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ABAP CDSABAP CDSThe modelling layer of ABAP Cloud — view entities, projections and annotations defined above database tables, delivered with the platform rather than installed.sap official, abap
Modelling layer of ABAP Cloud above database tables
Nothing to choose here and nothing to install: it is what an ABAP Cloud system gives you. It shares a name and a lineage with CAP's CDS but is a different language in a different runtime, and a model does not move between them.
ABAP Spreadsheet ImporterABAP Spreadsheet ImporterA server-side ABAP component that parses an uploaded XLSX or CSV file and creates instances of a named RAP business object through dynamic EML, so its validations and authorizations run on every row.community org, abap
ABAP component importing XLSX or CSV files into RAP business objects
ABAP Statistical ToolsABAP Statistical ToolsA single ABAP class that computes descriptive statistics over an internal table, with group-by, correlation, histograms and generators for the common probability distributions.independent, abap
ABAP class for descriptive statistics over an internal table
ABAP-CACHE-BOXABAP-CACHE-BOXMacros that generate a singleton ABAP cache class for a data type or object reference, backed by a hashed internal table and exposing put, get, delete, clear and size.independent, abap
Generates singleton ABAP cache classes from a macro call
No published releases; repository quiet for 26 months.
abap2UI5 for Excelabap2UI5 for ExcelAn Office add-in that runs an abap2UI5 app in Excel's task pane, where the app reads and writes the workbook through the z2ui5.cc.ExcelBridge control.community org, abap
Office add-in running an abap2UI5 app in Excel's task pane
abap2UI5-addons/table-content-loaderabap2UI5-addons/table-content-loaderAn abap2UI5 developer tool that moves the content of an ABAP table in and out of JSON, CSV or XLSX files, with a preview before download or saving to the database.independent, abap
Upload, edit and download ABAP table content as JSON, CSV or XLSX
Not an end-user app: it reads from any table the user names and writes into tables of the Z/Y namespace, with no authorisation check of its own, so the README asks a project to add its own checks on `S_TABU_DIS`/`S_TABU_NAM` and to restrict who may run it before it is used beyond a development system. XLSX upload and download are not ready for ABAP Cloud yet, and of the upload apps only the JSON one writes the file's rows back to the database.
abapDataToTableImportabapDataToTableImportAn ABAP framework that declares a target structure in code and maps data a user supplies from a clipboard, an Excel file, a text file or an internal table onto it, with drag-and-drop column mapping.independent, abap
Maps clipboard, Excel or text data onto a declared ABAP structure
AnyTabUpdateTaskAnyTabUpdateTaskAn ABAP utility that saves any internal table to its database table inside CALL FUNCTION ... IN UPDATE TASK with one call, plus classes for grouping and walking internal tables.independent, abap
Utility for update task database changes and internal tables in ABAP
AttachmentCommentODataServiceAttachmentCommentODataServiceAn ABAP OData service that uploads, downloads and deletes attachments and posts and deletes comments on an SAP business object through Generic Object Services, with a demo SAPUI5 app.independent, abap
ABAP OData service for attachments and comments via GOS
No published releases; repository quiet for 66 months.
boy0korea/abap2jsonboy0korea/abap2jsonA report that exports ABAP table content to a JSON zip file, per table or per package, imports it back into its table, and compares or copies table content across servers.independent, abap
Exports and imports ABAP table content as zipped JSON
boy0korea/ABAP2XLSX_HELPERboy0korea/ABAP2XLSX_HELPERHelper methods over abap2xlsx to download, email or upload a table as Excel, and to convert between Excel, JSON and an ABAP table.independent, abap
Helper methods over abap2xlsx for Excel, JSON and tables
bw-modeling-mcpbw-modeling-mcpReads, creates and modifies BW/4HANA modelling objects through the same internal APIs Eclipse BWMT and the BW/4HANA Cockpit use — and can run centrally on BTP with each caller reaching BW as themselves.independent, btp
MCP server for BW/4HANA modelling objects
Its README says it plainly and so does this entry: this is not a simulation, every tool call reaches a live BW system, and write operations produce real changes. BW modelling objects are the definition of a warehouse — the blast radius of a wrong one is every report built on it.
CDS Field MappingCDS Field MappingLooks up which Core Data Services entity and field a classic dictionary table and field map to, filterable by whether the target CDS view is released.independent, abap
Maps classic dictionary tables and fields to CDS entities and fields
No license Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
Functional boundary Marked BETA and called a first prototype on its own page, which names where it is wrong: when fields are mapped with CAST, CASE, ABS and other CDS functions there may still be errors in the fields, so a mapping that goes through one of those needs checking against the view it came from.
cdsanalysercdsanalyserA search tool that maps SAP database tables and fields to the CDS view entities that expose them, and back, from an index a background job builds, for SAP S/4HANA on-premise or private cloud.independent, abap
Maps database tables and fields to the CDS views exposing them
Not on the [SAP BTP ABAP environment](artifact:btp-abap-environment) or another cloud ABAP system: the maintainer states the tool is not cloud ready, because the data sources and system tables it reads CDS metadata from are not released for cloud development. It is designed for SAP S/4HANA on-premise or private cloud, and the shipped Fiori application is configured for A4H and developer systems.
cutecuteCUTE, the Custom Table Editor, sets out to replace SM30's generated maintenance views by editing a custom table's rows in an editable ALV grid over a dynamically created internal table.independent, abap
Custom Table Editor editing table rows in an editable ALV grid
Release and repository quiet for 80 months.
ERPLERPLA DuckDB extension that reads SAP ERP tables, CDS views and BW queries from SQL over RFC, BICS and ODP, and can mount an SAP system as a DuckDB catalog to join against other data.independent, abap
DuckDB extension reading SAP ERP tables, CDS views and BW queries
DataZoo GmbH calls the extension experimental and states that minimal testing and benchmarking were done. The Business Source License 1.1 it carries restricts offering the software to third parties on a hosted or embedded basis, so an embedding product needs a commercial licence. Telemetry is on by default and is switched off per session with `SET erpl_telemetry_enabled = false` or for the machine with `DATAZOO_DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1`.
lock-managerlock-managerHolds an SAP lock across the HTTP roundtrips of a stateless abap2UI5 app, by making a background job the owner of the kernel lock and a database registry the record of who holds it.community org, abap
Holds SAP locks across stateless abap2UI5 roundtrips
Where the release and programming model offer durable locks, as RAP draft handling does, the README states that those solve the problem at the kernel level and the lock manager is for where that is not an option. A running handler occupies one background work process for as long as any lock is held, and only generated `ENQUEUE_*` modules can be locked.
MBT Logical Object ListerMBT Logical Object ListerAn app that reads the object model of an SAP BW, SAP BPC or SAP BW/4HANA system and displays its metadata, deployed into that system with the MBT Installer rather than abapGit.independent, abap
Metadata viewer for SAP BW, SAP BPC and SAP BW/4HANA object models
mkysoft/xlsxreadermkysoft/xlsxreaderAn ABAP library that reads the content of Excel spreadsheets in the OpenXML format; its documentation states only that scope, with no detail on the class it exposes or on writing a file back.independent, abap
Reader for Excel spreadsheets in OpenXML format from ABAP
No published releases; repository quiet for 81 months.
open-abap-lockopen-abap-lockConcurrent and cross-session locking for open-abap, working only with PostgreSQL as the database backend and only on the DEFAULT connection.community org, abap
Concurrent and cross-session locking for open-abap on PostgreSQL
Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
open-table-maintenanceopen-table-maintenanceA low-footprint table maintenance in ABAP, served over HTTP for one table whose name is fixed in the code, running on-premise, in "Steampunk", on open-abap and on Cloud Foundry.community org, abap
Table maintenance over HTTP for a table fixed in code
Not for a table whose contents matter, and not for one chosen at run time: the name of the table is fixed in the calling code, and the maintainer's own warning is "only hardcode the table name, don't use with important tables, use at own risk!"
pawelwiejkut/bw_remove_characterspawelwiejkut/bw_remove_charactersAn ABAP class for a BW transformation's end routine that strips the characters an InfoObject cannot accept, checked against transaction RSKC, before they cause an activation error.independent, abap
ABAP class stripping invalid characters in BW end routines
No published releases; repository quiet for 24 months.
pawelwiejkut/bw_trfn_pocketknifepawelwiejkut/bw_trfn_pocketknifeA framework that handles SAP BW transformation start routines from a customisation table with its own maintenance view, instead of a routine class written per transformation.independent, abap
Framework for BW transformation start routines from a table
No published releases; repository quiet for 72 months.
SAP HANASAP HANASAP’s relational database platform, which stores application data and executes SQL and SQLScript in the database, available on-premise and as the managed service SAP HANA Cloud.sap official, btp
SAP's relational database platform, on-premise and in HANA Cloud
For provisioning a managed database on BTP, see [SAP HANA Cloud](artifact:btp-hana-cloud). Features differ between HANA versions; an on-premise deployment and a cloud instance are not interchangeable without compatibility checks.
table-maintenancetable-maintenanceA browser-based table maintenance UI, built on abap2UI5, for editing custom and customising table entries with no Eclipse or SAP GUI install.independent, abap
Browser-based table maintenance UI built on abap2UI5
The app writes to whatever table is passed in the URL parameter `table` and carries no authorisation check of its own, so past a development system it needs authorisation checks added and a restriction on who may run it.
ZABAP_TABLE_EDITZABAP_TABLE_EDITA generic ABAP transaction that edits any table's rows and writes its own change documents, without generating an SM30 maintenance dialog, and is extended per table through an interface.independent, abap
Generic ABAP table editor writing its own change documents
abap-file-uploaderabap-file-uploaderSample code that uploads a JSON file whose attributes match a table's column names into that ABAP table on an SAP BTP ABAP Environment instance, through a handler class on an HTTP service.sap official, abap
Sample uploading a JSON file into an ABAP table on BTP ABAP
abap-tasks-trackerabap-tasks-trackerA task-management tool for SAP projects, built on a CDS view over a BOPF business object with a Fiori list report as its interface, showing that transactional model wired end to end.independent, abap
Task tracker on a BOPF-backed CDS view with a Fiori list report
abapconf2026-custom-entitiesabapconf2026-custom-entitiesThe slides and abapGit sample objects of an abapconf 2026 talk on RAP custom entities whose data comes from a class implementing IF_RAP_QUERY_PROVIDER.independent, abap
abapconf 2026 talk materials on RAP custom entities
Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
abaprapunmanagedabaprapunmanagedA practice repository for the unmanaged RAP scenario: a sales order business object whose behaviour implementation delegates to an existing function group.independent, abap
Practice repository for the unmanaged RAP scenario
abaprapunmanagedsaveabaprapunmanagedsaveA practice repository for the managed RAP scenario with unmanaged save: a purchase order business object whose SAVE phase and late numbering are written by hand.independent, abap
Practice repository for managed RAP with unmanaged save
odbc-driver-for-abap-examplesodbc-driver-for-abap-examplesSAP's example programs for the ODBC driver for ABAP, one subfolder per programming language, with the ABAP objects they use and a unixodbc configuration template for Unix clients.sap official, abap
Example programs for the ODBC driver for ABAP in several languages
SAP-samples/abap-alv-google-upload-sheetSAP-samples/abap-alv-google-upload-sheetSample code that exports SAP GUI ALV grid data directly to Google Drive, where it appears in Google Sheets, with the OAuth, endpoint and ALV configuration around it described in SAP's own guide.sap official, abap
Sample exporting SAP GUI ALV grid data to Google Drive
Not where SAP's own Google Workspace integration already applies: the README opens by announcing a native integration between Google Workspace and [SAP S/4HANA](external:sap-s4hana), whose first set of features is included in SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2208 and SAP S/4HANA 2022 and needs an additional licence for the SAP Document Management Service. Not where end users cannot each hold a regular Google account, since there is no way to use an enterprise account or to log on to Google Drive through single sign-on, and not where the redirect URL Google calls cannot reach a public top-level domain server. No SAP standard support is provided for it.
SAP-samples/abap-partner-reference-applicationSAP-samples/abap-partner-reference-applicationA reference application called Music Festival Manager, showing a side-by-side, multitenant extension of SAP S/4HANA Cloud built with RAP on the SAP BTP ABAP environment.sap official, abap
Multitenant S/4HANA Cloud extension built with RAP on BTP ABAP
SAP-samples/abap-platform-analytics-data-modelingSAP-samples/abap-platform-analytics-data-modelingAnalytical ABAP CDS data models for the ABAP Flight Reference Scenario, covering the main features of Embedded Analytics on the ABAP Platform.sap official, abap
Analytical ABAP CDS models for the ABAP Flight Reference Scenario
SAP-samples/abap-platform-codejam-latest-features-2602SAP-samples/abap-platform-codejam-latest-features-2602A CodeJam for experienced RAP developers covering the newest RAP framework features from cloud releases 2502 to 2602: Collaborative Draft, Draft Scope and Recommendations.sap official, abap
CodeJam on RAP features from cloud releases 2502 to 2602
SAP-samples/abap-platform-rap-workshopsSAP-samples/abap-platform-rap-workshopsWorkshop materials for ABAP Cloud and RAP hands-on sessions: the RAP400, RAP500, RAP510, RAP610 and RAP620 exercises sit in this repository, and the rest of SAP's RAP workshop series is linked from its README.sap official, abap
Materials for the RAP400 to RAP620 ABAP Cloud workshops
SAP-samples/abap-platform-rap100SAP-samples/abap-platform-rap100A beginner workshop that builds a draft-enabled Fiori elements travel app from scratch on RAP's managed runtime, adding numbering, determinations, validations, actions and feature control one exercise at a time.sap official, abap
Beginner RAP workshop building a draft-enabled Fiori elements app
SAP-samples/abap-platform-rap110SAP-samples/abap-platform-rap110An intermediate workshop that extends a two-node RAP business object, Travel and Booking, with late numbering, side effects, functions, business events and dynamic feature control across twelve exercises.sap official, abap
Intermediate RAP workshop on late numbering, side effects and events
SAP-samples/abap-platform-rap120SAP-samples/abap-platform-rap120A workshop building a two-node RAP travel app in ABAP Development Tools while using SAP Joule for Developers for predictive code completion, unit test generation and code explanation.sap official, abap
RAP travel app workshop using SAP Joule for Developers
SAP-samples/abap-platform-rap130SAP-samples/abap-platform-rap130A workshop building a RAP travel app entirely from Visual Studio Code, generated and edited through the ADT MCP Server and a coding agent.sap official, abap
RAP travel app workshop built from VS Code via the ADT MCP Server
SAP-samples/abap-platform-rap200SAP-samples/abap-platform-rap200A guided-scenario workshop that builds a Travel Processing application in ABAP Cloud, centred on the ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model (RAP).sap official, abap
Guided workshop building a Travel Processing app in ABAP Cloud
SAP-samples/abap-platform-refscen-flightSAP-samples/abap-platform-refscen-flightThe Flight Reference Scenario for the ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model, with sample data, RAP services and legacy logic for a flight-booking app, in branches for cloud and on-premise ABAP releases.sap official, abap
Flight Reference Scenario with sample data and services for RAP
SAP-samples/cloud-abap-rapSAP-samples/cloud-abap-rapA RAP business object that generates other RAP business objects from a table, behaviour definitions, projections and value helps included, so a developer starts on business logic rather than boilerplate.sap official, abap
RAP business object that generates other RAP business objects
SAP-samples/on-stack-partner-reference-extensionSAP-samples/on-stack-partner-reference-extensionThe 'Loyalty Hub' reference application: an on-stack RAP extension to the standard Manage Sales Orders app on SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, built to the clean-core rules a partner extension must follow.sap official, abap
Loyalty Hub on-stack RAP extension for S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition
SAP-samples/teched2025-AD163SAP-samples/teched2025-AD163A TechEd 2025 fusion-development workshop that models a Shopping Cart RAP business object graphically in SAP Build Code, then implements its transactional behaviour in ADT.sap official, abap
TechEd 2025 workshop modelling a RAP object in SAP Build Code
SAP-samples/teched2025-AD164SAP-samples/teched2025-AD164A TechEd 2025 workshop that rebuilds a classic ALV-based Manage Travels app as a RAP-based SAP Fiori app for developers new to ABAP Cloud, focused on backend development rather than Fiori UI.sap official, abap
TechEd 2025 workshop rebuilding an ALV app as a RAP-based Fiori app
teched2023-DT187vteched2023-DT187vAn SAP TechEd 2023 hands-on tutorial that builds an analytical data model in ABAP Cloud, from measures and dimensions to a working analytical application.sap official, abap
TechEd 2023 tutorial on an analytical data model in ABAP Cloud
ZC8A_001ZC8A_001Worked ABAP, Python and C code for similarity search over table and field descriptions, run with AMDP on SAP HANA and ADBC on Oracle, entered through a sample ALV report.independent, abap
ABAP, Python and C code for similarity search over field descriptions
052: 10 Minutes from Start to Launchpad052: 10 Minutes from Start to LaunchpadWalks a RAP application from a root CDS view entity through a consumption projection and its associations to a metadata extension: a facet per field group, a hidden field via UI.hidden, and a selection field on the ABAP package, all in a Customer-layer DDLX source read by the generated Fiori elements app. It then covers the parts ABAP CDS modelling and annotation stop short of — service definition and binding, generating the UI in Business Application Studio, and wiring the deployed app into the Fiori Launchpad through an IAM App and business catalog.Björn S., published 2026-09-07
A method to create an Adobe form attachment for a work item using the class concept.A method to create an Adobe form attachment for a work item using the class concept.Walks through an ABAP workflow class, ZCL_WF_PDF, whose methods call an Adobe form through a Form-Builder-generated function module, convert the returned PDF between hexadecimal string and binary with SCMS_XSTRING_TO_BINARY and SCMS_BINARY_TO_XSTRING, and attach it to a work item via SAP_WAPI_ATTACHMENT_ADD and SAP_WAPI_WRITE_CONTAINER, with the class, background-task and SWDD workflow steps shown in full. It explains document output's ABAP route, rendering a PDF through the Form Builder and getting it back into the program, and a route into attachments's ABAP side distinct from Generic Object Services: a file attached to an SAP Business Workflow work item instead.Mithun_Sharma1, published 2026-08-21
A simple example of a SAP RAP Application based on Legacy API without UUID keysA simple example of a SAP RAP Application based on Legacy API without UUID keysWalks through building a managed RAP business object over the Flight Reference Scenario's Travel and Booking entities with unmanaged save and late numbering, so CRUD operations route through the legacy /DMO/FLIGHT_TRAVEL_CREATE, _UPDATE and _DELETE function modules instead of generated persistence, a worked case of ABAP's transactional model. Covers the ADJUST_NUMBERS and SAVE_MODIFIED saver methods that map preliminary draft keys to the legacy-assigned travel and booking IDs, and a GetDefaultsForBookings action that proposes the next booking ID during draft handling.cseijas, published 2025-09-01
ABAP in Practice - Creating a Setup AppABAP in Practice - Creating a Setup AppWalks through an unmanaged custom entity behind a static Fiori Elements setup app: a factory maps step IDs to implementation classes behind one interface, and the transactional model sets every CRUD operation internal while adding CheckStep and ExecuteStep actions instead of generated persistence. It buffers the executed step for the save sequence and moves an API that issues a COMMIT to a background process via bgPF, since a COMMIT inside the action is forbidden in strict mode.Björn S., published 2026-08-28
Always in Sync — Field-level and event-driven side effects for reactive UIs in RAPAlways in Sync — Field-level and event-driven side effects for reactive UIs in RAPA Devtoberfest 2026 session on side effects in RAP — the declarations in a behaviour definition that tell a draft UI to reload what a change affected, instead of leaving the user to refresh the browser. Field-level side effects recalculate a total price from a determination when a booking fee is entered, including across the association from a child item up to the root entity, and a permissions side effect toggles a description field between read-only and editable; a global side effect is attached to a determine action, fires when the user presses Enter, and only one may exist per business object, which is why the prepare action and a second determine action cannot both carry it. The last part starts a long-running calculation through the background processing framework and raises a business event that the behaviour definition lists as a side effect source and the projection makes public, so the Fiori app is updated with a notification when the work finishes, whether it was triggered by the user or by an application job — the transactional model and the async processing side the edges rest on.published 2026-10-05
Analyze and optimize ABAP Cloud model apps built on core data servicesAnalyze and optimize ABAP Cloud model apps built on core data servicesPerformance anti-patterns in data models built with ABAP CDS under ABAP Cloud applications, and the tools that find them: the abstract names ABAP cross trace, the SQL analyzer (PlanViz) in Visual Studio Code and the SAP HANA database explorer as what the session uses to follow a bottleneck from the application to the database. The anti-patterns are taken from real business applications, which is where the data modelling edge holds; which ones are shown is not in the abstract. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by Ingo Braeuninger, Robert Werlich, Steffen Siegmund and Thomas Fiedler, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
BEHAVIOR_ILLEGAL_STATEMENT dump | Technical workaroundsBEHAVIOR_ILLEGAL_STATEMENT dump | Technical workaroundsThe BEHAVIOR_ILLEGAL_STATEMENT dump fires in SAP RAP when an explicit COMMIT WORK or ROLLBACK WORK, or a direct database write, collides with RAP's own transactional model: a Logical Unit of Work split into an interaction phase, where changes sit in a transactional buffer, and a save sequence that validates and persists them. The post then names four ways to move the offending statement into a separate task instead — the Background Processing Framework, parallel processing, Application Jobs, or, on-premise only, a wrapper RFC function module called with DESTINATION 'NONE' — pointing to further reading for each rather than working through any of them here.PranayGaroo, published 2025-08-11
Beyond READ_TEXT: Decoding SAPscript Long Texts (STXL) with SQLScript in CDS/AMDPBeyond READ_TEXT: Decoding SAPscript Long Texts (STXL) with SQLScript in CDS/AMDPSTXL stores a SAPscript long text as a compressed ABAP cluster container — LZ77 plus canonical Huffman — so the only official reads are READ_TEXT, one call per text, and its mass variant READ_TEXT_TABLE, both of which ship every decompressed line to the application server and stay invisible to ABAP CDS. The author reverse-engineered that on-disk format and ported the decoder into SQLScript, wrapped in an AMDP procedure and exposed through CDS table functions, turning long texts into a joinable, filterable column read directly in the database. On ABAP 7.56 a table function needs the driver-and-filter pattern shown because a parameter cannot bind to a calling column; on ABAP 7.58/S/4HANA 2023 the same result becomes a parameter-less CDS scalar function with true filter push-down.aamelin1, published 2026-08-20
BO Interface APIs : An alternative to BAPIs and traditional FMsBO Interface APIs : An alternative to BAPIs and traditional FMsWalks through updating an S/4HANA Purchase Order's line items through a released BO interface instead of a BAPI, using EML against the underlying CDS entity and a COMMIT ENTITIES statement because the call sits outside a behavior class. Argues the BO interface route avoids a RAP behavior class's restriction against calling COMMIT WORK directly, and covers finding a released interface's CRUD operations on api.sap.com and extending the same approach to a custom field or a custom RAP-based Fiori app's own BO.Sudhan_Nagarajan, published 2025-07-02
Bridging Python and SAP HANA: Inside the sqlalchemy-hana Open-Source DialectBridging Python and SAP HANA: Inside the sqlalchemy-hana Open-Source DialectA Devtoberfest 2026 data-track session (DAT-21) in which one of the maintainers of sqlalchemy-hana, the open-source SQLAlchemy dialect published in SAP's GitHub organisation, opens up what sits between Python and SAP HANA. It walks the five dialect classes that render statements, types, DDL, identifiers and sequences, and the HANA specifics they absorb: the FROM DUMMY a bare SELECT needs, a limit injected when only an offset is given, string compiled to NVARCHAR, and quoted case-sensitive identifiers against Python's lowercase. The rest covers schema migrations with Alembic on HANA's transactional DDL, the recently added async support and vector types, and that HANA Cloud and HANA 2 are supported while HANA 1 is not.SAP Developers, published 2026-09-29
Building an Attachment Upload and Download Solution Using UploadSetwithTable ControlBuilding an Attachment Upload and Download Solution Using UploadSetwithTable ControlThe successor control to UploadSet posts the file in one request by default, and against CAP that is wrong: the record has to be created first and the content put to it afterwards. The author states the two-step shape plainly and notes it may not apply to an ABAP backend, which is the kind of boundary that usually goes unsaid. Written during a proof of concept for a reusable attachment component, and it carries the problem they hit with the control.published 2025-03-13
Calculating IBP Technical Week "Key Figure Date" in S/4HANA Using CDS ViewCalculating IBP Technical Week "Key Figure Date" in S/4HANA Using CDS ViewA custom ABAP CDS view entity, selecting from the standard I_CalendarDate view, to derive the first date of an SAP IBP "technical week" — the split IBP applies when a calendar week crosses a month boundary, a date S/4HANA does not expose natively. The calculated field is built with a case/when expression over dats_add_days, giving any calendar date's technical-week key figure date.bharatbajaj, published 2026-02-18
CDS Associations & JoinsCDS Associations & JoinsA Devtoberfest 2026 session from SAP's performance and scalability team on what an ABAP CDS association becomes on SAP HANA, taken as an excerpt from their internal performance training. The CDS edge rests on the three ways an association is used: a path expression and an explicit join both put a left outer join into the generated view, while exposing the association leaves the view without one and adds the join only for a query that asks for its fields, which the session calls join on demand. The data modelling edge is the advice that follows and the demo under it — cardinality written as precisely as the data allows, because the optimiser trusts it, shown with a view whose missing cardinality let SELECT COUNT(*) prune the join and return 18 rows where selecting the columns returned 56, plus the left-hand, right-hand and left-outer-to-inner rewrites that correct cardinalities make possible.SAP Developers, published 2026-10-12
Configure Journal Entry Posting Approval from Store Template in Build Process AutomationConfigure Journal Entry Posting Approval from Store Template in Build Process AutomationWalks through deploying SAP's Journal Entry Posting Approval template from the SAP Build Process Automation Store against an on-premise S/4HANA system that has no Secure Network Connection: destinations for S/4HANA via Cloud Connector, for SAP Document Management service, integration option to hold the approval's supporting documents, and for the BPA service and its SMTP mail. It then swaps the template's SNC action groups for basic-connection BAPI calls and deploys the approval's UI5 applications so the task lands in My Inbox, with a Desktop Agent registered to run the unattended document-check and document-post automations.published 2025-01-28
Creating Material Master Data in SAP S/4HANA Using RAP and EML .Creating Material Master Data in SAP S/4HANA Using RAP and EML .Builds an unmanaged Transactional model RAP business object for Article (Material) master data on top of the standard interface views I_Product, I_ProductDescription and I_ProductPlant, replacing BAPI_MATERIAL_SAVEDATA with EML operations in the create, update and custom extendplant behaviour methods. A CDS metadata extension adds the Fiori annotations — headerInfo, facets, line items and value helps — that drive the generated Fiori elements UI.Sudhanshu07, published 2026-01-08
Developing authorizations for business users in SAP Business AI Platform, ABAP environmentDeveloping authorizations for business users in SAP Business AI Platform, ABAP environmentA Devtoberfest 2026 session that walks the places an authorization check has to be written when a RAP business object is implemented, which is the whole of the authorization edge: read restrictions as DCL access controls that become a filter at query time, a child entity inheriting its parent's conditions through an association, the projection layer inheriting rather than changing them, and the same check repeated on the draft side. The ABAP CDS edge holds on that draft half — until 2608 a draft query view was needed above the draft table so a DCL had something to attach to, while a draft table entity is already on CDS level and takes the DCL directly, as long as the associations used in the inherited conditions are redefined on it. Create, update and delete are then taken handler by handler, including the trap that instance authorization reads the buffer and so cannot see the new value a pre-check would reject, and the session closes on in local mode and privileged EML calls.published 2026-10-12
Explore SAP Fiori elements for ABAP developersExplore SAP Fiori elements for ABAP developersSAP Fiori elements for an ABAP developer who now builds the UI as well as the RAP business object behind it, the transactional model of ABAP Cloud, in SAP Business Application Studio; the abstract calls the UI side new territory for that developer, and a Fiori elements app is rendered from the service's Fiori annotations rather than hand-written UI code. The abstract names the tool and the stack and does not say which floorplan or annotations are shown. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by Björn Schulz, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
From SEGW and Legacy UI5 to RAP with ARC-1From SEGW and Legacy UI5 to RAP with ARC-1Three ARC-1 skills, run in Cursor with Composer-2 against a deliberately rough demo on an S/4HANA 2023 trial system, turn the SEGW service ZDEMO_MIG_PROJECTS_SRV into a managed, draft-enabled RAP business object published as OData V4, replace its ApproveProject function import and its direct UPDATE ... COMMIT WORK with the action approve_project written in EML in local mode, and rebuild the freestyle UI5 JavaScript app once in UI5 TypeScript and once as a Fiori elements list report and object page driven by metadata extensions. What the published transcripts add is how the agent got there: it found the generated MPC class names and the custom logic in DPC_EXT only by reading the system, the skills made it print the extracted model and stop for confirmation before writing, and @ui5/mcp-server, mcp-sap-docs and @sap-ux/fiori-mcp-server each had their own job beside it. The demo is small on purpose, and the post says a productive SEGW service that calls BAPIs, carries custom authorisation logic or supports deep inserts is not solved with one prompt.published 2026-05-11
From SEGW and Legacy UI5 to RAP with ARC-1
@sap-ux/fiori-mcp-server has been through 2 major lines since this was published: 0.7 (2026-05), 1 (2026-05). Affects Runnable code.
From SEGW to @OData.publish: Expose Your CDS View as OData in S/4HANAFrom SEGW to @OData.publish: Expose Your CDS View as OData in S/4HANAWalks through exposing an ABAP CDS view as an OData service in an on-premise S/4HANA system by adding the @OData.publish: true annotation, then registering and activating the generated service in SAP Gateway (transaction /IWFND/MAINT_SERVICE) before testing it with $filter, $top and $count. It sets this against the manual route through transaction SEGW, since the annotation generates the service, its navigation properties and its OData properties straight from the CDS view without a Service Builder project.rupalipunekar1234, published 2026-07-09
Generating Adobe Form Using RAP framework OData ServicesGenerating Adobe Form Using RAP framework OData ServicesModels a RAP root view entity and consumption view over a custom sales-order table, built with ABAP CDS, and exposes it through a service definition and an OData V2 UI service binding. A separate SEGW project implements GET_STREAM to call an Adobe Form driver class and stream the rendered PDF back as the response, with a computed link field added to the CDS view so the UI can open it. The PDF is generated in the backend and returned to the calling program rather than sent straight to a printer.Megastar, published 2025-03-18
How to mass upload from a spreadsheet file into an SAP Fiori app in SAP BTP ABAP Environment Part 1How to mass upload from a spreadsheet file into an SAP Fiori app in SAP BTP ABAP Environment Part 1Part 1 of a three-part series on mass-uploading records from a spreadsheet into a RAP business object in the SAP BTP ABAP environment, using the XCO XLSX module to parse an uploaded Excel file without any open-source library. It reads a named worksheet by its column-and-row coordinates into an internal table through the row-stream operation, then creates or updates records with the EML MODIFY ENTITIES statement, and reserves the Fiori elements custom-action wiring and the download/template generation for Parts 2 and 3.DebrajManna87, published 2024-08-08
Level up app development: ABAP Cloud model innovations and Joule solutionLevel up app development: ABAP Cloud model innovations and Joule solutionThe ABAP RESTful application programming model, in SAP's abstract, generates multi-node business objects and adds event-driven side effects, collaborative draft, background processing and analytical tables, with the SAP Joule for Developers, ABAP AI capabilities add-on used to speed development up. The generated business objects are the transactional model concern; the abstract names each feature and says nothing about how it is used. A TechEd 2026 session (Thursday 29 October, Berlin), presented by Anne Keller, Carine Tchoutouo Djomo, Frank Jentsch and Marina Blank, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Mastering Internal Actions in SAP RAP: Automatic Header Calculation in ABAP CloudMastering Internal Actions in SAP RAP: Automatic Header Calculation in ABAP CloudWalks through a sales-order BDEF where an item-level determination triggers a header-only internal action by EML in local mode, so a quantity or price change recalculates the order total and applies a 10% discount above $10,000 without a UI button or external OData call reaching the logic directly. Argues for an internal action over inline determination code on reusability and separation of concerns: a determination decides when logic runs, the action decides what runs, and marking it internal keeps Fiori Elements and external OData clients from invoking it.sharathtm, published 2026-08-06
RAP - Native File UploadRAP - Native File UploadA workaround for uploading a file into a RAP application ahead of SAP's own upload and download solution, which is still pending: two abstract root entities — one holding the file's bytes, MIME type and filename, one for a popup dialog — joined by an association flagged with hierarchy, exposed through a static action declared with DEEP PARAMETER so the nested structure reaches the handler. The trade-offs are stated plainly: the popup takes no default values, only one file uploads at a time, and the UI annotation on the attachment field is ignored because its label is read from the sub-entity's own name.Björn S., published 2026-08-18
RAP - Singleton PatternRAP - Singleton PatternBuilds the RAP Singleton pattern: a root CDS view entity constrained to always return exactly one row, its composition child for line items, and a transactional model behaviour definition — managed with unmanaged save, a determination that fills the user ID, and an EML update inside SAVE_MODIFIED to write the saved data elsewhere. Generates the Fiori elements object-page app from that service and adjusts Component.js so preferredMode lands the user in edit mode against the fixed semantic key, since the app always has exactly one record to open.Björn S., published 2026-08-25
Updates on Embedded Analytics in ABAP Cloud for DevelopersUpdates on Embedded Analytics in ABAP Cloud for DevelopersA Devtoberfest 2026 session (ABA-33) on the generator wizards for Embedded Analytics in ABAP Cloud, run by right-clicking a data definition in the ADT Project Explorer. It first names the artefacts a star schema needs, all of them ABAP CDS — cube view at its centre, dimension, text and hierarchy views reached by association, a hierarchy directory, and an InA service definition and binding — and then generates them: the star schema generator reads a view entity's metadata, sorts its fields into dimensions and measures, asks about the ones it cannot decide, offers the dimension views it found and writes an activated cube view; the hierarchy generator produces directory, node, base and definition views plus a maintenance business object with a generated app, which is used to group airlines into alliances before the hierarchy is switched on in the layout of the multi-dimensional analysis app. That is analytic modelling on the ABAP platform, which is what the edges rest on; the outlook names time-dependent hierarchies, translatable texts and dimensions generated from database tables.published 2026-10-05
What's new with draft handling in RAP?What's new with draft handling in RAP?An ABAP-day session at Devtoberfest 2026 on two additions to draft handling in RAP: collaborative draft, where two users work on the same draft instance and a field is locked only while the other is in it, and draft scope, where editing an instance of one draft-enabled business object puts the related instances of a dependent one into draft as well. Andre Fischer shows what each costs in the behaviour definition and projection, the draft query view and its DCL that collaborative draft needs over a table-based business object, and the CDS table entities that remove both the draft query view and the persistence table, with their current restrictions in ABAP analytics and extensibility; the from-scratch generator in ADT grows a checkbox for them. Both demos run against the DMO flight scenario of SAP-samples/abap-platform-refscen-flight, and the last part hides the draft-related features of an OData V4 app in its manifest, which the session gives as the reason a simple create-update-delete app no longer needs a V2 service binding.published 2026-09-21