Launchpad plugins

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

Overview

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On premise, a plugin deployed as a UI5 application is activated per role through a target mapping with the intent Shell-plugin in a launchpad catalog, assigned to a role in PFCG. In the SAP BTP ABAP environment it is deployed as a Fiori application whose manifest sets sap.flp type plugin, and reached through an IAM app and a business catalog.

Not covered: Role-based activation on premise only works with the launchpad's dynamic page processing on the ICF node /sap/bc/ui2/flp.

The plugin itself is UI5 code. The system ships the activation steps above, and the community adds scaffolding for the plugin, such as generator-ui5-ts-flp-plugin.

SourceSAP Help — Activating Plug-Ins on the ABAP Platformchecked 2026-09-13