Application Enhancement Tool (AET)

Application Enhancement Tool is a comprehensive tool for the

enhancement of the SAP standard applications such that the modifications
till the database level are implemented by the tool itself and there is
almost no coding effort.

This tool is also integrated with the Web UI Configuration tool.

Configuration area highlighted on clicking the button

Similar to the UI Configuration tool, first you need to select the

configurable area (highlighted in blue) from the application

This will open UI Configuration tool in the same window as shown

below

UI Configuration Tool for AET

We need to select a relevant button for AET enhancements (highlighted
above)

Display Enhancements: Enables you to see already existing

enhancements. It is possible to select an enhancement and to modify it

"Create Field" button can be used to create a new field in the select
view
Following is the display of existing field and table enhancements:

Display Enhancement View

This view is having buttons for View & Table enhancements in respective
assignment blocks:

New: Using this button it is possible to create new fields and also to
create tables

Using the hyperlink in first column (Enhancement Id) it is possible to

edit an existing enhancement

Enhancing View

In order to enhance a view after clicking on the "New" button (shown

in above scrrenshot) you need to select the business object part where the
new field or new table needs to be added:

Select Business Object part

Depending upon the object selected, the database tables and the
structures will be selected.

While creating a field, you need to set properties of the field:

Set properties of the new field

According to the properties selected the field will be generated and

different layers will be enhanced for the new field

"Enable Export Mode" button can be used so that the framework picks
properties from the Data Element used in the field definition
o
In Expert Mode, we need to set value for the Data Element field
o
In data element definition, it is possible to set properties like
Label (Description)
o
Thus different properties of the field are to be set automatically
using data element definition in data dictionary

Set properties of the new field Expert Mode enabled

Similarly we can create table fields using the AET

For table, we need to specify the details of the table as a whole and
also the individual fields to be generate for the table

Creating a Table View using AET

Once field or table is generated using the AET, the application will
restart and the user can then use the new field or table

These fields and table will also have updated the required database
tables

This means that when you enter value for these fields and perform
save, the value will get stored