Back from SAP Sapphire in Orlando and Barcelona, I’ve seen a real change in how our customers and partners are considering SAP Business Technology Platform. Indeed, the questions they asked were not around “What is SAP BTP and what capabilities does it bring?” but rather “How can we effectively adopt SAP BTP for extending our....

At the beginning of the year, I wrote a couple of blogs on using Terraform to automate and manage SAP BTP. The first one (Infrastructure as Code for Cloud Foundry and Kyma Environments) explained what is Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code + a demo on how to manage Cloud Foundry ORGs, spaces and services with a Terraform....

Since the ABAP environment in SAP BTP typically interacts with other BTP services, you may be interested in a performance monitoring of such outbound communication. In this blog post, I’ll show you how you can use the System Outbound Communication app in the ABAP environment. You can even get alerted by mail if the performance of a specific outbound....

In the fast-paced world of SAP development, buzzwords can often create confusion and uncertainty. Among these buzzwords, SAP BTP – ABAP Environment, Steampunk, ABAP Cloud, and Embedded Steampunk have emerged, leaving developers searching for clarity. In this SAP SCN blog post, we aim to demystify these concepts, providing a clear understanding of SAP BTP – ABAP Environment, Steampunk, ABAP Cloud,....

As a ABAP developer, creating and deploying your application in SAP BTP Platform is now very easy. Use of ABAP Restful application Programming model makes this tasks very easy. More over there is a huge demand now to deploy your application in ABAP on Cloud and to consume it in your On-premise applications and enhancements.....

News Feed: 23.05.23: ABAP Environment release 2305 23.02.23: DSAG ABAP developer day for Microsoft integrations with SAP’s engineering team Dear community, Building on Frank’s “BTP ABAP Environment on Azure” release announcement we will take you on a journey of various Microsoft integration scenarios with ABAP over the coming weeks. Excited yet?🤩 Using the language flavor “ABAP Cloud” ensures you’re set....

In the world of ABAP development, the RAP framework has revolutionized the way we build robust and flexible applications. One of the key features of RAP is the ability to dynamically generate EML (Entity Manipulation Language) requests. In this blog post, we will explore the dynamic form of MODIFY ENTITIES OPERATIONS, which allows us to....

End of last year we launched ABAP Cloud and the new ABAP extensibility guide for SAP S/4HANA:  ABAP Cloud | SAP Blogs  How to use Embedded Steampunk in SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition and in on-premise – The new ABAP extensibility guide | SAP Blogs  Embedded Steampunk – Some more details for ABAP developers | SAP Blogs ....

You’ve already been introduced to ABAP Cloud by Boris’s Blog Post, if not, I highly recommend reading it. In this blog post, you’ll gain insight into the architectural idea of ABAP Cloud and its essential parts. If you are directly interested in the supported technical use cases and recommended technologies, you can find them in this complementary....

Following what we have learned from other blogs for the Output Parameter Determination app, I came across something which seemed impossible at the beginning but what’s not possible with SAP? I had a requirement to setup dynamic Sender and Receiver email address in Output Parameter Determination app for Item Interest Calculation rule. As we know....

As customer or partner, you might want to know more about the health of your ABAP system in a cloud-centric system landscape. Now, you might already be aware that you can use SAP Cloud ALM as the central entry point to monitor your solution landscape. What’s probably less well known is that SAP Cloud ALM....

In the release 2302 of SAP BTP ABAP environment (available since February 2023) the integration with SAP Cloud Transport Management (cTMS) became available. This increases the coverage of unified transport processes within BTP to a new and important area. In this blog post we will describe step by step how to set up this integration....

In the blog series of enterprise event enablement I present to you the possible ways to produce and consume an event in SAP BTP ABAP Environment and SAP S/4 HANA Cloud, also I show you how you can create RAP Business Events in an OP2022 system. Implementation and configuration of an event in RAP only takes a few minutes and is relatively....

Experts, before getting into the topic, let’s understand the motivation and purpose of the new modern extensibility options defined by the SAP for SAP S/4HANA Public, On-premise, and PCE editions. Motivation SAP S/4HANA extensibility strategy update comes with lots of benefits for traditional ABAPers and overall benefits for operating in a cloud-first environment. There is....

This is not a blog post about convincing you to adopt a clean core policy and why it is important, but instead, this blog post is more about asking the question: Can we keep the Core Clean with RAP Model? If you’re still unfamiliar with this clean core policy, I would suggest reading through this....

As an administrator or developer, you need to keep track of the performance of your own applications in the ABAP environment of SAP BTP. Ideally, you have an app that not only shows you when performance deteriorates, but that also allows you to drill down to the relevant requests and the associated code. In this....

Welcome to the final part of this blog series introducing abap2UI5 — an open-source project for developing standalone UI5 apps in pure ABAP. This post will focus on the technical background and summarize all the project’s key ideas by covering topics such as its architecture, codebase and compatibility. Find all the information about the project on GitHub and stay....

Dear community, I recently had to deal with an older source code because of an error. The understanding of the code was unnecessarily difficult for me due to some “strange” SY-SUBRC comparisons. The following pseudo-code will hopefully give you a better understanding of what I had to deal with. SELECT SINGLE * FROM ztable WHERE....

Welcome to part six of this blog series introducing abap2UI5 — an open-source project for developing standalone UI5 apps in pure ABAP. This post explains how to install, configure and debug abap2UI5. Find all the information about the project on GitHub and stay up-to-date by following on Twitter. Blog Series (1/7) Introduction: Developing UI5 Apps in pure ABAP (2/7) Displaying....

There were days where customer requirement was to create ALV reports in GUI and to provide button on top of ALV to print the report data as PDF or to show the details of selected line item. Now Customers are focusing on application which are more user friendly, responsive instead of old GUI applications/screens. In....

I was curious on how to best implement an Fiori Elements ‘Overview Page’ Layout based on an OData Service exposed by our SAP BTP, ABAP Environment. After a little “googling” I found several Articles, Blogs, or UI5 Extensions Guides about Overview Pages but no concrete Guide on what the necessary Steps are to create a....

Curious Developer 👥: Hey Helper Bot. Anything new related to ABAP that you wanna share 🙂 Helper Bot 🤖: Hi Dev. Seems you are curious to find something new. Well I have something new for you 😊   Curious Developer 👥: Great !! What is it 🙂 Helper Bot 🤖: While writing code in ABAP, we often would like to declare immutable variables instead of mutable variables to avoid....

Welcome to part five of this blog series introducing abap2UI5 — an open-source project for developing standalone UI5 apps in pure ABAP. This post explains various ways of creating views and enhancing them with Custom Controls, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and third-party libraries. Find all the information about the project on GitHub and stay up-to-date by following on Twitter. Blog Series....

This Blog will be continuation of the 1st part of the blog where I explained how we can generate Fragmented Forms from Fiori List report using SEGW (OData) Project. Part-1 – Preview/Download Fragmented Forms From Fiori List Report In this part of the blog, I will be explaining how we can switch/ convert SEGW project to Unmanaged....

Welcome to part four of this blog series introducing abap2UI5 — an open-source project for developing standalone UI5 apps in pure ABAP. This post explains the functionality of four demos – MIME Editor, Table Maintenance, File Upload/Download, Charts – to see different use cases and features of abap2UI5. Find all the information about the project on GitHub and stay....

Last weekend I published an update to my openSource project RAP Generator. The updated version is available at GitHub https://github.com/SAP-samples/cloud-abap-rap As a UI I now use the Fiori Elements preview of the new OData V4 service binding. Open RAP generator The new version comes with a new UI which let you enter the basic project data....

In my introductory blog post related to ABAP SQL services (Consuming CDS View Entities Using ODBC-Based Client Tools | SAP Blogs), I described how to expose CDS objects in a SQL Service, how to install the ODBC driver for ABAP on Windows, and how to use it in Excel. In this blog, we want to....

As you for sure already know, ABAP Cloud was announced at SAP TechEd 2022 and was part of the Juergen Mueller’s day 1 and Philipp Herzig’s day 2  keynotes. ABAP Cloud is the ABAP development model to build cloud-ready business apps, services, and extensions on the SAP products SAP BTP ABAP Environment, SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition, and SAP....

In this beginner blog post we are going to see how we can create Factory Actions in ABAP Restful Application Programming Model.   Ref: https://help.sap.com/doc/abapdocu_cp_index_htm/CLOUD/en-US/index.htm?file=abenbdl_action_nonfactory.htm     NOTE: We are using same application code base which we have used to demo Large Object (LOB) or File Upload Blog. Refer below URL: https://blogs.sap.com/2023/02/13/abap-restful-application-programming-model-rap-abap-rap-file-upload-large-objects-lob/   Before starting on....

In this beginner blog post we are going to see how we can use Large Objects (LOBs) in ABAP Restful Application Programming Model.   In this blog post we are going to see how to Upload File in ABAP Restful Application Programming Model. Annotation used to to work with Large Objects is @Semantics.largeObject   Ref: https://help.sap.com/docs/btp/sap-abap-restful-application-programming-model/working-with-large-objects Previous Blog....

Update (03/08/2023): SAP Data Warehouse Cloud Upgraded to SAP Datasphere. SAP Datasphere is a comprehensive data service built on SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) that enables every data professional to deliver seamless and scalable access to mission-critical business data.Capabilities includes data integration, data cataloging, semantic modeling, data warehousing, data federation, and data virtualization data, professionals....

This is part of the Easy way to write algorithms in ABAP: Series 01. For more algorithms, please check the main blog-post. Problem A permutation of an array of integers is an arrangement of its members into a sequence or linear order. For example, for arr = [1,2,3], the following are all the permutations of arr: [1,2,3], [1,3,2], [2, 1, 3],....

In my previous blog, Automating SAP BTP setup with Terraform – Infrastructure as Code for Cloud Foundry and Kyma Environments, I introduced Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Terraform in SAP BTP context. I explained how Terraform Providers can automate pretty much everything in Cloud Foundry and Kyma (Kubernetes) environments. I described some use cases and....

This blog series introduces the abap2UI5 Project. It is an open source project which helps you develop standalone UI5 applications in pure ABAP. All project information can be found here: Repository on GitHub News on Twitter General Idea Abap2UI5 gives you a cloud/on-premise ready and non-sap-gui way to create UI5 apps in pure ABAP without using....

This is the second blog post of a blog series which introduces the abap2UI5 Project. It focuses on the output of lists and tables. All project information can be found on GitHub and Twitter: Repository and Installation with ABAPGit News, Feedback and Updates on Twitter Blog Series (1/3) ABAP2UI5 – Development of UI5 Apps in pure....

Partners, CIOs, CTOs, Digital transformation officers, Practice leads, Innovation directors and any managers interested in learning about clean core and how to achieve it. Introduction: In today’s fast-paced business landscape, digital transformation has become a critical component of success. To stay competitive, companies must embark on this journey, whether by starting from scratch or building....

​The most awaited feature was released for SAP BTP – ABAPEnvironment in 2302. It is none other than ‘Side effects in CDS Behavior Definition’. I have been waiting for this feature and can’t stop myself from trying it. I thought the syntax would be complicated and was surprised when I realized they were so simple....

This is part of the Easy way to write algorithms in ABAP: Series 01. For more algorithms, please check the main blog-post. Problem Given an array nums with n objects colored red, white, or blue, sort them in-place so that objects of the same color are adjacent, with the colors in the order red, white, and blue. We will use the integers 0, 1,....

I’m sure that by now you have already started your Cloud journey in ABAP. Maybe you’ve just published a new business scenario, extended a CDS view, or debugged in your classes. In this blog, I want to present a business case almost every customer needs to implement in some way: Printing! This blog post might seem....

In this beginner blog post we are going to see how we can use #CHANGE_SET (Change Set Processing) in ABAP Restful Application Programming Model. Update multiple records at once using RAP       Use Case: Change Set processing can be used when there is requirement to operate on multiple records with single Action example in list....

A new version of abap2UI5 is released! You now have the complete freedom to create views making it possible to develop UI5 apps for a lot of different use cases. Check out this new blog post. Introduction In ABAP Cloud there is no SAP GUI anymore and one thing i miss is a lot is the former....

In this beginner blog post we are going to see how we can use #ISOLATED (Isolated Processing) in ABAP Restful Application Programming Model.     Previous Blog Posts ABAP RAP – Instance Authorization ABAP RAP – Global Authorization ABAP RAP – #CHANGE_SET   Thanks you Ramjee Korada for your help and guidance.   Use Case: Isolated processing can be....

Following the blog series of enterprise event enablement and the possible ways to produce and consume an event in SAP BTP ABAP Environment and SAP S/4 HANA Cloud, here I would like to show you how you can create RAP Business Events in an OP system. With the release 2022, SAP supports the native exposure and consumption of business events for on-premise systems....

I have just published a new version of my openSource project called the RAP Generator. The main new features are that I have added an option that allows you to delete the objects that have been generated using the RAP Generator. This option becomes handy when you have generated your objects in a package that....

Hello everyone. The purpose of this document is to shed some light on the process to call Adobe Forms Service API (for Cloud Foundry environment) from ABAP cloud. It sometimes becomes very confusing because of the different components involved especially when you are implementing the ABAP part. Let’s begin with the prerequires first. We need:....

This blog describes the differences between classic ABAP programming and ABAP Cloud programming with regards to the SAP Logical Unit of Work (SAP LUW) [1] and the ABAP RESTful application programming model (RAP). It helps to understand how database updates work and what developers must consider avoiding data inconsistencies during database updates. Classic ABAP Programming In typical....

There‘s a popular internet meme out there: “One does not simply …”. It comes from the statement “One does not simply walk into Mordor” made by Boromir, a member of the fellowship in the first Lord of the Rings movie, who is doubtful about the mission‘s prospects of success regarding the destruction of the one ring in Mount Doom –....

In previous blog posts, we showed you how you can access CDS view entities in an ABAP system using SQL via Open Database Connectivity (ODBC). The ODBC interface has the advantage that it allows unrestricted SQL access to all exposed ABAP CDS view entities. Data from different entities can be joined in an ad-hoc fashion....

Just imagine you have implemented a new ATC check in your ABAP cloud system (SAP BTP ABAP Environment or SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud) and bundled it into your custom ATC check variant. Since this new ATC check variant fully covers your special testing requirements, you would like to reuse this check variant also in your....

This blog is a step-by-step guide to get started with Forms service by Adobe API. In the end of the blog, we will test the Form service API by calling them from ABAP environment in BTP. This is also a blog part 1 for my blog series “Create No-Code PDF generation app in SAP Build....

In the previous blog, we went through the steps to get started with Forms service by Adobe REST API. We tested by calling the API from ABAP environment and generated a sample invoice document. In this blog, we will wrap the logic of calling the Forms service API to render PDF into our own HTTP....

Beside the option to start and schedule application jobs from within the Application Job App there might be the need to start an application job from within an application based on a RAP business object. Scheduling an application job using the API’s provided by the underlying ABAP platform framework can be tricky when doing so....

This is part of the Easy way to write algorithms in ABAP: Series 01. For more algorithms, please check the main blog-post. Problem Given an integer array nums, find the subarray which has the largest sum and return its sum. Example 1: Input: nums = [-2,1,-3,4,-1,2,1,-5,4] Output: 6 Explanation: [4,-1,2,1] has the largest sum =....

ABAP Cloud has been announced at SAP TechEd 2022 and was part of Juergen Mueller’s day 1 and Philipp Herzig’s day 2 keynote. After SAP TechEd, we provided more details regarding ABAP Cloud in an SAP developer community session and in the keynote of the ABAPConf (in German). In this blog post, we summarize the basics of ABAP Cloud. At the....

This is part of the Easy way to write algorithms in ABAP: Series 01. For more algorithms, please check the main blog-post. Problem You are given an array prices where prices[i] is the price of a given stock on the ith day. You want to maximize your profit by choosing a single day to buy one stock and choosing a different day in the future to....

I was searching for different blogs for this F4 help but unfortunately couldn’t find a detailed blog on this. So, I felt to start writing the same for all technical developers. For creation of CDS view we have 3 main interface view to be created. Step 1. First create a CDS view for Text table.....

Once the Value help view is created and released then go back to Fiori “DDIC Extensibility Group”. Refer blog: Create CDS Value Help or F4 help for In App Field Custom Fields | SAP Blogs Open the tile Custom Fields or Custom Fields and Logic Then click on the ” + “symbol to create. Here we will add custom field in Purchase....

Hello, In this beginner blog post we are going to see how we can use Side Effects in ABAP Restful Application Programming Model.   Ref: https://help.sap.com/docs/ABAP_PLATFORM/468a97775123488ab3345a0c48cadd8f/18b17bdd49d1436fa9172cbb01e26544.html     What is Side Effects : When user makes a change to a field on UI, and this change effect the content of other field, this behavior is called....

In this beginner blog post we are going to see how we can use Prechecks in ABAP Restful Application Programming Model.   Ref:  https://help.sap.com/docs/BTP/923180ddb98240829d935862025004d6/5a24e181eb994fffb59a186a2fdb3ef2.html?q=Authorization     What is Prechecks Prechecks is used to validate data before it can reach to Transactional Buffer. You can prevent invalid changes from reaching the transactional buffer by prechecking modify operations.  ....

In this blog i am going to talk about Git-enabled CTS which is a fiori app and available since S/4Hana 1909 onwards. I am using S/4Hana 2021 for showing gCTS Capabilities. And how it is helping to automate ABAP objects testing and deployments. What is Git-enabled CTS? SAP aims to support continuous integration in an....

In this beginner blog post we are going to see how we can use Authorizations (Global Authorization) in ABAP Restful Application Programming Model.   Ref: https://help.sap.com/docs/BTP/923180ddb98240829d935862025004d6/730ef0457d064ffe97478fa1f0c04550.html       What is Authorization in RAP Authorization control in RAP protects your business object against unauthorized access and operations (Create, Update, Delete). Authorization control is always relevant when....

SAP S/4HANA 2022 was released to the SAP customer base on October 12th, 2022. ABAP Platform 2022 is the technology platform underlying SAP S/4HANA 2022 and is shipped as part of SAP S/4HANA 2022. In addition, ABAP Platform 2022 is part of SAP S/4HANA Foundation 2022 for SAP HANA-only Add-Ons. ABAP Platform 2022 is not....

Have you ever asked yourself what Embedded Analytics is all about and how your company can benefit from it? In this blog post I, want to give you an insight into Embedded Analytics done with the lately announced ABAP Cloud.   Conceptual Basics Alright, first I need to admit: Yes – there are numerous different....

In this beginner blog post we are going to see how to work with Virtual Elements in ABAP Restful Application Programming Model. Ref: https://help.sap.com/docs/BTP/923180ddb98240829d935862025004d6/c65942c284dd490a9c3791630d4d4e41.html     What is Virtual Element : Virtual Elements are as name suggests “Virtual” which does not exists. Virtual Elements does not exists in actual Data Base table or Persistent Table used....

This blog is an end-to-end guide to development and deployment process, from creating ABAP RAP OData service, generate a Fiori element report as Multi-Target Application (MTA) using managed approuter, and finally deploy it to Launchpad service in BTP. Prerequisites: BTP trial/enterprise account Create ABAP environment instance in BTP(Tutorial) Setup Business Application studio in BTP(Tutorial) Add....

This blog is the third and the last post from a blog series of enterprise event enablement, and the possible ways to produce and consume an event in SAP BTP ABAP Environment and S/4 HANA Cloud. In the first post, I gave you a rough introduction on the basics of event-based communication. In the second one,....

As announced last month in the blog Devtoberfest 2022: Return of the Developer by Thomas Jung,  the Devtoberfest from SAP is back again. The Devtoberfest in 2022 is a four-week virtual event for developers with many interesting, interactive, and educational content sessions on various SAP Technologies. The event is broadcast live on the SAP Developers’ channel on YouTube throughout October. This year, Monday....

I am happy to share with you the new ABAP extensibility guide for SAP S/4HANA in the cloud and on premise with you that was released today! Extend SAP S/4HANA in the cloud and on premise with ABAP based extensions Read the guide and find out how to create ABAP-based extension on SAP BTP ABAP....

I have been working quite a lot on cloud applications integration with SAP S/4 HANA systems off late and thought it would be useful to put a few basics together for any new starters. What is SAP BTP? In simple terms, SAP BTP hosts numerous cloud applications and provides integration capabilities across SAP & third-party....

Hopefully you have already heard the news that the SAP S/4HANA 2022 release is out now for on premise and private cloud customers including the new ABAP cloud development approach for ABAP custom extensions. As the Chief Product Owner of the ABAP Platform Boris Gebhardt outlined in the blog post How to use Embedded Steampunk in SAP S/4HANA....

This blog is based on the knowledge from this blog. But providing a more streamlined approach, when you want to test your OData services on the BTP ABAP environment from Postman. It may be somewhat tricky to setup authentication for your service calls in Postman against the BTP ABAP environment, but I will show how it....

We are almost there: the SAP TechEd in 2022 is just around the corner! SAP TechEd is THE premier tech conference for all developers, IT practitioners, professionals, tech visionaries, innovators, and leaders who are interested in gaining a detailed understanding of SAP’s portfolio of solutions, platforms, and technologies, as well as insights into their future direction. This year,....

The year 2022 is quite remarkable for SAP’s history since a couple of anniversaries coincide that are of great relevance for the evolution of ABAP. First and foremost, SAP is now 50 years old and without any exaggeration this period stands for 50 years of ongoing success in enterprise software. Another important milestone was the....

In this blog post we are going to see how we can Extend CDS View Entity, for demo purpose a custom View Entity is created (SAP Standard View Entity is not used):   Extension to ABAP CDS View Entity is needed when there are some changes needed which are part of custom requirements… In this....

This blog post is about automatic documentation of OData entities. As I already explain in my previous blogs, I don’t like wasting time on tasks that can be done automatically (and in a more efficient way) by some tools. On another side, I really like, when I use some OData entities, to see a nice....

Deploying Fiori List Report and Object Page application to Cloud Foundry account. We have created Fiori List Report and Object Page Application as MTA Project using Business Application Studio.   Below video shows step by step detailed process of deployment.   Step By Step Guide Create and Deploy MTA Project What is MTA Project MTA....

In this blog post, I want to provide some answers for frequently asked questions on ABAP Language Versions. 1. What is an ABAP language version? An ABAP language version is a subset of the full ABAP language set. It provides: Restricted syntax: only a well-defined part of the ABAP syntax tree is allowed in a....

Hello, In this beginner blog post we are going to see how to perform field Validation in ABAP Restful Application Programming Model.   Ref: https://help.sap.com/doc/abapdocu_cp_index_htm/CLOUD/en-US/index.htm?file=abenbdl_validations.htm     Field validation is used almost in all of the applications, used to validate Objects to keep data consistent or we can say for data consistency. Once the validation is....

Over past years SAP customers have heavily extended and modified SAP solutions. There are SAP ERP systems with a few million lines of custom code. During a system conversion to SAP S/4HANA or a migration to SAP BTP ABAP Environment customers want to reuse the existing custom code. Simplified the custom code migration process looks....

This year the ABAP Development Tools in Eclipse (ADT) is celebrating its 10 years jubilee. One successful decade is over and the path to the future is still  with the Eclipse-based ABAP IDE! Congratulations! Meanwhile the ABAP Development Tools in Eclipse has made its way to become a very efficient, mature and feature rich development....

In this beginner blog post we are going to see how to add Determination Functionality in ABAP Restful Application Programming Model.   Ref : https://help.sap.com/docs/BTP/923180ddb98240829d935862025004d6/6edb0438d3e14d18b3c403c406fbe209.html     Determination in ABAP Restful Application Programming Model is used to determine something at runtime, when Trigger condition matches. Determination is always invoked by Business Object Framework. Determination always defined....

This blog is the second post from a blog series of enterprise event enablement and the possible ways to produce and consume an event in SAP BTP ABAP Environment and SAP S/4 HANA Cloud. In the first post, I gave you a rough introduction on the basics of event-based communication. Here, you will see how you....

In this beginner blog post we are going to see how to work with Feature Control – Action in ABAP Restful Application Programming Model.   Dynamic Feature Control with Action   Ref : https://help.sap.com/docs/BTP/923180ddb98240829d935862025004d6/a5055eef86fa492d99a29b3a9c7c2b88.html     Feature Control : Feature Control is used to control the Fiori UI. Feature Control is used to send information to....

Background When I started my SAP BTP ABAP cloud development I faced couple of error on the journey. Few on BTP some on ADT (Eclipse), I will be showcasing them below with their respective resolutions: You were successfully authenticated, but an error occurred during the Service Instance logon. Please ensure that you have a user....

Hello, In this blog post we are going to see how we can read Domain values using CDS Views. Scenario :  When we have limited number of values which are not going to change (not dynamic), in that case we can use SAP Standard CDS View which will return all the values available in Domain.    ....

Use Case – As a maintenance technician, I want to be able to see all the open , Closed , In progress , Completed and Archive notifications on a functional location so that I can check if the malfunction has already been reported. Inputs : • Plant (single value) • Functional location (single value) •....

The SAP Cloud Identity Services offer a lot of out of the box intergrations that lets you sync user data between different applications. Using the (SCIM) 2.0 REST API for managing resources (users, groups and custom schemas) it is possible to create users and groups in the identity directory programmatically. Overview | Identity Directory Service....

SAP helps you to build an intelligent enterprise by providing the freedom and flexibility to build, manage, and deploy your applications with tailored integration capabilities. One of these capabilities is Enterprise Event Enablement for the development of event driven applications. This blog is the first post from a blog series to introduce events in enterprise....

In this post, We will go over a series of steps in creation of a Fiori application to perform CRUD operations using ABAP RESTful Application programming model(RAP) on S/4 HANA cloud platform and Business transaction platform(BTP). Pre-requisites for this Application: S/4 HANA Cloud System Business transaction platform(BTP) Eclipse IDE There are 2 type of scenarios....

Technology evolves in a rapid pace in this modern era.  ECP is a niche skill in the world of Human capital management. In ECP, we need to password protect attachments while sending the sensitive data .Otherwise It will create privacy related non compliance issues. This blog will explain the process to send password protected PDF....

Here we will create a very basic Barcode scanner app using SAP AppGyver. Also, we will see without wring a single line of code how we can develop a basic app for Android/ iOS. Open Your APPGYVER Composer Account https://platform.appgyver.com/. Click on CREATE NEW, i.e., we will create a new app. A new Pop will appear for Project name.....

The main audiences of this blog are: Experienced AppGyver citizen developers who are keen to learn how to implement OData in SAP backend using CDS technology and RAP framework. Experienced ABAPers who are also AppGyver beginners and are keen to learn how RAP generated OData is integrated in Appgyver. Experienced in neither but are interested....

When discussing the extensibility options (e.g. of SAP S/4HANA Cloud, but also of other standard business software) you may hear the terms loosely and tightly coupled extensions. When you have a closer look, these terms have (at least) four different aspects: Lifecycle: how is the lifecycle of the extension coupled to the lifecycle of the....

In this blog post we will be seeing how we can use Access Controls in CDS Views or Authorization Objects in CDS Views. Authorization Objects or Access Controls are used to limit users and provide users only required and needed Information based on there work profile/role.   SAP Access control in ABAP CDS restricts the....

Dear all, Writing code is an Art. Human mind can incept countless ways to implement single piece of logic. Same process of writing a code can elevate/affect the performance of the code in many ways. Hence benchmarking is needed to guide developers to write most efficient code possible. Enter BTP! Developers who are getting introduced....

In this blog lets look at the Managed Scenario (Behavior Implementation )  in the ABAP on BTP platform .   As mentioned in the title , Managed scenario helps to eliminate most of the code (used for CRUD operations in the Implementation class).  Since the managed approach takes all the responsibilities  of the CRUD operations , we....

Introduction:       Main aim of any application is to keep the transactional document error free. That says how important is error handling and validations in the application process. In this blogpost, I will explain how we can implement real time validations on field input in a transactional fiori application with ABAP RAP framework. Instead of....

Lets Get Started with creating a new BAS Account. As I have been using Sap webide to develop my application I got a requirement to start working on the Business Application Studio where we can have more number of features. So found gathering info here and there. There by I am writing this blog which....

When working with the Custom Code Migration app, there are some typical pitfalls. Here is a list of solutions for the most frequent questions and issues. Known Problems  I want to create a cloud-to-on-premise connection and configure the RFC access control list. During the ATC run, I get an error, e.g. “Access denied for function_module_name_xyz....

As you may have learned, release 2108 has made it possible to access CDS view entities in an ABAP system from almost any application (including third-party). All you need to do is to expose the relevant view entities through a service and set SQL over ODBC as the communication protocol. That’s it. In very simplified....

Dear community, the title of this blog sounds like buzzword bingo, but it isn’t. The technologies that these terms represent can be used in combination to keep track of things in everyday developer work. How? That’s what this blog is about. At the moment the whole thing is still research, trying out and gaining experience.....

When implementing my openSource based RAP Generator I had the requirement that on the object page on item level fields should be read-only based on data that I had entered in the object page on header level. So on the item level I had a mixture of fields that are read only by default and....

Hey everyone,  I am so excited to announce a new long format “talk show” that we are releasing from the Developer Advocates team called Developers Digest (link at bottom of page to watch) Developers Digest In this premiere episode Mamikee Kanneh co-hosts with me.  We have a great time running through all the segments, similar to the way a....

SAP BTP ABAP Environment (“Steampunk”) started few years ago with their on-premise connectivity based on the SAP BTP Neo Environment. As part of the simplification and streamlining of the integration setup, the support of connectivity service of the SAP BTP Cloud Foundry Environment was introduced with 2111. Technical Background The SAP BTP Neo based on-premise connectivity has....

Introduction:      In this blog post, I will explain about “Custom actions” that can merge draft entities into Active and switch to display mode. An action in RAP is a non-standard modifying operation that is part of the business logic. The standard use case of an action is to change specific fields of a....

The HTTP service is the component of the Application Server that provides facilities for deploying web applications and for making deployed web applications accessible by HTTP clients. We have seen HTTP and HTTPS services in SAP ERP, there are many steps involved to create and enable this service in ERP. But in BTP its relatively....

Links to other blogs post in this series – Excel Upload using RAP: Part – 1 Excel Upload using RAP: Part – 2 Excel Upload using RAP: Part – 3 Introduction One of the most common scenario in the SAP On Premise System is to develop a program in ABAP for uploading data to a....

Job Scheduling is nothing new for us being an ABAPer and with SM36/37 or even programmatically we submit jobs, so now the question is how to use the same job scheduling from BTP. Obviously leveraging a service available for the same. Challenge was a little more for me when I had to perform certain on-prem....

Introduction: In this blog post, I would like to share knowledge on usage of Functions in ABAP RAP and then default few fields while creating a new business object in “Unmanaged scenario without Draft”. It is a common requirement in most of the applications to default some fields to save end user time or routine....

I hope you had a pleasant start to 2022 😊 I would again like to share my learning from a challenge which I recently encountered while implementing a RAP based SAP Fiori Elements application for our customer, and the respective solution, using which I could overcome the challenge. Problem Statement: We wanted to create a RAP....

Introduction: Enabling Draft is most common feature in current projects irrespective of Managed/Unmanaged scenario in fiori applications. In short, lets see what the draft is. Draft-enabled applications allow the end user to store changed data in the backend and continue at a later point in time or from a different device, even if the application....

Please help out in installing abapgit for ADT. While installing I am getting below error, Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found. Software being installed: abapGit for ABAP Development Tools (ADT) 0.12.3 (org.abapgit.adt.feature.feature.group 0.12.3) Missing requirement: abapGit ADT Back End Plug-In 0.12.3 (org.abapgit.adt.backend 0.12.3) requires ‘bundle com.sap.adt.compatibility [2.106.1,3.2.0)’....