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Error handlingSAP and community
ABAP-PRCABAP-PRCA framework for custom multi-step ABAP processes: a process class declares the states, and the framework runs each document through them and monitors the run.independent, abap
Framework for multi-step ABAP processes with monitoring
Only on SAP S/4HANA 2023 and 2025, on premise or private cloud: [SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Public Edition](external:sap-s4hana-cloud-public-edition) and the [SAP BTP ABAP environment](artifact:btp-abap-environment) are listed as coming soon, and a 2023 system has to leave out `ZABAP_PRC_EVENTS_SE_2025`, whose event-based side effects rely on APIs released with S/4HANA 2025. Not for a system that already carries a copy, because object names are global and two versions cannot live side by side, and not for a productive system by way of the `ZABAP_PRC_DEMO*` packages, which the README states are not intended for one and whose init classes delete and rebuild their own tables on every run. While the major version is 0 the public API is not stable: minor bumps carry breaking changes with no deprecation period, so productive use means pinning a tag and reading the CHANGELOG before every upgrade.
sap-usi-exceptionsap-usi-exceptionA shared root exception class and text getter API used across SchwarzIT's USI ABAP developments, converting an exception's text into a common format such as BAPIRET2 or SYMSG.independent, abap
Shared root exception class and text getter for USI developments
How to create a Purchase Order through BAPI in the SAP through program ( SE38 ) T-CODE .How to create a Purchase Order through BAPI in the SAP through program ( SE38 ) T-CODE .Walks through creating a purchase order from an ABAP report (SE38) by filling the BAPIMEPOHEADER/BAPIMEPOITEM structures and their X-indicator counterparts, then calling BAPI_PO_CREATE1 within the same session. Its error handling centres on the BAPIRET2 return table: looping over entries typed E or A, skipping BAPI_TRANSACTION_COMMIT when one is found, and displaying the returned message text rather than assuming success once the function module returns.chandu_kumar_badukuri, published 2025-12-18
S/4HANA Custom Development - What happens in case of errors in BAPIs or RAP BOs?S/4HANA Custom Development - What happens in case of errors in BAPIs or RAP BOs?A Devtoberfest 2026 session on what a custom S/4HANA process does when a BAPI or a RAP business object fails. It is framed from project work rather than product development, with the same issues and challenges turning up on project after project, and it offers the ABAP Processing Center, ABAP-PRC, as what fills the gap it names in modern ABAP development. The edges rest on the opening, which states the session's subject as errors in S/4HANA custom development, read as error handling on the ABAP door, and names that framework.SAP Developers, published 2026-09-21
HTTP clientsSAP and community
ABAP SDK for AzureABAP SDK for AzureABAP objects and classes for sending SAP business process data to Azure services such as Event Hub, Service Bus, Key Vault, Blob and Azure OpenAI, without depending on a middleware product.partner, abap
ABAP classes for calling Azure services from SAP processes
Invoking Business Agent Foundation Agents from ABAP: A Step-by-Step GuideInvoking Business Agent Foundation Agents from ABAP: A Step-by-Step GuideWalks through calling a Business Agent Foundation agent's chat endpoint from an on-premise ABAP report: an OAuth 2.0 client profile configured in SE80/SOAUTH2_CLIENT with client-credentials grant against the service key, an HTTP (type G) RFC destination in SM59 bound to that profile, and an ABAP report using CL_HTTP_CLIENT=>CREATE_BY_DESTINATION to POST a JSON message to the agent's sendMessage endpoint and extract the reply by splitting the response string. The destination and client code are the same shape as any outbound REST call from ABAP; nothing here is specific to the agent service beyond the request body and URL.tanmay_0117, published 2025-11-26
Outbound Integration from SAP BTP, ABAP to SAP S/4HANA Cloud via Service Consumption ModelOutbound Integration from SAP BTP, ABAP to SAP S/4HANA Cloud via Service Consumption ModelWalks through ABAP's Service Consumption Model for OData in ABAP Development Tools for Eclipse: generating a V4 client proxy from a remote service's EDMX metadata, then calling one of its bound actions by hand because the 2311 release's ADT tooling does not yet generate that code. The client itself is built the way HTTP clients describes for SAP BTP, ABAP Environment — a communication arrangement resolved through cl_http_destination_provider=>create_by_comm_arrangement, handed to cl_web_http_client_manager=>create_by_http_destination to create the client.Pramathesh_t_s, published 2025-10-28
ODataSAP and community
@root3287/cap-segw@root3287/cap-segwA CAP build tool that compiles a CDS service into the ABAP Model Provider and Data Provider classes a SAP Gateway SEGW project expects, for OData V4 by default or V2.independent, cap
Compiler from a CDS service to SEGW model and data provider classes
The generated files are copied or deployed into the ABAP system by hand, the fourth step of its own usage list, so nothing keeps an activated service in step with the model it was generated from. Its peer dependency is `@sap/cds` ^9.8, so it does not install into a project on an earlier CAP release.
launchpad-kpilaunchpad-kpiAn OData service and a one-method ABAP interface that put a number from an abap2UI5 app on a SAP Fiori launchpad tile.community org, abap
Puts a number from an abap2UI5 app on a Fiori launchpad tile
There is nothing here for ABAP for Cloud: the requirements name Standard ABAP releases only, and a CDS/SADL based OData service for `ABAP for Cloud` compatibility stands under Limitations & Todo.
odata-fwodata-fwA framework for building OData services in ABAP with each entity implemented as its own class, reusable across services, so a model change no longer forces the SEGW service to be regenerated.independent, abap
ABAP framework for OData services with one class per entity
open-abap-odataopen-abap-odataA set of OData and Gateway shims in ABAP that serve services built the SEGW way, from a model provider and a data provider class, on Node.js and in "Steampunk".community org, abap
OData and Gateway shims serving SEGW-style services on Node.js
open-steamgateopen-steamgateAn ABAP application server you clone and run on your own machine: transpiled ABAP serving classic /IWBEP/ OData v2 to Fiori over a local database, with no SAP system attached.independent, abap
Local ABAP server serving /IWBEP/ OData v2 without an SAP system
Not a system to run a business application on: there is no business application in it, and what it implements of the language, the dictionary and Gateway is a stated subset of each. It is a clean-room reimplementation of the `/IWBEP/` interfaces that bundles no SAP source and no standard DDIC, so a service that reads standard objects has nothing to read, and `ANORMALIES.md` records every place the runtime differs from SAP before any workaround is written.
A Guide to CDS Metadata Extensions, Fiori App Generation and SAP UI5 Controller ExtensionsA Guide to CDS Metadata Extensions, Fiori App Generation and SAP UI5 Controller ExtensionsWalks through a RAP-based Fiori elements app end to end: layering UI annotations onto a CDS view through a separate ABAP metadata extension object, gated by @Metadata.allowExtensions on the base view and ordered across extensions by a required @Metadata.layer value. Generates the app in SAP Business Application Studio from the published OData V4 service's merged $metadata document, then adds an SAP UI5 controller extension — registered in manifest.json against a Fiori elements lifecycle hook — only for behaviour the annotations cannot express.ankitapaul229, published 2026-07-27
Extending Standard S/4 HANA OData API'sExtending Standard S/4 HANA OData API'sWalks through extending a standard S/4HANA OData API with a custom field, preferring OData V4 over V2 for its closer OASIS compliance and simpler service enablement, then tracing the extensibility objects documented for the entity before touching any code. The custom field reaches the API by layering three CDS view extensions — extendView on I_Product, extendViewEntity on R_ProductTP and on A_Product_3 — following the projection chain down to where the base table is first selected, built in ABAP Development Tools for Eclipse.JuanDK78, published 2026-04-08
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
How to rename an OData V4 service?How to rename an OData V4 service?Renaming an OData V4 service binding changes its Service Alias and the resulting service URL, breaking any app already deployed against the old one — shown on a /DMO/TRAVEL-based example in the SAP BTP ABAP environment by unpublishing, renaming and republishing the binding, then reading the new URL back from the OData V4 service catalog's ServiceGroups entry. It weighs that against two alternatives: adding a second service definition and publishing it as a new service version under the same binding, or creating an entirely new service definition and binding, which keeps the original URL live during the cutover.published 2026-07-04
Moving from Hub Gateway to Direct S/4HANA OData V4: A Customized Reusable RAP Processing FrameworkMoving from Hub Gateway to Direct S/4HANA OData V4: A Customized Reusable RAP Processing FrameworkA generic base class for RAP custom-entity query providers — one implementation of IF_RAP_QUERY_PROVIDER~SELECT, subclassed per entity — lets a service expose OData V4 directly from S/4HANA instead of through a separate Gateway Hub. The framework loads entity configuration, extracts the request context, fetches and transforms backend data into the target entity shape, and returns it through the RAP response object, with field mapping and conversion exits left for each subclass to fill in.AnslemArnolda, published 2026-04-07
OData $batch Deleting Records Across Multiple Tables in Single TransactionOData $batch Deleting Records Across Multiple Tables in Single TransactionWalks through implementing a multi-table DELETE inside a single OData v2 $batch changeset on SAP Gateway: setting cv_defer_mode = abap_true in CHANGESET_BEGIN so more than one delete is collected per change set instead of being executed immediately, looping the collected operations in CHANGESET_PROCESS to delete from each backend table in turn, and issuing one COMMIT WORK in CHANGESET_END so all tables commit or roll back together. The example is a supplier master spread across basic, address, identification and purchasing-organisation tables, deleted as one logical unit of work instead of one HTTP call per table.Abhi_0118, published 2026-04-17
S/4HANA公有云版的内部ABAP拓展S/4HANA公有云版的内部ABAP拓展Argues that S/4HANA Cloud public edition's in-app ABAP extensibility is still real ABAP development, just under stricter rules: developer extensions require ABAP Development Tools rather than SAP GUI transactions, data models are defined as CDS views instead of SE11 tables, business logic is a RAP behavior definition instead of a function module, and service exposure is an auto-generated OData service from a Service Definition instead of a hand-built RFC/BAPI. The piece walks a worked example — a Fiori app that triggers the Purchase Requisition API — through CDS, RAP, OData activation on SAP Gateway, and authorization via business catalogues, and frames the whitelist of released APIs and CDS views as upgrade-safety rather than a restriction.ArthurYang, published 2025-11-24
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
OpenAPICommunity only
abap-openapiabap-openapiGenerates ABAP client classes and ICF server stubs from an OpenAPI v3 document, one self-contained global class and interface per definition, through a web client, a Node.js command line or ABAP itself.independent, abap
Generates ABAP client classes and server stubs from OpenAPI
SerialisationSAP and community
ABAP ArchitectABAP ArchitectAn Eclipse plug-in that generates ABAP type definitions and parsing code from a pasted JSON or XML sample and creates the matching DDIC objects in a connected system over ADT.independent, abap
Eclipse plug-in turning JSON or XML into ABAP types and DDIC objects
On an [SAP BTP ABAP environment](artifact:btp-abap-environment) system only the generated code is left: DDIC creation is not supported on ABAP Cloud, because classic DDIC object creation over REST is not available there. Create DDIC is also disabled where ADT is not installed in the same Eclipse, and Insert into Editor then works with any editor implementing `ITextEditor` instead of the ABAP one.
ABAP to JSON serializer and deserializerABAP to JSON serializer and deserializerAn open-source Z* version of SAP's standard /UI2/CL_JSON class, which serialises ABAP data to JSON and reads it back, installed with abapGit and needing SAP_BASIS 7.31 or later.sap official, abap
Open-source Z* version of /UI2/CL_JSON for ABAP to JSON
ajsonajsonA JSON parser and serialiser for ABAP that parses into a flexible, unstructured node tree rather than a fixed target structure, converting to one only when asked through to_abap.independent, abap
JSON parser and serialiser for ABAP with a node tree
sbcgua/text2tabsbcgua/text2tabA library that parses TAB-delimited text into an internal table of any flat ABAP structure, with non-strict, header and type-less modes, and serialises tables back to text in configurable formats.independent, abap
Parser of TAB-delimited text into ABAP internal tables and back
ZASISZASISThe ABAP String Interpreter: an ABAP component that reads named field values out of an unstructured string, such as a barcode or scanner payload, through regex RuleSets configured in a Fiori app and called from ABAP or over HTTP.independent, abap
Regex RuleSets that read barcode strings into named fields
The project states that until v1.0.0 is reached, breaking changes may occur without prior notice. Rule items do not chain: every rule operates on the original input string, so a format whose second step needs the result of the first needs a custom logic class. A REPLACE rule whose replacement produces the exact same string as the input is reported as `no match`, which the documentation records as a known limitation.
SAP CI to ABAP Integration: Seamless XML to Internal Table MappingSAP CI to ABAP Integration: Seamless XML to Internal Table MappingShapes an XML payload in SAP Cloud Integration with the mandatory abap/values wrapper tags so ABAP can deserialise it straight into an internal table with CALL TRANSFORMATION id, the same identity transformation ABAP uses for asJSON. Derives the XSD for that shape from an RFC-enabled function module's WSDL instead of writing it by hand, then exchanges the XML over a plain HTTP client call to a destination.Ravi_Bharti08, published 2026-02-26
Serve your application over MCPCommunity only
abap-agent-runtimeabap-agent-runtimeAn ABAP-native MCP endpoint inside the SAP system: an agent reads the screen of an opted-in abap2UI5 app as structured data, fills its fields and fires its events as the logged-on SAP user.community org, abap
ABAP-native MCP endpoint that drives opted-in abap2UI5 apps
Stateful apps cannot be operated: a stateful session lives in one HTTP request and an MCP call is one request, so `app_start` refuses them. The repository carries no release yet and states the addon has not been run in production use, the 7.02 downport is lint-only with no 7.02 system having run it, and the ABAP Cloud HTTP service setup is written down but still to verify on your own system.
abap-ai/mcpabap-ai/mcpAn MCP server SDK written in ABAP to run natively on the ABAP stack, so an ABAP system can expose its own prompts, resources and tools to an agent from inside itself.independent, abap
MCP server SDK written in ABAP
Server side only, and deliberately: the author states there is no realistic way to support the SSE streaming a client needs, so there are no notifications, no `listChanged`, no `subscribe` and no logging. It is also frozen — protocol versions up to 2025-11-25 and no further, with everything after that in a separate V2 SDK, so starting here today is starting on a closed branch.
abap-ai/mcp2abap-ai/mcp2A stateless rewrite of the ABAP MCP server SDK: one ABAP server contract answering both the 2026-07-28 protocol draft and the legacy 2025 versions, with no sessions and no SSE.independent, abap
Stateless ABAP MCP server SDK for the 2026-07-28 protocol draft
Stateless by design: with no `Mcp-Session-Id` and no SSE, notifications of any kind, `resources/subscribe` and stream-close cancellation are excluded, which the author states are protocol-level impossibilities on stateless ICF rather than gaps to be filled later within this design. ABAP Cloud is not supported and not planned, the stated reason being SAP pushing its own MCP strategy and features in BTP; the first iteration targets 7.5x classic, with 7.02 to 7.4x served from a separate generated downport repository. No authorization object and no default auth check are delivered, so a user who may call the ICF node may call every `AREA`/`SERVER` registered under it until `check_authorization` is redefined.
MarkWuRY168/SAP_MCPMarkWuRY168/SAP_MCPPublishes SAP system functions as MCP tools from configuration tables held inside the SAP system, so adding a tool is a configuration change rather than a code change.independent, abap
MCP server publishing SAP functions as tools from config tables
Not reachable Not reachable since 2026-10-20.
Functional boundary What it exposes is whatever somebody put in the configuration table, which moves the governance question inside the SAP system and out of the server — an advantage if that table is controlled and a hazard if it is not. The web management interface is a second surface to secure alongside the MCP one.
ABAP development tools for Visual Studio Code is now available on the VS Code marketplace!ABAP development tools for Visual Studio Code is now available on the VS Code marketplace!Announces the marketplace release of ABAP development tools for Visual Studio Code, an extension that works against any ABAP system already reachable from ADT for Eclipse and is focused on RAP UI service development, so the Fiori/SAPUI5 frontend and the ABAP backend can be built in the same tool. It ships a built-in ADT MCP Server, disabled by default and switched on from the extension settings, and points readers to a documentation template for capturing ABAP-specific rules in a project's AGENTS.md file for chat agents such as Microsoft Copilot.thomasalexander_ritter, published 2026-06-01
AI-native North Star architecture — Platform LayerAI-native North Star architecture — Platform LayerThe platform layer of SAP's North Star architecture, the chapter that says where agents run and what a developer builds them with. It names an AI Golden Path built on the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model, the ABAP Cloud development model with RAP and the SAP Fiori design system, and a managed agent runtime on SAP BTP that is designed to provide software development kits for building agents in any framework, an agent sandbox, container-hosted execution, a skills registry and continuous evaluations, which is the ground agent tooling covers. Agents are extended without changing their code through four patterns, the first of them tool extensibility through the Model Context Protocol, the concern MCP servers is named for; the process-layer chapter adds that a pro-code path with a standardised agent SDK and a prompt-driven path through the Joule Studio solution produce the same code artifact on the same runtime. It describes a design SAP intends rather than products that exist, and the SDK and the registry it names have no entry here yet.published 2026-05-13
AI-native North Star architecture — Platform Layer
Agent tooling changed in @cap-js/agents 0.9.1, 2026-08-14. Affects A reference.
CAP in the age of AI #3 - from MCP to A2ACAP in the age of AI #3 - from MCP to A2AThe episode that finishes @cap-js/mcp with authorisation and then crosses to agents. @requires and @restrict are the same annotations CAP already has, and the plugin reads them to filter the tool list and the describe output per user and per request, so a model is not told about entities the caller cannot reach — where the OData metadata of the same service lists every exposed entity regardless. The second half annotates a service with @agent from @cap-js/agents, which serves it over A2A with an agent card and a chat preview, runs first against a mocked response and then against SAP AI Core bound with cds bind and a hybrid profile, and reuses the MCP adapter's tools rather than defining new ones.published 2026-08-21
CAP in the age of AI #7 - vector embeddings wrap-upCAP in the age of AI #7 - vector embeddings wrap-upThe same embeddings model taken from SQLite to SAP HANA Cloud, then handed to an agent. Locally it is @cap-js/ai that adds the vector functions SQLite lacks and downloads an all-MiniLM L6v2 ONNX model on first start; on HANA natural language processing has to be switched on, the model name is a mandatory argument, the vectors it returns are 768 dimensions, and dimensions must match on both sides of a comparison. HANA itself can be given SAP AI Core as a remote source for other embedding models, which a CDS.ql expression has to inject because the postfix notation only takes what the CDS model holds, and the hour ends with a search function over cosine similarity exposed over @cap-js/mcp, so an agent asked about low output from solar panels calls semantic search instead of writing the query itself.published 2026-10-16
Running AI agents against SAP ECC 6.0: lessons from building an in-system MCP serverRunning AI agents against SAP ECC 6.0: lessons from building an in-system MCP serverNicolasHernandez recounts building and running, over two years, an MCP server written in plain ABAP behind a single ICF node, for SAP ECC 6.0 and S/4HANA on-premise customers that the ADT MCP Server and SAP Joule for Developers, ABAP AI capabilities do not reach. Authorization runs as the calling user rather than a technical RFC user, a choice forced by a customer security team after an earlier version used a technical RFC user, and a later security review found a display-authority check applied uniformly across every write endpoint. The failure modes that cost the most time sat in RFC connectivity itself: RFC_READ_TABLE's empty-table exception collapsed into a false success, a where-used filter was applied only after the row limit, and BAPI calls treated an empty string and an absent parameter as different, silently wrong inputs.NicolasHernandez, published 2026-08-28
SAP's API Policy on AI Agents: What It Prohibits, Allows, and Leaves OpenSAP's API Policy on AI Agents: What It Prohibits, Allows, and Leaves OpenReading SAP's API Policy v.4.2026a and its FAQ against the reference architectures, the piece narrows the widely repeated claim that SAP bans AI to what Section 2.2.2 actually restricts: an agent planning and chaining API calls outside an SAP-endorsed route, closed off further by Section 3's block on bypassing API Controls through custom code. It compares the endorsed and allowed paths — the MCP Gateway on SAP Integration Suite reaching S/4HANA and ECC through RFC-based back ends under a 15-tool, 200,000-token limit, SAP-provided MCP servers through Joule Studio, the A2A protocol, customer-operated MCP servers allowed under FAQ Question 56, and the ADT MCP Server, whose 18 tools work only on development artifacts and are documented as not intended for productive use. It leaves open whether Section 2.2.2 covers ABAP code that calls a model from inside the system, since enforcement is defined at the API-traffic level rather than by a list of tools.published 2026-08-31
XML payloadsSAP only
abap-platform-refscen-flight-soap-serverabap-platform-refscen-flight-soap-serverThe server side of SAP's flight reference scenario for SOAP-based integration in ABAP Cloud, exposing synchronous ticket creation and an asynchronous cancellation that it confirms back to the client.sap official, abap
Server side of the flight reference scenario for SOAP in ABAP Cloud
SAP-samples/abap-platform-refscen-flight-soap-clientSAP-samples/abap-platform-refscen-flight-soap-clientThe client side of SAP's flight reference scenario for SOAP-based integration in ABAP Cloud, with consumption models for creating and cancelling a flight ticket and a provider model for the confirmation.sap official, abap
Client side of the flight reference scenario for SOAP in ABAP Cloud
Async processingSAP and community
ABAP-PRCABAP-PRCA framework for custom multi-step ABAP processes: a process class declares the states, and the framework runs each document through them and monitors the run.independent, abap
Framework for multi-step ABAP processes with monitoring
Only on SAP S/4HANA 2023 and 2025, on premise or private cloud: [SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Public Edition](external:sap-s4hana-cloud-public-edition) and the [SAP BTP ABAP environment](artifact:btp-abap-environment) are listed as coming soon, and a 2023 system has to leave out `ZABAP_PRC_EVENTS_SE_2025`, whose event-based side effects rely on APIs released with S/4HANA 2025. Not for a system that already carries a copy, because object names are global and two versions cannot live side by side, and not for a productive system by way of the `ZABAP_PRC_DEMO*` packages, which the README states are not intended for one and whose init classes delete and rebuild their own tables on every run. While the major version is 0 the public API is not stable: minor bumps carry breaking changes with no deprecation period, so productive use means pinning a tag and reading the CHANGELOG before every upgrade.
SAP-samples/abap-platform-bgpf-appl-log-events-side-effectsSAP-samples/abap-platform-bgpf-appl-log-events-side-effectsA RAP inventory sample that starts a long-running calculation through the background processing framework and pushes the result back to the UI with a side effect on a business event.sap official, abap
RAP sample with bgPF, business events and side effects
SAP-samples/abap-platform-rap-transactional-outbox-with-bgpfSAP-samples/abap-platform-rap-transactional-outbox-with-bgpfA reference example of the transactional outbox pattern in ABAP Cloud, using the background processing framework (bgPF) to decouple a database change from the follow-up action it triggers.sap official, abap
Transactional outbox pattern in ABAP Cloud with bgPF
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
Cloud-Native with ABAP Cloud – The Transactional Outbox PatternCloud-Native with ABAP Cloud – The Transactional Outbox PatternImplements the transactional outbox pattern in ABAP Cloud's background processing framework (bgPF): a RAP business object's save sequence registers a bgPF handler implementing IF_BGMC_OP_SINGLE, and the RAP runtime runs it, and only then emits the message, after the database commit succeeds, so a rolled-back transaction emits nothing. The post walks through the full working example published as SAP-samples/abap-platform-rap-transactional-outbox-with-bgpf.published 2025-11-12
How to Build Application Jobs in SAP Business AI Platform, ABAP environmentHow to Build Application Jobs in SAP Business AI Platform, ABAP environmentA Devtoberfest 2026 session on the application job framework in the cloud ABAP environment, built from the repository objects outwards: a class implementing the new application job interface, whose public attributes become the parameters and select options, the application log object it writes to, a job catalog entry that lays out sections, groups and value helps, and a job catalog template that works like a report variant. The demo schedules and monitors runs in the Application Jobs Fiori app, starts a job from a RAP action through the scheduling API under a job user of its own, and debugs one through the template's run-for-testing entry. It closes on the alternatives for work that should not be a job — the background processing framework for short-running work, and RAP events consumed locally or sent over the event mesh — which is the async processing this session covers for SAP BTP ABAP environment.published 2026-09-28
S/4HANA Custom Development - What happens in case of errors in BAPIs or RAP BOs?S/4HANA Custom Development - What happens in case of errors in BAPIs or RAP BOs?A Devtoberfest 2026 session on what a custom S/4HANA process does when a BAPI or a RAP business object fails. It is framed from project work rather than product development, with the same issues and challenges turning up on project after project, and it offers the ABAP Processing Center, ABAP-PRC, as what fills the gap it names in modern ABAP development. The edges rest on the opening, which states the session's subject as errors in S/4HANA custom development, read as error handling on the ABAP door, and names that framework.SAP Developers, published 2026-09-21
Triggering Background Jobs from RAP Actions – A Practical GuideTriggering Background Jobs from RAP Actions – A Practical GuideWalks through a RAP business object whose Saver Class calls a function module IN BACKGROUND TASK from the save phase, and that function module in turn uses JOB_OPEN, SUBMIT ... VIA JOB and JOB_CLOSE to schedule a classic background job that finishes the long-running work, so the triggering UI transaction stays lightweight. The mechanism shown — an asynchronous function-module call plus a submitted executable report — is Standard ABAP background processing rather than ABAP Cloud's released scheduling APIs.Arshiya2, published 2026-04-15
Document outputSAP and community
abap2xlsxabap2xlsxA library that reads and generates .xlsx Excel workbooks directly from ABAP data, without exporting through a list viewer, installed through abapGit and tested from SAP_ABA 731.independent, abap
Library that reads and generates Excel spreadsheets from ABAP
HandlebarsABAPHandlebarsABAPA single-file Handlebars templating implementation for ABAP 7.40 SP02 and up that fills a template from an ABAP structure or table, with block helpers, partials and custom helpers.independent, abap
Single-file Handlebars templating for ABAP 7.40 SP02 and up
open-abap-pdfopen-abap-pdfA standalone PDF generator written in ABAP that builds a multi-page document from text, lines, rectangles and circles placed at given coordinates and returns it as a string or an xstring.community org, abap
Standalone PDF generator written in ABAP
SAP Spool PDFSAP Spool PDFAn ABAP class that submits a report to the spool, typically in the background, and converts the resulting spool request into a PDF it can return as an xstring, save, show or email.independent, abap
Submits an ABAP report to the spool and converts the output to PDF
XTTXTTAn ABAP template engine that merges data, including nested structures, tables and trees, into Excel, Word, HTML and PDF templates prepared in ordinary editors with markers in curly brackets.independent, abap
ABAP template engine for Excel, Word, HTML and PDF
zcl_pdfzcl_pdfA standalone ABAP class that draws simple PDFs without Adobe Document Server: text in built-in fonts, text fitted into a box and rectangles, returned as a raw string to store, send or display.independent, abap
Standalone ABAP class drawing PDFs without Adobe Document Server
abap-platform-reuse-servicesabap-platform-reuse-servicesA sample sales-order RAP business object that draws its key from a number range, records field changes in a change document, and fills a PDF through SAP Forms Service by Adobe.sap official, abap
RAP sales order using number ranges, change documents and Adobe forms
SAP-samples/forms-service-by-adobe-samplesSAP-samples/forms-service-by-adobe-samplesExample projects for integrating SAP Forms Service by Adobe into a project; the overview lists one, the integration with ABAP Environment.sap official, abap
Projects integrating SAP Forms Service by Adobe with ABAP Environment
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
Custom Form with Custom Data Source in SAP Public Cloud (Grow with SAP)Custom Form with Custom Data Source in SAP Public Cloud (Grow with SAP)Builds a custom Adobe-based output form for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition when SAP ships no standard data source: a RAP business object exposes header and item CDS views through a service definition, one view marked as the form's data provider, and the layout is designed offline in Adobe LiveCycle Designer against the exported XML schema before upload and rendering back in the tenant. It draws the line against SAP Forms Service by Adobe on BTP, which the post sets aside in favour of building the form inside the S/4HANA Cloud system itself.Gourab_Dey, published 2026-01-15
How to Merge Two Separate Smart Forms into a Single PDF in SAPHow to Merge Two Separate Smart Forms into a Single PDF in SAPWalks through generating two separate Smart Forms as OTF, converting each to PDF with CONVERT_OTF, then combining them into one file with cl_rspo_pdf_merge before downloading the result to the frontend. The whole flow runs inside the ABAP system that holds the data, from SMARTFORMS-built forms to a single merged PDF on the local device.chandu_kumar_badukuri, published 2025-12-17
On‑the‑Fly Excel Download in a RAP Fiori App — No Database Table, No Persistence, Pure CDS + ABAPOn‑the‑Fly Excel Download in a RAP Fiori App — No Database Table, No Persistence, Pure CDS + ABAPBuilds a CDS custom entity backed by an ABAP class that implements IF_RAP_QUERY_PROVIDER and assembles an XLSX workbook at request time — hand-built from Open XML parts with cl_abap_zip for multiple sheets, or in one line via cl_salv_table=>to_xml for one — then streams it to the browser through the @Semantics.largeObject annotation. The same annotation makes Fiori annotations render the field as a download link with no backing database table, trading the usual persisted-blob approach to document output for a file rebuilt fresh on every click.hemanthmj, published 2026-06-18
Print Preview from RAP Action with v4 OData and Multiple SelectionPrint Preview from RAP Action with v4 OData and Multiple SelectionA RAP action's implementation calls SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe through cl_fp for each of several selected keys, merges the resulting PDFs into one file, and returns it as base64 from the action result. A Fiori elements list report invokes the action for the current selection through a controller extension's editFlow.invokeAction, grouped as a single ChangeSet so every selected document is generated and merged in one round trip before the merged file is offered back to the user.Gxalmet, published 2026-01-10
Event MeshSAP and community
Clean Core by Design: Event Enablement Cockpit as a Core Integration Enabler in SAP S/4HANAClean Core by Design: Event Enablement Cockpit as a Core Integration Enabler in SAP S/4HANAWalks through wiring an on-premise SAP S/4HANA system into Event Mesh as an event producer, using the Enterprise Event Enablement framework: creating the service instance and its service key, then an RFC destination and OAuth 2.0 client configuration in SPRO so a channel can publish native S/4 business events over AMQP or MQTT. Covers the channel's reconnect and quality-of-service parameters and activating the Event Discovery Service, and notes that SAP ECC needs a third-party add-on for the same events since S/4's native Business Events are not available there.HammadSharif1, published 2026-06-01
Enhancing SAP Business Events with Custom Payload Fields using RAPEnhancing SAP Business Events with Custom Payload Fields using RAPWalks through enriching an outbound Business Partner event for Event Mesh that by default carries only the partner ID: a derived RAP business event, raised from a behaviour definition with RAISE ENTITY EVENT and bound through SWE2 event linkage to a receiver function module, adds first and last name to the payload. The custom event is defined on a root view entity over BUT000 and verified in /IWXBE/EVENT_MONITOR, where the enriched JSON payload shows the extra fields reaching subscribers without an additional callback to the source system.BramhaniG, published 2025-10-27
NotificationsSAP and community
ABAP-PRCABAP-PRCA framework for custom multi-step ABAP processes: a process class declares the states, and the framework runs each document through them and monitors the run.independent, abap
Framework for multi-step ABAP processes with monitoring
Only on SAP S/4HANA 2023 and 2025, on premise or private cloud: [SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Public Edition](external:sap-s4hana-cloud-public-edition) and the [SAP BTP ABAP environment](artifact:btp-abap-environment) are listed as coming soon, and a 2023 system has to leave out `ZABAP_PRC_EVENTS_SE_2025`, whose event-based side effects rely on APIs released with S/4HANA 2025. Not for a system that already carries a copy, because object names are global and two versions cannot live side by side, and not for a productive system by way of the `ZABAP_PRC_DEMO*` packages, which the README states are not intended for one and whose init classes delete and rebuild their own tables on every run. While the major version is 0 the public API is not stable: minor bumps carry breaking changes with no deprecation period, so productive use means pinning a tag and reading the CHANGELOG before every upgrade.
RFC connectivitySAP and community
abap_fm_jsonabap_fm_jsonA JSON adapter that exposes ABAP function modules over HTTP: a handler class in an ICF service calls the module named in the URL and serialises its parameters to and from JSON.independent, abap
JSON adapter exposing ABAP function modules over HTTP
Input arrives only as JSON, or as plain XML if the ABAP built-in transformation is switched on, whatever the output format is set to. Cross-site calls are limited to JSONP: the maintainer lists CORS support as planned.
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`.
erpl-node-rfcerpl-node-rfcAn SAP RFC client for Node.js and TypeScript that implements the protocol in Rust and ships prebuilt for seven platforms behind node-rfc's API, so there is no SAP NW RFC SDK to download.independent, abap
RFC client for Node.js and TypeScript without the NW RFC SDK
BUSL-1.1 rather than node-rfc's Apache-2.0, so a product you distribute has to be read against the licence and its Additional Use Grant first, and the source is closed: the GitHub repository is the issue tracker and the documentation, nothing else. `RfcServerOptions.bgRfcHandlers` raises instead of accepting handlers, so a server receiving inbound bgRFC units is outside what this does. An ABAP `MESSAGE`-raised failure still arrives with its T100 template rather than the rendered sentence, and the dump name is not reported as `key` for that case.
rfc-connectorrfc-connectorCalls abap2UI5 apps of another system over RFC: an ICF handler on the system the browser talks to forwards each roundtrip through an SM59 destination to the system the apps run on.community org, abap
Forwards abap2UI5 roundtrips to another system over RFC
For an app that calls `client->set_session_stateful( )`, which needs the ICF session of the system it runs on; apps keeping their state in the draft table, the abap2UI5 default, work unchanged. For an app that reads a request header through the user exit on the source system, because the consumer forwards method, body, path, query string and status, not headers.
Claude ported ABAP functions to new APIClaude ported ABAP functions to new APIA first-person account of using Claude Code, driven through the sapcli command line, to install and repair RFC function modules that let a CI pipeline control abapGit and gCTS remotely, rather than treating git as a way to read ABAP source. Instead of trusting a local checkout, Claude read the abapGit login manager class and queried the target system's own type catalogue through sapcli, then used what it found to update a renamed API method and swap a TABLES parameter's structure for the table type BAPIRET2_T.jakub_filak, published 2026-03-16
Connecting SAP S/4HANA On-Prem Directly to Advanced Event Mesh using Cloud Connector - finally!Connecting SAP S/4HANA On-Prem Directly to Advanced Event Mesh using Cloud Connector - finally!Package Integration 1.4.0 for the Advanced Event Mesh Adapter adds official support for routing through SAP Cloud Connector, so an on-premise SAP S/4HANA system can produce events that SAP Advanced Event Mesh distributes without exposing a public endpoint. The same release changes the adapter's default acknowledgment mode from Automatic Immediate to Automatic On Exchange Complete, altering delivery semantics and error handling. The release notes warn against mixing proxy configurations within one tenant, since that causes unpredictable routing in complex hybrid tenants.sissyhae, published 2026-01-23
Creating an SAP SD Billing Document Using a BAPI in SAP Build and Accessing It Through 'Joule Work'Creating an SAP SD Billing Document Using a BAPI in SAP Build and Accessing It Through 'Joule Work'Walks through the two pieces of connectivity a SAP Build Process Automation action needs to call an on-premise BAPI: mapping the virtual host to the internal S/4HANA host in Cloud Connector over the RFC protocol, and creating an RFC-type destination in the BTP cockpit so BAPI_BILLINGDOC_CREATEMULTIPLE becomes a selectable action. The resulting process creates an SD billing document from a sales document number and is reached through SAP Build Work Zone, including from the Joule Work mobile app.MrRaj, published 2026-06-29
Extract Rev-Trac requests by custom program and Rev-Trac APIExtract Rev-Trac requests by custom program and Rev-Trac APIA custom ABAP report that does a full-text search across custom long-text fields of Rev-Trac change requests — a search the change-management tool has no built-in feature for — by calling Rev-Trac's own RFC-enabled function modules from a separate connected ABAP system. It walks through the mechanics of RFC connectivity on the ABAP side: looking up the RFC destination at runtime from a system table via a remote-enabled function module, then calling further remote function modules with CALL FUNCTION ... DESTINATION, including the read/update APIs' parameter-naming convention and their commit-on-connection-end behaviour.published 2025-12-30
Pattern Function for RFCPattern Function for RFCA custom ABAP Editor pattern, defined once under SE38 > Utilities > More Utilities > Edit Pattern as Z_RFC_FUNCTION, that generates a CALL FUNCTION ... DESTINATION block for a chosen remote-enabled function module: an EDITOR_EXIT function on the calling system reaches the target system over RFC to fetch that function's generated source, then inserts the DESTINATION clause before handing the pattern back to the editor. It automates writing the RFC call itself rather than explaining RFC destinations as a concept, and the destination name in the sample is hardcoded to the author's own system.ykaldirim, published 2025-12-02
Running AI agents against SAP ECC 6.0: lessons from building an in-system MCP serverRunning AI agents against SAP ECC 6.0: lessons from building an in-system MCP serverNicolasHernandez recounts building and running, over two years, an MCP server written in plain ABAP behind a single ICF node, for SAP ECC 6.0 and S/4HANA on-premise customers that the ADT MCP Server and SAP Joule for Developers, ABAP AI capabilities do not reach. Authorization runs as the calling user rather than a technical RFC user, a choice forced by a customer security team after an earlier version used a technical RFC user, and a later security review found a display-authority check applied uniformly across every write endpoint. The failure modes that cost the most time sat in RFC connectivity itself: RFC_READ_TABLE's empty-table exception collapsed into a false success, a where-used filter was applied only after the row limit, and BAPI calls treated an empty string and an absent parameter as different, silently wrong inputs.NicolasHernandez, published 2026-08-28
SAP's API Policy on AI Agents: What It Prohibits, Allows, and Leaves OpenSAP's API Policy on AI Agents: What It Prohibits, Allows, and Leaves OpenReading SAP's API Policy v.4.2026a and its FAQ against the reference architectures, the piece narrows the widely repeated claim that SAP bans AI to what Section 2.2.2 actually restricts: an agent planning and chaining API calls outside an SAP-endorsed route, closed off further by Section 3's block on bypassing API Controls through custom code. It compares the endorsed and allowed paths — the MCP Gateway on SAP Integration Suite reaching S/4HANA and ECC through RFC-based back ends under a 15-tool, 200,000-token limit, SAP-provided MCP servers through Joule Studio, the A2A protocol, customer-operated MCP servers allowed under FAQ Question 56, and the ADT MCP Server, whose 18 tools work only on development artifacts and are documented as not intended for productive use. It leaves open whether Section 2.2.2 covers ABAP code that calls a model from inside the system, since enforcement is defined at the API-traffic level rather than by a list of tools.published 2026-08-31
Using Communication Targets for Outbound RFC Communication in ABAPUsing Communication Targets for Outbound RFC Communication in ABAPWalks through calling a remote-enabled ABAP function module through a communication target instead of a direct RFC destination: on-premise, the APPLDEST transaction creates an application destination (client, CPIC type, host from SM51, authentication); in the cloud, saving a communication arrangement for an outbound-RFC communication scenario creates one automatically. ABAP code reaches the function with CALL FUNCTION (...) IN REMOTE SESSION, naming the application_destination parameter when a communication target has more than one assigned destination, and the piece walks a worked call to RFC_SYSTEM_INFO.Nikolina_MH, published 2025-11-10
Using RFC Function Modules and BAPIs in SAP Build Process AutomationUsing RFC Function Modules and BAPIs in SAP Build Process AutomationWalks through calling an S/4HANA BAPI (BAPI_BILLINGDOC_CREATEMULTIPLE, to create a billing document) from an SAP Build Process Automation action: mapping the virtual host to the internal system in SAP Cloud Connector over the RFC protocol and exposing the needed function modules, then creating an RFC-type destination in the BTP cockpit with the virtual message server and SMLG logon group. Once those two are in place, SAP Build lists the exposed BAPIs and RFCs for use in an action.MrRaj, published 2026-07-09