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What are BTE and BDT Enhancements Part 1

by admin on December 9th, 2013

In the next few installments of this blog I will be inviting a good friend of mine Tim Moore to teach us about
two little known SAP Enhancement techniques, BTEs and BDTs Here is a little bit about Tim.

Tim Moore is the president of 4 Ever Moore Enterprises, L.L.C., located outside of Charlotte, North
Carolina. Tim has over 15 years of experience with SAP including ERP, SRM, CRM, SCM, BI and XI. He
has technical middleware experience as well as functional knowledge in many different industry solutions,
such as FI, CO, MM, PP, SD, PS, HCM. He has Solutions Architect experience as well as expertise in SAP
Business Workflow, ABAP and Form development. He made his way into programming as an MM
functional SME who grew tired of laying out technical requirements for developers, so he decided to teach
himself to code ABAP. Since then, he has taken courses in ABAP, expanded to Web programming languages,
and learned XML to help with integration points with SAP. Prior to programming, Tim was a Business
School graduate and served as a manufacturing manager for a company who implemented SAP. He continues
to build his professional skills by expanding his business and technical knowledge in new areas. You can
reach him at sapcodemonkey@gmail.com

Enhancements: BTE and BDT

There are many options for enhancements in SAP. This blog will touch on two little known but very powerful
options, BTEs and BDTs. We will discuss what they are and how they may be leveraged.
To begin, we must keep in mind every SAP implementation is different. That is because every business is
different in the details related to their individual business processes and/or master data. Even within the same
company or entity, there can be slight or major differences in a business process or master data based on an
enterprise slice. Some parts of the organization perform business one way, while another performs business
another. While this is a challenge during implementations, SAP has delivered many different enhancement
options. These may be leveraged by the design and development teams to meet the needs of the organization.
Enhancement options are always preferable to core modifications when possible.
The acronym BTE stands for Business Transaction Events. This type of enhancement is typically leveraged

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The acronym BTE stands for Business Transaction Events. This type of enhancement is typically leveraged
in FI and SD transaction objects for process modification.
The acronym BDT stands for Business Data Tool-set. This type of enhancement can offer exits in the Master
Data maintenance for certain objects.
While both of these types of enhancement objects have been around for several years, many developers
outside of those areas mentioned above are only part-time supporting them and may not be as familiar or
comfortable as they could be with a little knowledge. So, my wish is for this blog to shed some light on these
lesser known enhancement options. Lets take each enhancement type, starting with BTEs, in turn.

BTE What are they?

BTEs are similar to BADIs (Business Add-Ins) and as such, BTE performance is equally as good. BADIs
typically provide windows into existing processes to allow modifications to be made to enhance SAP
processes to fit an organizations requirements. The BTEs are positioned strategically in transactional
processes to allow enhancements to core SAP processes which will be supported with future SAP releases.
This API (application programming interface) access through the BTE allows for transactional data to be
modified by means of custom programming. Some business requirements necessitate a warning or exception
message be raised. Many BTEs provide these windows.

BTE Why do we use them?

- Supported SAP Enhancement Spots These are delivered windows for customer enhancements supported
with future SAP releases
- Generate Custom Message Alerts Custom validations/checks may be raised in the BTEs. This provides
alert windows for messaging
- Data Modification Modification of data may be made within the confines of the business process
- Provide Windows into Standard SAP Processes Modifications to SAP processes may be made at certain
points recommended by SAP and their process experts. This window is where ABAP may be leveraged, so
any custom process specific to the organization may be triggered or terminated. Again, these windows allow
custom code to enhance the processes. Workflows, conversions, interfaces, forms, etc all may be triggered
from these event windows

BTE When do we use them?

Typically, these are used when standard SAP processes and organizational process requirements are not
consistent. The fact that these are requirements and not nice to haves, implies that some modification must
be made otherwise the process will not pass integration or user acceptance testing. When this occurs,
enhancement requests are generated and enhancements begin.
To find if there are BTEs available for use, there are 2 ways of determining them.
- Check in transaction FIBF or in the SAP menu path: SAP Reference IMG -> Financial Accounting ->
Financial Accounting Global Settings -> Business Transaction Events

- Open the main program of the transaction you are wanted to enhance and search for character string
OPEN_FI_PERFORM in the source code
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- Open the main program of the transaction you are wanted to enhance and search for character string
OPEN_FI_PERFORM in the source code

BTE Build and Use

I typically dont like re-inventing the wheel, so Im going to provide links to some additional documentation
already created and provided by SAP
First lets take a look at the SAP SCN Community Network for 50,00 foot look at BTEs

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