7/2/23, 1:39 PM ABAP Query Tutorial in SAP: SQ01, SQ02, SQ03

ABAP Query Tutorial in SAP: SQ01, SQ02, SQ03

By Scott Livingston Updated May 6, 2023

The ABAP Query application is used to create reports not already present in SAP
system. It has been designed for users with little or no knowledge of the ABAP
programming. ABAP Query offers users a broad range of ways to define reports and
create different types of reports such as basic lists, statistics, and ranked lists.

The ABAP Query comprises four components:

1. Queries
2. InfoSets
3. User Groups
4. Translation of Query

Lets look into them in detail:-

Queries
The Queries component is used by end users to maintain queries. One can create
queries,change queries and execute queries. Transaction SQ01

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InfoSets
InfoSets are special views of data sources. An InfoSet describes which fields of a
data source can be reported on in queries. An InfoSet can be assigned to several
roles or user groups.

Advantages–

By creating InfoSets and assigning them to roles or user groups, the system
administrator determines the range of reports that the individual application
departments or end-users are able to generate using the SAP Query.
End-users are able to work only with those InfoSets that are relevant to their
particular area, as designated by the role or user group that they are assigned
to.

USER Groups
The User Groups component is used to maintain user groups (from a security
standpoint).

Users working in the same application are assigned to the same user group.It does
not matter who actually defined a query in a user group. Every user assigned to the
user group is able to execute the query.

Users in a user group need to have the necessary authorizations before they are
able to change or redefine a query. Every user in a system can be assigned to
several user groups.

Translation/QUERY Component
A lot of texts are generated when defining queries, InfoSets, and user groups. These
texts are displayed in the language that we chose when we log on to the SAP
system.We can compare the text/languages using this component.

Data processing in Queries

Data can be processed and presented in 3 ways:-

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1. BASIC LIST – Presents data in the order defined by the functional area (
supports sorting and summation ).
2. STATISTIC – Shows the statistical figures calculated from the basic data.
3. RANKED LIST – A ranked list is a specialization of a statistic. E.x. Top ten
customers of a travel agency.

A query can have one basic list , upto nine statistics and upto nine ranked lists.

CREATING A QUERY
Step 1. Goto SQ01. Give a name to the query and click on the Create button.

Step 2. Give the description of the query in the next screen. Specify the output
length and select the processing option from the Further Processing Options box.
The data can be displayed in various formats such as table, download to a file, and
display in Word etc.

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Step 3. Click on the next screen, select the field group to be used.

Step 4. Click on the next screen, select the fields you want displayed

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Step 5. On the next screen, select the selection fields and then chose one of the
output types ( basic, statistics, ranked ).
In each of the lists, you can select various options.( eg. Sort order of fields, change
output length, column color,totals,page header, page footer etc.).

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Step 6. After providing all the above options you can save the query and execute it .

Note:

Transaction to Create/Maintain Infoset –SQ02

Transaction to Create/Maintain UserGroup –SQ03

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