Premise:
I have been asked below questions by several programmers constantly.
Is It ok to Hard code?
Should I use a Constants in my program?
Or Do I need to maintain a parameter for a scalable solution?
Let’s take a deep dive onto this topic. At the end of this blog you will be able to decide when to use a constant when to hard code and choose from different options for maintaining global parameters.
I’ve decided to create this blog post for two main reasons. First is, like many other posts out there, I’ve struggled a lot to find a solution to a problem I was facing, and I could not find anything out there that helped me in any way, so I want to make sure that if anyone else has the same problem, there is something online that hopefully will help them. Second reason is, I am really not sure of what I am doing, and I am hoping that someone will read this post and will stop me from doing a crazy thing
I have an UI5 portal connected to an SAP Box (on Premise) and a Success Factors system. Users can navigate from UI5 portal to Success Factors using SSO, but they only get to the landing page. If an user has a TODO item in Success Factors, the only way for them to know is to log in to the UI5 portal, and then navigate to Success Factors (I’m going to say SFSF from now on). In the UI5 portal the users have an Inbox, where they can see if they have pending TODOs, but this inbox is only being fed from SAP right now.
