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Introduction To BOL Programming

This document introduces BOL (Business Object Layer) programming and provides an overview of its advantages and API. It also demonstrates using BOL to retrieve tweets from Twitter and display them in a CRM web client application. Useful transactions and documentation resources are listed. The presentation encourages using BOL for custom CRM development due to its uniform and easy-to-use API that speeds up applications and shields them from changes in underlying business logic.

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Introduction To BOL Programming

This document introduces BOL (Business Object Layer) programming and provides an overview of its advantages and API. It also demonstrates using BOL to retrieve tweets from Twitter and display them in a CRM web client application. Useful transactions and documentation resources are listed. The presentation encourages using BOL for custom CRM development due to its uniform and easy-to-use API that speeds up applications and shields them from changes in underlying business logic.

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Introduction to BOL Programming

(Soon) not just for CRM developers

13 april 2012

Roel van den Berge

Agenda
Web Client UI Framework

BOL Programming
BOL programming examples Demo Custom GenIL objects: Project Twibap in CRM Tips, Tricks & useful reads Q&A

Web Client UI Framework


Presentation Layer

BSP

View
Design Layer

Controller
Model Context
R

CRMUIF

UI Components

Design Layer Business Object Layer Generic Interaction Layer

BOL

Buffer Entities & Lookups


Component set Root Object

Core
R

GenIL Component
Object
Object Object

GenIL

Object Object
R R

Business Logic

Business Partner API

Business Transaction API Business Data

API

Application Programming Interface

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BOL advantages

Uniform and easy-to-use API


Built-in buffer that speeds up applications No hinder from changes in underlying business logic Currently optimized to work with the CRM WebUI Possibility to model and implement custom business logic
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BOL Programming API

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Starting the BOL Core

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Static Searches / Simple Searches

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Advanced Searches / Dynamic Searches

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Get and Set Properties of an entity

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Create a BP entity using BOL programming

DEMO
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Demo case

Goal: get tweets of CiberCRM in a table in the WebUI API: #Twibap GenIL/BOL:
Simple Object ZTwitter Create necessary structures Implement GenIL class

Presentation Layer:
Create custom component Create ZTwitter context nodes in the various parts of the component Initialize context nodes (read the tweets) Create view with a table to display tweets

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Code Exchange: Project Twibap

ABAP OO Twitter API OAuth JSON parser Singleton Instance Designed to call all available API methods of Twitter Created by Uwe Fetzer (SE38 consulting) Extendable by the SDN community

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Demo Custom GenIL objects: Project Twibap in CRM

DEMO
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Useful transactions

CRMC_UI_PROFILE Defining Business Roles SM34: CRMVC_GIL_SO_DEF Custom GenIL objects BSP_WD_CMPWB BSP component workbench SE80 BSP applications Custom components GENIL_MODEL_BROWSER GenIL relations and attr GENIL_BOL_BROWSER Browse BOL entities SAAB Checkpoint groups BOL* & GENIL*

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Useful reads

SAP CRM Web Client Customizing and Development


SAP Press Michael Fchsle & Matthias E. Zierke

BOL Programming & How To BOL


To be found in SAP Marketplace (advanced search -> BOL)

SCN Wiki: CRM Web Client UI Framework CRM Web Client UI Framework is available in ERP 6.0 and NetWeaver ABAP
SDN blog by Thorsten Franz

Twitter! Follow @thorstenster, @wolf_gregor, @thomas_jung, @se38

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Q&A

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Thank you!
Roel van den Berge Senior SAP NetWeaver Consultant CIBER Nederland BV Meerkollaan 15 Postbus 843 5600 AV Eindhoven M O F I E T : +31 (0)6 52 65 99 21 : +31 (0)40 232 90 90 : +31 (0)40 232 90 91 : www.ciber.nl : [email protected] : @roelvdberge

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