Add a validation to a Custom Field via Developer Extensibility in SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Introduction

With the introduction of Three System Landscape(3SL) in SAP S/4HANA Cloud, developers will now be able to create development projects via Eclipse IDE with the help of ABAP Development Tools (ADT)

In this blog, I will take you through a simple example of how to add a screen validation to a Custom field created via Key-User Extensibility in the Development 100 client using Developer Extensibility in the Development 080 client

Extensibility in SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Introduction

Extensibility covers a broad spectrum of topics that allow customers and partners to adapt standard business software to their business needs. This includes business configuration, integration, custom fields, and logic, layout adaptation of user interface (UI), forms, and reports. It also covers custom terminology and translation for customer-specific applications. (SAP, 2022)

Extensibility in SAP S/4HANA Cloud can be divided into three parts:

◉ In-App/Key User Extensibility

◉ Side-by-Side Extensibility

◉ Developer Extensibility/Embedded Steampunk

Streams in RAP: Uploading PDF, Excel and Other Files in RAP Application

Uploading Large Object and media such as Excel or Image through your application is a common business requirement and the only way to do it through a RAP application was by extending the application and using UI5 tooling to upload the file.

With the latest SAP BTP ABAP 2208 release the RAP framework now supports OData streams. It is now possible to enable your RAP application to maintain and handle Large Objects(LOBs).This feature provides end users an option to upload external files of different file formats such as PDF, XLSX 

, binary file format and other types hence allowing media handling.

In this Blog we will explore how to upload and handle Large Object such as PDF or Binary files without the need to extend the RAP application in BAS.

Concento RDG provides an effortless way to assign the Email Template to the Workflow

Concento™ Rapid Data Governance (RDG) is an SAP Certified accelerator and Data Governance based product that automates the processes of many Configuration steps, such as Data Model Maintenance, Workflow Design, Business Rules creation, and Field Property configurations. RDG allows users with or without MDG technical knowledge to perform Complex MDG configurations.

This blog describes the functionality of RDG in assigning Email Templates to workflow steps. The users can create or modify email templates and use them in rule-based workflow steps without coding, in contrast to the traditional process.

Using RDG, users can easily create and assign the Email template to workflow steps by performing the below actions.

Realizing a Clean SAP Core: A pragmatic approach towards digital transformation

Introduction

The world today witnesses a massive digital transformation, impacting organizations globally through fast-evolving business models. Likewise at SAP, key products and solutions are advancing with all the more flexibility and robustness. To enable this agility within the foundations of ERP, has repositioned its flagship product offering to a new ‘digital-core’ in the form of S/4HANA. With the recent S/4HANA releases also on Cloud, the new digital core offers a fascinating array of new innovations, ranging across digital-age User Experiences, next-gen Business Processes and Embedded Intelligence, through seamless integration and automation options.

Numerous existing customers however, are still on the former SAP ERP (ECC or older) systems with many of them also engaging industry specific components to support their businesses. With SAP’s future plans of withdrawing support and maintenance for its legacy ERP software versions, customers are required to devise an upgrade strategy to move to S/4HANA solutions, mostly through Brownfield implementation projects. In the process, project teams typically deal with several technical hiccups in managing custom code, around aspects like complexity, dependency with SAP standard, upgrade stability etc. This is where the catchphrase ‘Clean-Core’ comes in, which essentially emphasizes on fitting to standard offerings, extending them appropriately, and decoupling custom objects with minimal dependency to standard solution lifecycle outside the central ERP, therefore making the ‘Core’ clean. The coming sections will elaborate the needs, benefits and ways to achieve a realistic and modern ‘Clean Core’ SAP solution.

Download ALV Report Output as Excel

This Article explains code about how to download Report output in Excel through Program directly.

In case ALV report Display is not required only Excel download is required.

Excel Output will be similar as we download through

List >> Export >> Spreadsheet options

Shown as below.

Explore Business Add-Ins (BAdIs) for SAP S/4HANA Cloud on SAP API Business Hub

This blog post describes how to explore released Business Add-Ins (BAdIs) from SAP S/4HANA Cloud on SAP API Business Hub.

Problem Description

If Developer Extensibility with Embedded Steampunk is for ABAP Developers and technical users, then where can they find the APIs to build the extensions? Also, are there any technical documentation available for developers which they can refer to?

Explore Business Object Interfaces for SAP S/4HANA Cloud on SAP API Business Hub

This blog post describes how to explore released Business Object Interfaces or RAP BO from SAP S/4HANA Cloud on SAP API Business Hub.

Problem Description

If Developer Extensibility with Embedded Steampunk is for ABAP Developers and technical users, then where can they find the APIs to build the extensions? Also, are there any technical documentation available for developers which they can refer to?

Reconciliation report on ODQMON T-Code

Recently I have been working on a requirement on a report which will have the information of the volume of data being loaded for every extractor into BW system from SAP ECC(ODQMON).

This will help create a technical reconciliation report where one can see how much volume of data is being loaded for every datasource. This will help get an insight on how much volume of data is being loaded on daily basis and if any miss can be easily detected.

We are loading the data from SAP ECC(ODQMON) into Azure system. This report will help overcome the regular issue we face in Azure system when data loads fail/or missed some data during processing, which can be identified by this reconciliation report. The reconciliation report will be built in Power BI. The blog will focus on the logic used in extractor and not on the Power BI report.

Create and Deploy MTA Project to Cloud Foundry account using Business Application Studio

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 stands for Multi Target Application. Multi Target Application logically created with multiple different parts which may be written using different languages or technologies. All of these different parts works together to complete application life cycle.