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Launchpad plugins

Here the question is activation: which launchpad catalog and role on premise, or which business catalog in the ABAP environment, makes the shell load the plugin for a given user.

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Overview

SAP SHIPS

In the SAP BTP ABAP environment, a shell plugin is a SAPUI5 Freestyle application whose manifest sets sap.flp to type plugin; deploying it creates a Launchpad App Descriptor item and an IAM app, assigned to a business catalog and a business role that puts the plugin in a user's Settings dialog on the environment's own launchpad. SAP's tutorial states the same steps apply to SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

Not covered: SAP Fiori tools has no dedicated shell-plugin project type in the SAP BTP ABAP environment: the tutorial starts from an ordinary Fiori Freestyle application and repurposes its manifest, since components are not yet fully supported by the tooling.

The plugin itself is UI5 code; core-only reads what SAP ships for deploying and activating one in the SAP BTP ABAP environment.

SourceSAP Tutorials — Implement a Custom Shell Plug-in in the SAP BTP ABAP Environmentchecked 2026-09-14