]

1764658

I keep wondering... do they mean relational... or rational?

[petr_solberg]

Hi Lukas,

I gotta say, a really big thanks for showing me

     2000955

You asked

     can somebody explain to me what this note is technically good for?

That Note is a placebo...

We had a problem, it solved itself, we implemented 2000955

Nice one

Andy.

[former_member184578]

Hi Lukas,

Generally, For any fix, corrections will be done and a Note will be released. To release the Correction instructions, a Note has to be attached to it which generally is the corresponding Note going to release for the fix to customer.

In some(most) cases, internal corrections has to be done - for example, Note implementations in Maintenance systems, or fixing checkman errors or some other internal corrections( not for customer release/fix). Inorder to release such corrections, a dummy note will be created and attached to those correction instructions.

So, that's the actual purpose of dummy notes (which actually has a use internally but of no use externally) If you search "dummy note" you will get lot more pages!

Just for info guys!

Regards,

Kiran

[Lukas_Weigelt]

Hi Kiran,

thanks for solving this mystery!

If you search "dummy note" you will get lot more pages!

Indeed, the hit list exceeds 20k matches!

Cheers, Lukas

[Lukas_Weigelt]

Found one today too. Maybe it's not perceived as funny by everyone, but I find it amusing. Especially in the German Version of the Note I had to think of "Es gibt keinen Löffel"

--> 2029289

[Former Member]

Yes, it is funny, no symptoms, no prerequisites,a non-functional correction, nobody knows what this correction does, just a correction for the corrections sake.

[martin_E]

The deleted code is

IF m_object_key-controller_name IS INITIAL AND sy-sysID = 'B20'.
  MESSAGE i000(swdp_wb_tool) WITH 'Empty controller name' "#EC NOTEXT
  'class CL_WDY_WB_CONTR_USAGE_EDITOR'. "#EC NOTEXT
  ENDIF.

that looked familiar... System ID B20 is specified in some of the examples in the "SAP Library Installation and Update on UNIX for SAP systems based on SAP NetWeaver" guide.

[Former Member]

I like the 4-key-combination, just one more than the "vulcan nerve pinch" from windows 🙂

Of course a well documented feature.

[Amerjit]

I remember when I found 350251 gem back in 2007, I didn't feel alone with the guys frustrations. It reads like a work log. Loved it.

[amit_anasane]

Nice one Amerjit ...

[Lukas_Weigelt]

I wished all notes were this blatantly outright; already like that guy 😆

[Former Member]

Great note...

[Former Member]

The worst thing is that any fool knows that you just go to:

http://saphana1:8000/sap/ui5/1/sdk/

And look in the top right corner, to find the same.

[Former Member]

Here's another one: 1671513. Take a look at the code correction....

[petr_solberg]

Hi Volker,

oh dear, that wasn't exactly Shakespearean English

Andy.

[Lukas_Weigelt]

Rofl. This is really a nice find. IMHO the contrast between the code comment and the subtle symptom description makes it extra hilarious 😄

P.S.

Anger dwells within.

It is unprofessional.

We must hide the shame.

[matt]

I must disagree

Break free from restraint

Release the anguish'd fury

Aspire to perfect

[Lukas_Weigelt]

Aye. Though such coding comments usually are "cleansed" within the next SPs and once you upgrade to a newer release, they're forever lost 😞

[Former Member]

Yep, see SAP note 1815623... most of the corrections are to the comments, pretty painter formatting and introducing #EC pseudo-comments to avoid the extended syntax check.

Seems like the QA was done after SP1 and the author of the note was not in a good mood about the topic..  🙂

Cheers,

Julius

[Former Member]

Excellent find...

[Lukas_Weigelt]

Indescribable.

The mood suffers. Words, they are

unnecessary.

[martin_voros]

Hi,

I don't find it un-intuitive. The reason is that the same shortcut works for web dynpro. So I assume that somebody from SAP said let's be consistent this time.

Cheers

[petr_solberg]

Hi Martin,

you're right everything has many perspectives and from the perspective of people already familiar with the short cut, then it demonstrates consistency by following the same pattern.

Thanks for sharing that it is an existing short cut, I'll give it a try else where.

Best regards,

Andy.

[Lukas_Weigelt]

Woah, Andy. Thanks for this almost poetic bit (and I'm afraid there's no averting me from quoting this OSS note now and then). This is almost as awesome as the Tao of Programming or Windows Haikus. Incidentally, speaking of Haikus, *ahem*:

What version Are you?

You will get to understand.

When the flower spins.

Can somebody hack a new Version of the Note and paste my Haiku in?

Cheers, Lukas

[matt]

HANA UI5?

When the jasmin flower blooms.

Ctrl-shift-alt-P.... Ahhh!.

[Lukas_Weigelt]

Haha, here we go

P.S. gotta pronounce the "ctrl" real fast, though, formatwise, eh? 😜

[madasamy_arunachalam]

Is anyone aware this OSS Note also exists in Marketplace ?

[petr_solberg]

Hi Samy,

hope you are doing fine.

Yeah that's a nice one, from the days when things were easy 🙂  A bygone era.

Best regards,

Andy.

[Steffi_Warnecke]

Nice. When the support doesn't know what to write at the end, they just need to attach the note. ^^

@Julius: When SAP-notes go poetic... I'd read a lot more notes, when they were written like that. Sure enough I would probably understand even less than now, but at least it would be nice to read.

[madasamy_arunachalam]

Hi Andy

thanks, all good &  How are you ?

Just another  KBA,  http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1985307, for the error we got from "BO/Information Designer Tool"

See the section under "Resolution", is any one come across above error and resolved with (SP ?)

regards

Swami

[Steffi_Warnecke]

I love how it's "p" and not even "v" for version.

[petr_solberg]

yep,

I love the bit about the spinning thing

awesome

Andy.

[Steffi_Warnecke]

When I read that, I thought maybe someone had a bit of fun with the reader and the step ends with something simple like "Read the information on the screen" or something like that.

I was reminded of the postcard that is attached to my monitor. It says: "Sometimes the best thing about my job is, that the chair can spin."

So I was expecting a comment like that next in the note.

[Former Member]

I like it. It has character and tells us to read OSS notes with cultural tolerance for those who think visually. From there it is just a short step further to "When the jasmin flower has blossomed...".

[petr_solberg]

it reminded me of an Indiana Jones film, a cryptic clue to a riddle, something like, go over there, behind that tree, turn around three times, look towards the sky where the sun rays cross the horizon and to your left is the answer

Andy.

[Former Member]

The p stands for "program errors contained"...