Thursday, June 11, 2009

Utilities: Download/upload SAP development objects

So you want to upload/download your code before moving on to another project? You have used one of the many common utilities that do this. Those are half baked ones that download/upload ABAP reports and maybe SAPScripts. Now that SAP has ABAP classes, SmartForms, XSLT, WebDynpro, etc. those simple download/upload programs won’t work. I have recently started using SAPlink which is an open source effort to manage you development objects on different SAP system. It can can be downloaded from here. I’ll quote from the website what it does.

SAPlink is a project that aims to make it easier to share ABAP developments between programmers. It provides the ability to easily distribute and package custom objects.

It uses concept of nuggets for many objects, and linkees for single objects. It can download all the objects from a package even. Finally there is a good tool that everyone one needed. Well done SAPlink team!

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