Organize and categorize your documentation in SAP Cloud ALM

I want to highlight some important new features of “Documents” that will help you better organize your documentation in SAP Cloud ALM.

Create Process Hierarchy

You might already know about and use the functionality to create your own process hierarchy. You can access this feature from the “Processes” application or by adding the tile to your launchpad.

Adapt Clean Core Principle using SAP Cloud ALM

Introduction:

The main aspect of an ERP systems are:

◉ Business Processes

◉ Extensibility

◉ Data

◉ Integration

◉ Operations

Generic ABAP Value Helps using Fundamental Library for ABAP and Web Components

Exploring web development trends you might have already heard about Web Components, Custom Elements or Shadow DOM. These not so new standards (origins 2011) are still not always easy to try in own applications. Some web frameworks support Web Components more than others, some are less or not at all interested, providing only inevitable capabilities.

Aurelia web-standards based platform supports Web Components for years. Offering a great playground for hands-on experience what web components can do for ui framework and more important, for your application.

This blog describes one real-life prototyping case, how the “magic” of generic ABAP Value Helps “happens” in conventions’ based web applications, leveraging web components super-powers.

ABAP RAP : Enabling custom actions with a dialog for additional input fields

Prerequisites:

◉ Knowledge on ABAP Restful Application Programming

◉ Knowledge on Entity Manipulation Language (EML)

◉ [Optional] Hands on exercises in Open SAP course https://open.sap.com/courses/cp13.

Planning for ABAP Cloud 1 – What is included in ABAP Cloud?

1. Introduction of ABAP Cloud

SAP Cloud Platform ABAP Environment, is a platform as a service offering that allow developers to create modern applications (API based, Cloud deployment, CI/CD enabled) with documented enterprise level technology. It helps us bring the enterprise quality to API based modern application with very low effort.

ABAP Cloud can help developers focus more on business logic instead of technical detail by creating technical standard independent objects and generate technical artifacts for you, as ABAP always did.

SAP Cloud Platform Launchpad: Integrate apps from the ABAP Environment

In this blog I’ll demonstrate how to configure an integration between the SAP Cloud Platform Launchpad service and a Fiori application deployed in the the ABAP environment. Below is the setup with both the ABAP environment and the Launchpad service sitting in the same subaccount. The steps shown will also work across separate subaccounts.

Entity Manipulation Language – EML | RAP Series

What is EML?

Entity Manipulation Language (EML) is a part of the ABAP language. It means that there are new syntaxes available in ABAP to

◉ control the business object’s behavior in the context of ABAP RESTful programming model, using ABAP code user can manipulate Business Object created using ABAP RAP model

◉ provides a type-save read and modifying access to data in transactional development scenarios.

Consume ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model (RAP) Service in SAP UI5 Application

In this blog will see how to consume RAPM (ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model) service in SAP UI5 App through SAP Business Application Studio (BAS).

Step 1: Required SAP Cloud Platform Trial account. Refer below link to create.

https://developers.sap.com/tutorials/hcp-create-trial-account.html

Step 2: Considering we have ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model (RAP) service developed in SAP Cloud Platform ABAP Environment. To create one you can follow OpenSAP course Building Apps with the ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model

Consuming REST APIs with (Cloud) ABAP

API stands for Application Programming Interface, and comprises a set of standards that allow two applications to talk to each other. REST APIs are a certain pattern of building APIs. They are based on the HTTP protocol, sending and receiving JSON or XML data through URIs (uniform resource identifier). JSON-based REST APIs are prevalent. We will also be using such one in this tutorial.

OData, which is very popular in the SAP world, is itself a REST API. There is a lot of information out there on how to provide a REST API from ABAP (i.e., to publish an OData service). But there isn’t much on how to consume an external API in ABAP. And from what little there is, it includes non-whitelisted ABAP APIs, i.e., they cannot be used with Cloud ABAP. So, I decided to write this tutorial on consuming REST APIs using Cloud ABAP.

CI/CD Tools for SAP Cloud Platform ABAP Environment

In the on-premise ABAP world, lifecycle and quality processes can be controlled by the ABAP systems themselves. Think of transport routes and jobs to execute different checks. In the SAP Cloud Platform ABAP Environment aka Steampunk, this is no longer possible. Steampunk systems are independent of each other, and source code is “transported” with git-based solutions: gCTS and abapGit. While different systems in one global account are connected to the same repositories (read: “software components”), they do not know of each other. Due to this, the driver of lifecycle and quality processes needs to shift from the ABAP system itself to an external driver – for example: a classic Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) server like Jenkins. Of course, the Steampunk systems need to expose the functionality via APIs so that a CI/CD server can control those processes.

Showing an avatar with Initials or Image on the Fiori Element Object Page for a better user experience using RAP

I always felt like something is missing in all the FE Object Page apps when there is no avatar displayed in the header. I mean, just check the below image, and see how beautiful it looks with the avatar control on the object page.

SAP Analytics Cloud live data connection to SAP Cloud Platform

Introduction:

This blog covers:

◉ Enable HANA service in SAP Cloud Platform(Neo)

◉ Creation of HANA database in Cloud Platform Cockpit

◉ Access the HANA DB

◉ Creation of live connection in SAC for Cloud Platform

◉ Creation of model and simple story in SAC

Message Classes – SAP Cloud Platform

Definition: Message classes are created within an ABAP project at the ABAP package level. They are used to group messages within a development object. So, you can combine related messages and reuse them in other programs. After creating a message class, you add the individual messages.

Message: Messages notify a user about unexpected behaviour, an error, a status, or a result of an action. An application will display the message at runtime. A message is specified by a unique 3-digit message number, a single-digit language key, text information, and a message class.

Table Function – SAP Cloud Platform

It is a type of CDS which allow developers to write database procedures They support the HANA platform code pushdown capabilities in ABAP CDS.

For creating a table function two components are required

◉ CDS entity of the table function
◉ CDS table function implementation

Custom Entities – SAP Cloud Platform

Custom entities are data definitions, which does not have a select statement on data source but we define return fields and their types. In case of custom entities their data model is invoked manually at runtime. The logic is defined in a class, we could not only retrieve data using custom entities but also do some other useful and awesome stuff with these good little tools.

Semi-automatic custom code adaptation for SAP Cloud Platform ABAP Environment

If you intend to use SAP Cloud Platform ABAP Environment and want to bring your custom code application to the Cloud the time will come, when you will need to adapt your custom code for Cloud on your brand new ABAP system running in the SAP Cloud Platform ABAP Environment.

For this purpose, you will run the proven tool ABAP Test Cockpit with the SAP_CP_READINESS check variant in ABAP Development Tools in Eclipse on your ABAP system in the SAP Cloud Platform ABAP Environment and will get a worklist of ATC findings which you will need to fix.

Call a Remote Function Module (RFC) From SAP Cloud Platform ABAP Environment

First some important prerequisites (because I noticed these myself just late somewhere in the fine print after spending [wasting] some time trying things in my own trial accounts)

◉ You need a Global Enterprise Cloud Account – i.e. not just a trial account
◉ You need this for both, the SAP Cloud Foundry and the SAP Cloud Neo environment
◉ SAP Cloud Foundry and the SAP Cloud Neo need to be in the same region

BDC – Batch Data Communication in SAP ABAP

BDC – Batch Data Communication in SAP ABAP

BDC means Batch Data Communication, not Batch Data Conversion. Moreover, it was renamed Batch Input at least 20 years ago (the term BDC is still widely used though).

In this blog, I am gonna discussed the SAP DATA Migration tools mainly BDC- Batch Data Communication to export data from non-SAP environment to SAP ERP.
I will create BDC (Upload) Program for cheques with Payment doc.i-e; the BDC Program for transaction code FCH5 – Create Check.

SOAP web service using SAP Cloud Connector with SAP Cloud Platform

Optimizing your business with embedded intelligence, extending your processes with guided outcomes, or break new ground with open innovation by leveraging intelligent technologies Like SAP Cloud Platform, SAP Web IDE and SAP UI5 to transform processes and business models to deliver the outcomes that you and your customers need.

As one of the requirement now a days are to scaling up/expose your on premise legacy server and use it as it is sitting on the internet. It is somehow not feasible for one organization to migrate to new server in short span of time.

How to import and use ATC check variants in SAP Cloud Platform ABAP environment

The first problem was that transaction SCI is not available in SAP Cloud Platform ABAP environment and that there is no UI available yet in ABAP in Eclipse to create ATC check variants. This is planned to become available in one of the next releases of SAP Cloud Platform ABAP environment.

In the meantime there is the option to create check variants in an on premise system using transaction SCI and to import the same into our SAP Cloud Platform ABAP environment using abapGit.