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Extend SAP SuccessFactors on SAP BTP with CAP - Import SAP SuccessFactors OData Services definitions
Walks through importing the ECEmployeeProfile and PLTUserManagement OData services from SAP API Business Hub into a CAP project: downloading their EDMX files, running cds import 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 to generate the CSN under srv/external, and pointing the resulting cds.requires entries at a destination. The second half creates a destination and an XSUAA service instance on BTP and binds their service keys into a default-env.json file so the project can reach SAP SuccessFactors during local development.
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Service integrationCAPService integrationUsing a service that runs somewhere else as if it were one of your own: its API imported into the model, a proxy that turns a local query into the remote protocol, and a mock that stands in for it on a laptop. Distinct from [destinations](capability:destinations), which is how the address and the credentials are found, and from [replication](capability:replication), which is holding the data locally.DestinationsCAPBTPDestinationsReaching a system that is not yours — an S/4HANA tenant, an on-premise service, a third-party API — without the address, the credentials or the tunnel being written into the application. The destination is the indirection, and the reason an endpoint can move without a redeploy.
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The ECC-to-CAP Starter KitThe ECC-to-CAP Starter KitA Devtoberfest 2026 session that builds a CAP service and a Fiori elements list report over an SAP ECC gateway service, on the argument that the CAP project, its contract and its UI survive a later move to SAP S/4HANA while the APIs behind them change. The service integration edge is the body of the demo: the metadata of the ECC flight service is saved as an EDMX file, imported with cds import so the model holds the structure and none of the data, projected read-only into a flight service, and one line of handler code forwards each read to ECC, with filtering, sorting and paging translated down to the older OData version the system speaks. The SAP Destination service edge covers the on-premise destination and the additional properties the walkthrough insists on, and the SAP Business Application Studio edge covers the full-stack dev space, the CAP project wizard, the service center plugin for picking up another OData service, and cds watch run under the profile that uses those credentials.published 2026-10-09
CAP Foundry: Engineering SAP CAP Applications from Business Intent with Guardrailed AICAP Foundry: Engineering SAP CAP Applications from Business Intent with Guardrailed AICAP Foundry is a prototype that generates a CAP Node.js project with SAP Fiori elements from a written business requirement, discovering the actual data shape from a chosen source — SQLite, a configured SAP HANA HDI container, offline EDMX, live OData through the SAP Destination service, or approved SAP BTP ABAP objects — instead of inventing one. The generated application can carry a Fiori draft lifecycle with optimistic concurrency via ETags and annotation-driven Fiori elements list and object screens, localized independently of the underlying service contract. Attachments can be added with upload, download and delete, gated on a malware-scan status, and the generated project still has to compile, build and pass its generated tests before the run is accepted.Shahid, published 2026-08-20
Connect SAP CAP (Node.js) to On-Premise/Private PostgreSQL using SAP Cloud ConnectorConnect SAP CAP (Node.js) to On-Premise/Private PostgreSQL using SAP Cloud ConnectorAn end-to-end route from a CAP Node.js application on Cloud Foundry to a PostgreSQL database that is never made publicly reachable, over BTP Connectivity and the Cloud Connector using a TCP destination and SOCKS5. The part worth having is that it covers the deployer as well as the server: the generated PostgreSQL deployer has to reach the same private database to deploy the CDS model, and a guide that only connects the runtime leaves you with a schema you cannot install.Kalaikovan, published 2026-08-07
Connect SAP CAP (Node.js) to On-Premise/Private PostgreSQL using SAP Cloud Connector
Database connectors changed in @sap/cds 10.1.0, 2026-09-07. Affects A recipe.
Expose S/4HANA Cloud OData API as an MCP Server via CAP Node.jsExpose S/4HANA Cloud OData API as an MCP Server via CAP Node.jsA step-by-step walkthrough that wraps SAP S/4HANA Cloud's Outbound Delivery OData v2 API in a CAP Node.js service and exposes it through @cap-js/mcp, so an MCP client can list the generated tools, query the delivery entities and call a custom createDelivery action over JSON-RPC. The remote S/4HANA connection is configured two ways in package.json: direct Basic Authentication credentials for local hybrid testing, and a named BTP destination for the app once deployed to Cloud Foundry.Jacky_Liu1, published 2026-07-29
Principal Propagation from BTP Web App to S/4HANA via SAP Integration SuitePrincipal Propagation from BTP Web App to S/4HANA via SAP Integration SuiteWalks through configuring principal propagation from a BTP web app, through SAP Integration Suite and Cloud Connector, to an on-premise S/4HANA system, so the backend receives calls as the logged-in user rather than a shared service account. The BTP Destination service uses OAuth2JWTBearer to exchange the user's Cloud Identity Services JWT for an Integration Suite token, and the iFlow's OData V2 receiver adapter reaches S/4HANA through Cloud Connector with Principal Propagation authentication. The Cloud Connector Subject Pattern builds the outbound certificate's CN from the token's user_name claim, which is populated from the IAS email rather than the sub claim, so identity resolution on S/4HANA hinges on that email matching a resolvable logon name.Joni, published 2026-07-10
Using RFC Function Modules and BAPIs in SAP Build Process AutomationUsing RFC Function Modules and BAPIs in SAP Build Process AutomationWalks through calling an S/4HANA BAPI (BAPI_BILLINGDOC_CREATEMULTIPLE, to create a billing document) from an SAP Build Process Automation action: mapping the virtual host to the internal system in SAP Cloud Connector over the RFC protocol and exposing the needed function modules, then creating an RFC-type destination in the BTP cockpit with the virtual message server and SMLG logon group. Once those two are in place, SAP Build lists the exposed BAPIs and RFCs for use in an action.MrRaj, published 2026-07-09
Creating an SAP SD Billing Document Using a BAPI in SAP Build and Accessing It Through 'Joule Work'Creating an SAP SD Billing Document Using a BAPI in SAP Build and Accessing It Through 'Joule Work'Walks through the two pieces of connectivity a SAP Build Process Automation action needs to call an on-premise BAPI: mapping the virtual host to the internal S/4HANA host in Cloud Connector over the RFC protocol, and creating an RFC-type destination in the BTP cockpit so BAPI_BILLINGDOC_CREATEMULTIPLE becomes a selectable action. The resulting process creates an SD billing document from a sales document number and is reached through SAP Build Work Zone, including from the Joule Work mobile app.MrRaj, published 2026-06-29
Fullstack CAP Application with HANA Cloud (Decoupled Architecture) [Part-5]Fullstack CAP Application with HANA Cloud (Decoupled Architecture) [Part-5]The consequence of decoupling: with the back end live on its own Cloud Foundry route, the front end needs a BTP destination to reach it rather than a relative path. Short, and it is the join the architecture creates.sanjucs, published 2026-05-18
Building Custom Joule Skills via RFC: Guide for SAP S/4HANA and ECC IntegrationBuilding Custom Joule Skills via RFC: Guide for SAP S/4HANA and ECC IntegrationWalks a Joule skill from a spoken question about a production order's status to an answer in SAP Build Workzone: a Cloud Connector tunnel and a destination in the BTP cockpit reach the S/4HANA or ECC system, a BAPI/RFC Action Project in SAP Build wraps the BAPI that reads the order, and Joule Studio, classic edition turns the action into a skill and deploys it. Establishing the connection and its destination before the action project exists is RFC connectivity and Destinations done for a low-code consumer rather than a CAP service. The action type here is BAPI/RFC, alongside the OData actions Joule Studio's own entry names.Robin-Qiu, published 2026-04-01
Implementing Dynamic Subaccount-Based Routing in SAP CAP with SAP BTP DestinationsImplementing Dynamic Subaccount-Based Routing in SAP CAP with SAP BTP DestinationsWhy environment variables are the wrong place for backend endpoints in a CAP application, and what replaces them: cockpit destinations resolved at runtime, with the subaccount or instance identified as the request is handled. The argument is about redeployment — an endpoint kept in the environment means a deploy every time it moves — and the shape it produces is one codebase serving several landscapes without a build per landscape.Dnyaneshwar Salve, published 2026-03-18
SAP BTP Platform Technical User for CTMS IntegrationSAP BTP Platform Technical User for CTMS IntegrationWalks through creating a technical user in Cloud Identity Services (IAS) as a custom identity provider, adding it to a subaccount's org, space and role collections, and switching a Destinations entry's authentication to OAuth2Password with the Cloud Foundry login endpoint as token service URL and an origin property naming the custom IDP. The technical user lets CI/CD pipelines, API calls and transport automation authenticate without human credentials, keeping service accounts separate from people for audit and access control.Marudhu999, published 2026-03-09
UI for the BTP Application Vulnerability ReportUI for the BTP Application Vulnerability ReportAn open-source SAPUI5 front end for SAP's Application Vulnerability Report API, backed by a CAP Node.js service that projects the external findings as an OData V4 entity and forwards each query with api.run(req.query). The CAP service reaches that API through a Destination service instance configured with OAuth2ClientCredentials authentication from a service key, so the address and credentials stay out of the application code.published 2026-02-10
Use REST services in GraphUse REST services in GraphSAP Graph turns a REST service into a business data graph by pairing a data destination with a metadata destination that supplies its OpenAPI document, since plain REST has no $metadata endpoint of the kind OData exposes. It walks through creating both destinations on SAP BTP, including the OAuth2ClientCredentials authentication needed when the OpenAPI file is hosted through an API artifact, and shows how Graph flattens each REST operation's path and method into an unbound OData action or function, such as turning a DELETE on /users/pets into a POST to users_pets__delete.florian_moritz, published 2026-01-20
Establishing connectivity between a local CAP runtime and on-premise systemsEstablishing connectivity between a local CAP runtime and on-premise systemsReaching S/4HANA, an on-premise HANA or any HTTP service from a CAP process running on your laptop — the case where the connectivity proxy the platform provides is not there and the tunnel has to be arranged.vLeonkev, published 2025-10-15
From REST to Datasphere: A CAP-based Integration ApproachFrom REST to Datasphere: A CAP-based Integration ApproachThe reverse direction and a second attempt: the authors had already written data into Datasphere with a small FastAPI service on the OPEN SQL schema, and this is what changed when they rebuilt it on CAP.christian_willi, published 2025-09-30
Configuring SAP Cloud Integration for an IBP to S/4HANA (on prem / private cloud) integrationConfiguring SAP Cloud Integration for an IBP to S/4HANA (on prem / private cloud) integrationWalks through creating the two BTP destinations an Cloud Integration iflow needs for an IBP-to-S/4HANA integration: one of type RFC with a WebSocket RFC server host and port for the IBP tenant, and one of type RFC with the on-premise proxy type, a Cloud Connector location ID and a virtual host for the S/4HANA system. It then has the reader copy SAP's prebuilt IBP integration packages into the Design workspace and deploy every reusable iflow in them before a business iflow can call the S/4HANA extractor through SAP Connectivity service.SofianePebre, published 2025-08-27
Sending Emails from SAP CAP Applications with Any SMTP ProviderSending Emails from SAP CAP Applications with Any SMTP ProviderWalks through sending mail from a CAP application with no dedicated mail service: create an SMTP destination for a Gmail account in the SAP BTP cockpit, bind it to the Cloud Foundry app, and call the sap-cf-mailer npm package from a CAP service handler naming that destination. The SAP Destination service holds the SMTP host, port and app password so the handler code names only the destination, and the same handler sends plain text, an HTML body, or a message with a base64-encoded attachment.MaheshSirsat1708, published 2025-08-19
How to Call a Remote OData API from Your Local CAP Java ProjectHow to Call a Remote OData API from Your Local CAP Java ProjectThe Business Accelerator Hub sandbox called from a CAP Java project on a laptop, with a concrete finish line — a localhost URL that returns business partners. Everything needed to get there is listed, Maven and JDK versions included.Umezuki, published 2025-08-11
Exposing SAP S4 Onprem data to external System || Odata Service || BTP || Destination-ConnectivityExposing SAP S4 Onprem data to external System || Odata Service || BTP || Destination-ConnectivityA walkthrough that wraps an IDOC-reprocessing function module in a RAP OData service on S/4HANA on-premise, then reaches it from a Python app on Cloud Foundry by looking the on-premise system up through the Destinations service and calling it through SAP Connectivity service proxies behind Cloud Connector. It walks through the destination and connectivity service keys, resolving the destination's URL and credentials, and the connectivity-service token and proxy call needed to reach the on-premise OData endpoint, noting the app must run on Cloud Foundry since destination and connectivity lookups do not work from a local machine.Ace_D, published 2025-07-24
Connect to Public Cloud API in Node.js via Authorisation CodeConnect to Public Cloud API in Node.js via Authorisation CodeThe authorisation code flow rather than client credentials, which is the harder half: a service key, an XSUAA instance bound to the CAP app, and a destination, with the author saying plainly that this was challenging and they hope it saves somebody the same time.Egan, published 2025-07-22
Extending SAP Sales and Service Cloud V2 Using CAPExtending SAP Sales and Service Cloud V2 Using CAPAn extension target that does not run on BTP at all — Sales and Service Cloud V2 sits directly on hyperscalers — so the separation between core and extension is enforced rather than encouraged. That constraint is what makes the post worth reading.Quablab, published 2025-07-09
Set up the SAP Cloud Connector: Integrating On‑Premise Systems with Cloud ServicesSet up the SAP Cloud Connector: Integrating On‑Premise Systems with Cloud ServicesA step-by-step walkthrough of installing Cloud Connector, adding a subaccount, managing identity and trust certificates in STRUST, and mapping cloud-to-on-premise paths for an SAP HANA backend. It ends by creating a Destinations entry in SAP BTP with proxy type OnPremise and basic authentication, then testing it from SAP Business Application Studio.Thijn_Grilis, published 2025-06-12
Consuming data from SAP Datasphere in SAP BTP CAP ApplicationsConsuming data from SAP Datasphere in SAP BTP CAP ApplicationsDatasphere as the source a CAP application reads from — the case for it being that Datasphere already unified the SAP and non-SAP data, so the application does not have to. From a real project.sudheer-tammana, published 2025-06-03
Configure Journal Entry Posting Approval from Store Template in Build Process AutomationConfigure Journal Entry Posting Approval from Store Template in Build Process AutomationWalks through deploying SAP's Journal Entry Posting Approval template from the SAP Build Process Automation Store against an on-premise S/4HANA system that has no Secure Network Connection: destinations for S/4HANA via Cloud Connector, for SAP Document Management service, integration option to hold the approval's supporting documents, and for the BPA service and its SMTP mail. It then swaps the template's SNC action groups for basic-connection BAPI calls and deploys the approval's UI5 applications so the task lands in My Inbox, with a Desktop Agent registered to run the unattended document-check and document-post automations.published 2025-01-28
Microsoft Sentinel for SAP goes agentlessMicrosoft Sentinel for SAP goes agentlessExplains how Microsoft Sentinel for SAP's new agentless data connector drops its Docker-based collector agent by reusing an existing SAP Cloud Connector setup together with SAP Integration Suite: on SAP NetWeaver 750 and later, a small set of RFC function modules must be reachable from Integration Suite, added as an RFC connection in the subaccount's Destinations maintenance view, with a user authorised to call them (RFC connectivity). It also covers calling the audit log API remotely, which on older releases needs SAP note 3054326 and a different integration-package configuration.published 2024-12-17
Hey ABAP Cloud please let me save my data export to Azure Storage please🥺🙏- part 4Hey ABAP Cloud please let me save my data export to Azure Storage please🥺🙏- part 4Walks through reaching Azure Blob Storage from ABAP Cloud without an intermediary Cloud Foundry app: an OAuth2 client credentials flow against Microsoft Entra ID, driven either through cl_http_destination_provider and the SAP Destination service at subaccount or Cloud Foundry-space level, or through the SAP_COM_0276 communication scenario and Communication Management. Notes that SAP marks the destination-service route deprecated for ABAP Cloud even though it alone offers management APIs and cross-tenant reuse, and closes on automating the resulting client-secret rotation with Azure Key Vault.published 2023-11-21
#BTP #SAPCAP: Quirky Nuggets (N05-N06)#BTP #SAPCAP: Quirky Nuggets (N05-N06)On SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry Runtime, a one-shot PostgreSQL db-deployer app can be restarted by the platform's default port-type health check inside its 60-second timeout, re-running the deploy and duplicating data in the PostgreSQL database; setting health-check-type to process or http, via cf commands or the app's mta.yaml parameters, avoids it. In CAP, a remote service's entities are imported and consumed through cds.connect.to and queried via a projection, but its functions and actions cannot be projected: they must be redefined in the consuming service's own interface, with the handler forwarding the call to the remote proxy.published 2023-07-27
从BTP Launchpad里的sapui5应用里调用部署的CPI IFLOW从BTP Launchpad里的sapui5应用里调用部署的CPI IFLOWA short follow-up to the author's earlier post on calling a deployed CPI iflow from a standalone-router SAPUI5 app, adjusted for the case where the app runs inside the BTP Launchpad: the fetch call is built from the launchpad component's own base URI, and the app's xs-app.json approuter route maps a /cpi/* path to a destination that fronts the CPI iflow runtime, with XSUAA authentication on the route. It also walks the MTA build and cf deploy commands used to push the app, scaffolded with generator-easy-ui5, to BTP.Jacky_Liu1, published 2023-06-13
CAP Service to Fetch + Create Sales Order in S4 HANA Public CloudCAP Service to Fetch + Create Sales Order in S4 HANA Public CloudA CAP Node.js walkthrough imports SAP S/4HANA Cloud's Sales Order OData API with cds import, adds csrf handling to the generated service definition, and forwards a custom REST action's reads and writes to the remote proxy through cds.connect.to, the pattern Service integration covers. The mta.yaml binds the SAP S/4HANA Cloud extensibility service and a SAP Destination service instance so the S/4HANA Public Cloud system's address and credentials stay outside the application, per Destinations.Mujeeb, published 2023-05-30
SAP BTP Destinations in a Nutshell Part 1 - Motivation & NoAuthentication DestinationsSAP BTP Destinations in a Nutshell Part 1 - Motivation & NoAuthentication DestinationsOpens a series on SAP BTP Destinations by walking through the simplest case, a NoAuthentication destination from one CAP Node.js app to another on Cloud Foundry, shown two ways: executeHttpRequest from @sap-cloud-sdk/http-client, and a manual sequence that reads the destination service's credentials from VCAP_SERVICES, fetches an OAuth token, and requests the destination by name before calling its URL. The manual path is written deliberately verbose to show what the Cloud SDK call does behind the scenes; later parts of the series cover the other destination types.JakobFra, published 2023-05-23
SAP SuccessFactors extensibility easy with SAP BTP, Kyma runtimeSAP SuccessFactors extensibility easy with SAP BTP, Kyma runtimeSuccessFactors extensibility called directly from Kyma, with OAuth2SAMLBearerAssertion doing the identity part. Long, and code-first — the author leads with the sample rather than with the architecture.quovadis, published 2023-05-22
Connecting On Premise Mail Destination and Sending Email Using SAP Cloud SDK JavaScript Version 3 on SAP CAPConnecting On Premise Mail Destination and Sending Email Using SAP Cloud SDK JavaScript Version 3 on SAP CAPMail from CAP through a company's own SMTP server rather than a hosted one, which is the case the existing answers did not cover — the author names them and says why each failed here: one needed an SMTP provider like Mailtrap, another solved it in Java. What is left is the connectivity: an on-premise mail destination reached from Node, and a hybrid profile to test it against.codebrokerad, published 2023-02-14
Connecting On Premise Mail Destination and Sending Email Using SAP Cloud SDK JavaScript Version 3 on SAP CAP
Destinations changed in @sap-cloud-sdk/connectivity 4.0.0, 2025-03-04. Affects Runnable code.
Surviving and Thriving with the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model: Local development hurdlesSurviving and Thriving with the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model: Local development hurdlesThree hurdles in running a CAP application locally: services mocked with cds run --with-mocks return no data across OData associations until the ON clause is hand-written into the imported CDS, an on-premise API reached through the SAP Cloud Connector times out because its proxy is part of destinations and connectivity and reachable only from inside SAP BTP, and a Fiori frontend served from the HTML5 Application Repository needs the HTML5 Repo Mock to reach a local backend at all. It closes with the launch configurations the author uses for debugging cds watch locally and attaching to a running Cloud Foundry instance.maxstreifeneder, published 2023-02-02
SFSFとHANA Cloudを使用するCAPのアプリケーション開発SFSFとHANA Cloudを使用するCAPのアプリケーション開発In Japanese. A hands-on taking data between SuccessFactors and HANA Cloud through a CAP application — the connection setup, the data and service models, then read and write logic, and a Cloud Foundry deploy. Long enough to carry its own table of contents.rasai, published 2022-12-14
SFSFとHANA Cloudを使用するCAPのアプリケーション開発
Database connectors has changed twice since this was published, most recently in @sap/cds 10.1.0, 2026-09-07. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
BTP CAP : How to Connect to Remote Services Locally in CAP ApplicationBTP CAP : How to Connect to Remote Services Locally in CAP ApplicationThe same problem four years earlier: a CAP application that consumes a remote service, running locally against the real thing rather than against a mock.showkath_naseem, published 2022-12-12
Architecting Complex Real Life Business Scenario on SAP BTP with ease [ Targeting Multiple backend S/4HANA Systems utilizing Principal Propagation ]Architecting Complex Real Life Business Scenario on SAP BTP with ease [ Targeting Multiple backend S/4HANA Systems utilizing Principal Propagation ]The opening of a three-part series on reaching more than one S/4HANA system from one CAP application with the user's identity carried through. This part sets up the business problem; the propagation itself is in the parts that follow.mohit_bansal3, published 2022-11-25
Part2: Architecting Complex Real Life Business Scenario on SAP BTP with ease [ Targeting Multiple backend S/4HANA Systems utilizing Principal Propagation ]Part2: Architecting Complex Real Life Business Scenario on SAP BTP with ease [ Targeting Multiple backend S/4HANA Systems utilizing Principal Propagation ]The middle part: the destinations and the trust that make principal propagation work against several backends rather than one, which is where the configuration stops being a copy of the tutorial.mohit_bansal3, published 2022-11-25
Part 3: Architecting Complex Real Life Business Scenario on SAP BTP with ease [ Targeting Multiple backend S/4HANA Systems utilizing Principal Propagation ]Part 3: Architecting Complex Real Life Business Scenario on SAP BTP with ease [ Targeting Multiple backend S/4HANA Systems utilizing Principal Propagation ]The final part, and the one with the most CAP in it — the service consuming the propagated destinations, and what the handler sees. Read the three together; the series is one piece.mohit_bansal3, published 2022-11-25
Part 3: Architecting Complex Real Life Business Scenario on SAP BTP with ease [ Targeting Multiple backend S/4HANA Systems utilizing Principal Propagation ]
Destinations changed in @sap-cloud-sdk/connectivity 4.0.0, 2025-03-04. Affects A recipe.
HTML5.Timeout for CAP destinations in mta.yaml longer than defaultHTML5.Timeout for CAP destinations in mta.yaml longer than defaultA page and a half about one property that has to be raised when a CAP destination is slower than the default allows — and it now opens with its own correction, dated October 2025, that the property is called timeout rather than HTML5.Timeout, credited to a commenter. The correction is why it is worth keeping.NilsJanen, published 2022-11-09
Useful CAP CDS and Fiori Commands to Accelerate Development and DeploymentUseful CAP CDS and Fiori Commands to Accelerate Development and DeploymentA command-by-command walkthrough of @sap/cds-dk's cds add and fiori add generators: cds add xsuaa writes an XSUAA security configuration from the CDS model's authorization annotations, and cds add hana together with cds deploy --to hana switches persistence from the default SQLite database to SAP HANA Cloud. cds add mta and fiori add deploy-config, from @sap/generator-fiori, build the Cloud Foundry deployment descriptor together, adding a destination-service block and an xs-app.json that routes the Fiori app's calls through a named destination.TiaXu, published 2022-10-19
Qualtrics integration with domain based authorization in CAP project on HANA cloudQualtrics integration with domain based authorization in CAP project on HANA cloudSurveys pulled from Qualtrics into a CAP application in real time, with the twist in the title: authorisation decided by the user's domain rather than by a role collection. A pattern that comes up whenever the audience is wider than the tenant.former_member69893, published 2022-09-30
Qualtrics integration with domain based authorization in CAP project on HANA cloud
Authorization has changed twice since this was published, most recently in CAP Java 3.7.1, 2025-01-30. Affects Runnable code.
Invoke OpenAPI-documented APIs remotely with SAP Cloud Application Programming ModelInvoke OpenAPI-documented APIs remotely with SAP Cloud Application Programming ModelThe other direction: consuming an API described by an OpenAPI document from CAP, rather than publishing one. Worth pairing with the plugin entries here, which all serve the outbound half.wittro, published 2022-08-30
Invoke OpenAPI-documented APIs remotely with SAP Cloud Application Programming Model
Destinations changed in @sap-cloud-sdk/connectivity 4.0.0, 2025-03-04. Affects Runnable code.
Execute [OAuth2 client credentials] protected REST request with SAP CAP ApplicationExecute [OAuth2 client credentials] protected REST request with SAP CAP ApplicationA recipe, and the author calls it that — package.json, a .cds and a handler — for calling a remote service protected by OAuth2 client credentials from a CAP application. Short, complete, and addressed to CAP developers rather than to BTP administrators.Lachmish, published 2022-04-27
Execute [OAuth2 client credentials] protected REST request with SAP CAP Application
Authentication changed in CAP Java 3.0.1, 2024-07-26. Affects A recipe.
Extend SAP SuccessFactors on SAP BTP with CAP - Create the CAP ServiceExtend SAP SuccessFactors on SAP BTP with CAP - Create the CAP ServiceWalks through writing a service definition in SAP Business Application Studio that projects entities from an existing CDS model: one entity gets @odata.draft.enabled because Fiori Elements only shows CRUD actions on a draft-enabled entity, and a read-only projection of an already-imported SuccessFactors OData entity fails with the generic handlers because the call is delegated to the remote service, so a custom handler is needed. Running cds watch then serves the entities, drafts and $metadata at the declared service path.published 2022-03-23
SAP CAP: Consume SAP API Hub Sandbox Data as an external service Part- 1SAP CAP: Consume SAP API Hub Sandbox Data as an external service Part- 1Walks through consuming SAP API Business Hub's Business Partner sandbox API from a CAP Node.js project: @sap/cds-dk's cds import turns the downloaded EDMX into a CSN model and a cds.requires entry, a projection service exposes it, and a custom handler forwards reads to the proxy through @sap/cds's cds.connect.to and bp.run(req.query). Reaching the sandbox needs the API key added as a header on that same credentials block, since the destination service that would carry it is left for a promised part two.DebashishDas, published 2022-03-17
SAP CAP Adapter to expose OData as custom REST ServiceSAP CAP Adapter to expose OData as custom REST ServiceWalks through consuming an external OData V2 service in a CAP project — cds import converts the Northwind service's EDMX into a CSN and cds.connect.to wires up the remote proxy — then re-exposing it as plain REST with the @protocol:'rest' annotation instead of OData's own envelope. Shows two ways to reshape the response, renaming and dropping fields in a CDS projection or rewriting the returned objects in a custom service handler, and remaps ?pageSize and ?offset onto OData's $top and $skip in that same handler.Former Member, published 2021-09-15
SAP CAP Remote Services & SAP Fiori ElementsSAP CAP Remote Services & SAP Fiori ElementsWhat happens to a generated UI when the data is not local: a CAP service projecting a remote one, with Fiori elements on top. The author explored it to find out where the abstraction holds, which is the useful register for this.Former Member, published 2021-05-20
SAP CAP Remote Services & SAP Fiori Elements
Fiori annotations changed in @sap/cds-dk 9.6.0, 2025-12-17. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
Part 2: How to build an extension application for SAP S/4HANA Cloud using CAP, SAP Cloud SDK and SAP Fiori elementsPart 2: How to build an extension application for SAP S/4HANA Cloud using CAP, SAP Cloud SDK and SAP Fiori elementsThe second part, continuing the same extension. Opens with a recap of the stack rather than of the steps, which makes it readable on its own.former_member748, published 2020-12-20
Part 2: How to build an extension application for SAP S/4HANA Cloud using CAP, SAP Cloud SDK and SAP Fiori elements
Fiori annotations changed in @sap/cds-dk 9.6.0, 2025-12-17. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
Part 1: How to build an extension application for SAP S/4HANA Cloud using CAP, SAP Cloud SDK and SAP Fiori elementsPart 1: How to build an extension application for SAP S/4HANA Cloud using CAP, SAP Cloud SDK and SAP Fiori elementsThe substantial part of a side-by-side extensibility series: CAP Node.js, Cloud SDK and Fiori elements against S/4HANA Cloud. Eighteen thousand characters, and the one to read if you only read one.former_member748, published 2020-12-01
Part 1: How to build an extension application for SAP S/4HANA Cloud using CAP, SAP Cloud SDK and SAP Fiori elements
Fiori annotations changed in @sap/cds-dk 9.6.0, 2025-12-17. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
Event-driven Extensions for SAP SuccessFactors on SAP BTP – Connecting the DotsEvent-driven Extensions for SAP SuccessFactors on SAP BTP – Connecting the DotsWalks through an event-driven extension for SAP SuccessFactors: Automated Configurations registers the SuccessFactors system against an SAP BTP account with an integration token, and a SuccessFactors custom integration then pushes events, such as an employee joining or leaving, to a topic in Event Mesh that a CAP application subscribes to. The SuccessFactors APIs themselves are downloaded as EDMX files from SAP API Business Hub and imported into the CAP project, the same EDMX-import path behind service integration, so CAP generates the client used to call them. A reference application, RunSmooth, ties Automated Configurations, Event Mesh and CAP together end to end.Former Member, published 2020-08-12
How to Access On-premise OData from the Business Application Studio - CAPM DevelopmentHow to Access On-premise OData from the Business Application Studio - CAPM DevelopmentA destination-naming constraint found the hard way and then corrected in public: the post carries its own update saying that with a CAPM app, a standard destination works through the studio's proxy as long as the name matches [a-z0-9-]. The update credits a comment on the post, so the correction and its source are both in the record.laszlo_kajan2, published 2020-06-02
How to Access On-premise OData from the Business Application Studio - CAPM Development
Destinations changed in @sap-cloud-sdk/connectivity 4.0.0, 2025-03-04. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
Use SCP CF Destination service in NodeJs locallyUse SCP CF Destination service in NodeJs locallyReading a destination from a laptop, where the environment variable the destination service normally provides does not exist. A small gap with a real cost, since the alternative is deploying to test every change to a remote call.WouterLemaire, published 2020-05-28
Use SCP CF Destination service in NodeJs locally
Destinations changed in @sap-cloud-sdk/connectivity 4.0.0, 2025-03-04. Affects Runnable code.
CAP: Consume External Service - Part 1CAP: Consume External Service - Part 1Builds a CAP Node.js service from scratch that consumes the public NorthWind OData V4 service: cds import turns its EDMX metadata into a CSN model under srv/external, and a CatalogService projects Products from it with a custom READ handler that runs the request through cds.connect.to('NorthWind'). Shows the same projection working two ways — against a CSV mocked under srv/external/data with the <service>-<entity>.csv naming the framework expects, then against the real service once credentials.url is added to the CAP configuration and @sap-cloud-sdk/http-client is installed — and defers routing that connection through the Cloud Foundry Destinations service to the next post in the series.published 2020-05-26
SAP Cloud Application Programming Model: Deep Insert (5) Consume Remote Service with SAP Cloud SDKSAP Cloud Application Programming Model: Deep Insert (5) Consume Remote Service with SAP Cloud SDKThe same thing again through SAP Cloud SDK, published as a deliberate comparison with the part before it — the author says outright that it does what the previous post did, differently. Reading both is how you see what the SDK is actually doing for you.CarlosRoggan, published 2019-07-26
SAP Cloud Application Programming Model: Deep Insert (5) Consume Remote Service with SAP Cloud SDK
Destinations changed in @sap-cloud-sdk/connectivity 4.0.0, 2025-03-04. Affects Runnable code.
SAP Cloud Application Programming Model: Deep Insert (4) Consume Remote ServiceSAP Cloud Application Programming Model: Deep Insert (4) Consume Remote ServiceFourth in a long series on deep insert, and the one where the target stops being local. Twenty thousand characters, project files linked, and the earlier parts on UUIDs and multi-level structures are prerequisites the author names.CarlosRoggan, published 2019-07-24
SAP Cloud Application Programming Model: Deep Insert (4) Consume Remote Service
Destinations changed in @sap-cloud-sdk/connectivity 4.0.0, 2025-03-04. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
Consume Remote Services in a Full-Stack CAP ApplicationConsume Remote Services in a Full-Stack CAP ApplicationExtending the Developer's Guide application with a remote S/4HANA service — connectivity, importing the Business Partner API, and running against it. SAP publishes this as four separate paths: mock server or real S/4HANA Cloud, times Cloud Foundry or Kyma. One entry covers all four, because the difference between them is which backend and which runtime, not what you learn.SAP
Extend SAP SuccessFactors on SAP BTP with the SAP Cloud Application Programming ModelExtend SAP SuccessFactors on SAP BTP with the SAP Cloud Application Programming ModelTwelve tutorials, about two hours, building a side-by-side extension of SuccessFactors on BTP. The spine is remote services: importing the SuccessFactors OData service definitions into a CAP model, then treating them as entities the extension reads and writes through, rather than as an API called from a handler. Indexed as one entry because the parts only make sense in order.SAP
Consume SOAP Web Services in SAP Cloud Application Programming ModelConsume SOAP Web Services in SAP Cloud Application Programming ModelCalling a SOAP service from CAP — the case the remote-service story does not cover, since CAP's own import path speaks OData and OpenAPI.SAP
Use the SAP Cloud SDK in the SAP Cloud Application Programming ModelUse the SAP Cloud SDK in the SAP Cloud Application Programming ModelReaching for the Cloud SDK from inside a CAP service, for the calls CAP's own remote services do not make.SAP
Extend SAP SuccessFactors on SAP BTP with CAP - Create the CAP ServiceExtend SAP SuccessFactors on SAP BTP with CAP - Create the CAP ServiceWalks through writing a service definition in SAP Business Application Studio that projects entities from an existing CDS model: one entity gets @odata.draft.enabled because Fiori Elements only shows CRUD actions on a draft-enabled entity, and a read-only projection of an already-imported SuccessFactors OData entity fails with the generic handlers because the call is delegated to the remote service, so a custom handler is needed. Running cds watch then serves the entities, drafts and $metadata at the declared service path.published 2022-03-23
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