Are there permanent URLs for ABAP syntax docu topics?

[rdiger_plantiko2]

Over the night, all the links to ABAP syntax docu topics that we had in our team wiki are obsolete, yielding a HTTP 404 on click. For some day, even the Google search results for certain topics pointed into Nirwana.

The simple reason was that the ABAP basis release had been lifted to 7.52, and the subtree below and including abapdocu_752_index_htm has been removed from the server.

For example, this URL

https://help.sap.com/doc/abapdocu_751_index_htm/7.51/de-de/abapmodify_line.htm

became invalid over night.

Since a few days, the links have the following form

https://help.sap.com/doc/abapdocu_752_index_htm/7.52/de-de/abapat_itab.htm

My question: are there permanent links on ABAP syntax docu topics? It's annoying to have dead links, but equally annoying to change all the URLs of all web sites with each new ABAP basis release.

Kind Regards,
Rüdiger

[thalesvb]

Hi,

You can use the latest "redirector" which will always point to the latest version (i tried de-de but it looks they are changing a lot of help pages these days, so for example i used en-us since it is working now).

https://help.sap.com/doc/abapdocu_latest_index_htm/latest/en-US/abapat_itab.htm<br>;

The con is that it could be a different version from your ABAP stack, and unleash your dreams about things not available on your stack (7.40 developer here, trust me this happens a lot).

The alternative (and a better one) is to use Help Pages from ABAP server itself on /sap/bc/abap/docu node.

[lenapadeken]

If you use this link, you'll get the message that the German version is not supported anymore:

https://help.sap.com/doc/abapdocu_latest_index_htm/latest/de-DE/index.htm

[rdiger_plantiko2]

Hi Thales,

thanks for the really helpful answer.

Indeed, using the "docu" request handler could be an option. On the other hand, this will tie the docu link to a specific system in our landscape.

In any case, we will have to replace or adapt all outdated links to the abap syntax docu in our TWiki web. For the moment, I prefer the "latest" option.

Regards,
Rüdiger

[lenapadeken]

Hi rdiger.plantiko2,

There are videos on how to best use the ABAP Keyword Documentation (https://help.sap.com/doc/abapdocu_latest_index_htm/latest/en-US/index.htm?file=abenabap_tutorials.ht...) mentioning two options for the Help Portal (latest versions only available in English):

• https://help.sap.com/doc/abapdocu_latest_index_htm/latest/en-US/index.htm?file=abenabap.htm
• https://help.sap.com/doc/abapdocu_cp_index_htm/CLOUD/en-US/index.htm?file=abenabap.htm

Best regards,

Lena