NewABAP, RAP and ABAP Cloud
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Today
Cloud ALM Link for ADTadded to the atlasEclipse plugin linking ABAP transports to SAP Cloud ALM featuresEditor support
SAP TCode Runneradded to the atlasVS Code sidebar that opens SAP transactions through WebGUIFinding a transaction code
Attachmentscoverage by ecosystem, coverage by flavor revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): drops a count-like contrast with a plugin the flavor does not have.Attachments
Browsing table datacore coverage revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): the note described the providers as SAP GUI programs only, and browser apps, an IDE extension and a desktop editor have arrived; the state stays core-and-community.Browsing table data
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Calling a service by handcore coverage revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): abap-odata-test arrived after the block was assessed and changes the kinds of community answer; the state stays core-and-community.Calling a service by hand
Code formattingcore coverage revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): the abap2UI5 playground provides this capability and the text never named it; ABAP FS named for the kind of VS Code integration.Code formatting
Code reviewcore coverage revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): providers that arrived after the 2026-09-13 assessment (abapTimeMachine, abapOpenReview, a transport review app) shape the answer; state unchanged, core-and-community.Code review
Data modellingcore coverage, coverage by ecosystem revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): independent ABAP providers (CDS Analyser, CDS field mapping, acds) now provide this capability on the ABAP door.Data modelling
Database connectorscoverage by ecosystem revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): the note counted one entry behind the door; it now names the driver and SAP HANA, which now provides the capability on this door. State unchanged.Database connectors
Debuggingcore coverage, coverage by ecosystem revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): seven ABAP providers newer than the block were never named. State stays core-and-community.Debugging
Driving the SAP GUIcore coverage revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): removed the count and the popularity wording, and named the kinds, including batch input (jrgkraus-tool-bi) and SAP's sample, which the text never named.Driving the SAP GUI
Editor supportcore coverage, coverage by ecosystem revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): the providers behind the UI5 door are SAP's (UI5 Language Assistant, and SAP Build Code and SAP Web IDE Full-Stack, which serve ui5). The community SAPUI5 Extension is an entry in the graph but has no provides edge to this capability.Editor support
Finding a transaction codecore coverage revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): sapgui arrived as a second kind, one that reads the system's own menu, and the prose counted entries.Finding a transaction code
Generatorscore coverage, coverage by ecosystem, framing by ecosystem revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): the atlas holds these entries, so the links point at them and not at their repositories (docs/WRITING.md section 4).Generators
IDE provisioningcore coverage revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): eclipsadt-o-mat arrived after the last look and the text never named it; state unchanged.IDE provisioning
Importing and exporting table datacore coverage revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): the count of sample repositories goes stale as providers arrive, and the ABAP backend importer and the Excel add-in change the shape of the answer, so the note names those kinds. The ABAP state stays core-and-community.Importing and exporting table data
Loading a warehousecore coverage, coverage by ecosystem revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): ERPL is a provider the text never named, and it loads from ABAP systems outside BW routines. State unchanged.Loading a warehouse
Local developmentcoverage by ecosystem, coverage by flavor revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): the note counted providers and claimed an absence about who has built something, which goes stale as providers arrive.Local development
Maintaining table entriescore coverage revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): open-abap-open-table-maintenance, a community-org package served from an HTTP handler for one table named in its code, was not named; the browser editor is now linked. State unchanged.Maintaining table entries
Model visualisationcoverage by ecosystem revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): abapGraph and abap-search-tools-ui arrived after the ABAP block was last looked at and the text never named them. No state changed.Model visualisation
Searchcore coverage, coverage by ecosystem revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): the only independent provider behind the ABAP door is ZC8A_001, an artifact of type sample, which is not a presence; the core stays because what_core_does is sourced.Search
Searching code in a systemcore coverage revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): the note named no kind of provider, and five providers newer than the 2026-09-14 assessment shape the answer. State unchanged.Searching code in a system
Seed datacore coverage, coverage by ecosystem revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): no artifact provides seed-data for the UI5 door; the two tools the sentence named provide ui5-testing. The core stays present on the sourced what_core_does. The tools stay on the graph under ui5-testing.Seed data
Source controlcore coverage revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): providers added since 2026-08-31 change the kinds the community adds beyond the in-system git client; the state stays core-and-community.Source control
Static analysiscore coverage revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): the block named none of the providers that arrived after 2026-08-31. State unchanged, core-and-community still matches the providers.Static analysis
Unit testingcore coverage, coverage by flavor revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): the note counted the artifacts and said they were in staging; both are in the graph now and are named.Unit testing
Yesterday
ABAP Syntax Highlightingadded to the atlasVS Code syntax highlighting for .abap filesEditor support
Mon 19
ABAP Call Hierarchyadded to the atlasEclipse plugin showing the call hierarchy of ABAP membersEditor support
ABAP Code Searchadded to the atlasEclipse plugin searching ABAP sources from the search dialogSearching code in a system
ABAP Development Tools for VS CodepublishedA Devtoberfest 2026 session on ABAP Development Tools for VS CodeABAP Development Tools for VS CodeSAP's ABAP tools in VS Code: editing, debugging, ABAP Unit, ATC and transports for classes, CDS and RAP objects, over RFC to an on-premise or Private Cloud system and HTTP to a cloud one, with Joule's ADT MCP server and code completion behind an AI-unit licence.sap official, abap: where the extension sits after the ABAP Workbench and ABAP Development Tools for EclipseABAP Development Tools for EclipseSAP's Eclipse plugins for ABAP: source, dictionary and CDS editors, Project Explorer, Outline and ABAP Unit, calling ADT resources on the connected system.sap official, abap, the ADT language server both editors share, and what the releases since May 2026 cover. The demo installs the extension, creates a destination, opens, creates and activates objects, runs ATC and ABAP Unit, and names the object types, domains among them, for which a developer still goes to Eclipse or SAP GUI. It also opens the extension's settings to turn on the ADT MCP ServerADT MCP ServerSAP's own ADT MCP server, and not a package: a preference inside ABAP Development Tools for VS Code that starts a local HTTP MCP server on a port you choose.sap official, abap and shows the tools a chat can call, with the object search and source code search tools listed as planned.Editor support
ABAP Search and Analysis Toolsadded to the atlasEclipse plugin for ABAP object search and CDS view analysisSearching code in a system
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ABAP Tagsadded to the atlasEclipse plugin for tagging ABAP repository objectsEditor support
Always in Sync — Field-level and event-driven side effects for reactive UIs in RAPpublishedA 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 modelTransactional modelHow a business object's behaviour is defined and who owns the transaction — the choice that shapes everything downstream in an application.SAP and community, unassessed and the async processingAsync processingDoing work outside the request that triggered it, with a guarantee that it eventually happens — deferred jobs, retries, and periodic work. Distinct from messaging, which is about telling other systems.SAP and community, narrow by design side the edges rest on.Transactional model
Bridging Python and SAP HANA: Inside the sqlalchemy-hana Open-Source DialectpublishedA 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 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. 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.Database connectors
CDS Associations & JoinspublishedA Devtoberfest 2026 session from SAP's performance and scalability team on what an 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 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 modellingData modellingDefining the shape of data before anything serves it: entities and their types, how they relate, and the projections and views that services and applications consume.SAP and community, unassessed 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.Data modelling
SAP BAIP, ABAP environment – How to build partner solutions and get them certifiedpublishedA Devtoberfest 2026 session on the two ways a partner ships an ABAP Cloud solution built on SAP BTP ABAP environmentSAP BTP ABAP environmentSAP's ABAP runtime on BTP: ABAP systems developed in the ABAP Cloud model on SAP HANA Cloud, for cloud apps, OData services and side-by-side extensions of SAP S/4HANA.sap official, btp, which the session calls the ABAP environment of SAP Business AI Platform: software delivery, where an add-on product is published with the solution ID from SAP Store onboarding and the customer discovers and deploys it into their own system, and service delivery, where the partner operates the same add-on as a multi-tenant SaaS and a new version is deployed rather than published again. That is the ABAP environment edge; the static analysisStatic analysisCatching problems in code before it runs: naming, obsolete statements, security findings, and compatibility with a target environment. Style linting, security scanning and cloud-readiness checks are often treated as one concern.SAP and community, narrow by design edge rests on the quality steps shown in the landscape portal, where the Manage Continuous Testing app released with 2608 runs an ATC check variant against a configured system on a recurrence pattern, beside test product version builds and managed test tenants. The second half walks through the SAP Integration and Certification Center process and the three BTP certification options open to an add-on product.Static analysis
Updates on Embedded Analytics in ABAP Cloud for DeveloperspublishedA 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 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 — 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 modellingAnalytic modellingDefining what an analytical client actually reads — the multi-dimensional layer between stored rows and a chart: measures, dimensions, hierarchies, filters and parameters, and the associations somebody navigates them by. Distinct from analytical queries, which is a service answering the request a chart sends, and from loading a warehouse, which fills the tables underneath it.SAP and community, unassessed 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.Data modelling
CDS Field Mappingdescription revisedSAP's Cloudification Repository is in the graph, so the README's source is named by its entry rather than by a URL none of this entry's sources gave. The README's sentence is "Source will be the Cloudification Repository, where the mapping old table to new Core Data Services is listed.", so the prose reports it as what the README names and not as how the mapping file is produced today: the file in the repository comes from an extractor class you copy and run in your own system. The CAST, CASE and ABS gap is attributed to the tool's page, which is where that sentence stands, rather than to the README.Data modelling
Editor supportecosystems revisedUI5 Language Assistant, SAP's VS Code extension for UI5 XML views and manifest.json, and the SAPUI5 Extension by iljapostnovs were staged in intake-20261019-bestofui5 with this concern as their best fit, and the capability was not open on the UI5 door. The UI5 reading comes from the UI5 Language Assistant README.Editor support
Seed dataecosystems revisedvscode-ui5-odata-mock-generator and openui5-smart-mockserver were staged in intake-20261019-bestofui5 under ui5-testing; the first one's drafter noted that seed-data fit better but was not open on the UI5 door. The UI5 reading comes from the OpenUI5 mock server pages and SAP's ui5-middleware-fe-mockserver README.Seed data
Sat 17
@abap2ui5/linteradded to the atlasCommand-line checker for abap2UI5 app classes and their viewsStatic analysis
abap2UI5 for VS Codeadded to the atlasVS Code extension to preview, activate and lint abap2UI5 appsEditor support
abap2UI5 headless frontendadded to the atlasDrives abap2UI5 app classes from ABAP Unit testsUnit testing
abap2UI5 Layout Editoradded to the atlasDrag-and-drop UI5 view editor that writes an abap2UI5 app classGenerators
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abap2UI5 Playgroundadded to the atlasIn-browser ABAP editor beside the abap2UI5 app it buildsLocal development
app-templateadded to the atlasStarter repository for an abap2UI5 app with CI and agent setup
ERPLadded to the atlasDuckDB extension reading SAP ERP tables, CDS views and BW queriesLoading a warehouse
lock-manageradded to the atlasHolds SAP locks across stateless abap2UI5 roundtrips
sapguiadded to the atlasThirty classic transactions rebuilt as abap2UI5 appsBrowsing table data
se16nadded to the atlasTable content browser in abap2UI5, for ABAP Cloud and on premiseBrowsing table data
web-abap2UI5added to the atlasabap2UI5 transpiled to JavaScript and run in a browser tabLocal development
abap-adt-apireleased 9.0.01 content item in the atlas was written against an earlier version. Nothing is recorded about what changed.Editor support
052: 10 Minutes from Start to Launchpadexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Data modelling
ABAP - Create dumpexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Debugging
Agentic memory: Knowledge graph engine and recall in SAP HANA Cloudexplains revisedDoor scope derived from the artifacts this piece also explains, so a door page lists it only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Database connectors
AI-enabled administration: Automating log analysis with generative AI hubexplains revisedDoor scope derived from the artifacts this piece also explains, so a door page lists it only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Editor support
Analyze and optimize ABAP Cloud model apps built on core data servicesexplains revisedDoor scope derived from the artifacts this piece also explains, so a door page lists it only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Data modelling
Browsing table datadescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.abap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Browsing table data
Building agentic applications with SAP HANA Cloudexplains revisedDoor scope derived from the artifacts this piece also explains, so a door page lists it only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Database connectors
Building an Attachment Upload and Download Solution Using UploadSetwithTable Controlexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Attachments
Cachingdescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.cap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Caching
Calculating IBP Technical Week "Key Figure Date" in S/4HANA Using CDS Viewexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Data modelling
Calling a service by handdescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.abap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Calling a service by hand
Code reviewdescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.abap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Code review
Data modellingdescription, ecosystems, entry revisedMerged the duplicate ABAP capability into this one, repointed its provides edges, content explains edges and prose links, and retired abap-data-modelling. Its old pages redirect here.Data modelling
Database connectorsdescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.cap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Database connectors
Debugging in ABAP Development Tool (Part 1)explains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Debugging
Driving the SAP GUIdescription revisedKeep the technology that defines the concern in the default; move implementation detail to framing_by_ecosystem.abap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Driving the SAP GUI
Explore SAP Fiori elements for ABAP developersexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Editor support
Generating Adobe Form Using RAP framework OData Servicesexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Data modelling
IDE provisioningdescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.abap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.IDE provisioning
Knowledge graph and agent memory: Build an agent that remembersexplains revisedDoor scope derived from the artifacts this piece also explains, so a door page lists it only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Database connectors
Loading a warehousedescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.btp. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Loading a warehouse
Maintaining table entriesdescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.abap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Maintaining table entries
Model visualisationdescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.cap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Model visualisation
RAP - Native File Uploadexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Attachments
SAP BAIP, ABAP environment: Monitoring and troubleshootingexplains revisedDoor scope derived from the artifacts this piece also explains, so a door page lists it only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Browsing table data
Searching code in a systemdescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.abap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Searching code in a system
Source controlname, description revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.abap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Source control
Static analysisdescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.abap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Static analysis
Transactional modeldescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.abap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Transactional model
Unit testingdescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.abap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Unit testing
Fri 16
Hammer Core Servicesadded to the atlasABAP-side component for the Hammer editor
open-steamgateadded to the atlasLocal ABAP server serving /IWBEP/ OData v2 without an SAP systemLocal development
Tools for abapGitadded to the atlasHelper programs around abapGitSource control
Thu 15
@abaplint/transpileradded to the atlasTranspiles ABAP to JavaScript to run on Node.jsUnit testing
express-icf-shimadded to the atlasShim running an ABAP ICF handler behind an Express 4.x serverUnit testing
How to extend ABAP Test Cockpit on SAP BTP for custom use casespublishedWalks through the released, C1-contract APIs and CDS views for extending ABAP Test CockpitStatic analysisCatching problems in code before it runs: naming, obsolete statements, security findings, and compatibility with a target environment. Style linting, security scanning and cloud-readiness checks are often treated as one concern.SAP and community, narrow by design on SAP BTP: the single entry point CL_SATC_API=>CREATE_API_FACTORY, reading a run's findings and headers through SATC_API_FINDINGS and SATC_API_RESULT_HEADERS, starting synchronous local ATC runs for a transport, approving or rejecting exemptions programmatically, configuring approver responsibility areas without a UI, and implementing a custom check through IF_CI_ATC_CHECK. Code snippets show each API in use, including the CDS views that join ATC results to the Custom Code Migration app's own findings.Static analysis
open-abap-coreadded to the atlasCore ABAP artifacts for code transpiled by @abaplint/transpilerUnit testing
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open-abap-lockadded to the atlasConcurrent and cross-session locking for open-abap on PostgreSQL
open-table-maintenanceadded to the atlasTable maintenance over HTTP for a table fixed in codeMaintaining table entries
Local developmentcore coverage, coverage by flavor, framing by flavor, facets revisedNine options answered this capability with nothing to compare them by, and they are not variants of one tool: the first question a reader has is which part of the local stack an option starts. The two flags separate the hybrid-testing helpers, where cds bind states that only the location of the credentials is stored on the machine and @sang2x/captools states that it writes the resolved VCAP_SERVICES into default-env.json.Local development
Unit testingcore coverage, coverage by flavor revisedTwo staged options state abap-cloud and provide this capability; the gate reads them as providers once this capability is revised.Unit testing
Wed 14
Mastering Internal Actions in SAP RAP: Automatic Header Calculation in ABAP CloudpublishedWalks 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.Transactional model
Attachmentscoverage by ecosystem revisedThe five citations and four links to FileUploader.ts and UploadCollection.ts used the organisation the project has left, which now answers only as a redirect. Both files were opened at the new address on 2026-10-14 and carry the sentences quoted here, so every claim and every quote stands as written and only the addresses and their titles moved; the checked dates stay at the day each quote was last read in full.Attachments
Driving the SAP GUInormative relevance revisedThe GUI servers' boundaries each restated the policy in the atlas's own words; it belongs to the concern, sourced to the policy.Driving the SAP GUI
kts982/mcp-sap-guidescription revisedThe policy is now a condition of GUI automation, sourced to the policy itself.Driving the SAP GUI
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mcp-sap-guidescription revisedThe policy is now a condition of GUI automation, sourced to the policy itself.Driving the SAP GUI
sapgui.mcpdescription revisedThe policy is now a condition of GUI automation, sourced to the policy itself.Driving the SAP GUI
Mon 12
abap-transport-reviewadded to the atlasTransport release check gated by GitHub pull request approvalCode review
abap-transport-reviewentry revisedEntered by intake from the repository README and the repository's own facts. Placed on the ABAP door in the standard-abap flavor only, because the README states the tools are classic ABAP using the CTS_REQUEST_CHECK BAdI, background jobs and the cluster table INDX, "none of which is part of ABAP Cloud".Code review
Sun 11
Agentic memory: Knowledge graph engine and recall in SAP HANA CloudpublishedThe knowledge graph engine in SAP HANA CloudSAP HANA CloudThe managed database under most of this: CAP's default target, the store Datasphere and Analytics Cloud sit on, and a service with plans and components.sap official, btp as an agent's memory: what the engine, the graph side of graph, spatial and document dataGraph, spatial and document dataStoring and querying data that is not plain rows, such as a network of relationships, a geometry or a JSON document, in the database that already holds the rows instead of in a separate store per model. Free-text search over entities is search; similarity over embeddings is retrieval-augmented generation.SAP only, does in an agentic workflow, how an agent keeps what it learns there, the state agent toolingAgent toolingBuilding an agent into your own application — the tools it may call, the state it keeps between turns, and the framework it runs in. Distinct from MCP servers, which expose an application to somebody else's agent, and from agent guidance, which is knowledge handed to a coding agent.SAP and community, unassessed holds between turns, and the SAP AI CoreSAP AI CoreSAP's AI service on BTP: the runtime for AI assets, and through the Generative AI Hub inside it the access to foundation models, the orchestration service with its templating, masking, filtering and grounding modules, the Prompt Registry and Document Grounding.sap official, btp integration through which the database calls LLMs and tabular foundation models such as SAP-RPT-1. The abstract names the engine, the memory role and the AI Core link and does not say how the memory is written or read. DA263 on Wednesday 28 October is a two-hour hands-on on the same engine with a different cast. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by Markus FathMarkus Fathgave 3 talks, contributed to 1 entry and Shraddha Shetty, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.Database connectors
AI-enabled administration: Automating log analysis with generative AI hubpublishedA log analysis tool for incident work, built in SAP Business Application StudioSAP Business Application StudioSAP's development environment for business applications, delivered as a cloud service and opened in a browser, where work happens in preconfigured dev spaces.sap official, btp with the generative AI hub feature, which SAP AI CoreSAP AI CoreSAP's AI service on BTP: the runtime for AI assets, and through the Generative AI Hub inside it the access to foundation models, the orchestration service with its templating, masking, filtering and grounding modules, the Prompt Registry and Document Grounding.sap official, btp ships as its LLM integrationLLM integrationCalling a language model from application code with the tenant, destination and credential handling already solved instead using an SDK call with a hand-rolled key.SAP and community, narrow by design by its own documentation: it automates root-cause analysis over system errors and masks sensitive data. SAP's abstract states the tool's jobs and not how the hub is called, what the masking covers or which model answers. A TechEd 2026 session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin), with no speaker listed in the catalogue at the time of writing, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.Editor support
Analyze and optimize ABAP Cloud model apps built on core data servicespublishedPerformance anti-patterns in data models built with 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 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 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 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 modellingData modellingDefining the shape of data before anything serves it: entities and their types, how they relate, and the projections and views that services and applications consume.SAP and community, unassessed 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.Data modelling
Build AI agents and applications natively on SAP HANA CloudpublishedSAP HANA CloudSAP HANA CloudThe managed database under most of this: CAP's default target, the store Datasphere and Analytics Cloud sit on, and a service with plans and components.sap official, btp as the base for agentic applications on SAP Business AI Platform: the session goes through CAP, the SAP HANA Cloud vector engine and SAP AI CoreSAP AI CoreSAP's AI service on BTP: the runtime for AI assets, and through the Generative AI Hub inside it the access to foundation models, the orchestration service with its templating, masking, filtering and grounding modules, the Prompt Registry and Document Grounding.sap official, btp, with architecture patterns and lessons learned from building AI-supported applications. SAP's abstract names the three parts of that stack and the vector engine as the database's feature in it, and describes none of the patterns. A TechEd 2026 session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin; also DA113V, virtual), presented by Christoph Morgen and Shraddha Shetty, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.Database connectors
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Building agentic applications with SAP HANA CloudpublishedA CAP application extended with semantic search and agent features on top of SAP HANA CloudSAP HANA CloudThe managed database under most of this: CAP's default target, the store Datasphere and Analytics Cloud sit on, and a service with plans and components.sap official, btp's vector engine and SAP AI CoreSAP AI CoreSAP's AI service on BTP: the runtime for AI assets, and through the Generative AI Hub inside it the access to foundation models, the orchestration service with its templating, masking, filtering and grounding modules, the Prompt Registry and Document Grounding.sap official, btp, built in a hands-on workshop. The abstract names the parts, CAP, the vector engine and AI Core, and the two additions: semantic search, the retrieval half of retrieval-augmented generationRetrieval-augmented generationGrounding a model's answer in data retrieved at question time: text split into chunks, each chunk embedded as a vector, and the chunks nearest to the question placed into the prompt. Semantic search is the same retrieval with a person reading the matches, and fine-tuning changes the model's weights, not its input.SAP and community, unassessed, and LLM-supported agent capabilities inside the application, which is agent toolingAgent toolingBuilding an agent into your own application — the tools it may call, the state it keeps between turns, and the framework it runs in. Distinct from MCP servers, which expose an application to somebody else's agent, and from agent guidance, which is knowledge handed to a coding agent.SAP and community, unassessed. Which embedding model, which CAP runtime and how the agent calls its tools are not stated. A TechEd 2026 session (Thursday 29 October, Berlin), presented by Hui Li, Ritty Joseph, Shraddha Shetty and Tanuja Jadhav, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.Database connectors
Explore SAP Fiori elements for ABAP developerspublishedSAP Fiori elements for an ABAP developer who now builds the UI as well as the RAP business object behind it, the transactional modelTransactional modelHow a business object's behaviour is defined and who owns the transaction — the choice that shapes everything downstream in an application.SAP and community, unassessed of ABAP Cloud, in SAP Business Application StudioSAP Business Application StudioSAP's development environment for business applications, delivered as a cloud service and opened in a browser, where work happens in preconfigured dev spaces.sap official, btp; the abstract calls the UI side new territory for that developer, and a Fiori elements app is rendered from the service's Fiori annotationsFiori annotationsDescribing a service so a Fiori client can render it without hand-written UI code — titles, value helps, hierarchies and visibility expressed as model annotations rather than screen logic.SAP and community, unassessed 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.Editor support
Knowledge graph and agent memory: Build an agent that rememberspublishedThe knowledge graph engine in SAP HANA CloudSAP HANA CloudThe managed database under most of this: CAP's default target, the store Datasphere and Analytics Cloud sit on, and a service with plans and components.sap official, btp as an agent's memory: what the engine, the graph side of graph, spatial and document dataGraph, spatial and document dataStoring and querying data that is not plain rows, such as a network of relationships, a geometry or a JSON document, in the database that already holds the rows instead of in a separate store per model. Free-text search over entities is search; similarity over embeddings is retrieval-augmented generation.SAP only, does in an agentic workflow, how an agent keeps what it learns there, the state agent toolingAgent toolingBuilding an agent into your own application — the tools it may call, the state it keeps between turns, and the framework it runs in. Distinct from MCP servers, which expose an application to somebody else's agent, and from agent guidance, which is knowledge handed to a coding agent.SAP and community, unassessed holds between turns, and the SAP AI CoreSAP AI CoreSAP's AI service on BTP: the runtime for AI assets, and through the Generative AI Hub inside it the access to foundation models, the orchestration service with its templating, masking, filtering and grounding modules, the Prompt Registry and Document Grounding.sap official, btp integration through which the database calls LLMs and tabular foundation models such as SAP-RPT-1. The abstract names the engine, the memory role and the AI Core link and does not say how the memory is written or read. DA205 on Tuesday 27 October is the 45-minute talk on the same engine, with a near-identical abstract and a different cast. A two-hour hands-on TechEd 2026 session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin), presented by Christoph Morgen, Jan Zwickel, Markus FathMarkus Fathgave 3 talks, contributed to 1 entry and Thomas HammerThomas Hammergave 5 talks, contributed to 1 entry, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.Database connectors
SAP BAIP, ABAP environment: Monitoring and troubleshootingpublishedMonitoring and troubleshooting a side-by-side application written in the ABAP Cloud model on SAP BTP ABAP environmentSAP BTP ABAP environmentSAP's ABAP runtime on BTP: ABAP systems developed in the ABAP Cloud model on SAP HANA Cloud, for cloud apps, OData services and side-by-side extensions of SAP S/4HANA.sap official, btp, which SAP's title calls SAP BAIP, ABAP environment, and which the abstract files under a clean core strategy at level A: the environment's technical monitoring tools for the monitoring half, and ABAP Development Tools for EclipseABAP Development Tools for EclipseSAP's Eclipse plugins for ABAP: source, dictionary and CDS editors, Project Explorer, Outline and ABAP Unit, calling ADT resources on the connected system.sap official, abap for the troubleshooting half, the debuggingDebuggingSeeing what running code did between an input arriving and a result coming out: which code ran, what the values were at each point, and why a value ended up as it did.SAP and community, narrow by design concern. The abstract names the environment and the Eclipse tools, leaves the monitoring tools unnamed, and does not say what is shown of either. A TechEd 2026 hands-on session (Thursday 29 October, Berlin), presented by Frank Jentsch, Robert Werlich, Steffen Siegmund and Wolfgang Woehrle, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.Browsing table data
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How to mass upload from a spreadsheet file into an SAP Fiori app in SAP BTP ABAP Environment Part 1publishedPart 1 of a three-part series on mass-uploading records from a spreadsheet into a RAP business object in the SAP BTP ABAP environmentSAP BTP ABAP environmentSAP's ABAP runtime on BTP: ABAP systems developed in the ABAP Cloud model on SAP HANA Cloud, for cloud apps, OData services and side-by-side extensions of SAP S/4HANA.sap official, btp, 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.Importing and exporting table dataSun 4
BEHAVIOR_ILLEGAL_STATEMENT dump | Technical workaroundspublishedThe 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 modelTransactional modelHow a business object's behaviour is defined and who owns the transaction — the choice that shapes everything downstream in an application.SAP and community, unassessed: 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.Transactional model
BO Interface APIs : An alternative to BAPIs and traditional FMspublishedWalks 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.Transactional model
eclipsADT-o-matadded to the atlasPowerShell wizard installing Eclipse with ADT and pluginsIDE provisioning
eclipsADT-o-matentry revisedEntered by intake from the repository README and description.IDE provisioning
Sat 3
A simple example of a SAP RAP Application based on Legacy API without UUID keyspublishedWalks 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 modelTransactional modelHow a business object's behaviour is defined and who owns the transaction — the choice that shapes everything downstream in an application.SAP and community, unassessed. 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 handlingDraft handlingLetting a user edit a record over several requests before it becomes real — saving unfinished changes, locking, and activating a completed draft.SAP and community, narrow by design.Transactional model
Debugging in ABAP Development Tool (Part 1)publishedA walkthrough of the ABAP Debugger inside ABAP Development Tools: setting a toggle (hard) breakpoint versus a soft breakpoint that only fires once a session is already active, running up to four debugging sessions on the same program, reading the call stack, and debugging an update function module. It also covers watchpoints with their recent and current values, conditional and user-specific breakpoints, activating and deleting breakpoints, and adding variables such as SY-INDEX to the variables tab.Debugging
Fri 2
Beyond READ_TEXT: Decoding SAPscript Long Texts (STXL) with SQLScript in CDS/AMDPpublishedSTXL 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 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. 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.Data modelling
Taking Control of Clean Core: When to Use Project Kernseife in addition to Standard SAP ToolspublishedWalks through how SAP's standard path classifies custom ABAP extensions into Clean Core Levels A through D, running ABAP Test Cockpit against the Cloudification Repository's release status for each SAP object an extension touches, then feeding results into the RISE with SAP Methodology Dashboard in SAP Cloud ALM. Contrasts that with Project Kernseife, an open-source custom ATC check that lets a team override SAP's classification with project-specific rules, define its own successor objects (including custom wrappers), and expose a Score and Potential Score per finding through a CDS view for prioritizing cleanup — at the cost of owning and maintaining that classification. States which situations favor each: Kernseife where the standard rules are too rigid for the project's reality, the standard dashboard where cross-system comparability and low maintenance effort matter more.Static analysis
Thu 1
abaprapunmanagedadded to the atlasPractice repository for the unmanaged RAP scenario
abaprapunmanagedsaveadded to the atlasPractice repository for managed RAP with unmanaged save
abapthemesadded to the atlasThree colour themes for ABAP source in ADT for EclipseEditor support
abapwuluadded to the atlasRefreshes the where-used list for objects in one packageSearching code in a system
Tue 29
ABAP Statistical Toolsadded to the atlasABAP class for descriptive statistics over an internal tableStatistical analysis
Hammeradded to the atlasNative macOS code editor for ABAP and CDSEditor support
ui5-tcode-finderadded to the atlasBrowser page searching SAP transaction codesFinding a transaction code
Finding a transaction codeentry revisedA browser tool for searching transaction codes had nowhere to attach, and the nearest nodes are all about something else: browsing table data is the rows a system holds rather than the way into a task, GUI automation drives screens rather than finding them, abap-classic-ui builds them, and documentation is what to read. Named on the ABAP door because a transaction code is an entry point of a classic SAP system, and marked not-applicable in ABAP Cloud, where there is no SAP GUI and so no command field to enter one into. The coverage rests on SAP's own documentation for the in-session routes; nobody has surveyed what else answers this from outside a system, which is why the relationship is unassessed.Finding a transaction code
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ui5-tcode-finderentry revisedStaged with the capability Finding a transaction code, drafted in the same batch because the corpus held no concern for it. ecosystem: abap is a placement rather than a stated fact: the repository is an OpenUI5 and TypeScript application, but its subject is the transaction codes of a classic SAP system and the only stack its features name is SAP GUI for HTML. serves_ecosystems: ui5 rests on the overview sentence naming the T-Codes a UI5 or Fiori project needs. use_as: reference because it is consulted at its own address rather than installed into a project.Finding a transaction code
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Generating Adobe Form Using RAP framework OData ServicespublishedModels a RAP root view entity and consumption view over a custom sales-order table, built with 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, 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.Data modelling
Attachmentscore coverage revisedThe paragraph opened with SAP's packages and never said that the runtime serves a @Core.MediaType element with nothing installed. capire's Serving Media Data page is that built-in layer, cited by pagination-and-streaming and not here. Two deliveries, said apart (docs/concepts/sap-ships-and-documents.md).Attachments
Data modellingcore coverage revisedcapire audit 2026-09-27, judgement pages read once more: the service definition page and the Node.js reflection API were cited nowhere; the Java reflection API already was.Data modelling
Database connectorscore coverage revisedcapire audit 2026-09-27, link-only pass: a page this capability owns was cited nowhere.Database connectors
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Debuggingcore coverage revisedPackage pass 2026-09-27: the paragraph named one of the four SAP packages and cited the plugins index only; cds debug and the Java developer dashboard were cited nowhere.Debugging
Local developmentcore coverage revisedcapire audit 2026-09-27, judgement pages read once more: a page this capability owns was cited nowhere.Local development
Fri 25
AVEdescription revisedNeither "Simple Data Explorer" nor "SDE" appears in this README, and VERTEX's own README now states "Nothing but this repository's
src/ has to be installed", so the claim that VERTEX needs Simple Data Explorer on the system is unsupported. The replacement rests on this README's own sentence: the version history, the diff and the saved code review, "including approving, declining and commenting on a block", are available in Eclipse ADT and in VS Code through VERTEX. "has no blame yet" was a claim about VERTEX that this README does not carry and that was not re-verified against VERTEX; it is dropped rather than restated.Code reviewSimple Data Explorerdescription revisedThe README no longer says this repository holds the ADT resources VERTEX reads through: two commits on 2026-09-18 removed the ADT resources section and the construction-phase note, leaving only "The table grid with its select-options, the join builder and the pivot are available in Eclipse ADT and in VS Code through VERTEX". VERTEX's own README now states "Nothing but this repository's
src/ has to be installed" and that of the former /zsde/ prefix "that hub is gone". The replacement keeps what this README still states and drops the dependency claim neither README supports. ADT.md is still in the repository and still describes the resources under /sap/bc/adt/zsde/ in the present tense, which conflicts with both READMEs and is left for an editor.Browsing table dataTue 22
off-stack-abapadded to the atlasDemonstration of off-stack ABAP development on Node.js
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Multi-Origin Service Testing and Troubleshooting in SAP GatewaypublishedWalks through testing a multi-origin OData service in SAP Gateway by passing the
$system parameter against a System Alias defined in /IWFND/MAINT_SERVICE, verified with the SAP Gateway Client (/IWFND/GW_CLIENT) and from outside the system with a browser or Postman. Covers three recurring failures — an ignored $system, a 500 from an unconfigured RFC destination or inactive backend service, and a 403 from a missing backend authorization — and how to confirm which alias and backend a request actually hit with /IWFND/TRACES.Calling a service by handvscode-tabl-ddicadded to the atlasVS Code syntax highlighting for .tabl.ddic table definitionsEditor support
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Searchcore coverage revised@kamlendra/search-vocab, an independent cds-plugin on CAP, carries a provides edge to this capability beside @sap/cds and com.sap.cds:cds-services-bom, so core-only no longer describes who is present.Search
Fri 18
@arc-mcp/adt-lsadded to the atlasTypeScript SDK over SAP's headless adt-ls language serverEditor support
052: 10 Minutes from Start to LaunchpadpublishedWalks 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 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 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.Data modelling
ABAP in Practice - Creating a Setup ApppublishedWalks 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 modelTransactional modelHow a business object's behaviour is defined and who owns the transaction — the choice that shapes everything downstream in an application.SAP and community, unassessed 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.Transactional model
ABAP remote filesystemadded to the atlasVS Code extension editing ABAP systems over ADT as a filesystemEditor support
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ABAP Spreadsheet Importeradded to the atlasABAP component importing XLSX or CSV files into RAP business objectsImporting and exporting table data
abap_trial_dockeradded to the atlasScripts running the ABAP Developer Edition in DockerLocal development
abap-adt-apiadded to the atlasJS/TS client for the ADT resources of an ABAP systemEditor support
abapcdsgrammaradded to the atlasANTLR4 grammar, lexer and parser for ABAP CDSStatic analysis
abapfs_extensionsadded to the atlasABAP objects enabling ADT updates on systems older than 7.51Editor support
abapgraphadded to the atlasABAP library for creating Graphviz graphsModel visualisation
abapPrettyadded to the atlasCommand-line ABAP pretty printer over ADTCode formatting
adt-bundle-builderadded to the atlasWindows build packaging Eclipse with ADT as a portable IDEIDE provisioning
Graphviz-browseradded to the atlasStatic page drawing Graphviz graphs for the ABAP debugger extensionDebugging
personal-application-studioadded to the atlasTheia distribution with ABAP and UI5 support as a Docker imageIDE provisioning
RAP - Native File UploadpublishedA 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.AttachmentsRAP - Singleton PatternpublishedBuilds 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 modelTransactional modelHow a business object's behaviour is defined and who owns the transaction — the choice that shapes everything downstream in an application.SAP and community, unassessed 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.Transactional model
urbani-saplinkadded to the atlasSE16 clone shipped as SAPlink filesBrowsing table data
Database connectorscoverage by ecosystem revisedhdb, SAP's pure-JavaScript HANA driver for Node.js, entered in the same batch, so the note counted two entries where there are now three. The assessment is unchanged: the driver is SAP's own, so core-only still holds.Database connectors
Importing and exporting table datacoverage by ecosystem revisedA UI5 entry now answers the import side: ui5-cc-spreadsheetimporterui5-cc-spreadsheetimporterA UI5 component that adds a spreadsheet upload dialog to a Fiori elements or freestyle app and submits the rows it reads through the app's own OData model.community org, ui5 reads an uploaded spreadsheet in the browser and submits its rows through the app's own OData model. The core side is unchanged: SAP's spreadsheet export documentation still describes export only, so the previous note that no UI5 entry answers the import side is what has moved, not the reading of the core.Importing and exporting table data
Thu 17
abap-adt-cliadded to the atlasCLI that pulls and pushes ABAP packages as local files over ADTSource control
Creating Material Master Data in SAP S/4HANA Using RAP and EML .publishedBuilds an unmanaged Transactional modelTransactional modelHow a business object's behaviour is defined and who owns the transaction — the choice that shapes everything downstream in an application.SAP and community, unassessed 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 annotationsFiori annotationsDescribing a service so a Fiori client can render it without hand-written UI code — titles, value helps, hierarchies and visibility expressed as model annotations rather than screen logic.SAP and community, unassessed — headerInfo, facets, line items and value helps — that drive the generated Fiori elements UI.Transactional model
SAP HANAadded to the atlasSAP's relational database platform, on-premise and in HANA CloudDatabase connectors
Attachmentscore coverage revisedReplace unsupported migration/UI boundary with sourced implementation limits; keep community additions separate. Add four CAP-scoped comparison questions and preserve other ecosystems/flavors.Attachments
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Cachingcore coverage, framing by ecosystem, core coverage revisedUser requires SAP ships to describe only core behavior and limits. Provider guidance belongs under The community adds. The broad tenant-key prescription is omitted; sourced tenant conditions remain on provider edges. Redis remains the served BTP option.Caching
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A Handy Custom Report to Scan SAP CDS Views for Usage of Search StringspublishedA custom SE38 report, ZSCAN_CDS_VIEWS, reads each Z-prefixed CDS view's DDL source through the function module /ABEX/SEFW_MOD_CVA_HANA and scans it for a list of search strings, listing the view and matching code line in an ALV grid. The author built it because ABAP Development Tools for EclipseABAP Development Tools for EclipseSAP's Eclipse plugins for ABAP: source, dictionary and CDS editors, Project Explorer, Outline and ABAP Unit, calling ADT resources on the connected system.sap official, abap's ABAP Source Search, the code searchSearching code in a systemFinding where a string, pattern or name occurs across source code and development objects held in a system. Raising findings against rules is static analysis; reading an individual change is code review.SAP and community, unassessed SAP ships, is unwieldy for scanning many custom views at once or searching several strings together.Searching code in a system
ABAP - Create dumppublishedShows how to terminate an ABAP program on purpose with RAISE SHORTDUMP — from a freshly created exception instance, or one already caught in a TRY/CATCH where continuing no longer makes sense — so a hard-to-diagnose failure leaves a dump behind instead of running on silently. The second half reads that dump back in ABAP Development Tools for EclipseABAP Development Tools for EclipseSAP's Eclipse plugins for ABAP: source, dictionary and CDS editors, Project Explorer, Outline and ABAP Unit, calling ADT resources on the connected system.sap official, abap: the Feed Reader notification, the compressed view against the classic ST22-style view, and sections such as Active Calls and Source Code Extract, the same ADT troubleshooting path debuggingDebuggingSeeing what running code did between an input arriving and a result coming out: which code ran, what the values were at each point, and why a value ended up as it did.SAP and community, narrow by design places alongside the ABAP Debugger for ABAP Cloud.Debugging
Calculating IBP Technical Week "Key Figure Date" in S/4HANA Using CDS ViewpublishedA custom 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 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.Data modellingCDS Field Mappingadded to the atlasMaps classic dictionary tables and fields to CDS entities and fieldsData modelling
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CDS Field Mappingentry revisedEntered from software-heroes.com's tools page; its data lives in a public GitHub repository the page links as 'Extract and further information', unlike its sibling tools here which are hosted only.Data modelling
Tue 15
ABAP Development Tools for Eclipseadded to the atlasSAP's Eclipse plugins for ABAP development over ADTBrowsing table data
ADT resourcesadded to the atlasHTTP endpoint under /sap/bc/adt exposing ABAP development objects
Claude ported ABAP functions to new APIpublishedA 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 abapGitabapGitA Git client written in ABAP that runs inside the system, so objects are cloned, pulled and pushed without leaving it; with no package manager in ABAP, a cloned repository is how code is distributed.community org, abap 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.Source control
Attachmentsecosystems, coverage by ecosystem, framing by ecosystem revisedOn BTP the concern is answered by a repository service with folders and versions, which differs from the CAP, UI5 and ABAP framings of a file stored against an entity or a business object.Attachments
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Cachingecosystems, core coverage revisedThe sentence was cut off mid-word. Rewritten to name the two CAP plugins by their entries, and the multitenancy warning moved here as core_coverage.note: node-cache leaves the graph because its own documentation names no SAP stack, and the lesson it carried is about every hand-wired general-purpose cache, not about one library.Caching
Editor supportecosystems, coverage by ecosystem, framing by ecosystem revisedOn BTP the editor is a hosted service rather than a language server or an Eclipse plugin, which is what the CAP and ABAP framings describe.Editor support
VERTEXrequires revisedPointed at the ADT nodes that entered the graph on 2026-09-15, from the project's own documentation.Code review
Mon 14
ABAP development tools for Visual Studio Code is now available on the VS Code marketplace!publishedAnnounces the marketplace release of ABAP development tools for Visual Studio CodeABAP Development Tools for VS CodeSAP's ABAP tools in VS Code: editing, debugging, ABAP Unit, ATC and transports for classes, CDS and RAP objects, over RFC to an on-premise or Private Cloud system and HTTP to a cloud one, with Joule's ADT MCP server and code completion behind an AI-unit licence.sap official, abap, 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 ServerADT MCP ServerSAP's own ADT MCP server, and not a package: a preference inside ABAP Development Tools for VS Code that starts a local HTTP MCP server on a port you choose.sap official, abap, 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.Editor support
ABAP Development Tools for VS Codeadded to the atlasSAP's ABAP tools in VS Code for editing, debugging, ATC and transportsEditor support
ABAP_DATABASE_MANAGERadded to the atlasABAP report running custom SQL queries into an ALV gridBrowsing table data
abap_db_preparatoradded to the atlasReplays stored database snapshots in ABAP unit testsUnit testing
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abap_debugger_object_graph_extensionadded to the atlasABAP debugger extension drawing objects as a Graphviz graphDebugging
ABAP-CACHE-BOXadded to the atlasGenerates singleton ABAP cache classes from a macro callCaching
abap-call-hierarchyadded to the atlasADT backend for the ABAP Call Hierarchy Eclipse pluginEditor support
abap-code-search-toolsadded to the atlasIn-system ABAP source search by string or regular expressionSearching code in a system
abap-db-browseradded to the atlasSAP GUI browser for tables, views, CDS views and joinsBrowsing table data
abap-file-uploaderadded to the atlasSample uploading a JSON file into an ABAP table on BTP ABAP
abap-metricsadded to the atlasSoftware-engineering metrics for an ABAP class or packageCode metrics
ABAP-Object-Visualizeradded to the atlasDebugger script exporting an object hierarchy as GraphvizDebugging
abap-odata-testadded to the atlasABAP client for calling and asserting on OData servicesCalling a service by hand
abap-search-toolsadded to the atlasADT backend for the ABAP Search and Analysis Tools pluginSearching code in a system
abap-senchaadded to the atlasBDD/TDD assertion library for ABAP Unit, styled after Chai.jsUnit testing
abap-tags-backendadded to the atlasADT backend for the ABAP Tags Eclipse pluginEditor support
abap-tasks-trackeradded to the atlasTask tracker on a BOPF-backed CDS view with a Fiori list report
abap-test-containeradded to the atlasGitHub-hosted test data container for ABAP CloudUnit testing
abap-unit-runneradded to the atlasApplication job that runs and schedules ABAP Unit tests in the cloudUnit testing
abap-utesthelpadded to the atlasHelper classes for ABAP Unit tests and test doublesUnit testing
abap2UI5-addons/table-content-loaderadded to the atlasUpload, edit and download ABAP table content as JSON, CSV or XLSXImporting and exporting table data
abapCovadded to the atlasUploads ABAP Unit code coverage to codecov.ioUnit testing
abapDataToTableImportadded to the atlasMaps clipboard, Excel or text data onto a declared ABAP structureImporting and exporting table data
abapFakeradded to the atlasFake data generator for ABAPSeed data
AbapGeneratoradded to the atlasABAP transaction generating an MVC-style project from a templateGenerators
abapGitServeradded to the atlasGit server implemented in ABAP for abapGit clientsSource control
abaplint-Ext-for-abapGitadded to the atlasShows abaplint results inside abapGitStatic analysis
abaplint-sci-clientadded to the atlasABAP client surfacing abaplint checks in Code Inspector and ATCStatic analysis
abapOpenChecksadded to the atlasOpen-source rule pack for SAP Code Inspector and ATCStatic analysis
abapOpenReviewadded to the atlasSAP GUI code review tied to transport releaseCode review
abapTimeMachineadded to the atlasShows a whole ABAP object as it stood at a past versionCode review
adash-servicesadded to the atlasBackend exposing ABAP Unit runs and coverage over REST and ODataUnit testing
alwinvandeput/zscv_search_cds_viewsadded to the atlasIn-system search tool for CDS viewsSearching code in a system
AnyTabUpdateTaskadded to the atlasUtility for update task database changes and internal tables in ABAPTransactional model
assertadded to the atlasFluent assertion helper for ABAP Unit testsUnit testing
ATC-Best-Practice-Guideadded to the atlasATC check classes accompanying DSAG's ATC best-practice guide
AttachmentCommentODataServiceadded to the atlasABAP OData service for attachments and comments via GOSAttachments
BenjaminWeisheit/ABAP-2-CODE-CHARTAadded to the atlasConverts ABAP code metrics into Code Charta's JSON formatCode metrics
bothzoli/ABAP-IoC-Containeradded to the atlasInversion-of-control container for ABAPDependency injection
boy0korea/abap2jsonadded to the atlasExports and imports ABAP table content as zipped JSONImporting and exporting table data
boy0korea/ABAP2XLSX_HELPERadded to the atlasHelper methods over abap2xlsx for Excel, JSON and tablesImporting and exporting table data
boy0korea/ZWD_CODE_SCANNERadded to the atlasCode scanner for Web Dynpro ABAPSearching code in a system
bryanmcain/zcode_scanneradded to the atlasEnhancement extending ECC's code scanner to more object typesSearching code in a system
By-passing function modules in aunitspublishedWalks through registering a function module as a test double with CL_FUNCTION_TEST_ENVIRONMENT inside an ABAP Unit test class: class_setup names the function module to replace, an input configuration matches on the importing parameters, and an output configuration sets what the double returns before the calling class is asserted against it. The Function Test Double Framework is presented as ABAP Unit's way of testing code that calls a function module — procedural, without a class's native test-double support — without triggering the database, RFC or BAPI calls the real function module would make.Unit testing
cacamber-BDD-for-ABAPadded to the atlasBDD framework turning Given/When/Then into ABAP Unit stepsUnit testing
cdsanalyseradded to the atlasMaps database tables and fields to the CDS views exposing themData modelling
coreline/ZDDIC_FINDERadded to the atlasFinder for ABAP Dictionary objectsSearching code in a system
cuteadded to the atlasCustom Table Editor editing table rows in an editable ALV gridMaintaining table entries
dbg_value_statementadded to the atlasDebugger script generating a VALUE statement for a variableDebugging
dump_infoadded to the atlasDisplays the variables of ABAP short dumpsDebugging
gladiusadded to the atlasABAP project for learning the ABAP Unit Test Framework
MBT Logical Object Listeradded to the atlasMetadata viewer for SAP BW, SAP BPC and SAP BW/4HANA object modelsAnalytic modelling
mkysoft/xlsxreaderadded to the atlasReader for Excel spreadsheets in OpenXML format from ABAPImporting and exporting table data
mockAadded to the atlasA free mocking framework for ABAP, published under the Apache License 2.0.Unit testing
mockup_loaderadded to the atlasLoader of Excel-prepared ABAP unit test data, with stub generationUnit testing
my-ide-actionsadded to the atlasCollection of ABAP Development Tools IDE ActionsEditor support
odbc-driver-for-abap-examplesadded to the atlasExample programs for the ODBC driver for ABAP in several languages
pawelwiejkut/bw_remove_charactersadded to the atlasABAP class stripping invalid characters in BW end routinesLoading a warehouse
pawelwiejkut/bw_trfn_pocketknifeadded to the atlasFramework for BW transformation start routines from a tableLoading a warehouse
pokrakam/abapDevSysInitadded to the atlasABAP report setting up a new ABAP Developer Edition or trial systemLocal development
regression_testadded to the atlasSnapshot testing library for ABAP, from debugger or unit testUnit testing
sap-russia/ZRS_ABAP_SOURCE_SCANadded to the atlasA report that searches code inside modifications and enhancements without depending on SAP HANA.Searching code in a system
SAP-samples/abap-alv-google-upload-sheetadded to the atlasSample exporting SAP GUI ALV grid data to Google Drive
SAP2Mooseadded to the atlasAn ABAP program that extracts model data from a system as a SOMIX model, for Moose2Model to draw as a dependency diagram.Model visualisation
Source Code Finderadded to the atlasReport searching ABAP source in methods, enhancements, DTPs and moreSearching code in a system
striezl/VariScanadded to the atlasSearch over ABAP program variants for a value or patternSearching code in a system
swixfort/Sdw.Abap.Diadded to the atlasA dependency-injection container for ABAP: register classes or interfaces, then resolve an object with its dependencies already constructed.Dependency injection
table-maintenanceadded to the atlasBrowser-based table maintenance UI built on abap2UI5Maintaining table entries
teched2023-DT187vadded to the atlasTechEd 2023 tutorial on an analytical data model in ABAP Cloud
The Future of ABAP is Here: VS Code ADT, Zero-Config MCP, and AI Co-pilotspublishedA walkthrough of ABAP Development Tools for VS CodeABAP Development Tools for VS CodeSAP's ABAP tools in VS Code: editing, debugging, ABAP Unit, ATC and transports for classes, CDS and RAP objects, over RFC to an on-premise or Private Cloud system and HTTP to a cloud one, with Joule's ADT MCP server and code completion behind an AI-unit licence.sap official, abap's general-availability release: connecting to an on-premise or BTP ABAP system, editing classes, CDS and RAP objects, and turning on the extension's built-in ADT MCP ServerADT MCP ServerSAP's own ADT MCP server, and not a package: a preference inside ABAP Development Tools for VS Code that starts a local HTTP MCP server on a port you choose.sap official, abap. Enabled, it lets a co-pilot such as GitHub Copilot or SAP Joule for Developers, ABAP AI capabilitiesSAP Joule for Developers, ABAP AI capabilitiesSAP's AI for ABAP development in ADT for Eclipse and VS Code: chat, code completion, explain, test and CDS generation, RAP logic prediction, and since June 2026 an agentic mode over the ADT MCP Server, metered in AI units through the ABAP AI Hub Service on BTP.sap official, abap read code, trace dependencies, and run ABAP Unit and ATC checks against the real system rather than guessing from training data.Editor support
tool-biadded to the atlasChained-call builder for ABAP batch input transactionsDriving the SAP GUI
trm-serveradded to the atlasServer-side component of TRM for importing and exporting transportsSource control
upDOWNciadded to the atlasUploads and downloads Code Inspector check variants as XMLStatic analysis
Vise_for_ABAPadded to the atlasA characterisation-test helper:
ZCL_VISE=>GRIP records a field's value once and fails a later run if it has changed.Unit testingZABAP_TABLE_EDITadded to the atlasGeneric ABAP table editor writing its own change documentsMaintaining table entries
ZC8A_001added to the atlasABAP, Python and C code for similarity search over field descriptions
ztoadadded to the atlasOpen SQL editor for ABAP with ALV outputBrowsing table data
ZUML_DIAGRAMadded to the atlasABAP program drawing UML class diagrams through PlantUMLModel visualisation
Analytic modellingecosystems revisedteched2023-DT187v builds an analytical ABAP CDS model in ABAP Cloud and hana-cloud-modeling-learning-journey carries the files for SAP's calculation view course, both SAP-samples; MBT Logical Object Lister and MBT Listcube read BW's object models and cubes from an ABAP-based BW system.Analytic modelling
AttachmentCommentODataServicename, description, provides[capability:attachments] revisedThe ecosystem abap and the business-object binding rested on the platform the README names. The repository is ABAP source in abapGit format, and the cited class is the ABAP that does the binding.Attachments
Attachmentscoverage by flavor, framing by flavor, coverage by ecosystem, ecosystems, framing by ecosystem revisedThe ABAP door opened with Generic Object Services and AttachmentCommentODataService, and what the concern is there differs from the CAP and UI5 framings: the file belongs to a business object in the system rather than to an entity a service defines.Attachments
Browsing table datacoverage by flavor revisedADT's Data Preview over released CDS view entities is the ABAP Cloud replacement for SE16, which does not exist there since SAP GUI is unavailable; none of the three independent providers on this capability state abap-cloud support.Browsing table data
Cachingecosystems revisedABAP-CACHE-BOX in this batch generates singleton cache classes over hashed tables for ABAP programs, which is application-level memoisation on the ABAP door.Caching
Calling a service by handcoverage by flavor revisedADT's Service URL link, GET only, is the one way to call a RAP OData service by hand in ABAP Cloud; SAP Gateway Client needs SAP GUI, which ABAP Cloud systems do not have, and ODAPU, the one independent provider on this capability, states no flavor.Calling a service by hand
Code reviewcoverage by flavor revisedADT is confirmed as ABAP Cloud's own development environment and gCTS as its transport mechanism, and no ABAP-ecosystem provider of this capability states the abap-cloud flavor, so the flavor reads core-only rather than derived.Code review
Data modellingcoverage by flavor revisedABAP CDS is the sole ABAP-door provider of this capability, is sap-official, and states no flavor on its provides edge. SAP's own ABAP Cloud documentation (the abap-cheat-sheets ABAP Dictionary cheat sheet and the ABAP Cloud FAQ) confirms CDS view entities, not classic DDIC-based views, are how data models are built there, reachable only through released objects and public APIs. (Recorded on abap-data-modelling before the merge of 2026-10-17.)Data modelling
Database connectorsecosystems revisedSAP-samples' hana-hdbext-promisfied-example wraps the HANA client drivers for Node.js, Go and Python, hxe-hibernate-google-app-engine reaches HANA through Hibernate's dialect, and odbc-driver-for-abap-examples connects to an ABAP system through the ODBC driver for ABAP, which widens the node from CAP's database choice to the driver question.Database connectors
Debuggingcoverage by flavor revisedAssessed for the ABAP Cloud flavor: SAP's own troubleshooting guidance for RAP apps places the ABAP Debugger inside ABAP Development Tools, and the only ABAP-door provider in the corpus, Smart Debugger, states standard-abap only and runs in the SAP GUI New Debugger, not ADT — so no provider states abap-cloud and the core is SAP's own.Debugging
Driving the SAP GUIcoverage by flavor revisedSAP's own ABAP Cloud documentation states there is no access to SAP GUI in the SAP BTP ABAP environment or SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, both of which mandate ABAP Cloud, and none of the four ABAP-door providers of this capability states abap-cloud support — all four state only standard-abap.Driving the SAP GUI
Editor supportecosystems revisedWidened to ABAP: Xexer/my-ide-actions adds IDE actions to ADT, and DevEpos/abap-tags-backend and DevEpos/abap-call-hierarchy are the ABAP backends of two Eclipse plugins. The description lost its CDS wording, which moved to framing_by_ecosystem.cap.Editor support
Generatorsecosystems revisedAbapGenerator scaffolds ABAP objects from a template package. Thirteen UI5 Community repositories generate UI5 projects or add to one: Easy-UI5 and its npm init wrapper, generators for apps, libraries, controls and tooling extensions, and create-wdi5 and generator-ui5-wdi5, which add wdi5 to an existing app.Generators
Loading a warehouseecosystems revisedpawelwiejkut's bw_remove_characters and bw_trfn_pocketknife answer the concern inside SAP BW transformation routines on ABAP, and SAP-samples' dbt-sap-hana-cloud answers it on HANA Cloud with a dbt adapter that transforms and loads data there.Loading a warehouse
Local developmentecosystems revisedabapDevSysInit sets up a new ABAP Developer Edition or trial system from one report: the user profile, the GitHub certificates and destination, abapGit standalone, and the repositories to pull.Local development
Model visualisationecosystems, description revisedThe description named only a CDS model and .cds files, which is false on the ABAP door added the same day. The ABAP half and 'source file' are the only change.Model visualisation
Searchecosystems revisedZC8A_001 pushes similarity search into SAP HANA through AMDP and into Oracle through ADBC from ABAP classes, so the concern has an answer behind the ABAP door.Search
Seed dataecosystems revisedabapFaker generates localised fake names, addresses and other values in ABAP for development and tests, so the concern has an answer behind the ABAP door.Seed data
Source controlcoverage by flavor, framing by flavor revisedThe classic-ABAP paragraph does not hold here: ABAP Cloud splits source control into two mechanisms with different scopes, per the same SAP-docs pages.Source control
Static analysiscoverage by flavor revisedNo provider of this capability states the abap-cloud flavor: ACEACEA SAP GUI tool that parses ABAP source statically to show call flow, data dependencies, control structure and code metrics such as McCabe complexity, without running the code.independent, abap and code pal for ABAPcode pal for ABAPATC and Code Inspector checks for the parts of Clean ABAP a static analyser can actually check, installed into a system with [abapGit](artifact:abapgit-abapgit) rather than delivered with it.sap official, abap state only standard-abap, and abaplint-Ext-for-abapGitabaplint-Ext-for-abapGitSurfaces abaplint results inside abapGit itself, at the point where a developer is already looking.independent, abap, abaplintabaplintStatic analysis for ABAP that runs outside a system on serialised source in a repository, so ABAP checks run in a pull request and in CI before the code ever reaches a system.community org, abap and @abapify/acds@abapify/acdsA parser for ABAP CDS DDL source — tokenizer, parser and a typed AST covering tables, structures, simple types, service definitions and metadata extensions.independent, abap state no flavor at all — while ATC's own ABAP_CLOUD_DEVELOPMENT_DEFAULT check variant is SAP's documented default for the SAP BTP ABAP environment.Static analysis
Transactional modelcoverage by flavor revisedNo ABAP-door artifact carries a provides edge to this capability; the sole demonstrates edge (mariokernich-abapconf2026-custom-entities) is independent and states no flavor, so nothing states abap-cloud. SAP's own abap-cheat-sheets confirms RAP is the transactional programming model of ABAP Cloud rather than one option beside classic update-task bundling, and SAP's BOPF page directs new ABAP Cloud development toward RAP instead of BOPF.Transactional model
Unit testingcoverage by flavor revisedNo artifact in the abap door states abap-cloud as a provider of capability:abap-unit-testing; ABAP Unit and its test double frameworks are part of the language and ADT tooling, and SAP's own RAP400 workshop and the abap-cheat-sheets unit-test examples both exercise them from a BTP ABAP Environment ABAP Cloud project, doubling only the released CDS entities and tables a RAP business object depends on.Unit testing
Sun 13
abap-platform-yyadded to the atlasDemo RTTI-style library for the ABAP Environment, built to show APACK
abapconf2026-custom-entitiesadded to the atlasabapconf 2026 talk materials on RAP custom entities
abapgit-commitlintadded to the atlasabapGit user exits checking commit messages against repository rulesSource control
ACEadded to the atlasSAP GUI tool for static analysis of ABAP call flow and code metricsStatic analysis
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AVEadded to the atlasSAP GUI version explorer and code reviewer for transport requestsCode review
How to Scan Custom ABAP for Security Issues in Eclipse (Step-by-Step)publishedWritten by someone who works on the tool, this is a setup walkthrough for the RedRays ABAP Scanner Eclipse plugin: get a demo API key, install the plugin via an update site, point it at a backend, and scan an ABAP object from the Project Explorer. Findings for SQL/ADBC injection, OS command execution, path traversal, missing AUTHORITY-CHECK and similar are grouped by severity with a CVSS score and an automated exploitability check, and a REST API extends the same scan to a CI/CD allow/block gate on a transport.Static analysis
HR_DMEadded to the atlasRead-only SAP GUI report listing where HCM object data is storedBrowsing table data
ODAPUadded to the atlasUI5 app for OData test requests and ABAP Push ChannelsCalling a service by hand
SAP-samples/abap-partner-reference-applicationadded to the atlasMultitenant S/4HANA Cloud extension built with RAP on BTP ABAP
SAP-samples/abap-platform-analytics-data-modelingadded to the atlasAnalytical ABAP CDS models for the ABAP Flight Reference Scenario
SAP-samples/abap-platform-codejam-latest-features-2602added to the atlasCodeJam on RAP features from cloud releases 2502 to 2602
SAP-samples/abap-platform-jakadded to the atlasJSON-to-ABAP conversion library sample showing what APACK can do
SAP-samples/abap-platform-rap100added to the atlasBeginner RAP workshop building a draft-enabled Fiori elements app
SAP-samples/abap-platform-rap110added to the atlasIntermediate RAP workshop on late numbering, side effects and events
SAP-samples/abap-platform-rap120added to the atlasRAP travel app workshop using SAP Joule for Developers
SAP-samples/abap-platform-rap130added to the atlasRAP travel app workshop built from VS Code via the ADT MCP Server
SAP-samples/abap-platform-rap200added to the atlasGuided workshop building a Travel Processing app in ABAP Cloud
SAP-samples/abap-platform-refscen-flightadded to the atlasFlight Reference Scenario with sample data and services for RAP
SAP-samples/cloud-abap-rapadded to the atlasRAP business object that generates other RAP business objects
SAP-samples/joule-gui-automation-and-integrationadded to the atlasJoule capabilities driving SAP GUI sessions via Business Client
SAP-samples/s4hana-gcts-badiadded to the atlasBAdI wiring the transport organizer to gCTS on task release
SAP-samples/teched2025-AD163added to the atlasTechEd 2025 workshop modelling a RAP object in SAP Build Code
SAP-samples/teched2025-AD164added to the atlasTechEd 2025 workshop rebuilding an ALV app as a RAP-based Fiori app
SAP-samples/teched2025-DT266added to the atlasTechEd 2025 workshop on troubleshooting ABAP Cloud extensions
Simple Data Exploreradded to the atlasMulti-window SAP GUI explorer for tables, views and CDS SQL viewsBrowsing table data
Smart Debuggeradded to the atlasSAP GUI debugger script recording steps so execution can run backwardsDebugging
sql-consoleadded to the atlasBrowser-based SQL console built on abap2UI5Browsing table data
VERTEXadded to the atlasADT extension for Eclipse and VS Code showing three SAP GUI toolsCode review
Attachmentsname revisedThe map draws every capability as one tile, and a name that spells out its second half ran to three lines at a size nobody could read. The id already carried the short name; the name now matches it. The concern is unchanged: the description and the coverage say what it spans.Attachments
Debuggingecosystems revisedWidened rather than forked: debugging an ABAP program is the same concern, so the node's description became the cross-ecosystem sentence, the CAP wording moved to framing_by_ecosystem.cap, and ABAP got its own framing and coverage. Done so Smart Debugger (staged in intake-20260913-ysichov) can provide it.Debugging
Generatorsname revisedThe map draws every capability as one tile, and a name that spells out its second half ran to three lines at a size nobody could read. The id already carried the short name; the name now matches it. The concern is unchanged: the description and the coverage say what it spans.Generators
Seed dataname revisedThe map draws every capability as one tile, and a name that spells out its second half ran to three lines at a size nobody could read. The id already carried the short name; the name now matches it. The concern is unchanged: the description and the coverage say what it spans.Seed data
Fri 11
kts982/mcp-sap-guidescription revisedCorrected against the README: 'HTTP transport (for team/remote use, binds to localhost)', with 'Unattended multi-user production orchestration' under Not yet available.Driving the SAP GUI
mcp-sap-guidescription revisedCorrected against the README: it works from coordinates and screenshots and never mentions the Scripting API. 'Still the most used' was an unsourced popularity claim (hard rule 1); 'the first' is now the GitHub creation date, 2025-02-19, against the other GUI servers.Driving the SAP GUI
Thu 10
kts982/mcp-sap-guiadded to the atlasMCP server for SAP GUI for Windows via the Scripting APIDriving the SAP GUI
mcp-sap-guiadded to the atlasMCP server working SAP GUI by screen coordinatesDriving the SAP GUI
sapgui.mcpadded to the atlasMCP server driving SAP GUI and Web GUI for end-to-end testingDriving the SAP GUI
SAPient MCPadded to the atlasSAP GUI automation MCP server built on RoboSAPiensDriving the SAP GUI
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Analytic modellingentry, core coverage revisedThe note said the core side of this reading was prose with a citation because SAP's products were not entries. They are now, so the admission is retired rather than left standing as a stale caveat.Analytic modelling
Attachmentsecosystems revisedArtifacts that answer this concern sat behind the UI5 door with no tile to appear under, so browse counted them and rendered nothing. The concern is one a UI5 developer actually decides there, which is the test for opening a door rather than trimming a serves claim.Attachments
Database connectorsecosystems revisedHANA Cloud and the PostgreSQL hyperscaler option are both BTP services answering which database you run on, and the capability existed on the CAP door alone — so both sat behind the BTP door with no tile to appear under.Database connectors
Driving the SAP GUIentry revisedFour artifacts drive SAP's own UI and the corpus had no concern for them — filing them on agent access to your code would have been wrong, because none of them reads an object or knows what ADT is. Named on the ABAP door because the GUI is the ABAP system's UI.Driving the SAP GUI
kts982/mcp-sap-guientry revisedTriaged out of data/crawled/mcp-candidates.json, the sap-ai-mcp-servers sweep. Written from the repository's own README.Driving the SAP GUI
Loading a warehouseentry, core coverage revisedThe note said the core side of this reading was prose with a citation because SAP's products were not entries. They are now, so the admission is retired rather than left standing as a stale caveat.Loading a warehouse
mcp-sap-guientry revisedTriaged out of data/crawled/mcp-candidates.json, the sap-ai-mcp-servers sweep. Written from the repository's own README.Driving the SAP GUI
sapgui.mcpentry revisedTriaged out of data/crawled/mcp-candidates.json, the sap-ai-mcp-servers sweep. Written from the repository's own README.Driving the SAP GUI
SAPient MCPentry revisedTriaged out of data/crawled/mcp-candidates.json, the sap-ai-mcp-servers sweep. Written from the repository's own README.Driving the SAP GUI
Wed 9
code pal for ABAPadded to the atlasATC and Code Inspector checks for Clean ABAPStatic analysis
Tue 8
ABAP CDSadded to the atlasModelling layer of ABAP Cloud above database tablesData modelling
Building an Attachment Upload and Download Solution Using UploadSetwithTable ControlpublishedThe 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.Attachments
@abapify/acdsprovides revisedPlaced on data modelling because it deals in ABAP CDS definitions. Reading the capability again moved it: acds does not help you define data, it parses definitions somebody else wrote into a typed AST — which is the substrate static analysis is built on, and it lives in the adt-cli repository. The mistake surfaced when repointing a CAP package away from the ABAP capability left this one holding it alone.Static analysis
ABAP CDSartifact type revisedEntered as package for want of anywhere better on the day the enum had no word for a platform component. Nothing publishes or versions ABAP CDS independently, and there is no adoption decision to make about it, which is what the new value is for.Data modelling
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Cachingcore coverage revisedcap.cloud.sap.com does not resolve — the domain is cap.cloud.sap. Found by the first run of the link checker; the citation had carried a checked date since it was written, which is what a date alone is worth.Caching
Mon 7
@abapify/acdsadded to the atlasParser for ABAP CDS DDL source with a typed ASTStatic analysis
Cachinggap revisedSeed text. It claimed nothing credible existed for invalidation driven by CDS change events, which cds-caching answers, so the note described the corpus before that entry rather than the ecosystem.Caching
Tue 1
Seed datacore coverage revisedWrong since mid-2024 and nobody had checked. It said generated volumes were community territory;
cds add data has generated volumes since @sap/cds-dk 7.9.0. Found by doing the version-history pass — which is the argument for that pass in one line.Seed dataMon 31
abap-file-formatsadded to the atlasSAP's specification for serialising ABAP objects to filesSource control
abapGitadded to the atlasGit client written in ABAP that runs inside the systemSource control
abaplintadded to the atlasStatic analysis for ABAP source outside a systemStatic analysis
Attachmentscore coverage revisedStates renamed to describe who is present rather than to interpret intent. left-open-on-purpose asserted a motive; core-and-community states a fact, with relationship carrying the intent separately.Attachments
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Cachingcore coverage revisednarrow-by-design requires saying what the core does and where it stops. With the unsourced core claim removed there is no basis for either, and 'narrow by design' asserts an intent we cannot evidence. Unassessed is the honest state until someone checks.Caching
Database connectorscore coverage revisedStates renamed to describe who is present rather than to interpret intent. left-open-on-purpose asserted a motive; core-and-community states a fact, with relationship carrying the intent separately.Database connectors
Debuggingcore coverage revisedStates renamed to describe who is present rather than to interpret intent. left-open-on-purpose asserted a motive; core-and-community states a fact, with relationship carrying the intent separately.Debugging
Editor supportcore coverage revisedStates renamed to describe who is present rather than to interpret intent. left-open-on-purpose asserted a motive; core-and-community states a fact, with relationship carrying the intent separately.Editor support
Local developmentcore coverage revisedStates renamed to describe who is present rather than to interpret intent. left-open-on-purpose asserted a motive; core-and-community states a fact, with relationship carrying the intent separately.Local development
Searchcore coverage revisedStates renamed to describe who is present rather than to interpret intent. left-open-on-purpose asserted a motive; core-and-community states a fact, with relationship carrying the intent separately.Search
Seed datacore coverage revisedStates renamed to describe who is present rather than to interpret intent. left-open-on-purpose asserted a motive; core-and-community states a fact, with relationship carrying the intent separately.Seed data
Mon 4
abapGitreleased 1.130.0Descriptions of an abapGit repository from before 1.130.0 that do not count a program's flow logic, a Web Dynpro component's controller code or a Smart Form's code among its separate ABAP files.Source control
Thu 28
abapGitreleased 1.115.0Programs written against abapGit's repository classes before 1.115.0 that call them directly.Source control