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		<title>SAP Query a Step by Step Guide Part Two</title>
		<link>http://www.consulting.mungapen.com/2010/05/03/sap-query-a-step-by-step-guide-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 17:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In part two of this tutorial  we’ll take a closer look at Infosets which form the data basis of SAP Queries
Creating an Infoset
The Next and most important step of SAP querying is to create this infoset. The infoset is the core definition of the query. It defines table joins and therefore the uniqueness of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SAP Query, Step by Step Guide Part One</title>
		<link>http://www.consulting.mungapen.com/2010/04/13/sap-query-step-by-step-guide-part-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 02:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;
Introduction
SAP query is a great tool for developing reports for both end users and for the implementation team alike. Hopefully you have read my article about the uses of SAP query and why I think it is a must for every consultant to be conversant with this tool. 
This&#160; is part one of a three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SAP Query the Essential Tool for Consultants and project team alike</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction   
It still amazes me after fourteen years of implementing SAP, that many seasoned consultants are not familiar with SAP query (formerly ABAP query). SAP query is SAP&#8217;s built in querying transactions that allow users or IT staff to quickly and easily create multi table queries which can either be used as reports [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Five ways to find a table and field within a transaction</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.consulting.mungapen.com/?p=197</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever been frustrated trying to find&#160; which table and field a piece of data is stored in. You can see it on the screen, and the old faithful F1 &#8211; F9 results in some useless structure information. Or have you ever started looking at a piece of functionality you are unfamiliar with wanting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to get a list of All SAP Transaction codes in Excel</title>
		<link>http://www.consulting.mungapen.com/2009/12/15/how-to-get-a-list-of-all-sap-transaction-codes-in-excel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a similar vein to my previous posting about extracting the IMG in Excel, you may also want to get a list of Transaction codes out of SAP into Excel to allow for various management tasks. I have used these to track the development of BPP’s assist in designing authorization roles etc, and general project [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Color Code your SAP screens to avoid confusing production with QA and Dev</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever had three sessions open at one time, one in Dev one in QA and one in production. Under the pressure of a production support fix how easy could it be to perform a transaction in the wrong system without realizing it…..scary isn’t it one mistake and you could have left your mark [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introduction to Workflow</title>
		<link>http://www.consulting.mungapen.com/2009/12/09/introduction-to-workflow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am currently working on a step by sep workflow set up guide for functional consultants. Its a few days away but I wanted to point out what a great resource this website is for a workflow primer.
http://saptechnical.com/Tutorials/Workflow/Workflow.htm
lots of excellent tutorials on both custom and some of the standard workflows.
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		<title>Extracting SAP&#8217;s Configuration IMG to Excel</title>
		<link>http://www.consulting.mungapen.com/2009/12/08/extracting-saps-configuration-img-to-excel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.consulting.mungapen.com/2009/12/08/extracting-saps-configuration-img-to-excel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction
This article outlines the steps necessary to extract a copy of the SAP IMG nodes into excel and clean them up into a simple grid.

Why?
So the first question you might ask is why would you want to extract the thousands of nodes of the IMG into an excel file.   From my experience I have been asked to perform this task on many projects, primarily to help with scope definition and assign and manage responsibilities. This may seem redundant these days, with the integrated tools that allow for project management in solution manager that allow you to represent this hierarchy and report against it in many ways. However in the fog of a time constrained implementation I can assure you that the learning curve and access issues to all the necessary tools, often causes things to spiral down to the lowest common denominator of representing information in a system that most people have on their computers and are familiar with. In most cases this ‘lowest common denominator’ is excel.

What can I do with this?
I have used an excel extract of the IMG on multiple projects for the following reasons, but I’m sure you could think of many more

· Create a list of in and out of scope nodes to assist with scoping

· Assign formulas to ‘estimate’ work and skills mix for a given scope

· Assign ownership of nodes within projects with multiple disparate teams

· To form a document management system to track configuration documentation

· To track configuration completion for project management]]></description>
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		<title>How SAP Stores Purchase Order Release Information</title>
		<link>http://www.consulting.mungapen.com/2009/12/03/how-sap-stores-purchase-order-release-information/</link>
		<comments>http://www.consulting.mungapen.com/2009/12/03/how-sap-stores-purchase-order-release-information/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Release strategies in purchase orders do not indicate the current level of release and the next level of approval pending, within a single field value that is easily understandable. Within the collective release transaction (ME28) the ‘release code’ can be used to filter PO’s into a queue. However within the many list displays and ‘enjoy’ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Validating Failed Conversion Records Using Abap Query</title>
		<link>http://www.consulting.mungapen.com/2009/08/25/validating-failed-conversion-records-using-abap-query/</link>
		<comments>http://www.consulting.mungapen.com/2009/08/25/validating-failed-conversion-records-using-abap-query/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A client of mine was performing data conversions using&#160; LSMW to load open purchase orders from a legacy system.&#160; a number of these failed to load for various different reasons. Fortunately they had used the idocs to load these legacy PO’s&#160; and the BD87 display shows by error reason why the different idocs have failed. [...]]]></description>
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