Blogs posted October 2003

ViewPoint is a new technology from SAP that introduces a novel new paradigm of content personalization. You can find it right here on SDN by visiting our DevToday page. I’ll talk more about ViewPoint’s features in future weblogs. In the... Read More »

Often you must influence the rendering of the HTMLB tableView. Maybe more (virtual) columns are required, or the presentation of the data should not be done as text, but as icons. For this, the HTMLB tableView supports the concept of an iterator.... Read More »

Rendering libraries are designed from the beginning to solve a set of fixed problems. A typical example is the HTMLB tableView that will render out information directly from the table, no questions asked. One day a colleague complained: he wants an... Read More »

[SAP ViewPoint | https://www.sdn.sap.com/sdn/devnews.sdn] is one of the best kept secrets within SDN, currently still hidden in the Pilot area. It is the place to go, if you want an easy overview of all the documents that have been added to the SAP... Read More »

I have spent the last few weeks since my last weblog, with the SAP Community, the online one on http://www.sap.com/community . I have been a member of the community for quite some time now, but after I joined SDN, I felt the need for an increased... Read More »

Once upon a time,not so long ago, there lived a Developer who worked for a software firm calledChaotic Systems.  The process of software  development in this firm waserror-prone and, in many ways, sub-optimal.  The Developer... Read More »

Jefferey Nolan has an excellent post over at his sapventures  blog on his  opinion on what Peoplesoft’s earnings statement mean for the Ocale takeover  bid and on the situation in general.

This is a collection of questions that we see often with short answers to these questions. Where possible, direct links will be used to documentation or to (newly written) Weblogs. How to Get a Carriage Return into Text (for... Read More »

Hello all again, In the last few months I was often asked how to develop content with the new EP6.0. I have some general remarks about that. Connecting to R/3: If you want to connect to R/3 4.6c and smaller with Java: Do not use JCO directly or EP... Read More »

The BSP mangles URLs. Deep down. In a BSP In-Depth: URL Mangling, Brian McKellar did a splendid job of both feeding hunger for information and increasing one’s appetite. He mentioned the BSP application ‘decode_url’ which shows... Read More »