How to Find BAPI

Suppose you want to find the bapi for creating a sales order, you usually use transaction VA01 for this. 

 

1. Find out the package of the transaction. 
Start Va01 go to system --> status. 
Double click on transaction 
Package is VA 
Open this package in SE80 
Open "business engineering"-->"Business object types" 
Find the BO which sounds the most appropriate 
I would suggest BUS2032 Sales Order 
Double click. 
Open methods. 
Find the released method with from data or something similar in the name 
, Createfromdat2 
Position the cursor in it and click the program button 
Scroll down to find the bapi used in this method 

With this way you can also find out programs and FM's 

 

2. Start va01 go to system-->status 
Double click transaction VA01 
Double click on package 
Read the application component. (this is SD-SLS Sales) 
Then open the transaction BAPI 
Sales and distribution-->Sales-->sales order 
createfromdat2