Hands-On Video Tutorials

In this article, you will find the videos embedded with some additional information and resources. The focus is on the Key User persona.

For the introduction article, see

• SAP Graph | Hands-on Video Tutorials

As a prerequisite, you will first need to have created and configured the SAP Graph environment. For this, see

• Administrator

What You Will Learn

You can watch the 3 short video tutorials in 20 minutes and a bit covering

• How to generate a business data graph configuration using the graphctl CLI
• How to explore business data graphs using the Postman REST client

YouTube Playlist

To bookmark or directly access the full playlist, go to

• SAP Graph

Create Graph

Video Tutorial

In this video tutorial, Philip Mugglestone shows how the SAP Graph key user can create a business data graph using the graphctl CLI tool.

Markers

0:00 – Introduction

0:30 – Install Node.js

1:50 – Install SAP Graph Toolkit

3:00 – Login to SAP BTP subaccount

4:45 – Generate business data graph configuration

7:20 – Activate

9:20 – Logout

Command Line

Commands used in this video.

npm i -g @sap/graph-toolkit

# version
graphctl --version

# login to SAP BTP using service instance key
graphctl login -f <service-key>.json

# Generate business data graph configuration
graphctl generate config -f <config>.json
# Activate 
graphctl activate config -f <config>.json

# List configuration
graphctl list config

# List configuration
graphctl get config v1

# To remove 
graphctl delete config 

graphctl logout

References

To download the SAP Graph Toolkit, go to NPM

• www.npmjs.com/package/@sap/graph-toolkit

Postman

Video Tutorial

In this video tutorial, Philip Mugglestone shows how the SAP Graph key user can explore business data graphs using Postman.

Markers

0:00 – Introduction

0:30 – Postman, create request with client credentials

6:30 – Create request with OAuth token

Command Line

Commands used in this video

graphctl get access-token

Refresh Graph

Video Tutorial

In this video tutorial, Philip Mugglestone shows how the SAP Graph key user can refresh a business data graph using the graphctl CLI tool and explore it using Postman.

Markers

0:00 – Introduction

0:45 – Create business data graph using the graphctl CLI

4:55 – Query business data graph using Postman 

Command Line

Commands used in this video

# login
graphctl login -f <credentials>.json

# list configuration
graphctl list config

# list configuration
graphctl delete config <businessDataGraphIdentifier>

# generate configuration
graphctl generate config -f <config>.json

# activate configuration
graphctl activate config -f <config>.json

# get access token for RESTful client
graphctl get access-token

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