Another Free SAP Add-on from Hovitaga to Enhance ABAP Patterns

Online, June 5, 2013 (Newswire.com) - Hovitaga kft. revealed its latest free tool called Advanced Pattern enhancement that extends the functionality of the popular SAP development tool called "ABAP Pattern". This tool generates ABAP code for certain scenarios, typically for calling subprograms. Hovitaga Advanced Pattern takes the benefits of this tool to a new level by offering ABAP developers a lot of options to customize the generated code thus further reducing development time.

One of the most frequently used utilities during development in the ABAP Editor is the ABAP Pattern functionality. It is used most often to generate program code for calling Function Modules or methods of objects. The code contains the actual call and the formal parameters and a short error handling. However, most of the time developers have to further extend or modify this code manually to shape it to their needs. This consists of declaring variables to use as parameters, assigning values to parameters and removing unused parameters from the code. This takes time almost every single time.

Hovitaga Advanced Pattern does this work automatically. Once the standard ABAP Pattern is executed, a popup window appears where the user can customize the generated code. The user simply has to select which parameters will be used and for which the program should declare variables for. The name of the variables reflect their data type and the user can choose to name them according to local or global visibility. Additionally, work areas can be declared for tables used as parameters. All unused lines can be removed by a single click.

The users can navigate to the data type in the data dictionary referenced by the parameter so there is no need to open multiple windows any longer. The popup window displays the code to be generated and it is refreshed automatically by each change the user makes. This ensures that the end result will perfectly match the requirements of the developer.

The benefit of using Hovitaga Advanced Pattern is cutting ABAP development costs by reducing manual coding time. An additional benefit is that the declared variables will always have a correct naming convention according to scope and data type what enhances code quality and readability.

For more information, visit Hovitaga Advanced Pattern Overview
The product can be downloaded for free at Download Hovitaga Advanced Pattern

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