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Hide ToC transports in ABAP Version Management (enhancement)
Introduction
Hi and welcome to my next SAP Community blog post.
This time I come to you with an easy to implement enhancement, which will forever change your lives as ABAP developers. 😉
How many times have you struggled with the ToCs cluttering your list of transports in the Versions Management view? Now there is a solution to that issue. After implementing the steps shown below you will be able to filter out all ToCs and enjoy clean list of transports. Enjoy!
Implementation
- Enhance class CL_VERS_OBJTYPE_UI_ALV
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MV_HIDE_TOC attribute
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TOGGLE_HIDE_TOC method
- Implement the method with code shown below.
METHOD toggle_hide_toc. IF mv_hide_toc = abap_true. mv_hide_toc = abap_false. ELSE. mv_hide_toc = abap_true. ENDIF. ENDMETHOD.
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Post-Exit for OBJ_VERSION_INFO method
METHOD ipo_yx_eo_vers_objtype_ui_alv~obj_version_info. *"------------------------------------------------------------------------* *" Declaration of POST-method, do not insert any comments here please! *" *"methods OBJ_VERSION_INFO *" importing *" !IV_RFCDEST type RFCDEST *" changing *" !ET_VERS type VRSD_TAB *" raising *" CX_VERS_UI_EXCEPTION . *"------------------------------------------------------------------------* CONSTANTS: lc_transport_number_local TYPE verskorrno VALUE 'LOCAL', lc_transport_type_toc TYPE trfunction VALUE 'T'. DATA: lv_tabix LIKE sy-tabix, ld_version TYPE REF TO vrsd, lt_trkorr TYPE SORTED TABLE OF trkorr WITH UNIQUE KEY table_line. CHECK core_object->mv_hide_toc = abap_true AND et_vers[] IS NOT INITIAL. SELECT trkorr INTO TABLE lt_trkorr FROM e070 FOR ALL ENTRIES IN et_vers WHERE trkorr = et_vers-korrnum AND trfunction <> lc_transport_type_toc. LOOP AT et_vers REFERENCE INTO ld_version WHERE korrnum IS NOT INITIAL AND korrnum <> lc_transport_number_local. lv_tabix = sy-tabix. READ TABLE lt_trkorr TRANSPORTING NO FIELDS WITH TABLE KEY table_line = ld_version->korrnum. CHECK sy-subrc <> 0. DELETE et_vers INDEX lv_tabix. ENDLOOP. ENDMETHOD.
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- Open report SAPLSVRS_UI.
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USER_COMMAND_0101 module modification
WHEN 'TOC'. gr_vers_objtype_ui_alv->toggle_hide_toc( ).
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TOC function key
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Application toolbar with TOC function key
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Enjoy!
Now you can easily hide/show ToCs when needed. Hope this helps!
Toolbar with the new button
List of transports w/ ToCs
List of transports w/o ToCs
Hey Mateusz Adamus ,
I´m not a developer myself but also struggle in version management when going for root cause analysis/debugg. Thanks for sharing the knowledge.
Side note: it would have been ever better if you added a "Before/after" screen shot with an example.
All the best,
Hi Gonçalo Garcia
Thank you for taking the time to comment. I hope the presented enhancement will make your life easier. 🙂
Kind regards,
Mateusz
Maybe somebody care about what ToCs is just like me, you could refer to this blog.
Transport Management with Transports of Copies
Nice Version of hiding existing ToC-versions.
Just for Sake of completeness: you can modify the TMS Parameter VERS_AT_EXP to not create a Version for ToC at all.
Hi Michael,
Setting the parameter would make so much sense. However, I failed to find any information about it. The only thing I found was the VERS_AT_IMP parameter.
Can you point me to the appropriate documentation?
Kind regards,
Mateusz
There exists a Blog Post that mentiones the Parameter and the corresponding note
https://blogs.sap.com/2016/12/02/transport-of-copies-and-version-management-with-charm/
Thanks Michael Biber , this is very helpful!
Very glad to meet someone who cares about TOC and version management
Thank you very much!
from my side solution was like that:
https://github.com/OlegBash599/ZCTS_BROWSER
The main idea was to create additional function module in update task, which is switching off version management.
and call it before function TRINT_RELEASE_REQUEST
https://github.com/OlegBash599/ZCTS_BROWSER/blob/master/src/zbc_009rep_transport_cls1.prog.abap#L417
no changes in standard code and no enhancement is needed.
Hi Oleg,
Seems to me that you wrote a separate tool to handle the transports. Must have taken a lot of work and time.
Kind regards,
Mateusz
yes, you are correct.
but the tool allows me to transport from any developer IDE/interface: from WebDynpro, from UI5, from ecliplse, intelliJ idea;
actually the initial target was eclipse, because in case of using eclipse in traditional manner you should go to se09 (classic dynpro) and transport a copy if you need.
Well... never. I actually find it useful, as it happens that a change is made, gets into test and an error is found to have been introduced. (Debugging is the art of removing errors, programming the are of putting them in! 😀 ). Using version comparison, I can then see what was likely to have caused that error.
Similarly with local versioning in Eclipse.
But, when we create a ToC, we have a tool that clearly identifies them as such in the description. The description is copied from the source transport and TOC SYSKnnnnnn is added at the end of the description.
Hi Matthew Billingham
Thanks for the comment.
I use version management on a daily basis and, like you said, it is a very useful feature, one that I could not work without. However, having a ToC version added to an object which was not changed, but "sits" in a transport of a larger solution, which is moved for tests multiple times creates a lot of "noise" in the version management list and makes it unreadable. Regardless if the description has a "TOC" prefix or not.
At least that's my personal experience.
Kind regards,
Mateusz
I do see what you mean. For some of our objects there are hundreds of version reaching far back in time and, indeed a lot of noise (generated by standard transports). But it never really bothered me.
But what do you do when the object you're interested in has actually changed in a ToC. You won't know.
If something has changed between ToCs this means that the task is still in the development phase. Someone is still testing it, someone is still developing it. It's a rare situation that more than one developer works on the same object at the same time. And if it's changed by the original developer than they probably know the background of the change and the history of it.
And in case they want to keep the "old" version they can always generate the temporary version manually, e.g.: before making a big adjustment or refactoring the code.
Anyways, the purpose of this enhancement is to hide ToC transports per user's request, if they find the list too obscure. It does not disable ToC transports or ToC versions generation.
That's what's great about Eclipse - it keeps local versions. No need to make a temporary version.
I must say Eclipse has many advantages and is a step in right direction, but (and for me it is a big BUT) it is too slow. It loads for an eternity (at least on Citrix), and then it is still slow. I blame Java for all that. Which does not change the fact, that I use it only when I'm forced to (AMDP, CDS).
Would be nice to have VS Code as the main IDE.
I don't use Citrix and have no performance issues at all, so my guess is it's a Citrix issue.
I did have a problem with it taking ages to load - hence my blog: https://blogs.sap.com/2019/06/07/installing-lean-eclipse-with-adt/
Maybe this blog about VS and ABAP would be useful for you: https://blogs.sap.com/2019/12/06/abap-development-in-vs-code/
I saw the blog about ABAP in VS Code, but since it is a Citrix environment I'm not able to install anything on my own there.
Anyways, this is a subject for a different blog post, I saw your already had one 🙂
https://blogs.sap.com/2022/06/24/eclipse-adt-vs-sap-gui-editor/
Hmm, I thought this functionality was already available in SAP Standard. Or what does this button do?
Nevermind, the button is inactive on non SAP internal systems 🙁 (LSVRS_UIU01 line 109)