How to create variable exits through standard enhancement spot - RSROA_VARIABLES_EXIT

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  Introduction

This document provides guidelines for using BADIs for Variable Exit processing. It will act like a step by step guide for creating new exits as needed in BW 7.3 or higher versions.

  Overview of Variable Exits

There are 4 different processing steps that can occur during the execution of a BEx query.

• I_STEP = 0: Is called for all variables of processing type “authorization”. This allows for a dynamic approach of identifying the data level authorizations of a given user.
• I_STEP = 1: Is individually called for all query variables of processing type “customer exit” and is processed before the variable pop-up screen is displayed to the users. This allows for a dynamic pre-population of variable values which can then be manually adjusted by the user as needed. For a variable to be processed in I_STEP 1, the variable should be ready for input.
• I_STEP = 2: Is individually called for all query variables of processing type “customer exit” and is processed after the variable pop-up is displayed to the users. This allows for dynamic derivation of variable value based on the selections that user made for other variables in the query. For a variable to be processed in I_STEP 2, the variable should NOT be ready for input.
• I_STEP = 3: Is collectively called once per query and is used to validate the selections made by the user.

  Why to use BADIs for variable exits

• Transport variable code changes without dependency on other variable exits
• Avoid conflicts within the team while working on parallel developments of variables on two different infoobjects
• Have the ability for independent testing and versioning
• Right direction strategically -> Transition to ABAP objects is imminent - sooner or later

  How to Use BADIs for variable exits

In the version BW 7.3, SAP released a new enhancement spot -“RSROA_VARIABLES_EXIT”, the implementations against which are automatically called multiple times (different I_STEPs) during the execution of the query.

As can be noted, this is a multiple use BADI and hence can have different implementations with a different filter value on Infoobject.

Step 1: Go to SE19 -> Create new Implementation -> Choose the enhancement spot “RSROA_VARIABLES_EXIT””.

Step 2: Provide a meaningful technical name for the implementation with the naming standard of ZBW_VAR_EXIT_XXXXXXX – where XXXXXXX is the technical name of the variable.

Step 3: Provide the BADI implementation name and Class Name as required and choose the BADI definition from the dropdown.

Step 4: Populate the filter value for the BADI implementation by keying in the technical name of the info object.

Step 5: Populate the variable exit logic in the method “IF_RSROA_VARIABLES_EXIT_BADI~PROCESS” of the Implementation Class.

5.   Appendix

• By using standard enhancement spot provided by SAP, we need not populate any logic in the include “ZXRSRU01” and hence can be left blank.
• This approach gives the flexibility to modularize the coding by Infobject and hence all variables on a given infoobject would be grouped in a given method of the implementation class.
• Since I_STEP = 3 is not called by info object, an implementation for all I_STEP 3 validations can be created with filter value OBJNM = ‘’.