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Creation of material with BAPI

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Former Member

‎05-17-2007 2:35 PM

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hi SAP folks,

Iam a beginner in ABAP.need some clarifications on BAPI

1. what is BAPI?how is that used for creation of materials.

2. In what way that is different from BDCs.

3. Which is mostly preferred and why?

4. How are BAPIs called from Zprograms.

5. Required complete tutorials on BAPI.

Thanks in advance

BALA

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Former Member

‎05-17-2007 2:43 PM

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HI,

You need to use BAPI_MATERIAL_SAVEDATA to Create/Change the materials

It if better to use the BAPI instead of BDC, you need to write a long code and you need to maintain all the views, but in the BAPI, we can directly update the Database,

Regards

Sudheer

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Former Member

‎05-17-2007 2:43 PM

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HI,

You need to use BAPI_MATERIAL_SAVEDATA to Create/Change the materials

It if better to use the BAPI instead of BDC, you need to write a long code and you need to maintain all the views, but in the BAPI, we can directly update the Database,

Regards

Sudheer

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Former Member

‎05-17-2007 2:55 PM

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See the example code for BAPI :

&----

*& Report Z8_BAPI

*&

&----

*&

*&

&----

REPORT Z8_BAPI.

**********************************************************************

  • STRUCTURE DECLARATIONS *

**********************************************************************

TABLES: BAPIMATHEAD, "Headerdata

BAPI_MARA, "Clientdata

BAPI_MARAX, "Clientdatax

BAPI_MARC, "Plantdata

BAPI_MARCX, "Plantdatax

BAPI_MAKT, "Material description

BAPIRET2. "Return messages

DATA:V_FILE TYPE STRING.

DATA:

BEGIN OF LSMW_MATERIAL_MASTER,

MATNR(018) TYPE C, "Material number

MTART(004) TYPE C, "Material type

MBRSH(001) TYPE C, "Industry sector

WERKS(004) TYPE C, "Plant

MAKTX(040) TYPE C, "Material description

DISMM(002) TYPE C, "Extra Field Added In the Program as itsrequired

MEINS(003) TYPE C, "Base unit of measure

MATKL(009) TYPE C, "Material group

SPART(002) TYPE C, "Division

LABOR(003) TYPE C, "Lab/office

PRDHA(018) TYPE C, "Product hierarchy

MSTAE(002) TYPE C, "X-plant matl status

MTPOS_MARA(004) TYPE C, "Gen item cat group

BRGEW(017) TYPE C, "Gross weight

GEWEI(003) TYPE C, "Weight unit

NTGEW(017) TYPE C, "Net weight

GROES(032) TYPE C, "Size/Dimensions

MAGRV(004) TYPE C, "Matl grp pack matls

BISMT(018) TYPE C, "Old material number

WRKST(048) TYPE C, "Basic material

PROFL(003) TYPE C, "DG indicator profile

KZUMW(001) TYPE C, "Environmentally rlvt

BSTME(003) TYPE C, "Order unit

VABME(001) TYPE C,

EKGRP(003) TYPE C, "Purchasing group

XCHPF(001) TYPE C, "Batch management

EKWSL(004) TYPE C, "Purchasing key value

WEBAZ(003) TYPE C, "GR processing time

MFRPN(040) TYPE C, "Manufacturer part number

MFRNR(010) TYPE C, "Manufacturer number

VPRSV(001) TYPE C, "Price control indicator

STPRS(015) TYPE C, "Standard price

BWPRH(014) TYPE C, "Commercial price1

BKLAS(004) TYPE C, "Valuation class

END OF LSMW_MATERIAL_MASTER.

**********************************************************************

  • INTERNAL TABLE DECLARATIONS *

**********************************************************************

*to store the input data

DATA:

BEGIN OF it_matmaster OCCURS 0.

INCLUDE STRUCTURE LSMW_MATERIAL_MASTER.

DATA:

END OF it_matmaster.

*for material description

DATA:BEGIN OF IT_MATERIALDESC OCCURS 0.

INCLUDE STRUCTURE BAPI_MAKT .

DATA:END OF IT_MATERIALDESC.

*to return messages

DATA:BEGIN OF IT_RETURN OCCURS 0.

INCLUDE STRUCTURE BAPIRET2.

DATA:END OF IT_RETURN.

************************************************************************

  • SELECTION SCREEN

************************************************************************

SELECTION-SCREEN BEGIN OF BLOCK B1 WITH FRAME TITLE TEXT-002.

PARAMETERS:P_FILE LIKE RLGRAP-FILENAME OBLIGATORY.

SELECTION-SCREEN END OF BLOCK B1 .

************************************************************************

  • AT SELECTION SCREEN

************************************************************************

AT SELECTION-SCREEN ON VALUE-REQUEST FOR P_FILE.

CALL FUNCTION 'F4_FILENAME'

EXPORTING

PROGRAM_NAME = SYST-CPROG

DYNPRO_NUMBER = SYST-DYNNR

FIELD_NAME = 'P_FILE'

IMPORTING

FILE_NAME = P_FILE.

**********************************************************************

  • TO UPLOAD THE DATA *

**********************************************************************

START-OF-SELECTION.

V_FILE = P_FILE.

CALL FUNCTION 'GUI_UPLOAD'

EXPORTING

filename = V_FILE

FILETYPE = 'ASC'

HAS_FIELD_SEPARATOR = 'X'

  • HEADER_LENGTH = 0

  • READ_BY_LINE = 'X'

  • DAT_MODE = ' '

  • IMPORTING

  • FILELENGTH =

  • HEADER =

tables

data_tab = IT_MATMASTER

EXCEPTIONS

FILE_OPEN_ERROR = 1

FILE_READ_ERROR = 2

NO_BATCH = 3

GUI_REFUSE_FILETRANSFER = 4

INVALID_TYPE = 5

NO_AUTHORITY = 6

UNKNOWN_ERROR = 7

BAD_DATA_FORMAT = 8

HEADER_NOT_ALLOWED = 9

SEPARATOR_NOT_ALLOWED = 10

HEADER_TOO_LONG = 11

UNKNOWN_DP_ERROR = 12

ACCESS_DENIED = 13

DP_OUT_OF_MEMORY = 14

DISK_FULL = 15

DP_TIMEOUT = 16

OTHERS = 17

.

IF sy-subrc <> 0.

MESSAGE ID SY-MSGID TYPE SY-MSGTY NUMBER SY-MSGNO

WITH SY-MSGV1 SY-MSGV2 SY-MSGV3 SY-MSGV4.

ENDIF.

**********************************************************************

  • DATA POPULATIONS *

**********************************************************************

LOOP AT IT_MATMASTER.

BAPIMATHEAD-MATERIAL = IT_MATMASTER-MATNR.

BAPIMATHEAD-IND_SECTOR = IT_MATMASTER-Mbrsh.

BAPIMATHEAD-MATL_TYPE = IT_MATMASTER-Mtart.

BAPIMATHEAD-BASIC_VIEW = 'X'.

BAPIMATHEAD-PURCHASE_VIEW = 'X'.

BAPIMATHEAD-ACCOUNT_VIEW = 'X'.

BAPI_MARA-MATL_GROUP = IT_MATMASTER-MATKL.

BAPI_MARA-OLD_MAT_NO = IT_MATMASTER-BISMT.

BAPI_MARA-BASE_UOM = IT_MATMASTER-MEINS.

BAPI_MARA-BASIC_MATL = IT_MATMASTER-WRKST.

BAPI_MARA-MFR_NO = IT_MATMASTER-MFRNR.

BAPI_MARAX-MATL_GROUP = 'X'.

BAPI_MARAX-OLD_MAT_NO = 'X'.

BAPI_MARAX-BASE_UOM = 'X'.

BAPI_MARAX-BASIC_MATL = 'X'.

BAPI_MARAX-MFR_NO = 'X'.

BAPI_MARC-PLANT = IT_MATMASTER-WERKS.

BAPI_MARC-PUR_GROUP = IT_MATMASTER-EKGRP.

BAPI_MARCX-PLANT = IT_MATMASTER-WERKS.

BAPI_MARCX-PUR_GROUP = 'X'.

IT_MATERIALDESC-LANGU = 'EN'.

IT_MATERIALDESC-MATL_DESC = IT_MATMASTER-MAKTX.

append IT_materialdesc.

CALL FUNCTION 'BAPI_MATERIAL_SAVEDATA'

EXPORTING

headdata = BAPIMATHEAD

CLIENTDATA = BAPI_MARA

CLIENTDATAX = BAPI_MARAx

PLANTDATA = BAPI_MARc

PLANTDATAX = BAPI_MARcx

  • FORECASTPARAMETERS =

  • FORECASTPARAMETERSX =

  • PLANNINGDATA =

  • PLANNINGDATAX =

  • STORAGELOCATIONDATA =

  • STORAGELOCATIONDATAX =

  • VALUATIONDATA =

  • VALUATIONDATAX =

  • WAREHOUSENUMBERDATA =

  • WAREHOUSENUMBERDATAX =

  • SALESDATA =

  • SALESDATAX =

  • STORAGETYPEDATA =

  • STORAGETYPEDATAX =

  • FLAG_ONLINE = ' '

  • FLAG_CAD_CALL = ' '

IMPORTING

RETURN = IT_RETURN

TABLES

MATERIALDESCRIPTION = IT_MATERIALDESC

  • UNITSOFMEASURE =

  • UNITSOFMEASUREX =

  • INTERNATIONALARTNOS =

  • MATERIALLONGTEXT =

  • TAXCLASSIFICATIONS =

  • RETURNMESSAGES =

  • PRTDATA =

  • PRTDATAX =

  • EXTENSIONIN =

  • EXTENSIONINX =

.

WRITE:/ IT_RETURN-TYPE,

2 IT_RETURN-ID,

22 IT_RETURN-NUMBER,

25 IT_RETURN-MESSAGE.

  • IT_RETURN-LOG_NO,

  • IT_RETURN-LOG_MSG_NO,

  • IT_RETURN-MESSAGE_V1,

  • IT_RETURN-MESSAGE_V2,

  • IT_RETURN-MESSAGE_V3,

  • IT_RETURN-MESSAGE_V4,

  • IT_RETURN-PARAMETER,

  • IT_RETURN-ROW,

  • IT_RETURN-FIELD,

  • IT_RETURN-SYSTEM.

ENDLOOP.