It explicitly tells the system how to render the file. Here in the fig below ,we can see ZPOWLCLASS is made and is using the interface IFPOWLFEEDER. Save the class ZPOWLCLASS as a local object. ZPOWLClass is our feeder class, built in SE24. Feeder class used must use the interface IFPOWLFEEDER. The first step is to create your own Feeder Class.

Second, MIME_TYPE makes all the difference. Creating a WebDynpro ABAP Application with the POWL usage 1. This can’t be done in a customer facing application. Now, I hope you can learn from me again… first off, test your WDP on multiple browsers, unless you know you’re only going to support one browser. As soon as I added application/pdf to that field… magically, it began working on all my browsers again. Since all my dev work was on IE, and much of my testing as well, I missed this little fact. Interestingly, IE was smart enough to recognize the PDF, but none of the other browsers were. Antje Boehm-Peters and Razi Mateen of SAP NetWeaver Product Management provide this set of tutorials for getting started with Web Dynpro for ABAP technology.Tutorial 1 - Create a Simple Web Dynpro Application The first tutorial shows how easy it is to create a Web Dynpro application and shows off the new ABAP environment for developing Web Dynpro ABAP applications. I turned out, I was mapping a blank value to MIME_TYPE. That burned through a lot of hours in SGEN time, downloading files, system down time, etc… all for nothing (well, not nothing, but not the result I wanted).įinally, last night, I decided to look at the UI Element itself, and what I was mapping to it. Then I thought, maybe the kernel needs an update… no change… crap. So, I then applied the latest support packs to my system. So I did my due diligence, and hunted Google long and hard, hoping for a clue.

I tried it, and it worked fine on Internet Explorer, but all the other browsers displayed the text, instead of the pdf… WTF!!! I came to do a screen shot of this and it it came out in jiberish. Then a couple weeks ago, I started updating all my documentation. Well, I was using some fancy trick that converts the spool to PDF, then using the UI Element File Download. Say for example, a quotation or order confirmation. In my Rapier web application, one of the cool features I provide is the ability to download an output document from SAP. Well, I just spent the better part of 20 hours hacking out my latest issue.

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