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We had the most wonderful and refreshing break at Great Brak River in the first week of 2013. Have a look here at the pics.

For some reason in our system (EHP 2), the AET tool does not add assignment blocks into a component automatically, so some manual steps need to be performed (very little programming is needed, although you do need a basic technical undestanding of the Web UI).

Do you have the same problem?  Sort it out by following the steps shown here!

Hi Everyone,

After a long silence as a result of working on a seriously busy project, I have eventually been able to upload some new content. I have been working on a SAP CRM 7 project and have learned much about the CRM 7 Web UI. I thought I’d share some of the things I learned along the way, so I have posted a simple example of creating views in the CRM 7 Web UI. Check it out here.

Enjoy your coding!

The ABAP assert statement can be used for “glass box” testing.  If you can’t run your program in foreground and debug or you want statistics about how often a specific scenario takes place, this is very useful.  Check it out here.

I took my Peugeot 307 for a service on Monday and was quite disappointed with the way one is treated.  I think that it must be the same for any vehicle that doesn’t have spares manufactured in South Africa.  I needed a new battery as well as new brake pads.  The total damage was over R7000.  I wonder whether these agents take advantage of the fact that they have a captive market.

If you’re thinking of buying a Peugeot or Renault or Volvo, seriously, think again.  There’s a reason that they have no resale value.  Buy a Toyota or a Nissan or an Opel. 

The guys at the service centre (Peugeot Northcliff) also reported a leak in the water pipe feeding the water pump and told me on the phone that it was a serious problem that had to be fixed urgently.  They quoted me R4000!  I was shocked and wasn’t about to pay R4000 on top of a service that was already going to cost R7000.  When I said that I would have to have it done somewhere else, the agent told me that they wouldn’t be able to guarantee that I’d be able to drive the car.  I wondered whether that was typical “scare tactics”.

When I went to collect the car the agent said to me in his words “its not like the water is pissing out, but they could see some water marks”. 

I think that agent is going to be getting a pretty good Christmas bonus.

I have reported the whole incident on Hello Peter, after seeing about 30 posts there, just for Peugeot Northcliff for 2010!  I’m surprised that Peugeot South Africa haven’t done anything about that dealership yet.  I’m not expecting any response from them either, but I did challenge them to do something about it.    The post hasn’t been moderated as I write this, but it should appear in this link http://www.hellopeter.com/search_results.php?search=Peugeot+Northcliff.

If anyone else has an axe to grind about Peugeot, leave a comment.

Using actions in CRM are very useful, but become a little more complicated when you want the action to be triggered when only certain fields are updated.  To do this you can trigger an action using a BADI.

The following steps and code will assist you to create an action and to code a trigger using a BADI.  Read more…

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