How to use BOPF to Create / Change a standard sales order (VA01/VA02)?

[ajith_c]

Hi experts,

The documents that I followed so far tells about developing new applications from scratch which includes creation of the database table from the persistence structure.

I would like to ask, if we can use BOPF for creating / changing a sales order which are stored in VBAK table. Are there any standard BOPF objects for these scenarios where we are not dealing with custom tables?

Thanks,

Ajith Cheruvally

[Jelena]

Um... BOPF is a framework, so I guess by definition there is nothing preventing anyone from using it in many places. But I'm not aware of SAP delivering any kind of magical BOPF APIs for the sales orders in ECC 6.0. Don't know what's there in S/4HANA.

What did you envision exactly when asking this question? I'm really having trouble understanding where is this coming from... Sales Order data is stored in many tables, by the way, not just VBAK.

[ajith_c]

Thanks Jelena,

I am new to BOPF and I am trying to understand when to use it.

I have been following the below Tutorial and I was wondering if there are any standard BOPF Business Objects for Sales order.

Developing Transactional Apps from Scratch

I mentioned VBAK because such standard table do not have the BOPF Framework specific DB_KEY columns.

My goal is to develop a FIORI app which can initially display sales order and allow the user to make changes to it.

Thanks,

Ajith Cheruvally

[Jelena]

But why BOPF? There are standard BAPIs for sales orders, why not just use them? And isn't there some standard Fiori app for sales orders already?