First ABAP Project - Mass Downloading of Reports

So after learning a little bit of ABAP programming I thought of putting my knowledge to use. And I have always thought of programming as nothing but a skillset to make your cyber life easier. 

One problem I faced while learning ABAP on my organization's ABAP GUI sandbox is saving the reports in my local machine. After completing 2 courses I had about 50 reports which I wanted to save in my local machine for future reference. I was suggested to copy the reports one by one and paste it in a text editor to save them. But that could have been too tedious and mundane. So I did some research and finally put together this ABAP report which enables you to download multiple reports in one go into your local machine. 

Also, if you follow a particular nomenclature for your reports, you can use "*" at the end of last common letter and this code will download all such reports.

For eg: I start my reports with "ZPG" so all I need to do is type "ZPG*" in the output screen and all reports starting with ZPG will be downloaded on the provided path as text files.



For your convenience, if there are many files to be downloaded, when the SAP GUI security asks for permission to download, you may check the "Remember My Decision" checkbox so that it wont bother you for each and every file.






p.s. - It probably would've taken me much less time to do the task manually but I learned a lot in the process and will definitely save me a lot of time in the future.





























  

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