Enhancement Implementation editor

[Former Member]

When I create an implementation for implicit enhancements, etc., why is the editor so limited?

The way I edit source is do click the Display Code (Source) button from within the implementation.  This leads to a very limited lower-half of the screen editor for the implicit enhancement, with no apparent pretty print options.

Are there alternatives to this, to make the code conform to other code?  I thought of editing the code in another ZPROGRAM and then just cutting and pasting.

[Former Member]

I feel your pain.  I used to use the following

http://www.sapdev.co.uk/programs/custom/zclippretty.htm

Then I started using includes in all enhancements and coding in those includes.  This makes it nice and neat and allows you to use the pretty printer.

[Former Member]

Thank you very much for both of those tips - great!

One followup question, from your experience, if I could.  Within Userexits, is there an advantage to placing an Implict Enhancement (with an INLCUDE to keep it neat), or would it be more efficient to simply place a customer namespace INCLUDE in the userexit, and skip the enhancement?

One of the only things I think an enhancement would add to the userexit is that it could become switchable in the switch framework.  Is that correct?

[Former Member]

That is something I have been pondering the last few weeks.  I used to just modify the user exist (if you are talking about the SD exits) using an include but I recently made the switch to use enhancements for the reason you mentioned.  It looks a bit dd at first (why would you enhance something that is "open" to customer modification) but it does add some nice advantages.

[Former Member]

Thanks, was thinking the same.  Not sure we'll use that functionality, but I suppose it's good to set up for it.

[Former Member]

For painfully slow systems, activation of sales order user exit can take 15 minutes, whereas activation of enhancement would be significantly faster.

[Former Member]

Great point.  I work on such a system.  It is also useful with multiple developers.  I am in the situation now where I need to back out changes that have been sitting in Dev since September.  I need to use the same SD include for an emergency fix so I have to back out the old code then re-implement it.  If the developer would have used includes or even enhancement points it would be a piece of cake (or blueberry pie in my case)..

[Former Member]

Great point.  I work on such a system.  It is also useful with multiple developers.  I am in the situation now where I need to back out changes that have been sitting in Dev since September.  I need to use the same SD include for an emergency fix so I have to back out the old code then re-implement it.  If the developer would have used includes or even enhancement points it would be a piece of cake (or blueberry pie in my case)..

[Former Member]

I use regular SE38 New ABAP Editor to write code in implicit enhancement.

Clicking on spiral icon (Shift+F4 Enhance), right-click to show implicit enhancement points, right click again on marked line to create/change implementation.

For pretty printing, I cut tested code to custom report, pretty print and then paste back.

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