Producing a web interface is UI written in ABAPUI written in ABAPProducing a web user interface from ABAP code, with the application’s backend language also defining what the user sees and how it behaves.Community only; operating an existing screen programmatically is GUI automationDriving the SAP GUIOperating the SAP GUI programmatically to perform tasks or test interactions through the actual screen. Agent access to your code works with development objects instead of the user interface.Community only.
DomainAll ecosystems
UI & Frontend Bridge
Where the service meets a screen: annotations and data binding, the launchpad, theming and localization, and what a UI needs from the backend to render.
Capabilities
Compare the concerns mapped here and open an ecosystem for its assessment. Artifact counts show providers; content counts show items linked directly to the capability.
24 of 24 capabilities
CapabilityEcosystems
Accessibility
Making a UI usable with a screen reader, with a keyboard alone and without seeing the layout: accessible names on controls, a heading order, landmarks, focus handling and announcements.
App hosting
Where a built frontend lives and what serves it — the static files of a frontend application after the build, reachable behind a login and beside the API it talks to, without a web server of your own.
Custom controls and libraries
Extending the set of controls an app is built from: a control of its own, a wrapper around a third-party widget, or an icon font registered with the framework, packaged so another app can reuse it.
Data binding
Keeping a control and a model in step in both directions, including the formatting, type conversion and validation that sit between the two.
Draft handling
Letting a user edit a record over several requests before it becomes real — saving unfinished changes, locking, and activating a completed draft.
Fiori annotations
Describing 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.
Frontend boundary
Connecting a separately hosted frontend to an application service: authentication, routing, access to backend systems, user identity propagation and tenant isolation across the hosting boundary.
Frontend performance
Finding why a browser UI is slow to start or to respond, and what to change: how many requests it sends and whether they block each other, how large its bundles are, and which OData round trips it waits on.
In-app guidance
Explaining an application from inside it — guided tours, hotspots and contextual help shown next to the screen a user is on, rather than in a separate manual.
Integrated frontend dev server
Serving a frontend and its backend services together during development, so they can be reached through one local origin.
Key-user adaptation
Changing a delivered app without modifying it — moving, hiding and adding elements as a layered set of changes that survive an upgrade.
Launchpad and site content
Getting apps, cards, pages and workspaces in front of users in an application launchpad or portal, including content providers, content packages and access roles.
Launchpad plugins
Extending an application launchpad’s shell rather than an individual app: adding header buttons, user-menu entries, frame areas or background behaviour shared across the apps it hosts.
Localization
Serving labels, messages and translated content per user locale, including translatable model elements and per-tenant text overrides.
Mobile apps
Building a native iOS or Android app over business data: onboarding, offline sync against an OData service, device features, and the client that runs on the phone.
POD plugins
Extending SAP Digital Manufacturing's Production Operator Dashboard with plugins of your own: a view, a panel or an action that runs inside the operator's POD, packaged as an extension the product loads.
Routing and navigation
Turning a URL hash into a view, and a view change back into a URL — so a deep link, a browser back button and a refresh all land where the user expects in a single-page app.
Server-side rendering
Rendering a UI on the server before it reaches the browser — first paint without waiting for a client framework to boot, and markup a crawler can read.
Task and approval UIs
The screen a person approves something on — a workflow or process task rendered as a form, embedded in an inbox that supplies its context.
Theming
Applying a consistent visual identity across every control, including the parameters an app may read and the custom themes an organisation may build.
Touch operation
Operating an app with a finger, a stylus or a gloved hand on a tablet, kiosk or shop-floor terminal: targets large enough to hit, and input that does not assume a hardware keyboard.
UI written in ABAP
Producing a web user interface from ABAP code, with the application’s backend language also defining what the user sees and how it behaves.
Web Components interop
Using standards-based custom elements inside an app, and the question of which control set an app should be built from at all, two concerns that are often answered as one.
Each ecosystem hexagon shows its own coverage assessment. Coverage is never combined across ecosystems.
Artifacts
Providers, examples and other artifacts mapped to this domain, from SAP and the community. Each artifact appears once.
167 of 167 artifacts
ArtifactSignals
@abap2ui5/embed-control@abap2ui5/embed-controlA UI5 custom control that runs an abap2UI5 app inside a host UI5 app, with the abap2UI5 frontend loaded from the backend the app talks to.community org, ui5
The page and the [abap2UI5](artifact:abap2ui5-abap2ui5) service have to share an origin: an `endpoint` that resolves to another origin is refused, and abap2UI5 rejects a POST whose `Origin` names another host. A host that routes by the URL hash, such as a Fiori elements app or an app with a UI5 router, needs abap2UI5 1.146.0 or later, because 1.145.0 clears the host's hash after every roundtrip. One frontend per page: the first control that starts decides which endpoint the frontend comes from.
@concircle/i18n-ai-translator@concircle/i18n-ai-translatorA CLI that translates a UI5 app's i18n.properties with OpenAI and writes the language files back, masking placeholders, applying a glossary and caching what has been translated.independent, ui5
@marianfoo/ui5-cc-dayjs@marianfoo/ui5-cc-dayjsA UI5 custom control that writes a date to the page through Day.js, with the input format, the output format and any shift of days or months set as control properties.independent, ui5
No published releases; repository quiet for 52 months.
@mpah/enum-value-help@mpah/enum-value-helpA CAP plugin that generates value help for enum fields from an @enumValueHelp annotation, serving the enum's values from one generated entity instead of hand-written OData annotations.independent, cap
@openui5/sap.ui.core@openui5/sap.ui.coreThe OpenUI5 core: the module loader, the MVC runtime, data binding, routing, theming and the test stack, which is everything a UI5 app does before a single community package is added.sap official, ui5
@rizing/cds-extension@rizing/cds-extensionA CAP extension, CDSX, that puts a draft-capable facade in front of an OData service imported into CAP, so Fiori elements can edit records that live in another system as drafts.partner, cap
@sap-theming/theming-base-content@sap-theming/theming-base-contentThe colour, font and metric definitions of the SAP themes, published as Less, CSS variable, SASS and JSON parameter sets for an HTML framework to read.sap official, ui5
@sap-ux/cds-annotation-parser@sap-ux/cds-annotation-parserParses annotations out of CDS source, so tooling can read what a model says about its UI without compiling it.sap official, cap
@sap-ux/cds-odata-annotation-converter@sap-ux/cds-odata-annotation-converterConverts CDS annotations into their OData form, which is the translation Fiori tooling needs to reason about a service the way a client sees it.sap official, cap
@sap-ux/fe-fpm-writer@sap-ux/fe-fpm-writerA library that writes flexible programming model elements, such as a custom page wired into the app's routing, into a Fiori elements application for OData v4 from Node code.sap official, ui5
@sap-ux/fiori-annotation-api@sap-ux/fiori-annotation-apiThe programmatic API Fiori tooling uses to read and write annotations on a project, rather than editing the files as text.sap official, cap
@sap-ux/i18n@sap-ux/i18nA library that reads and writes the i18n bundles of a UI5 or CAP project from Node code, the i18n.properties file of a UI5 app and the i18n folder of a CAP project alike.sap official, ui5
@sap-ux/odata-service-writer@sap-ux/odata-service-writerA library that adds an OData service to a UI5 project that already exists, writing the file updates from a config object naming the service url, its OData version and a destination.sap official, ui5
@sap-ux/odata-vocabularies@sap-ux/odata-vocabulariesCarries the OASIS and SAP OData vocabularies as a package, with a VocabularyService for asking which terms exist, where they apply and what their types and properties are.sap official, ui5
@sap/appfront-cli@sap/appfront-cliA CLI for the SAP BTP Application Frontend service, the hosted path for serving a Vue or React frontend in front of a CAP service.sap official, cap
@sap/approuter@sap/approuterSAP's Node.js application router: the single entry point in front of a business application's microservices, which authenticates the user, forwards each request to a backend by route and serves static content.sap official, btp
@sap/cds@sap/cdsThe CAP Node.js runtime, which compiles the CDS model, serves the services declared in it, answers generic requests before any handler runs, and loads every cds-plugin.sap official, cap
@sap/cds-fiori@sap/cds-fioriFiori draft handling and UI-facing behaviour for CAP services.sap official, cap
@sap/generator-fiori@sap/generator-fioriThe single entry point for generating a Fiori application — the user picks a template and the generator produces the project around it.sap official, cap
@sap/ux-cds-compiler-facade@sap/ux-cds-compiler-facadeWraps the CAP CDS compiler behind one set of APIs for annotation handling, so tooling reads a model without tracking which compiler version is installed.sap official, cap
@sap/ux-cds-odata-language-server-extension@sap/ux-cds-odata-language-server-extensionAdds the OData annotation features to @sap/vscode-cds, the CDS plug-in for Visual Studio Code: completion, micro-snippets, diagnostics, vocabulary documentation, Go to Definition and an i18n check inside a .cds file.sap official, cap
@satiroglu/kaev@satiroglu/kaevA command line that runs rule-based checks over a SAPUI5 or OpenUI5 project, reporting each finding with a rule id, a category, a severity, a confidence and the file it sits in.independent, ui5
Not in a project whose dependencies must all carry an open-source licence: KAEV is proprietary software, its licence page states that downloading or viewing the npm package does not by itself grant permission to use, copy, modify, redistribute, sublicense, sell, host or create derivative works, and the LICENSE file shipped with the package carries the controlling terms. Not as the last word on whether a UI5 application is secure: its rule reference states that a heuristic finding is not proof of a vulnerability, and its documentation puts professional security review beside it rather than under it.
@ui5/tooling-webc@ui5/tooling-webcDeprecated UI5 Tooling extensions that generate UI5 library wrapper projects for UI5 Web Components and serve them during development; the README points to ui5-tooling-modules instead.sap official, ui5
The declared repository is archived.
@ui5/webcomponents@ui5/webcomponentsSAP's UI elements as standard custom elements, ui5-button among them, implementing SAP Fiori design and usable from plain HTML, React, Angular or Vue.sap official, ui5
Not where the UI library itself is expected to bind data: the documentation leaves binding a component's content and events to the host framework. Not from a CDN script tag: the project publishes none, so it assumes a build step.
abap_btocs_deeplabap_btocs_deeplA plugin for the B-Tocs ABAP SDK that lets an SAP ABAP server translate with DeepL through an SM59 RFC destination, using a DeepL API key, with a demo program for the first call.independent, abap
No published releases; repository quiet for 32 months.
abap_btocs_libtrlabap_btocs_libtrlA plugin for the B-Tocs ABAP SDK that lets an SAP ABAP server translate with LibreTranslate through an SM59 RFC destination, against an instance hosted on-premise, on a hyperscaler, on SAP BTP or as SaaS.independent, abap
No published releases; repository quiet for 28 months.
ABAP_DeepL_clientABAP_DeepL_clientAn ABAP client for the DeepL translation service, so text can be sent for translation from inside the system rather than through a tool outside it.independent, abap
No published releases; repository quiet for 54 months.
abap_gui_boilerplateabap_gui_boilerplateA template for ABAP applications with an HTML UI, built on GUI classes copied from abapGit into a contrib package of its own.independent, abap
The declared repository is archived.
abap_mustacheabap_mustacheA Mustache template engine for ABAP, rendering logic-less templates into HTML or any other text from a structure or table of any type, with partials and a separate Steampunk-compatible branch.independent, abap
No published releases; repository quiet for 28 months.
ABAP_TRANSLATION_HUBABAP_TRANSLATION_HUBA report that pushes an ABAP object list to SAP Translation Hub and pulls the finished translations back, meant to run as a job after the evaluation job has finished.independent, abap
No published releases; repository quiet for 43 months.
abap-alv-struc-viewerabap-alv-struc-viewerAn ABAP tool that generates an ALV table view straight from a DDIC structure, as a control-driven substitute for classic dynpro fields, with search help, validation and formatting from the structure.independent, abap
abap-cloud-guiabap-cloud-guiA report-style programming model for abap2UI5: one class produces a selection screen with a WRITE list or an ALV grid, running as a UI5 app on ABAP Cloud as well as on NetWeaver 7.02.independent, abap
Not a way to run existing reports unchanged: a report is rewritten as a class, and `CALL SCREEN`, dynpro modules, batch input, `SUBMIT` and native SQL are refused by the converter rather than mapped. Not an SAP GUI in the browser either: the programming model is classic and the screens are UI5, and the README points at abap2UI5-addons/sapgui for SE16N or SM37. Output has gaps the README names — ALV cells show dates and times as the model carries them rather than in the user's format, print is a text file because ABAP Cloud has no spool, and value tables for F4 are read on premise only.
abap-form-translatorabap-form-translatorA runtime translation layer for Smartform and Adobe form labels, matching structure fields against a table maintained in a RAP Fiori app, so a label changes without SE63 or a transport.independent, abap
abap-ui-toolboxabap-ui-toolboxA collection of ABAP classes for classic SAP GUI development: an enhanced, editable ALV grid, a single-container screen framework, and a tree wrapper.independent, abap
abap-ui-toolsabap-ui-toolsA helper class for the classic ABAP dynpro UI: hiding, disabling and requiring screen fields, setting dropdown values, and asking yes/no questions, in single calls.independent, abap
abap2UI5abap2UI5One ABAP class implementing z2ui5_if_app is the whole app: the browser loads a generic UI5 shell once, and every interaction after that is an HTTP roundtrip back into ABAP.community org, abap
abap2UI5 for Excelabap2UI5 for ExcelAn Office add-in that runs an abap2UI5 app in Excel's task pane, where the app reads and writes the workbook through the z2ui5.cc.ExcelBridge control.community org, abap
abap2UI5 frontendabap2UI5 frontendThe abap2UI5 frontend as installable ABAP artefacts: per system type one generated branch carrying the BSP or HTTP service with its handler, pulled into the system with abapGit.community org, abap
The frontend is optional: where abap2UI5 apps are reached through the framework's own HTTP service, nothing from here is installed. In S/4 Public Cloud that endpoint needs `S_DEVELOP` authorisation, which the installation guide states makes it unfit for production, and the separate frontend app with an extra tile is what it names for business users. The `cloud_new` and `standard_new` branches need an abap2UI5 newer than 1.146.0 on the system.
abap2UI5 frontend-webcomponentabap2UI5 frontend-webcomponentAn alternative abap2UI5 frontend: one ES module registering <abap2ui5-app>, which renders the views an unchanged abap2UI5 app class sends with UI5 Web Components and no UI5 core.community org, abap
Not for views built from controls outside the portable profile: sap.ui.table, sap.f, sap.uxap, sap.ui.comp and z2ui5.cc custom controls render as a visible unsupported-control box and are listed in the diagnostics, and `CONTROL_BY_ID` and `BINDING_CALL` stay unsupported. Nine frontend actions the profile allows, `DOWNLOAD_B64_FILE` and `SYSTEM_LOGOUT` among them, are skipped and reported rather than run, and formatters other than the profile's `Formatter.Date*` render a placeholder.
abap2UI5 Layout Editorabap2UI5 Layout EditorA browser editor that lays out a UI5 view by drag and drop and writes it out as one abap2UI5 app class, pulled into the system with abapGit.community org, abap
The class has to be moved by hand: an abapGit pull of the exported ZIP, or a paste into ADT or SE24. The palette is held to the 121 controls of UI5 1.71, and a control inserted by its class name instead comes from whatever UI5 the canvas has loaded, with nothing checking it against 1.71 - *Checks* reports that. An app class that builds no view, or more than one, is refused.
abap2UI5 mobile shellabap2UI5 mobile shellA generic native iOS and Android shell that loads one abap2UI5 endpoint in a WebView and hands the ABAP app the phone's scanner, push token and biometric check through a JavaScript bridge.community org, abap
abap2UI5 protocolabap2UI5 protocolThe abap2UI5 roundtrip written down: a versioned specification of the wire between frontends and backends, JSON Schemas for its messages, and two conformance suites that test either side.community org, abap
Neither suite has been run against an ABAP system: the reference backends are the framework transpiled to Node and cap2UI5 on CAP, so what a check does on a real system is open. The portable profile is a subset of 61 controls, filled from a census of 247 core apps of which 64.8 % run unchanged, so an app outside it renders placeholders in the terminal and Adaptive Cards renderers.
abap2UI5-addons/popupsabap2UI5-addons/popupsReady-made dialogs for an abap2UI5 app: confirm, inform, select from a list, file up- and download, table, text edit, PDF, HTML, messages, range, value help and search help, each opened with one factory( ) call.community org, abap
The value-help and search-help popups read whichever DDIC check table the user selects without an authorisation check of their own, so the README asks for your own checks and a restriction on which tables may be browsed before they are used beyond a development system. The transport-request popup works only on-premise, and the search help does not yet run on the Cloud stack.
abap2UI5-localabap2UI5-localThe whole abap2UI5 framework folded into the local classes of one HTTP handler, so an app runs without the framework installed as a package.community org, abap
Not where the framework code itself has to change: `input/` and the three installable branches are overwritten by the workflows on every upstream push, and a framework change is a pull request to abap2UI5. Bug reports and feature requests also go to the abap2UI5 repository rather than this one.
abap2UI5/samples-stackabap2UI5/samples-stackTen self-contained ABAP packages, each putting an abap2UI5 app in front of one technology the system already runs: OData V2, Smart Controls, RAP with and without draft, business events, ABAP locks, WebSockets, MIME and the Fiori Launchpad.community org, abap
Not the place to learn abap2UI5 itself: every package starts from a technology the system already provides, and the framework basics and the control gallery are the other two sample repositories, abap2UI5/samples and abap2UI5/samples-controls. Three packages are out of reach on ABAP Cloud, and `05` needs the 2021 release that carries RAP business events.
abapEasyALVabapEasyALVWrapper classes over the classic ALV and SALV frameworks that collect commonly used reporting actions behind fewer method calls, so a report displays a table with set_data and display_data.independent, abap
abapMermaidabapMermaidAn ABAP package that renders Mermaid diagrams inside an SAP GUI container through the Edge Chromium Control, from a diagram's own text syntax passed at runtime.independent, abap
abeljohny/ZAPabeljohny/ZAPA tiny DSL included into an ABAP report that replaces a SELECT and an ALV call with a pair of macros, _select to read a table and _display to show the result as an ALV list.independent, abap
AgentryAgentryThe SAP BTP service for developing, testing and operating Agentry mobile applications, which take the functions of an SAP back-end system to mobile users.sap official, btp
alv_gridalv_gridDemo programs for the classic CL_GUI_ALV_GRID control, with a README of five links to blog posts that does not say which program belongs to which post.independent, abap
alv_utilitiesalv_utilitiesA single ABAP class that wraps the SALV framework so a report, dynpro or popup listing sets column text, colour, alignment, layout and sorting in single method calls, built against ABAP 7.0.independent, abap
No published releases; repository quiet for 79 months.
app-to-app-nav-basapp-to-app-nav-basThree generated Fiori apps wired to one cross-app navigation intent: fe-customers declares Customers-display in its descriptor, and fe-orders and freestyle each register that intent in their own launchpad sandbox configuration.independent, ui5
Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
blog-bookshopblog-bookshopA CAP service with a Fiori elements UI deployed whole to Cloud Foundry: an approuter, an HTML5 deployer, a launchpad content deployer and xs-security.json beside the db and srv modules in one mta.yaml.independent, cap
Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
blog-cap-chartblog-cap-chartA Fiori elements overview page over a CAP service whose two donut-chart cards read the same measure from an aggregating view and from the plain entity, so what the aggregation annotations change is visible side by side.independent, cap
Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
bookshop-demobookshop-demoSimple CDS bookshop — the reference model most CAP explanations build on.independent, cap
Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
btp-hello-world-fioribtp-hello-world-fioriA mission that builds a Hello World SAPUI5/SAP Fiori app in SAP Business Application Studio and puts it on a BTP Launchpad Site.sap official, btp
btp-launchpad-ui-samplesbtp-launchpad-ui-samplesSample UI5 projects that accompany a blog post on designing apps for SAP Launchpad Service: a sample service deployed as a service broker and app samples deployed as multi-target applications.sap official, ui5
btp-s4hana-nocode-extensionbtp-s4hana-nocode-extensionA mission that builds a side-by-side SAP S/4HANA UI extension with the no-code tool SAP Build Apps and pushes it to the HTML5 repository on SAP BTP.sap official, btp
cap-alpcap-alpAn Analytical List Page over a CAP OData V4 service, showing the aggregation annotations a CDS model needs before an analytical floorplan will render, kept in their own file beside the service.independent, cap
Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
cap-collaborative-draftcap-collaborative-draftA cds-plugin that gives a CAP Node.js service the OData contract, tables and handlers Fiori elements needs for collaborative draft, so a second user joins an open draft instead of meeting HTTP 423.independent, cap
The maintainer marks this under active development; public APIs, annotation names and OData contracts may still change.
cap-companioncap-companionServes a playback-only SAP Companion (Help4) workarea from a CAP service, so a Fiori application shows tours and in-app help without Enable Now Manager.independent, cap
Not behind a managed approuter: SAP Build Work Zone does not expose the `/$companion/**` routes, so Companion never reaches CAP, and the README names managed approuter and Work Zone as out of scope for v1. Not where help has to be authored in a browser, since the editor, the producer and writes are absent and content lives in files the plugin compiles.
cap-defaultvalue-functioncap-defaultvalue-functionCommon.DefaultValuesFunction pointed at a service function: getDefaultValues() selects the highest existing ID and returns that plus one, leaving the second key element to the user.independent, cap
cap-fe-masseditcap-fe-masseditA sample that switches on mass edit in a Fiori elements list report over CAP with enableMassEdit in manifest.json, against a draft-enabled Books entity with a status code list.independent, cap
cap-feature-controlcap-feature-controlA singleton entity whose two flags drive what a Fiori elements page offers: the restriction, action-availability and button-visibility annotations all reach it by $edmJson $Path.independent, cap
cap-handler-frameworkcap-handler-frameworkConvention-based handler layer for CAP: methods named beforeCreate, onRead or afterUpdate are mapped automatically, with the draft lifecycle given its own explicit hooks rather than folded into the active-entity ones.independent, cap
cap-java-draft-composition-deletecap-java-draft-composition-deleteDraft cancel on composition items turned into a flag update instead of a cascading physical delete, with the handler reading the incoming CQN so both delete paths behave the same.independent, cap
Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
cap-js-geoloc-plugincap-js-geoloc-pluginA CAP plugin for geocoding, address correction and route calculation, driven by three annotations on the model, with the geocoder and router chosen in configuration from providers such as OSRM and Nominatim.independent, cap
Nothing about it is readable from outside the package: there is no repository, no issue tracker, and the npm page carries no readme, so the README, the examples and the changelog can be read only from the tarball or a CDN mirror, and a bug has nowhere to be filed. Provider URLs are called from the plugin with API keys taken from environment variables in a .env file, so on BTP no call resolves through a destination and the keys live in the environment. The npm line stops at 1.0.1 on 3 November 2025; the changelog shipped inside that version is headed v2.1, so the version npm shows and the version the author counts are not the same.
cap-materialbom-graphcap-materialbom-graphA CAP sample that walks a material bill of materials on the server and draws it as a UI5 network graph in a custom section of a Fiori elements object page, on SQLite with no deployment.independent, cap
Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
cap-rediscap-redisA sample that holds the approuter's session, CSRF token included, in a bound instance of Redis on SAP BTP, hyperscaler option instead of the approuter's own memory, around a CAP and Fiori elements app.independent, cap
No license Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
Functional boundary Not a descriptor to deploy as it stands: the approuter's `sessionSecret` is written out in `mta.yaml`.
cap-reuse-html5cap-reuse-html5A Fiori elements app uploaded to the HTML5 Application Repository together with a cdm.json, and a second repository instance on the app-runtime plan behind a subaccount destination pointing at /applications/cdm/cap-reuse-html5.independent, cap
No license Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
Functional boundary The subaccount destination's url names the us10 trial's repository runtime, so another region or subaccount needs it rewritten before the descriptor deploys.
cap-uicap-uiAn MTA that deploys a CAP service, a HANA HDI container and a Fiori elements app into the HTML5 Application Repository, with two destinations to the same CAP service configured side by side.independent, cap
cap-user-infocap-user-infoResolves the createdBy and modifiedBy of a managed entity to a stored user record of email, given name and family name, and renders the two fields as links with a quickview.independent, cap
capire/incidents-appcapire/incidents-appThe Incident Management reference application — the one SAP's own tutorial paths build, step by step, and the model cds add incidents-sample drops into a project.sap official, cap
cds-bookshopcds-bookshopThe CAP bookshop in ui5-ecosystem-showcase, set up to show UI5 development on a CAP server with cds-plugin-ui5.community org, cap
cds-plugin-ui5cds-plugin-ui5A CDS plugin that runs the UI5 CLI express middlewares inside the CDS server, so a UI5 CLI project is served from the same port as the services, mounted under a path from its ui5.yaml.community org, cap
For a deployed application's UI. The README adds it with `npm add cds-plugin-ui5 -D`, a development dependency of the CDS server, and states nothing about a build or a deployment.
cds2alvcds2alvAn ABAP tool that generates an ALV list report directly from a CDS view's own field definitions, maintained on SAP_ABA 750 SP26, with further extensions shipped from a separate repository.independent, abap
cloud-mdk-samplescloud-mdk-samplesA collection of mobile development kit (MDK) sample apps and how-to demonstrations for intermediate to experienced developers, some shipping their own Mobile OData Service or CAP project for backend data.sap official, btp
cloud-mdk-tutorial-samplescloud-mdk-tutorial-samplesThe sample projects the mobile development kit's developer tutorials reference, one folder per tutorial, mission or group, from a quick start to branding a customised app and creating extension controls.sap official, btp
Cogniac SAP DM POD 2.0 ExtensionCogniac SAP DM POD 2.0 ExtensionA POD 2.0 plugin for SAP Digital Manufacturing that captures an image through a proxy in front of Cogniac EdgeFlow inference hardware and draws the returned detections over it inside an operator's POD panel.independent, digital-manufacturing
No license Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
Functional boundary The proxy URL is a widget property the browser calls, so the [EdgeFlow Proxy API](external:cogniac-edgeflow-proxy) has to be reachable from the SAP DM client itself, on a local network and over HTTPS: its own repository asks for a certificate the browser trusts and documents generating one for the Pi's LAN IP. NC logging needs an SFC selected in the work list: without one the request is rejected with an error message.
com.sap.cds:cds-services-bomcom.sap.cds:cds-services-bomThe Maven bill of materials for CAP Java, pinning every com.sap.cds module in a release, from the API and core runtime to the Spring Boot starters and the CQN engine, to the same version.sap official, cap
custom-controlscustom-controlsThirteen custom controls for abap2UI5, a signature pad and a scanner that reads several barcodes at once among them, each one an ABAP builder class with a single render( ) method and all of them shipped in a BSP of their own.community org, abap
Needs Standard ABAP 7.50 or higher, and an abap2UI5 whose frontend reserves the resourceRoot `z2ui5_cci`: a frontend predating that rename reserves `z2ui5ccc` and cannot resolve the controls. Frontend artefacts only one company needs, such as an in-house reuse library, a corporate icon font or company CSS, are what [abap2UI5-addons/custom-controls-customer](https://github.com/abap2UI5-addons/custom-controls-customer) is for, the same mechanism under the second reserved root `z2ui5_ccc`. ExportSpreadsheet needs SAPUI5: under OpenUI5 `sap.ui.export` is missing and the button renders disabled.
custom-controls-customercustom-controls-customerA template repository for a customer's own UI5 artefacts in abap2UI5: an icon font, CSS, a reuse library or a custom control, served from a BSP of their own under the resourceRoot z2ui5_ccc.community org, abap
fiori-dynamic-feature-controlfiori-dynamic-feature-controlMaking one object page field non-editable from the value of another, implemented twice — through a default-value entity with side effects, and through a virtual element with a CAP Java handler.independent, cap
Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
fiori-fullscreen-pluginfiori-fullscreen-pluginA SAP Fiori launchpad plugin in TypeScript that adds one header button, created through the Extension API, which toggles the browser's fullscreen mode; it needs SAPUI5 above 1.120.independent, ui5
fiori-inline-editfiori-inline-editList report inline edit on a draft-enabled service, pinned to @sap/cds 9.9.1 and SAPUI5 1.136.7 — whether a save message appears, and whether value help works inside an edited cell.independent, cap
Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
fiori-navigation-patternsfiori-navigation-patternsA sample of outbound navigation from a Fiori Elements list report, worked through as the triggers that start it, from semantic links to intent-based buttons, and the context each one carries.independent, cap
Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
fiori-table-maintenancefiori-table-maintenanceThe CAP service and freestyle UI5 app behind Simple Table Maintenance in SAP Fiori Using UI5 Smart Controls, where a SmartTable edits rows in place rather than through a draft.independent, cap
Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
generator-ui5-flp-plugingenerator-ui5-flp-pluginA generator, built on the official UI5 tooling, that scaffolds a Fiori Launchpad plugin component with sample shell extension code and an Opa5 test, as a plug-in for Easy-UI5.community org, ui5
generator-ui5-ts-flp-plugingenerator-ui5-ts-flp-pluginAn Easy-UI5 generator that scaffolds a SAP Fiori launchpad plugin in TypeScript with the UI5 CLI: a header button, a user menu action or a background service with no UI.community org, ui5
guidrasilguidrasilA visual designer for classic SAP GUI screens that wraps containers and controls in a generic shell and generates the ABAP program that displays the layout it places.independent, abap
No published releases; repository quiet for 93 months.
http-connectorhttp-connectorAn add-on that makes the abap2UI5 apps of one ABAP system reachable through another: a thin ICF handler on the consumer system forwards every roundtrip to the source system through an SM59 destination.community org, abap
Stateful apps do not work through it: an app calling `client->set_session_stateful( )` needs the ICF session of the system it runs on, and the consumer opens a new HTTP connection per request without forwarding the `sap-contextid` header that addresses that session. Request headers do not cross either, and a user exit on the source system sees the path of the node `/sap/bc/z2ui5_http_srv` rather than the consumer's. For ABAP Cloud there is only the `cloud` branch, which the README describes as an unmaintained prototype from 2025-11, consumer side only and with no CI.
launchpad-kpilaunchpad-kpiAn OData service and a one-method ABAP interface that put a number from an abap2UI5 app on a SAP Fiori launchpad tile.community org, abap
There is nothing here for ABAP for Cloud: the requirements name Standard ABAP releases only, and a CDS/SADL based OData service for `ABAP for Cloud` compatibility stands under Limitations & Todo.
layout-managementlayout-managementAn abap2UI5 addon that renders an internal table or a structure as a UI5 table or form with a settings popup, where the user lays it out and saves the result as a layout variant.independent, abap
The layout is rendered into an [abap2UI5](artifact:abap2ui5-abap2ui5) view and its events are passed on from the app's `main` method, so there is nothing here for a UI outside an abap2UI5 app. Shared layouts stay denied until a class implementing `z2ui5_if_layo_auth` exists in the system, so an installation whose key users are to maintain shared layouts has that class and its authorization object to write first.
LISALISAAn MCP server that lets an AI client read and write the translations of ABAP repository objects through three tools, backed by an ABAP HTTP service on SAP's XCO i18n APIs.independent, abap
LISA does the translation step only: it does not discover objects or manage transports, and its README pairs it with [an ADT MCP server](artifact:sap-adt-mcp-server) for those. Every write needs a transport request, and which object types it can write differs between public cloud or [the SAP BTP ABAP environment](artifact:btp-abap-environment) and on-premise or private cloud, and by release. Running it locally is meant for development and testing, not production.
onurakca/SAPUI5-Adaptation-Project-Downloaderonurakca/SAPUI5-Adaptation-Project-DownloaderAn ABAP report that downloads a SAPUI5 adaptation project's artifacts, changes, fragments and i18n files among them, from the Layered Repository to a local folder, keeping its namespace structure.independent, abap
open-abap-guiopen-abap-guiA library of GUI controls for ABAP transpiled to JavaScript, such as cl_gui_alv_grid and cl_gui_html_viewer, marked work in progress in its README.community org, abap
openui5-cameraopenui5-cameraA UI5 control that renders a live camera preview from the device's camera and hands the app the picture as a base64-encoded PNG when the user taps it.independent, ui5
Release and repository quiet for 28 months.
openui5-fhir-sample-appopenui5-fhir-sample-appA sample app showing the use of the openui5-fhir project to build a SAP Fiori look-and-feel UI5 application against services using the FHIR protocol.sap official, ui5
openui5-model-json-crudopenui5-model-json-crudAn OpenUI5 library that extends JSONModel to send CRUD requests over HTTP with fetch, so its calls return Promises; the README documents the read method only.independent, ui5
openui5-model-odata-v2-odatapromiseopenui5-model-odata-v2-odatapromiseAn OpenUI5 library that extends the OData V2 model, sap.ui.model.odata.v2.ODataModel, to support Promises; its README documents no usage, installation or API.independent, ui5
openui5-paginatoropenui5-paginatorA UI5 custom control that pages through large data in a table, for backends that serve pages over REST rather than OData.independent, ui5
Release and repository quiet for 50 months.
openui5-passwordopenui5-passwordAn OpenUI5 input control of password type that checks the typed value against length and character-class rules set as properties, and scores password strength in a separate property.independent, ui5
openui5-touropenui5-tourAn OpenUI5 control library for a step-by-step guided tour inside a UI5 app, where each TourStep has a title, content, a target control from the view and a placement.independent, ui5
openui5-validatoropenui5-validatorAn OpenUI5 library that validates the fields of a view against a JSON schema using Ajv, returning a verdict and a list of failures and leaving reporting to the user to the app.independent, ui5
rap-extrap-extFloorplan classes that read a CDS entity's UI annotations at runtime and render a list report, worklist, tree, object page, overview page, value help or action dialog as an abap2UI5 app.community org, abap
Not the whole addon in ABAP Cloud: the DDIC annotation service is not released there, so the annotations come through XCO instead, a database table is read-only, the DDL source is not read, and the cloud path was written without a cloud system to run it on. Not for a plain internal table, since it renders from CDS annotations; the README points at `z2ui5_cl_ui5_view_builder` for that case. As of 2026-10 the maintainer states that none of it has been clicked through in an SAP system: the RAP write path and the reading of metadata extensions were written from documentation and pass the three offline gates only.
s4hana-avc-ui-extension-templates4hana-avc-ui-extension-templateA template project of code samples and a local mock runtime for writing a Variant Configuration (VC) UI Extension for SAP S/4HANA.sap official, abap
SAP Application Frontend serviceSAP Application Frontend serviceOne managed entry point that hosts a built frontend, serves its static files and routes its backend calls — subscribed in the cockpit rather than deployed into a runtime.sap official, btp
SAP's own guidance is narrower than the service's reach: it names standalone, single-tenant applications that do not connect to other applications as the fit, and says to stay on [the HTML5 Application Repository](artifact:btp-html5-application-repository) and the application router where those meet your needs better. Four hard limits decide it before taste does — 300 requests per second per subaccount, ten retained versions per application, 100 MB per application and 400 MB for the deployment archive.
SAP Build AppsSAP Build AppsSAP's low-code platform for web and native mobile applications, built by drag and drop, with no-code backends and access to SAP systems through BTP authentication and destinations.sap official, btp
SAP Build Work Zone, advanced editionSAP Build Work Zone, advanced editionA BTP service for business sites and digital workspaces: one role-based entry point to SAP and third-party apps, processes, tasks and web content, with blogs, wikis, feeds and other collaboration beside them.sap official, btp
SAP Build Work Zone, standard editionSAP Build Work Zone, standard editionA role-based business site on BTP that puts SAP, custom-built and third-party applications and extensions, cloud and on premise, behind one point of access.sap official, btp
SAP Cloud Portal ServiceSAP Cloud Portal ServiceSAP's BTP service for role-based portal sites: pages, apps and widgets behind single sign-on for employees, customers and partners, with content from SAP products and other providers.sap official, btp
SAP HTML5 Application Repository service for SAP BTPSAP HTML5 Application Repository service for SAP BTPStores built UI5 and HTML5 applications and serves them at runtime through the approuter, so an app ships no static server of its own.sap official, btp
SAP Mobile ServicesSAP Mobile ServicesThe SAP BTP service behind native and cross-platform mobile apps over enterprise data: authentication and security policies, offline OData sync, push, MDK app updates and usage reporting.sap official, btp
2 of 8 plans deprecated.
SAP Task CenterSAP Task CenterOne inbox across SAP applications: tasks from S/4HANA, SuccessFactors, Ariba and BTP workflows in one list, with a public API for a custom task provider.sap official, btp
SAP Translation HubSAP Translation HubSAP's translation service for software texts and documents, drawing on repositories of verified and company translations and on machine translation by SAP's neural MT or large language models.sap official, btp
sap-dm-pod2-mcp-serversap-dm-pod2-mcp-serverAn MCP server for SAP Digital Manufacturing POD 2.0 extension development: 23 tools over POD2 pattern docs, the POD2 class API, SAP DM REST and MDO specs and the SAPUI5 API, with five code-generation prompts.independent, digital-manufacturing
Three of its five reference corpora are not shipped: without an api.sap.com key and session cookie, a tenant bearer token and a local SAPUI5 fetch, the REST, MDO and UI5 tools return a message naming the preparation step that is missing. The HTTP transport has no authentication until `MCP_AUTH_TOKEN` is set, so anything past localhost needs that or an authenticating reverse proxy. Packing the ZIP, uploading it through Manage POD 2.0 Extensions and placing the widget in the POD Designer stay manual steps outside the agent, and the SAPUI5 fetch defaults to the SDK's newest version, which the README says is not the version a tenant runs. Node.js 22 or newer.
SAP-samples/abap-platform-fiori-feature-showcaseSAP-samples/abap-platform-fiori-feature-showcaseA running showcase of annotation-driven SAP Fiori elements for OData V4 on RAP, with a guide that names each feature, its code and where to find it in the source.sap official, abap
SAP-samples/adaptation-project-exercisesSAP-samples/adaptation-project-exercisesA UI5Con workshop on building SAPUI5 Adaptation Projects, which customise a released application through controller and fragment extensions without changing its source, run in SAP Business Application Studio.sap official, ui5
SAP-samples/ai-seamless-integrationSAP-samples/ai-seamless-integrationA sample that embeds UI5 Web Components' AI patterns, the AI Button, AI Acknowledgment and AI Quick Prompt, inside an OpenUI5 application written in TypeScript.sap official, ui5
SAP-samples/cap-sflightSAP-samples/cap-sflightA travel-booking reference application built with CAP and SAP Fiori elements, whose same UIs run against a Node.js and a Java backend so the two stacks can be compared directly.sap official, cap
SAP-samples/fiori-elements-feature-showcaseSAP-samples/fiori-elements-feature-showcaseA running showcase of SAP Fiori elements for OData V4 features on a CAP backend, each one searchable to the CDS annotation or configuration behind it.sap official, cap
SAP-samples/fiori-elements-fpm-exercises-codejamSAP-samples/fiori-elements-fpm-exercises-codejamA CodeJam walkthrough that builds a bookshop app on the SAP Fiori elements flexible programming model, chapter by chapter, over a CAP Node.js OData backend.sap official, cap
SAP-samples/fiori-elements-v4-cap-advancedSAP-samples/fiori-elements-v4-cap-advancedBranch-by-branch solutions for the UX405 e-learning course, each one an exercise in the advanced concepts of a Fiori elements app on a CAP OData V4 service.sap official, cap
SAP-samples/fundamental-ngx-sample-appsSAP-samples/fundamental-ngx-sample-appsAn Angular performance-review demo showcasing Fundamental NGX components, including its UI5 Web Components wrapper, with dashboard tiles, an employee table and forms on mock data.sap official, ui5
SAP-samples/multi-cloud-html5-apps-samplesSAP-samples/multi-cloud-html5-apps-samplesExample HTML5 apps on the SAP HTML5 Application Repository service, split between a standalone and a managed application router, across Cloud Foundry and Kyma.sap official, btp
SAP-samples/teched2022-DT181SAP-samples/teched2022-DT181A TechEd 2022 workshop that blends a custom SAPUI5 app with SAP Fiori Elements building blocks and controller extensions on one object page, starting from a CAP service in SAP Business Application Studio.sap official, ui5
SAP-samples/ui5-cap-event-appSAP-samples/ui5-cap-event-appAn event-attendee registration app that pairs a freestyle SAPUI5 end-user UI and a Fiori elements admin UI over one Node.js CAP backend, built to show OData V4 draft handling end to end.sap official, cap
SAP-samples/ui5-deploymentsSAP-samples/ui5-deploymentsA sample that deploys one UI5 freestyle application to SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry Environment through three approuter setups, standalone, managed and hybrid, each built into an MTA archive.sap official, ui5
SAP-samples/ui5-flexibility-easy-key-user-adaptationSAP-samples/ui5-flexibility-easy-key-user-adaptationA UI5con 2025 hands-on tutorial enabling a Fiori elements application for SAPUI5 flexibility and building custom key user adaptations, from BTP ABAP environment deployment through no-code changes to manifest properties and OData annotations.sap official, ui5
SAP-samples/ui5con-2025-theming-workshopSAP-samples/ui5con-2025-theming-workshopStarting points for a UI5con 2025 workshop that replace an app's theming logic with a parameterised skeleton CSS built on UI5's theming custom properties, CSS relative colours and container style queries.sap official, ui5
SAP-samples/uxc-integrationSAP-samples/uxc-integrationA sample that embeds UI5 Web Components such as the shell bar, side navigation and search inside an OpenUI5 application, built to SAP's UXC design standards, mixing both control sets in one app.sap official, ui5
selection-screenselection-screenSelect-options with saved variants for an abap2UI5 app, built from a database table name or from an internal table the app passes in.independent, abap
The `PARAMETERS`-style selection screen with event blocks is not here: `z2ui5_cl_sel_screen` and `z2ui5_cl_sel_screen_sel` are a skeleton whose methods are still empty, and the README points at [abap-cloud-gui](artifact:abap2ui5-addons-abap-cloud-gui) for a full report-style screen.
teched2025-CA262teched2025-CA262An SAP TechEd 2025 hands-on that analyses and optimises front-end performance in a SAPUI5 application through its network traffic, the UI5 Builder and its OData requests.sap official, ui5
UI flexibility serviceUI flexibility serviceKey-user adaptation and personalisation for UI5 applications on SAP BTP: UI changes, shared views, drafts and versions, stored by the service and applied at runtime.sap official, btp
ui5-antaresui5-antaresA SAPUI5 library that generates OData V2 metadata-based dialogs, object pages and value helps with input validation, and wraps OData V2 requests in promises.independent, ui5
Release and repository quiet for 26 months.
ui5-call-actionui5-call-actionFour UI5 apps over one CAP service, each calling the same bound, collection-bound and unbound OData actions and functions from custom code.independent, cap
Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
ui5-cap-serverside-rendering-demoui5-cap-serverside-rendering-demoThe demo project the ui5-cap-serverside-rendering-plugin README points to: a CAP bookshop whose Books list and detail views sit in srv/views and reach the browser already filled with data.independent, cap
No license Neither the package manifest nor the repository tree declares a licence.
Functional boundary As a deployment template it stops at the service: the `mta.yaml` has one module, `gen/srv` on the Node.js buildpack, and no HTML5 repository or router module for the app.
ui5-cap-serverside-rendering-pluginui5-cap-serverside-rendering-pluginA CAP plugin that fills UI5 views and fragments with entity data on the server through Handlebars and streams them as XML, and renders a Vue app to HTML on a route of its own.independent, cap
On the UI5 path what comes back is an XML view or fragment with the data already substituted, streamed as the entity's media content, rather than an HTML page — the README calls this pre-rendering, and only the Vue path produces markup. The view kept under `srv/` has its UI5 bindings replaced by Handlebars expressions, so it is a second copy of the view, separate from the one the application ships. Version 1.0.8 declares `@sap/cds` `>=8` as its peer dependency, which puts a project on CAP 7 outside its stated range.
ui5-cc-chartui5-cc-chartA UI5 custom control that wraps Chart.js to render a line chart from label and value records, installed as a plain npm dependency with ui5-tooling-modules in ui5.yaml.community org, ui5
ui5-cc-mdui5-cc-mdA UI5 custom control that renders Markdown, including GitHub-flavoured syntax, to HTML inside an XML view, taking its content from a string, a file path or a model binding.community org, ui5
Release and repository quiet for 38 months.
ui5-cc-pdfviewerui5-cc-pdfviewerA UI5 custom control that renders a PDF from a base64 data URI with pdfjs-dist, so a file picked in the browser can be shown before it has been uploaded anywhere and has a URL.independent, ui5
Quiet Release and repository quiet for 41 months.
Functional boundary The case it is written for is a document that has not been uploaded; anything already served from a URL is what the framework's own PDF control takes. Passing a document as a data URI means holding it in the page as a string first, which is a different cost from streaming it from a server.
ui5-cc-timerbuttonui5-cc-timerbuttonA UI5 control library with TimerButton, an sap.m.Button that delays becoming enabled or visible and shows other text or an icon in the meantime, with the delay set in milliseconds.independent, ui5
ui5-control-generatorui5-control-generatorA command-line generator that writes UI5 custom controls, in JavaScript or TypeScript, from the html files in a project, with control logic and renderer split into two files by default.independent, ui5
Release and repository quiet for 29 months.
ui5-fontawesome-libui5-fontawesome-libA UI5 library that adds Font Awesome's regular, solid and brand icon sets to the sap-icon:// namespace, addressable from a standard Icon control, for UI5 1.120.33 or later.community org, ui5
ui5-i18n-excel-converterui5-i18n-excel-converterA command-line tool that exports a UI5 app's i18n properties files to an Excel sheet of keys and languages for translators and imports the translated sheet back into the files.independent, ui5
Release and repository quiet for 39 months.
ui5-icon-explorerui5-icon-explorerA live icon browser for SAPUI5 applications, built to look like SAP's own Icon Explorer, for searching, copying and filtering the icon set the ui5-fontawesome-lib library adds.community org, ui5
ui5-lib-visualizationui5-lib-visualizationA UI5 control library that wraps the C3.js charting library as ui5.viz controls (Chart, ChartSeries, ChartDataPoint, ChartAxis, ChartLine, ChartArea and Color) declared in an XML view with data binding.independent, ui5
On the second installation path there is no dependency to upgrade: the README states that for option b) all manual steps must be repeated every time the library version is updated.
ui5-mdc-json-tutorialui5-mdc-json-tutorialA unit-by-unit UI5 tutorial that builds a JSON-model app through the sap.ui.mdc metadata-driven controls: Table, FilterBar, value help, custom types and VariantManagement, plus Geomap and Chart.sap official, ui5
ui5-p13n-tutorialui5-p13n-tutorialA ten-exercise UI5 tutorial that adds sap.m.p13n.Engine personalisation and sap.ui.fl.variants.VariantManagement to a custom table control: column selection, sorting, grouping, filtering and saved variants.sap official, ui5
ui5-space-webcomponent-libraryui5-space-webcomponent-libraryA step-by-step UI5 library, be.wl.SpaceLibrary, that wraps the components of a UI5 Web Components package as UI5 controls through @ui5/tooling-webc, with a kitchen-sink page to test them.independent, ui5
ui5-space-webcomponent-packageui5-space-webcomponent-packageA step-by-step UI5 Web Components package, titled UI5con2023, with a SpaceComponent and a SpaceItemComponent written in TypeScript, which the matching UI5 library wraps as controls.independent, ui5
ui5-touch-controlsui5-touch-controlsA UI5 control library that rebuilds common sap.m controls with one size property from S to 6XL, and adds on-screen keyboards, a barcode input and a signature pad.independent, ui5
ui5-tsapp-webcui5-tsapp-webcA TypeScript UI5 application in ui5-ecosystem-showcase that consumes @ui5/webcomponents and its Fiori and AI packages, with the UI5 CLI extensions that consumption needs.community org, ui5
ui5-webcomponents-bundleui5-webcomponents-bundleA custom bundle of UI5 Web Components built from the old playground's bundle definitions, served from GitHub Pages and loaded with one script tag.community org, ui5
ui5-webcomponents-ngx-sampleui5-webcomponents-ngx-sampleSAP's demo application for @ui5/webcomponents-ngx, the UI5 Web Components bindings for Angular, powered by Fundamental Library Styles.sap official, ui5
ui5con-2026-a11y-hands-onui5con-2026-a11y-hands-onA UI5con 2026 hands-on workshop that fixes accessibility defects planted in a small UI5 TypeScript app, one exercise at a time, then sweeps the codebase with the ui5-accessibility Claude Code plugin.sap official, ui5
ui5con-2026-fiori-building-blocksui5con-2026-fiori-building-blocksA hands-on session that builds a flexible travel dashboard by combining SAP Fiori elements templates, building blocks, extensions and freestyle SAPUI5 on a CAP back end.sap official, ui5
UI5XUI5XAn OpenUI5 and SAPUI5 library of eight composite controls under the ui5x namespace: skeleton placeholders and a container that swaps them for content, loading wrappers for the responsive and the grid table, an accordion, a copy button, a segmented input and a chat feed.independent, ui5
The README states that UI5X is in early development and that APIs may change before version 1.0. Styling covers the `sap_horizon` and `sap_fiori_3` families with their dark and high-contrast variants; any other theme falls back to the base theme.
urp-vocaburp-vocabA CDS vocabulary for User-Rendered Patterns, with @urp.display annotations describing views, card templates, layouts and sections on an entity, consumed by the author's own matching renderer.independent, cap
The declared repository is github.com/your-username/urp-vocab, an unedited placeholder. Three releases, September 2025.
wdf2025-fiori-innov-day-building-blockswdf2025-fiori-innov-day-building-blocksA SAP Fiori Innovation Day Walldorf hands-on session that builds a flexible travel dashboard from freestyle SAPUI5, SAP Fiori elements templates and building blocks.sap official, ui5
workzone-content-package-templatesworkzone-content-package-templatesProject templates for SAP Work Zone content packages and the artefacts they contain, a card, a workflow, a workspace template, a workspace and a home page, plus the content-package project itself.sap official, btp
XLF TranslatorXLF TranslatorTakes an uploaded XLIFF file and makes every entry that carries a translation element editable in the page, aimed mainly at the ABAP Cloud content the Maintain Translation app generates.independent, abap
Texts that must not leave the organisation: the file is uploaded to the site to be translated, and neither the tool's page nor the site's data protection notice says where it is processed or how long it is kept.
ZABAP_TRANSLATIONSZABAP_TRANSLATIONSAn ABAP tool that exports the texts of a package or program to an Excel file and imports them back in bulk once translated, covering eight object types from programs and classes to domain values.independent, abap
ZFPM_TOOLSZFPM_TOOLSA report that shows the development objects of an FPM hierarchy in one view and edits, copies, deletes, imports and exports the hierarchy as a whole rather than one object at a time.independent, abap
ZOTR_UTILITYZOTR_UTILITYA small ABAP framework that reads language-dependent texts from SAP's online text repository through inheritance and named constants rather than a direct API call with a string alias.independent, abap
ZWD_CALENDAR_VHZWD_CALENDAR_VHA value help for date fields in Web Dynpro ABAP screens that shows a calendar view, so the user picks a day from it instead of typing the date.independent, abap
ZwdDynscreenZwdDynscreenAn ABAP library that generates a selection screen or a popup for a handful of parameters from objects typed by DDIC elements, without a dynpro created in the program.independent, abap
No published releases; repository quiet for 88 months.
Related capabilities
Producing a web interface is UI written in ABAPUI written in ABAPProducing a web user interface from ABAP code, with the application’s backend language also defining what the user sees and how it behaves.Community only; operating an existing screen programmatically is GUI automationDriving the SAP GUIOperating the SAP GUI programmatically to perform tasks or test interactions through the actual screen. Agent access to your code works with development objects instead of the user interface.Community only.
Target size for a finger is touch operationTouch operationOperating an app with a finger, a stylus or a gloved hand on a tablet, kiosk or shop-floor terminal: targets large enough to hit, and input that does not assume a hardware keyboard. Distinct from responsive layout, which is about the width of the screen rather than what touches it.SAP and community, unassessed.
Getting a build onto one is deploymentDeploymentGetting an application onto a runtime and keeping it there: build descriptors, deployment topology, service bindings and lifecycle operations. The target runtime determines how the application is packaged and configured.SAP and community, narrow by design; serving a frontend’s built static files is app hostingApp hostingWhere a built frontend lives and what serves it — the static files of a frontend application after the build, reachable behind a login and beside the API it talks to, without a web server of your own.SAP only.
Distinct from query profilingQuery profilingFinding which application queries are slow and why, at the application query layer rather than in database traces — attributing cost back to the service, entity and handler that caused it.Unmapped, which starts at the service and the database rather than at the browser's network log.
Serving the application’s files is app hostingApp hostingWhere a built frontend lives and what serves it — the static files of a frontend application after the build, reachable behind a login and beside the API it talks to, without a web server of your own.SAP only; extending the surrounding shell is launchpad pluginsLaunchpad pluginsExtending an application launchpad’s shell rather than an individual app: adding header buttons, user-menu entries, frame areas or background behaviour shared across the apps it hosts. A development sandbox for launching an app is a separate concern.SAP and community, unassessed.
Serving the application’s files is app hostingApp hostingWhere a built frontend lives and what serves it — the static files of a frontend application after the build, reachable behind a login and beside the API it talks to, without a web server of your own.SAP only; extending the surrounding shell is launchpad pluginsLaunchpad pluginsExtending an application launchpad’s shell rather than an individual app: adding header buttons, user-menu entries, frame areas or background behaviour shared across the apps it hosts. A development sandbox for launching an app is a separate concern.SAP and community, unassessed.
Starting a coded project from a template is generatorsGeneratorsGetting from nothing to a project that runs, and from a project that runs to one that has the piece you just decided you need. Two different moments: the first is a one-time decision about layout, the second recurs for the life of the project.SAP and community, narrow by design, and building a native mobile client is mobile appsMobile appsBuilding a native iOS or Android app over business data: onboarding, offline sync against an OData service, device features, and the client that runs on the phone. Distinct from a web app opened in a phone's browser; operating a web app with a finger is touch operation.SAP and community, unassessed.
Distinct from a web app opened in a phone's browser; operating a web app with a finger is touch operationTouch operationOperating an app with a finger, a stylus or a gloved hand on a tablet, kiosk or shop-floor terminal: targets large enough to hit, and input that does not assume a hardware keyboard. Distinct from responsive layout, which is about the width of the screen rather than what touches it.SAP and community, unassessed.
Distinct from launchpad pluginsLaunchpad pluginsExtending an application launchpad’s shell rather than an individual app: adding header buttons, user-menu entries, frame areas or background behaviour shared across the apps it hosts. A development sandbox for launching an app is a separate concern.SAP and community, unassessed, which extend a launchpad's shell around many apps.
Starting a process from an application and reacting to it is workflow integrationWorkflow integrationDriving an external workflow or automation engine from an application and reacting to what it emits — triggering runs transactionally and importing the engine’s shape as a typed model.SAP and community, core adopted it, and the screen a person approves a task on is task and approval UIsTask and approval UIsThe screen a person approves something on — a workflow or process task rendered as a form, embedded in an inbox that supplies its context. Distinct from workflow integration, which is about driving the engine: this is the half a human touches, and its hard part is that it cannot run without the engine that normally feeds it.SAP only.
Running the process itself is process automationProcess automationModelling and running a business process: the process flow, the forms people fill in, decision tables, bots for repetitive steps, and dashboards over the instances that run. Starting a process from an application and reacting to it is workflow integration, and the screen a person approves a task on is task and approval UIs.SAP only; the screen the responsible person acts on is task and approval UIsTask and approval UIsThe screen a person approves something on — a workflow or process task rendered as a form, embedded in an inbox that supplies its context. Distinct from workflow integration, which is about driving the engine: this is the half a human touches, and its hard part is that it cannot run without the engine that normally feeds it.SAP only.
Distinct from Web Components interopWeb Components interopUsing standards-based custom elements inside an app, and the question of which control set an app should be built from at all, two concerns that are often answered as one.SAP and community, narrow by design, which brings in standard custom elements, and from generatorsGeneratorsGetting from nothing to a project that runs, and from a project that runs to one that has the piece you just decided you need. Two different moments: the first is a one-time decision about layout, the second recurs for the life of the project.SAP and community, narrow by design, which scaffold a control project rather than being one.
Distinct from Web Components interopWeb Components interopUsing standards-based custom elements inside an app, and the question of which control set an app should be built from at all, two concerns that are often answered as one.SAP and community, narrow by design, which brings in standard custom elements, and from generatorsGeneratorsGetting from nothing to a project that runs, and from a project that runs to one that has the piece you just decided you need. Two different moments: the first is a one-time decision about layout, the second recurs for the life of the project.SAP and community, narrow by design, which scaffold a control project rather than being one.
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🚀 秒速で学ぶ SAP AI Core Agent 開発 🚀 - Part 8 CloudFoundry にデプロイ🚀 秒速で学ぶ SAP AI Core Agent 開発 🚀 - Part 8 CloudFoundry にデプロイPart 8 of a Japanese-language series deploys the Python backend and SAPUI5 chat UI built in earlier parts to SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry Runtime: the backend's manifest.yaml declares its buildpack, memory and start command for cf push, while the UI's MTA project is built with mbt build and uploaded with cf deploy, then has its ENDPOINT constant repointed at the live API's route. It closes with adding the deployed HTML5 app to SAP Build Work Zone, standard edition through Channel Manager's content sync, Content Explorer and a new Site Directory site.Ryota_Ito, published 2025-06-16
052: 10 Minutes from Start to Launchpad052: 10 Minutes from Start to LaunchpadWalks a RAP application from a root CDS view entity through a consumption projection and its associations to a metadata extension: a facet per field group, a hidden field via UI.hidden, and a selection field on the ABAP package, all in a Customer-layer DDLX source read by the generated Fiori elements app. It then covers the parts ABAP CDS modelling and annotation stop short of — service definition and binding, generating the UI in Business Application Studio, and wiring the deployed app into the Fiori Launchpad through an IAM App and business catalog.Björn S., published 2026-09-07
A Guide to CDS Metadata Extensions, Fiori App Generation and SAP UI5 Controller ExtensionsA Guide to CDS Metadata Extensions, Fiori App Generation and SAP UI5 Controller ExtensionsWalks through a RAP-based Fiori elements app end to end: layering UI annotations onto a CDS view through a separate ABAP metadata extension object, gated by @Metadata.allowExtensions on the base view and ordered across extensions by a required @Metadata.layer value. Generates the app in SAP Business Application Studio from the published OData V4 service's merged $metadata document, then adds an SAP UI5 controller extension — registered in manifest.json against a Fiori elements lifecycle hook — only for behaviour the annotations cannot express.ankitapaul229, published 2026-07-27
A simple example of a SAP RAP Application based on Legacy API without UUID keysA simple example of a SAP RAP Application based on Legacy API without UUID keysWalks through building a managed RAP business object over the Flight Reference Scenario's Travel and Booking entities with unmanaged save and late numbering, so CRUD operations route through the legacy /DMO/FLIGHT_TRAVEL_CREATE, _UPDATE and _DELETE function modules instead of generated persistence, a worked case of ABAP's transactional model. Covers the ADJUST_NUMBERS and SAVE_MODIFIED saver methods that map preliminary draft keys to the legacy-assigned travel and booking IDs, and a GetDefaultsForBookings action that proposes the next booking ID during draft handling.cseijas, published 2025-09-01
Adaptation Project: SAP標準Fioriアプリのフィルタ項目を必須入力へするための方法Adaptation Project: SAP標準Fioriアプリのフィルタ項目を必須入力へするための方法Walks through making a filter field mandatory on a standard SAP Fiori elements app (Manage Purchase Orders) without modifying it: an Adaptation Project created in SAP Business Application Studio adds a local OData annotation file that applies the Org.OData.Capabilities.V1 FilterRestrictions term — RequiresFilter and RequiredProperties on the Plant field — and registers it in manifest.appdescr_variant.json against the mainService data source. It also shows how to look up the target OData service, entity container and entity set through the SAP Fiori Apps Reference Library and the service's own metadata.hironobu_nakayama, published 2025-10-19
Agentic UI Extensibility: The Next Chapter of SAPUI5 FlexibilityAgentic UI Extensibility: The Next Chapter of SAPUI5 FlexibilityA Devtoberfest 2026 session on SAPUI5 flexibility: a recap of key-user adaptation as deltas that survive an upgrade, then a lab preview in which Joule works through a pasted list of adaptation requests inside the key-user tooling — moving a section, adding one through embedded content, saving and activating a version — and writes a handover prompt when a request is outside what a key user may change. The developer half pastes that prompt into VS Code, where a coding agent generates an adaptation project through MCP tools, picks up the key-user changes already made, reads the base application's metadata and the UI5 documentation, writes the XML fragments and controller extensions for a new table column and a supplier dialogue, and restarts the editor to verify both appear. The agentic parts are unreleased; what the session shows as already available is the adaptation project for Cloud Foundry in VS Code, role-specific adaptation on Cloud Foundry from SAPUI5 1.146, views in variant management loaded when the manage-views dialogue opens rather than at startup, and the redesigned key-user adaptation mode with its change highlighting and version dialogue.SAP Developers, published 2026-10-16
AI needs a foundation: A map of the plug-in ecosystem for CAPAI needs a foundation: A map of the plug-in ecosystem for CAPA map of the plug-ins for CAP (@sap/cds), official, community and independent, drawn across regions such as integration, performance and tooling, so that a team can see what exists to reuse and what it would have to build: the question plugin authoring answers from the other side. SAP's abstract places CAP at the centre of its AI strategy, with model context protocol support, and the map is offered as the foundation under that. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Community Theater, Berlin), presented by Mike Zaschka, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Bringing SAP themes to any web app with coding agentsBringing SAP themes to any web app with coding agentsA Devtoberfest 2026 session from SAP's UI theme designer team, in two halves. The first is how an SAP theme is built: seven reference tokens, the main tokens that carry the semantics, component tokens such as the emphasized button background, and derived tokens for states like hover — the inheritance chain that makes theming hard to follow by eye, and the reason a custom theme always derives from an SAP base theme. The second installs SAP/ui-theme-designer-plugins-for-coding-agents in Claude Code and has it apply SAP design tokens to a login screen built with a non-SAP component library, then make the page themeable from a theme root and a theme URL parameter; the design-tokens skill npm-installs the theming content to read current parameter values, and the help skill fetches the UI theme designer help pages at query time. The presenters state the skills are not limited to SAPUI5 and run in any coding agent that reads skills.SAP Developers, published 2026-09-25
Build and deploy a CAP Project Node.js API with a SAP Fiori Elements UI and a managed approuter configurationBuild and deploy a CAP Project Node.js API with a SAP Fiori Elements UI and a managed approuter configurationGeneration and deployment in one piece, with the managed approuter rather than a standalone one — so the routing is configuration instead of a module, and the post covers what that changes at deploy time.jlong, published 2022-02-10
Build and deploy a CAP Project Node.js API with a SAP Fiori Elements UI and a managed approuter configuration
Fiori annotations changed in @sap/cds-dk 9.6.0, 2025-12-17. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
Build BTP CAP App with Fiori Integration – Part 2: Implementing End to End AppBuild BTP CAP App with Fiori Integration – Part 2: Implementing End to End AppThe implementation half of the series whose first part set up the account and the database: the application itself, end to end.SuryaRamesh, published 2026-04-09
Build SAP Overview Page using SAP HANA Cloud & SAP CAP service annotations in Visual Studio CodeBuild SAP Overview Page using SAP HANA Cloud & SAP CAP service annotations in Visual Studio CodeAn Overview Page — the card-based Fiori elements floorplan, less written about than the list report — driven entirely from annotations on a CAP service, in VS Code rather than Business Application Studio.Sai_Nithesh_G, published 2021-08-05
Build SAP Overview Page using SAP HANA Cloud & SAP CAP service annotations in Visual Studio Code
Fiori annotations changed in @sap/cds-dk 9.6.0, 2025-12-17. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
Building Agentic Workflows with n8n in Joule StudioBuilding Agentic Workflows with n8n in Joule StudioA Devtoberfest 2026 session, JS-31, on SAP-managed n8n inside Joule Studio, shown as a labs preview on a blocked-invoice scenario: a solution made of assets, an intent refined by the web agent into requirements and then a specification, and the generated workflow opened in the n8n editor that Joule Studio connects to its own n8n tenant, with the generated files committed through GitHub. The nodes carry the other edges — the human-in-the-loop node is built on SAP Task Center, and SAP AI Core is where model providers are configured centrally instead of per developer. It ends in Joule chat, where the approval task the workflow created is listed, opened and completed.SAP Developers, published 2026-10-08
Building an Analytical List Page with CAP OData V4Building an Analytical List Page with CAP OData V4The annotations a CAP OData V4 service needs before an Analytical List Page will render — the write-up behind the cap-alp sample indexed here. Candid about its provenance: the author credits a GitHub repository she found the approach in, and notes that the repository is no longer available, which is the whole argument for indexing the reasoning rather than only linking the code.published 2023-06-12
Building an Analytical List Page with CAP OData V4
cap-alp: no published releases, repository quiet for 24 months. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
Building an Enterprise Application Using Fiori Elements and CAP - Part 1Building an Enterprise Application Using Fiori Elements and CAP - Part 1Part one of three, and it is all backend: the CAP service the UI will sit on. The author states the constraint the series works under — simple enough for someone new to the stack, without departing from the standard project layout.Farooq, published 2025-12-10
Building an Enterprise Application Using Fiori Elements and CAP – Part 2Building an Enterprise Application Using Fiori Elements and CAP – Part 2The generator run and the List Report it produces, on top of the service from part one. This is where the annotations start doing the work rather than the CDS entities.Farooq, published 2025-12-10
Building an Enterprise Application Using Fiori Elements and CAP – Part 3Building an Enterprise Application Using Fiori Elements and CAP – Part 3The Object Page, which the author points out is entirely annotation-driven — there is no page to design, only facets to declare. The last of the three.Farooq, published 2025-12-10
Building an Enterprise Application Using Fiori Elements and CAP – Part 3
Fiori annotations changed in @sap/cds-dk 9.6.0, 2025-12-17. Affects Runnable code.
CALL BAPI IN CUSTOM ENTITY THROUGH RAPCALL BAPI IN CUSTOM ENTITY THROUGH RAPBuilds a read-only RAP Custom Entity, ZCE_BANK, whose query provider class calls BAPI_BANK_GETDETAIL directly instead of reading a CDS-based persistency, handling filtering, sorting, paging and the total count from the request object in IF_RAP_QUERY_PROVIDER~SELECT. It walks through the @UI annotations — headerInfo, presentationVariant, lineItem, selectionField, identification — that drive the entity's Fiori Elements list report, which is Fiori annotations on the ABAP door.harsha_reddy24, published 2025-12-09
Calling bound / unbound CAP actions from Fiori elements application.Calling bound / unbound CAP actions from Fiori elements application.invokeAction from the Fiori elements Edit flow API, with the difference between bound and unbound actions spelled out first because the call shape differs. Under three thousand characters and it answers exactly one question.vidhyasagarmule, published 2024-09-07
CAP - Dynamically hide UI facets in Fiori ElementsCAP - Dynamically hide UI facets in Fiori ElementsFacets hidden at runtime rather than at design time, which needs two things at once: UI.Hidden on the annotation side and a virtual element on the CDS side to decide it. Both are linked from the post, and it is barely two pages.AjayRathore, published 2023-12-08
CAP - Dynamically hide UI facets in Fiori Elements
Fiori annotations changed in @sap/cds-dk 9.6.0, 2025-12-17. Affects A recipe.
CAP Developers - Call to Action to mitigate and Apply Solution provided in SAP Note 3747787CAP Developers - Call to Action to mitigate and Apply Solution provided in SAP Note 3747787Four malicious npm package versions published on 29 April 2026 that exfiltrate credentials and propagate into adjacent repositories, and what a CAP developer should check. A security advisory rather than a technique, and dated precisely for that reason.Yogananda, published 2026-05-01
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
CAP Heaven? Not Yet — But You Can See It from HereCAP Heaven? Not Yet — But You Can See It from HereAn assessment from someone with Java, Azure and AWS behind them as well as ABAP and Fiori, which is a rarer vantage point than it sounds. The title is the verdict.published 2026-02-07
CAP in the age of AI #6 - vector embeddingsCAP in the age of AI #6 - vector embeddingsVector embeddings put to work in the incident management sample, answering whether this problem has been seen before. An embedding element of type Vector is calculated and stored from the vector_embedding function, so the database refreshes it whenever the text behind it changes, and cosine_similarity compares it with a freshly embedded string; because a title says little, a scheduled action first summarises each incident's conversation through a model on SAP AI Core and the embedding is taken from that summary. The similar-incidents list is a view joining incidents to themselves, with order and limit set in a before handler on the expanded query, and the vector element excluded from the service, since OData knows nothing about vectors — on SAP HANA Cloud the function is native, while SQLite needs packages added to the project.published 2026-10-09
CAP is important because it's not importantCAP is important because it's not importantAn essay rather than a technique: what CAP actually is, what it gives you, and the case for treating it as foundational precisely because it is not the interesting part of an application. Written in 2019, when that argument still had to be made, and the title is the argument. Also recorded as a Tech Aloud podcast episode and a CodeTalk, both linked from the post.published 2019-11-06
CAP JavaでObject Pageの項目の動的な入力制御を実装するCAP JavaでObject Pageの項目の動的な入力制御を実装するTwo ways to make an object page field editable or not from the value of another field in CAP Java, with the same rule implemented both ways. The first routes the decision through a separate entity holding default values, reached by Side Effects annotations; the second adds a virtual element the Java event handler fills. The piece is about the trade the two make — annotation-only versus a handler that runs — rather than about which is correct, and the running code is the repository it links.published 2025-10-13
CAP with Fiori Elements: Actions on List Report / Object Page using Annotations - Part1CAP with Fiori Elements: Actions on List Report / Object Page using Annotations - Part1Actions on their own, at length — where an action can be placed, what the annotation looks like for each position, and what changes between the List Report and the Object Page. Part one of two.Ajit_K_Panda, published 2023-12-31
CAP with Fiori Elements: Actions on List Report / Object Page using Annotations - Part1
Fiori annotations changed in @sap/cds-dk 9.6.0, 2025-12-17. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
CAP with Fiori Elements: Actions on List Report / Object Page using Annotations – Part2CAP with Fiori Elements: Actions on List Report / Object Page using Annotations – Part2The second half of the actions pair, published the same day. Between them they cover more ground on this one annotation than the documentation does in one place.Ajit_K_Panda, published 2023-12-31
CAP with Fiori Elements: Actions on List Report / Object Page using Annotations – Part2
Fiori annotations changed in @sap/cds-dk 9.6.0, 2025-12-17. Affects Runnable code.
CAP with Fiori Elements: Configure Multiple Views on List Report TablesCAP with Fiori Elements: Configure Multiple Views on List Report TablesSeveral tabs over one entity, each with its own filter — the multiple-views annotation, which is one of the few Fiori elements features that changes the shape of the page rather than its content.Ajit_K_Panda, published 2023-12-25
CAP with Fiori Elements: Configure Multiple Views on List Report Tables
Fiori annotations changed in @sap/cds-dk 9.6.0, 2025-12-17. Affects Runnable code.
CAP with Fiori Elements: Side Effects, Custom Actions, Dynamic ExpressionsCAP with Fiori Elements: Side Effects, Custom Actions, Dynamic ExpressionsThe first of the author's Fiori elements posts, and the widest: side effects, which are the annotation that tells the UI a field changed something else; custom actions; and dynamic expressions. The three that turn a generated app into a usable one.Ajit_K_Panda, published 2022-12-23
CAP with Fiori Elements: Side Effects, Custom Actions, Dynamic Expressions
Fiori annotations changed in @sap/cds-dk 9.6.0, 2025-12-17. Affects Runnable code.
CAP, CORS and custom headersCAP, CORS and custom headersWhat CAP itself does about CORS, and where it stops. The starting point is a colleague's request and a deliberate constraint: @sap/approuter has full CORS support, but the author wanted to know what the CAP server offers on its own and how to extend it. Ends up covering preflight requests and custom servers, which is the mechanism a frontend hosted outside BTP actually runs into.published 2024-04-11
CAP, RAP, or Both: Stop Hiding Behind 'It Depends'CAP, RAP, or Both: Stop Hiding Behind 'It Depends'Opens by refusing the answer every other post on this gives — "both are complementary, choose based on context" — and then commits to a framework, including the parts usually left out: the staffing bias behind the decision, and what to do about a landscape with thousands of Z-objects. Argument, not tutorial.published 2026-04-09
CAP: The Road Ahead - Simplicity in an AI EraCAP: The Road Ahead - Simplicity in an AI EraDevtoberfest 2026 session CAP10, from the head of SAP's Cloud Application Programming Model: forty minutes of live building rather than slides, on the argument that the cheapest code in an AI project is code nobody has to generate. Claude Code builds an invoice-matching workspace from cds init onwards, and each step is one the framework answers rather than the agent: a 42-line domain model that @sap/cds serves as OData and Fiori elements with a status flow, data privacy and change-tracking annotations that produce audit log entries in the console and would reach the SAP Audit Log service once deployed, an imported S/4HANA supplier data product, and semantic matching from a local embedding model after @cap-js/ai is added. The last three steps are annotations: @mcp beside @odata turns the service into an MCP server that a second Claude session queries through @cap-js/mcp, an agent annotation adds the A2A protocol with an agent card and an audit log entry for the agent task, and a skill file gives the agent the matching policy.SAP Developers, published 2026-09-25
CAPM Basics - Part 4CAPM Basics - Part 4Part 4 of a CAPM Basics series binds the deployed XSUAA and SAP HANA Cloud service instances with cds bind and runs the project against them from a laptop via cds watch --profile hybrid, the hybrid-testing loop @sap/cds-dk provides. It then restricts the service with @restrict (READ granted to a Viewer role, full access to Admin) and adds OData Capabilities restrictions plus @odata.draft.enabled so a Fiori elements client renders create, update and delete without UI code. It closes by adding a UI module with the SAP Fiori Generator, wiring an approuter via cds add approuter to forward the auth token, and updating the SAP Authorization and Trust Management service instance with the generated redirect URI before redeploying.archisman92, published 2025-05-10
Case-insensitive filters in Fiori Elements (List report + CAP)Case-insensitive filters in Fiori Elements (List report + CAP)A blocker rather than a feature: filters on a List Report are case-sensitive, the business wanted them not to be, and the CAP backend is where it gets fixed. Node and Java both.Kishannaicker, published 2022-04-26
Combine Power Automate, Microsoft Teams Approvals and an SAP Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP) AppCombine Power Automate, Microsoft Teams Approvals and an SAP Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP) AppWeighs how to give an approver in a bookshop-demo CAP app a screen to act on — S/4HANA's My Inbox via a custom task provider class, the not-yet-GA SAP Task Center, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Teams or plain mail — and settles on Teams approvals, wired to a Power Automate flow that calls the app's OAuth2-secured API through a custom connector. The setup worked, but every request runs as the one user who created the connection, since OAuth2 client credentials flow isn't yet supported for Power Automate's custom connectors.published 2021-04-29
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
Create an SAP Fiori Elements UI for CAP Node.js applications in SAP Business Application StudioCreate an SAP Fiori Elements UI for CAP Node.js applications in SAP Business Application StudioWritten the week Fiori elements gained OData V4 support, which is what made a generated List Report over a CAP Node.js service possible at all. Short, and dated in the useful sense — it marks when the generator stopped being a V2-only path.liat_b, published 2021-01-11
Create Fiori List Report with object page using CAPM(node.js) ServiceCreate Fiori List Report with object page using CAPM(node.js) ServiceThe short version of the generated-app walkthrough — an existing CAPM Node.js service, and the List Report with Object Page on top of it. Under three thousand characters.Md_sanaullah, published 2023-09-06
Create your first CAP pluginCreate your first CAP pluginA step-by-step guide to the cds-plugin.js extension point: scaffold a package, add an index.cds for shared model artifacts, and test it locally against a throwaway CAP project before publishing to npm, with a separate section on building the same plugin in TypeScript and compiling it with tsc. Points to the author's own cds-plugin-handlers and ui5-cap-serverside-rendering-plugin as worked examples.published 2024-12-09
Creating a Custom F4 Help for Currency Fields in ABAP Using F4IF_INT_TABLE_VALUE_REQUESTCreating a Custom F4 Help for Currency Fields in ABAP Using F4IF_INT_TABLE_VALUE_REQUESTWalks through building a custom F4 help popup for a currency selection-screen field: an AT SELECTION-SCREEN ON VALUE-REQUEST handler reads currency codes and texts from TCURC and TCURT into an internal table, then passes it to F4IF_INT_TABLE_VALUE_REQUEST to render the popup list. It is offered as a replacement for the field's standard search help when that does not fit the business requirement.vinodkumarreddyappannagari, published 2026-06-03
Creating Material Master Data in SAP S/4HANA Using RAP and EML .Creating Material Master Data in SAP S/4HANA Using RAP and EML .Builds an unmanaged Transactional model RAP business object for Article (Material) master data on top of the standard interface views I_Product, I_ProductDescription and I_ProductPlant, replacing BAPI_MATERIAL_SAVEDATA with EML operations in the create, update and custom extendplant behaviour methods. A CDS metadata extension adds the Fiori annotations — headerInfo, facets, line items and value helps — that drive the generated Fiori elements UI.Sudhanshu07, published 2026-01-08
Custom Handlers for Entities in SAP CAPCustom Handlers for Entities in SAP CAPWritten from the moment of not knowing: a two-level composition with drafts, the Fiori elements UI working perfectly, and no idea which handlers are actually needed. What comes out is the action lifecycle laid out as a reference — NEW, EDIT, PATCH and the rest — with a matrix saying which handler fires for which, which is the thing the documentation leaves you to assemble.xavisanse, published 2026-02-20
Declarative Programming in CAP: Less Code, More ValueDeclarative Programming in CAP: Less Code, More ValueAn argument for annotations over handlers, made from the case where it is most obvious: repetitive validation logic that could be declared instead of written. Describes what you want rather than how to get it, and lets the runtime decide the how.published 2026-02-05
Deep Insert in SAP CAPM Using Composition and Fiori ElementsDeep Insert in SAP CAPM Using Composition and Fiori ElementsParent and children created in one transaction, which composition already gives you in the model — the post is about what Fiori elements does with it, and what the payload looks like when the UI sends both at once.published 2026-05-22
Develop a Full-Stack CAP Application Following SAP BTP Developer's GuideDevelop a Full-Stack CAP Application Following SAP BTP Developer's GuideThe eight-part path SAP's own Developer's Guide prescribes: a CAP service, Fiori Elements over it, custom logic, authorization, tests, and the preparation deployment needs. It is the closest thing to an official answer to 'what does a whole CAP application look like', which is why it sits under reference applications rather than under any one of the capabilities it touches.SAP
Developing a Fiori elements app with CAP and Fiori ToolsDeveloping a Fiori elements app with CAP and Fiori ToolsA learning write-up from someone new to CAP at the time, and long enough to be thorough. Carries its own update pointing at a newer post on deploying a CAP-based Fiori app to a central launchpad without an approuter.MioYasutake, published 2020-09-07
Developing a Fiori elements app with CAP and Fiori Tools
Fiori annotations changed in @sap/cds-dk 9.6.0, 2025-12-17. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
Developing Fiori Element Application (List Report and Object Page) consuming the OData service created using SAP Cloud Application Programming modelDeveloping Fiori Element Application (List Report and Object Page) consuming the OData service created using SAP Cloud Application Programming modelOne of the earliest entries here, from mid-2020: the List Report and Object Page pair generated over a CAP OData service, when that combination was still new enough to need explaining.former_member187069, published 2020-06-08
Developing Fiori Element Application (List Report and Object Page) consuming the OData service created using SAP Cloud Application Programming model
Fiori annotations changed in @sap/cds-dk 9.6.0, 2025-12-17. Affects A recipe.
Developing Mobile Apps with SAP BuildDeveloping Mobile Apps with SAP BuildA tutorial that builds a cross-platform mobile app with the Mobile Development Kit on top of the CAP-based data service from the author's earlier posts, using the mobile Dev Space in SAP Business Application Studio to configure and deploy the app to SAP Mobile Services. It sets up the mobile destination against SAP Destination service two ways — reusing the BTP destination already created for the CAP service, or an Internet Destination with OAuth2 User Token Exchange and a manually retrieved client secret — and turns on Cross Context SSO so a token issued in the browser carries into the generic SAP Mobile Services Client app on the phone.published 2025-05-22
Developing SAP Fiori Element application by using SAP Cloud Application Programming ModelDeveloping SAP Fiori Element application by using SAP Cloud Application Programming ModelThe long version, and it starts by naming the floorplans — List Report, Worklist, Object Page, Overview Page, Analytical List Page — which is the decision most walkthroughs skip. Then one of them, built out against a CAP service.shobhit, published 2023-08-07
Developing SAP Fiori Element application by using SAP Cloud Application Programming Model
Fiori annotations changed in @sap/cds-dk 9.6.0, 2025-12-17. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
Discovering SAP Fiori Elements Analytical functions by implementing SAP Support Message ReportingDiscovering SAP Fiori Elements Analytical functions by implementing SAP Support Message ReportingAnalytical annotations learned by building something the author wanted — a view over SAP support messages — after a conversation in February 2021 that the post dates precisely. Exploration written up as exploration.published 2021-03-14
Display of hierarchical data in SAP Fiori elements using SAP Cloud Application Programming ModelDisplay of hierarchical data in SAP Fiori elements using SAP Cloud Application Programming ModelHierarchies before the framework supported them, and the post now opens with its own update saying that Fiori elements V4 and OData V4 support tree views natively and linking the guide. Read the update first; the rest is the record of what people did in the meantime.OliverKlemenz, published 2022-07-01
Display of hierarchical data in SAP Fiori elements using SAP Cloud Application Programming Model
sap:hierarchy. Affects Runnable code.
Don't "let it crash", is this the new CAP guideline?Don't "let it crash", is this the new CAP guideline?Dinu traces a change in error handling in CAP's Node.js runtime: @sap/cds@8.2.0 adds a cds.server.shutdown_on_uncaught_errors config flag, defaulting to true, but invoking an operation with an undefined variable no longer takes the server down, with or without the flag, where the same code crashed it on cds@6 and cds@7, and the author notes the old behaviour was already missing in cds@8.1. It still crashes with features.odata_new_adapter turned off to use the old OData parser, so it is the new OData adapter, like the REST adapter before it, that answers an uncaught error with a 500 instead of taking the process down.Dinu, published 2024-09-06
Dynamic Criticality in SAP CAP Using Fiori Elements and Node.jsDynamic Criticality in SAP CAP Using Fiori Elements and Node.jsColouring rows by status, which sounds like a UI question and is not: criticality is a value the service has to compute and expose, so the work is a virtual element in CDS and the annotation that points at it. Comes from a real requirement — business users wanting to spot the records that need attention.Pranesh_SD, published 2026-06-05
Enable App-to-App Navigation in BASEnable App-to-App Navigation in BASTesting navigation between two Fiori applications inside Business Application Studio, which Web IDE Full-Stack made easy and BAS initially did not. Two paths: between Fiori elements applications it is a few clicks in Fiori tools with both apps in the same workspace, and for a freestyle application the same result takes a short sequence of manual steps. Written in 2021 against the Fiori tools of the time, so read the mechanism rather than the clicks.published 2021-05-24
Enhancing Standard CDS Views in FIORI My InboxEnhancing Standard CDS Views in FIORI My InboxExtends the standard CDS view C_PurchaseOrderFs consumed by the Fiori My Inbox purchase-order approval screen, adding requester, buyer-note, supplier-note and approver fields as virtual elements resolved by an ABAP class implementing IF_SADL_EXIT_CALC_ELEMENT_READ, then reloading the OData metadata through transaction /IWFND/MAINT_SERVICE. The result is a My Inbox task screen carrying approval context that was not visible on the standard screen before.gsureshkumar, published 2026-03-02
Everything new: Try out the latest features in CAPEverything new: Try out the latest features in CAPCAP (@sap/cds) gains the features this hands-on session works through: declarative constraints, which is the input validation concern, status flows as status transition flows, a cds REPL, extensibility through @sap/cds-oyster, and HCQL, which SAP's abstract calls CAP's native query-over-HTTP protocol, after an opening stretch of AI-driven app development. The abstract names the features and stops there; what each one does is not described. A TechEd 2026 hands-on session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin), presented by Daniel Hutzel, Daniel Schlachter, Marc Huber and Tim Back, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Explore SAP Fiori elements for ABAP developersExplore SAP Fiori elements for ABAP developersSAP Fiori elements for an ABAP developer who now builds the UI as well as the RAP business object behind it, the transactional model of ABAP Cloud, in SAP Business Application Studio; the abstract calls the UI side new territory for that developer, and a Fiori elements app is rendered from the service's Fiori annotations rather than hand-written UI code. The abstract names the tool and the stack and does not say which floorplan or annotations are shown. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by Björn Schulz, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
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
Extend SAP SuccessFactors on SAP BTP with CAP - Develop the SAP Fiori Elements ApplicationExtend SAP SuccessFactors on SAP BTP with CAP - Develop the SAP Fiori Elements ApplicationThe UI instalment of the SuccessFactors extension series — the imported service is already modelled and this is the application over it. Names the three posts it depends on.ale_biagi, published 2022-03-30
Extend Upload Set with Table to Fiori Elements and utilize Object StoreExtend Upload Set with Table to Fiori Elements and utilize Object StoreThe Object Store variant of the author's earlier Document Management post, written after testing @cap-js/attachments — a sample managing text and file information together, and offered as something for people new to BTP rather than as a pattern.published 2024-05-21
Extend Upload Set with Table to Fiori Elements and utilize Object Store
Fiori annotations changed in @sap/cds-dk 9.6.0, 2025-12-17. Affects Runnable code.
Fiori Elements Analytical Table with CAP: Does it work with V2 and V4?Fiori Elements Analytical Table with CAP: Does it work with V2 and V4?A question in the title and an answer in the post, with the boundary drawn carefully: this is an analytical table inside a List Report, not the Analytical List Page, and the two protocol versions do not behave the same.published 2023-04-03
Fiori Elements Analytical Table with CAP: Does it work with V2 and V4?
Fiori annotations changed in @sap/cds-dk 9.6.0, 2025-12-17. Affects Runnable code.
Fiori Elements Standard App Extension using virtual Elements: Manage Billing Document ( Real Time Extension Scenario)Fiori Elements Standard App Extension using virtual Elements: Manage Billing Document ( Real Time Extension Scenario)Extending a delivered standard application — Manage Billing Documents — rather than building a new one, using virtual elements to add what the standard model does not carry. A different problem from most of this capability, and a common one.mohit_bansal3, published 2021-08-24
Fiori Elements のList Reportアプリにカスタムアクションボタンを追加し、カスタムコントローラーを用いてアイコン化するFiori Elements のList Reportアプリにカスタムアクションボタンを追加し、カスタムコントローラーを用いてアイコン化するIn Japanese. A custom action button added to a generated List Report and then given an SAPUI5 icon through a custom controller — the point where an annotation-driven app needs a piece of code, and what that costs.takayuki_tanaka, published 2024-08-02
From Inbox to Quotation: An AI-Assisted Sales Workbench in React on SAP CAPFrom Inbox to Quotation: An AI-Assisted Sales Workbench in React on SAP CAPA Devtoberfest 2026 session walking live through a sales workbench that turns an incoming customer e-mail into a quotation in S/4HANA, built as a React UI on CAP. It shows the filterable request inbox, the extracted configuration properties with a confidence indicator per characteristic, the variant configurator rendered in React from a JSON schema the configuration service returns, and the link from a derived value back to the place in the e-mail it was read from; the stated reason for the stack is that CAP keeps authentication, destinations and deployment the same in every project, which is where frontend boundary holds. The inbox grows while a user works because a CAP WebSocket plugin pushes new requests into the list — WebSocket.SAP Developers, published 2026-10-09
From R/3 ABAP to CAP/Fiori Elements on SAP BTP- DeploymentFrom R/3 ABAP to CAP/Fiori Elements on SAP BTP- DeploymentThe doing half: the steps and the code that got the application from the first post deployed and working. Shorter, and it assumes the argument has already been made.former_member231477, published 2021-04-30
From R/3 ABAP to CAP/Fiori Elements on SAP BTP- Deployment
Fiori annotations changed in @sap/cds-dk 9.6.0, 2025-12-17. Affects Runnable code.
From R/3 ABAP to CAP/Fiori Elements on SAP CloudFrom R/3 ABAP to CAP/Fiori Elements on SAP CloudWritten by an ABAP developer of fourteen years explaining what changed and what did not — the argument being that CAP kept the focus on business logic that ABAP had, where learning UI5 and a framework or two had not. The reasoning half of a pair.former_member231477, published 2021-03-24
From R/3 ABAP to CAP/Fiori Elements on SAP Cloud
Fiori annotations changed in @sap/cds-dk 9.6.0, 2025-12-17. Affects Runnable code.
From SEGW and Legacy UI5 to RAP with ARC-1From SEGW and Legacy UI5 to RAP with ARC-1Three ARC-1 skills, run in Cursor with Composer-2 against a deliberately rough demo on an S/4HANA 2023 trial system, turn the SEGW service ZDEMO_MIG_PROJECTS_SRV into a managed, draft-enabled RAP business object published as OData V4, replace its ApproveProject function import and its direct UPDATE ... COMMIT WORK with the action approve_project written in EML in local mode, and rebuild the freestyle UI5 JavaScript app once in UI5 TypeScript and once as a Fiori elements list report and object page driven by metadata extensions. What the published transcripts add is how the agent got there: it found the generated MPC class names and the custom logic in DPC_EXT only by reading the system, the skills made it print the extracted model and stop for confirmation before writing, and @ui5/mcp-server, mcp-sap-docs and @sap-ux/fiori-mcp-server each had their own job beside it. The demo is small on purpose, and the post says a productive SEGW service that calls BAPIs, carries custom authorisation logic or supports deep inserts is not solved with one prompt.published 2026-05-11
From SEGW and Legacy UI5 to RAP with ARC-1
@sap-ux/fiori-mcp-server has been through 2 major lines since this was published: 0.7 (2026-05), 1 (2026-05). Affects Runnable code.
Fullstack CAP Application with HANA Cloud (Decoupled Architecture) [Part-2]Fullstack CAP Application with HANA Cloud (Decoupled Architecture) [Part-2]Part 1 left a working OData service whose Fiori preview showed nothing useful. This is the annotations that fix that — the UI vocabulary added to the CDS model until the generated list report has columns worth reading.sanjucs, published 2026-05-07
Get to know our AI-enhanced mobile apps across the Autonomous EnterpriseGet to know our AI-enhanced mobile apps across the Autonomous EnterpriseA demo of the Joule Work mobile app, part of SAP Joule, and selected SAP mobile apps, showing the mobile AI features meant for using SAP Autonomous Suite on the go, followed by the mobile AI patterns and how to build your own Mobile apps with SAP Business AI Platform. The abstract names the apps and the patterns and states no feature or tool, so what building your own involves is not said. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by Sandeep Tetali and Thilo Berndt, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
Getting started with cds.ql in NodeJS for CAP - 101 on how to query dataGetting started with cds.ql in NodeJS for CAP - 101 on how to query dataWalks through cds.ql, the query API @sap/cds gives a Node.js CAP service's custom handlers, with worked SELECT, UPDATE, DELETE and INSERT examples against a sample schema — filters, AND/OR conditions, column projections, ordering, limiting, grouping and joining two entities through a schema view. An added correction notes that cds.tx(req) is no longer needed to run a query in newer CAP versions, contradicting the post's own original guidance.published 2022-06-21
Hello React & Vue : SAP CAP’s New UI Layer is Here!Hello React & Vue : SAP CAP’s New UI Layer is Here!CAP gaining a UI layer for React and Vue, which changes the default assumption that the front end is UI5. Short, and the significance is larger than the length.Yogananda, published 2026-06-25
How to Approve/Reject Task via API in SAP Build Process AutomationHow to Approve/Reject Task via API in SAP Build Process AutomationWalks through the Workflow API's /task-instances PATCH call that SAP Build Process Automation exposes to approve or reject a user task from outside its Inbox, matching the instance ID from the Monitoring tab and the identifier of the button the approval form defines. Covers the permission split between an authenticated user, who needs the ProcessAutomationAdmin or ProcessAutomationParticipant role collection to appear as the one who completed the task, and Client Credentials, which completes it as a generic client identity, plus the error codes the API returns for a missing instance, an already-completed task or an invalid status.Dan_Wroblewski, published 2025-02-10
How to Control the Visibility of CRUD and Custom Actions in Fiori Elements Based on AuthorizationHow to Control the Visibility of CRUD and Custom Actions in Fiori Elements Based on AuthorizationHiding Create, Edit and custom action buttons according to what the user may actually do — the join between the authorisation model and the annotations, which is where the two usually fail to agree and the UI offers something the service will refuse.published 2025-05-14
How to Deploy a Custom Fiori App to S/4HANA Public Cloud and Add a Tile in SAP Build Work ZoneHow to Deploy a Custom Fiori App to S/4HANA Public Cloud and Add a Tile in SAP Build Work ZoneA step-by-step walkthrough of taking a RAP-based Fiori app from SAP Business Application Studio deployment to a working tile in SAP Build Work Zone, standard edition on SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition: the crossNavigation/inbounds block in manifest.json that creates the Launchpad App Descriptor Item, the IAM App that links it to a Business Catalog and Business Role, and the semantic-object-and-action intent Work Zone resolves against. SSO between BTP and S/4 works because both trust the same Cloud Identity Services tenant.sushweta_bhattacharya, published 2026-05-28
How to ensure that users can efficiently enter data in SAP Fiori elements applicationsHow to ensure that users can efficiently enter data in SAP Fiori elements applicationsGuidance for draft-enabled Fiori Elements applications aimed at the user who spends their day in them: entering data quickly and by keyboard, on a slow network, without the round trips a draft-backed form can otherwise impose. Written from the design side rather than the implementation side, which is the half most CAP writing about drafts leaves out.published 2022-12-05
Introducing the Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP)Introducing the Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP)SAP's own general-availability announcement for CAP, laid out as a Golden Path: a data model and service defined in CDS gets a generated service provider that serves metadata publishing and CRUD requests, fills in primary keys and audit data, and writes trace and audit logs without application code. The same CDS model carries annotations that translate to OData vocabularies and generate a Fiori elements app skeleton, which is how Fiori annotations work in CAP.Daniel7, published 2018-06-05
ISO content for common CAP typesISO content for common CAP typesThe npm package that supplies ISO-standard content — countries, languages, currencies, timezones — for CAP's common types, and how it works underneath. The author flags the length and the reason for it up front, having followed the mechanism further than the question required, which is what makes it worth reading rather than a package announcement.published 2024-03-14
ISO content for common CAP types
Seed data changed in @sap/cds-dk 7.9.1, 2024-05-02. Affects Runnable code.
Keep the Core Clean with Rizing CDSXKeep the Core Clean with Rizing CDSXJhodel Cailan recounts hitting a wall where neither RAP nor CAP supported more than a non-draft OData V2 service for the side-by-side extensibility scenario he wanted, and built Rizing CDSX (@rizing/cds-extension) to add draft handling over a shadow persistence entity that mirrors a remote, cds import-ed service. He walks through the @cdsx.api annotation that proxies the entity, bootstrapping the module from cds.on('bootstrap') in server.js, and testing the result through a generated Fiori elements app backed by an OData V4 draft service.published 2023-05-07
Messaging System for Transferring Error, Warning, and Information Messages from OData V4 Services to HTTP Client ApplicationsMessaging System for Transferring Error, Warning, and Information Messages from OData V4 Services to HTTP Client ApplicationsGetting a message out of a CAP service and onto a Fiori elements object page in a draft scenario — errors, warnings and information, each of which the UI treats differently. Co-written with one of the people on the OData side, and it spends its length on the message container rather than on the handler that fills it.arley-triana-morin, published 2022-08-11
Messaging System for Transferring Error, Warning, and Information Messages from OData V4 Services to HTTP Client Applications
OData changed in @cap-js-community/odata-v2-adapter 1.10.0, 2023-04-05. Affects A recipe, Runnable code.
New POD 2.0 Framework: The New Generation of SAP Digital Manufacturing Worker UIsNew POD 2.0 Framework: The New Generation of SAP Digital Manufacturing Worker UIsThe opening post of SAP's sixteen-part series on POD 2.0, the UI framework inside SAP Digital Manufacturing for building worker-facing execution screens: it replaces the architectural foundation of the existing POD model, drops the fixed POD types such as Work Center and Order in favour of POD templates, and exposes contextual execution data directly to the UI layer. The edge to POD plugins holds on what it states about plugins themselves: the large monolithic plugins of the old framework have been broken into smaller, focused components, and layout, dialogs, buttons and actions that previously required UI extensions or custom plugins are configured in a WYSIWYG designer instead. It stops at the direction, with no code, no API and no packaging steps: new execution features will target the new framework and the legacy POD architecture will gradually phase out, while the designer, custom dialogs, dynamic PODs and notifications are left to the fifteen later posts the series list names.ManoelCosta, published 2026-02-10
On‑the‑Fly Excel Download in a RAP Fiori App — No Database Table, No Persistence, Pure CDS + ABAPOn‑the‑Fly Excel Download in a RAP Fiori App — No Database Table, No Persistence, Pure CDS + ABAPBuilds a CDS custom entity backed by an ABAP class that implements IF_RAP_QUERY_PROVIDER and assembles an XLSX workbook at request time — hand-built from Open XML parts with cl_abap_zip for multiple sheets, or in one line via cl_salv_table=>to_xml for one — then streams it to the browser through the @Semantics.largeObject annotation. The same annotation makes Fiori annotations render the field as a download link with no backing database table, trading the usual persisted-blob approach to document output for a file rebuilt fresh on every click.hemanthmj, published 2026-06-18
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.
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.
Random collection of useful code fragments for CAP Fiori Elements and SAPUI5Random collection of useful code fragments for CAP Fiori Elements and SAPUI5Exactly what it says, and the author gives the reason: none of these were easy to find in the documentation or the samples. A collection of fragments rather than an argument, and the kind of page people bookmark.published 2020-11-18
Random collection of useful code fragments for CAP Fiori Elements and SAPUI5
Fiori annotations changed in @sap/cds-dk 9.6.0, 2025-12-17. Affects Runnable code.
RAP - Navigation (App to App)RAP - Navigation (App to App)Walks through app-to-app navigation from a RAP list report and object page: the @Consumption.semanticObject annotation and its semanticObjectMapping.element and additionalBinding variants for links, against the inline @UI.lineItem WITH_INTENT_BASED_NAVIGATION and @UI.identification FOR_INTENT_BASED_NAVIGATION for buttons. Each variant is added through a CDS metadata extension and traced into the target app, showing which fields end up in the filter and how the two annotation styles differ in the list report's formatting. Annotation-driven navigation on a RAP service is part of what Fiori annotations covers on the ABAP door: CDS annotations, carried in a metadata extension, driving the Fiori elements UI.Björn S., published 2026-09-01
Reading Between the Lines: Under-Documented Fiori Elements Capabilities in SAPUI5 1.149Reading Between the Lines: Under-Documented Fiori Elements Capabilities in SAPUI5 1.149Reads SAPUI5 1.149's framework source, not its release notes, to show Fiori Elements shifting side-effect refresh, AI field placeholders and multi-user drafting from controller extensions into what the backing service annotates. Event-driven SideEffects push over a WebSocket channel through @cap-js-community/websocket, while Draft handling gains ABAP RAP's live field locking on CAP Node.js through Sören Leibach's own cap-collaborative-draft plugin. Both rest on Fiori annotations such as Common.SideEffects and CollaborativeDraft.enabled, which the frontend reads rather than requiring a manifest flag.published 2026-07-09
SAP BTP Developer's Guide: Extending Fiori Elements with the Flexible Programming ModelSAP BTP Developer's Guide: Extending Fiori Elements with the Flexible Programming ModelExtension points, building blocks and controller extensions in the Flexible Programming Model, aimed at developers who know the annotations but stop where the floorplan does. The premise is that the capability has been available for a while and is still being discovered, which is a fair description of where most Fiori Elements work runs out of documented ground.published 2025-10-15
SAP Build Process Automationで「グループ宛て承認ワークフロー」を構築するSAP Build Process Automationで「グループ宛て承認ワークフロー」を構築するWalks through building a group-addressed approval workflow in SAP Build Process Automation: a user group created in SAP Cloud Identity Services is bound to the app so an approval step can send one request to every group member's inbox at once, closing as soon as any one of them acts. The approval form shown in that inbox carries a Claim button that hides a claimed task from the other members, and the workflow's approval step binds its group recipients to the field the requester chose on the start form.takayuki_tanaka, published 2025-07-25
SAP Business Technology Platform: Authorization and Trust Management ServiceSAP Business Technology Platform: Authorization and Trust Management ServiceWalks through how the SAP Authorization and Trust Management service secures a BTP application: scopes, attributes and role templates in the security descriptor, and the OAuth 2.0 resource-owner, client and resource-server roles it builds on. Covers the XSUAA microservice as the OAuth 2.0 authorization server bound to each application through its service broker, the signed JSON Web Token it issues after authentication, and the App Router's place in front of the resource apps as the gateway that starts authentication and checks for cross-site request forgery.SekhuteTK, published 2022-09-09
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.
SAP CAPv7 - Node.js Highlights and ExperiencesSAP CAPv7 - Node.js Highlights and ExperiencesAn account of upgrading a 100+ table CAP Node.js project from v6 to v7, working through breaking changes in @sap/cds 7: event handlers now always receive an array, service paths move under /odata/v4/... unless serve_on_root is set, and cds-serve replaces cds run. It goes deepest on the GraphQL plugin, @cap-js/graphql: the /graphql endpoint it serves, Composition results wrapped in a nodes connection, and offset-based pagination reached through OData's top and skip rather than GraphQL's own limit and offset.published 2023-08-03
SAP Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP) - start hereSAP Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP) - start hereThe orientation post for CAP, published in 2018 and revised in 2020 and again in 2021 with help credited to Iwona Hahn — which is the unusual part: a starting-point index that was maintained rather than left to rot, and says so at the top. Read as the shape of what a newcomer was pointed at, and as a marker of how much of that changed inside three years.published 2018-10-10
SAP Fiori Application Generator Available in Open SourceSAP Fiori Application Generator Available in Open SourceThe SAP Fiori tools team announces that the code behind @sap/generator-fiori has moved entirely to open source, and names the packages it is built from: writers that output SAP Fiori elements and freestyle SAPUI5 application files, inquirer prompts for picking a back end, and ABAP deploy tasks, coordinated by a sub-generator. Before publishing, the team broke up what had been a monolith, added TypeScript typings and raised test coverage.jlong, published 2025-05-27
SAP Fiori Element using CAP Model – List Report AppSAP Fiori Element using CAP Model – List Report AppThe build half of the same author's pair: the List Report application over the CAP model introduced in the previous post.jhodel18, published 2020-10-19
SAP Fiori elements and the age of AI: Build apps that are future readySAP Fiori elements and the age of AI: Build apps that are future readyBuilding SAP Fiori elements apps so they work with AI and fit SAP's next products: the abstract names AI-assisted development, OData and annotation design, and intent- and action-ready semantics that keep an app secure, discoverable and upgrade safe. Annotation design is the Fiori annotations concern and the OData service under it the other; the atlas holds no entry for SAP Fiori elements itself, and the abstract names no tool, annotation or version. A TechEd 2026 session (Thursday 29 October, Berlin), presented by Katja Zoch and Sebastian Steinhauer, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.
SAP Fiori Elements using CAP Model - IntroductionSAP Fiori Elements using CAP Model - IntroductionThe introduction to a demo project, and it says where the project came from — exploring what the then-new Fiori tools could do. Context rather than code; the List Report post is the one that builds.jhodel18, published 2020-09-29
SAP MDG Cloud Ready Mode: 5 Solution Patterns, Zero BADIs: How We implemented 5 typical requirementsSAP MDG Cloud Ready Mode: 5 Solution Patterns, Zero BADIs: How We implemented 5 typical requirementsA field report from an 80%-complete SAP MDG-BP Cloud Ready Mode implementation, showing five requirements it met without BAdIs or modification: business-partner context and the MDG UI shown inside the My Inbox app, rule-based multi-step approval routing with exclusive-choice nodes, agent determination through BTP role collections, and role-specific Fiori App Variants that give Finance Experts only bank-detail fields while Approvers get full write access. Each pattern works the same way underneath — a BTP Workflow service task reads business-partner attributes over OData into the workflow context, and a user task, route or app variant reacts to it — built with key-user extensibility or SAP Business Application Studio rather than custom ABAP.steffen_ulmer, published 2026-06-01
SAP Tech Bytes: Using the SAP Approuter at dev time - a full-stack journey with UI5 and CAPSAP Tech Bytes: Using the SAP Approuter at dev time - a full-stack journey with UI5 and CAPGetting UI5 Tooling and the CAP server onto one port under one command, using cds-plugin-ui5 — which the post presents as the thing that removes the proxy and destination configuration a full-stack dev setup otherwise needs. Part one of a journey that goes on to put the approuter in front at development time.published 2023-10-13
SAP Tech Bytes: Using the SAP Approuter at dev time - a full-stack journey with UI5 and CAP
cds-plugin-ui5 has been through 11 major lines since this was published, most recently 0.15 (2025-11), 0.16 (2025-12), 0.17 (2026-03). Affects Runnable code.
Side Effects in Fiori: Triggering Actions and Updating Data in Your Unmanaged RAP ApplicationSide Effects in Fiori: Triggering Actions and Updating Data in Your Unmanaged RAP ApplicationShows how to add a Common.SideEffects Fiori annotations block to an unmanaged RAP application's annotation.xml, naming the action and the navigation path of the entity set it should refresh, for the case the RAP layer does not refresh automatically: a bound action whose returned instance differs from the bound one, a copy action for example. Works through a "Redetermine All Quotations" button as the example and verifies the resulting POST and GET calls in the browser's network tab.VarunVarshney, published 2024-09-02
Simple Table Maintenance in SAP Fiori Using UI5 Smart ControlsSimple Table Maintenance in SAP Fiori Using UI5 Smart ControlsStarts from SM30 and the table maintenance dialog it generated with almost no code, then asks what the equivalent is now. That framing is the value: a maintenance screen for a custom table was a solved problem in SAP GUI and is not an obviously solved one on Fiori, and the post works through what smart controls give you towards it.published 2025-02-11
Step-by-Step Guide to Display System Details on SAP Fiori Launchpad ShellStep-by-Step Guide to Display System Details on SAP Fiori Launchpad ShellA step-by-step build of a plugin for the SAP Fiori launchpad shell that shows the system ID and client on every app it hosts: an OData service modelled in SAP Gateway Service Builder (SEGW), its GetEntitySet method redefined to call the function module RSAPI_CTC_GET_SYSTEM_DETAILS, then consumed from a project in SAP Business Application Studio with the Component.js and manifest.json changes a shell plugin needs instead of a standalone app. It covers the registration step a plugin needs beyond a normal Fiori app: a Catalog and Target Mapping with Semantic Object Shell and Action Plugin, deployed on-premise and assigned to roles.RahulManchala, published 2025-07-30
Testing SAP Build Process Automation task UI in SAP Business Application StudioTesting SAP Build Process Automation task UI in SAP Business Application StudioA task UI built from the Workflow Task UI template cannot be run in Business Application Studio: it expects the task model and the inbox API as startup parameters, and without them it fails before the view renders. The post shows the error, explains why it happens, and supplies a wrapper that provides the missing context locally, so the alternative to deploying on every change is not deploying on every change.published 2023-10-15
The Complete Guide to Calling Actions in UI5 with Custom CodeThe Complete Guide to Calling Actions in UI5 with Custom CodeWritten because the documentation is thin and the samples sparse, and openly as a note to the author's future self — hand-coding an action call has become a rare task for anyone mostly working in Fiori elements, which is exactly why it is hard to look up when it comes round. Comes with a CAP sample project, so the service half is there too.published 2025-07-21
The Fourth Way to Go Offline in UI5 (And Why the Service Worker Stays Dumb)The Fourth Way to Go Offline in UI5 (And Why the Service Worker Stays Dumb)Reporting on the UI5Con session run by Viktor Sperling and Lars Kissel, the post proposes a fourth offline architecture for a warehouse scanning app: a service worker kept deliberately ignorant of OData, and a JSONModel/IndexedDB layer that does an explicit download, work, submit cycle, queuing local mutations before posting one $batch with a single changeSet at the end of a session. It also works through the alternative v4.ODataModel change-buffer pattern (updateGroupId, submitBatch) and explains why Fiori elements' annotation-driven, live OData V4 interactions resist offline replay. The session-token and XSRF-expiry problem for long offline periods is named as an open gap rather than solved.Noel_Hendrikx, published 2026-07-15
The SAP Fiori elements feature showcase with CAP CDS annotationsThe SAP Fiori elements feature showcase with CAP CDS annotationsThe feature showcase, which is the closest thing to a reference for what the annotations can do, presented here with its CAP CDS side. Short, because the value is in what it points at.stefaniehager, published 2021-12-07
Tips and Tricks for Working with Annotations in CAP Projects using Language Server Protocol (LSP) capabilitiesTips and Tricks for Working with Annotations in CAP Projects using Language Server Protocol (LSP) capabilitiesFour settings, from somebody who works on the annotation language server. The premise is the interesting part: CAP's annotation syntax is looser than ABAP CDS or EDMX — a record can be written with or without an explicit type — so the completion has to guess how verbose you want it, and this is where you tell it. Then filtering the completion list, reading the icons, ordering diagnostics by severity, and turning i18n problems on only when you want them.maryana_naboka, published 2021-10-25
Tree-Table Support in CAP is Now Generally AvailableTree-Table Support in CAP is Now Generally AvailableThe announcement that closes a gap other posts here worked around for years — hierarchy maintenance for Java in February, recursive support in March, generally available since July. Read it beside the 2022 post that had to build hierarchies by hand.published 2025-09-01
UI5ers Buzz #56: New full-stack UI5 sample app featuring CAP + OData V4 + draft modeUI5ers Buzz #56: New full-stack UI5 sample app featuring CAP + OData V4 + draft modeA sample app published as code rather than described — SAPUI5 over a CAP service with OData V4 and draft mode — and the note that it was built on what the team learned from an application written in March 2020 to help the German Foreign Office repatriate citizens. That provenance is unusual and worth keeping.AndreasKunz, published 2020-11-06
Understanding and Developing Fiori Plugins with Extension API & TypeScriptUnderstanding and Developing Fiori Plugins with Extension API & TypeScriptDescribes a launchpad plugin as a UI5 component without views that the shell loads for every app, SAPUI5 only, and compares extending the shell through the renderer with the Extension service from 1.120 and FrameBoundExtension from 1.124, down to the placement options each allows. It builds fiori-fullscreen-plugin as the sample, and ends with activation: globally through /UI2/FLP_CONF_DEF and /UI2/FLP_CUS_CONF or per role through a Shell-plugin target mapping on an ABAP launchpad, and as an HTML5 app assigned to a role in SAP Build Work Zone.published 2026-06-15
Upload data from excel in CAP (Node.js)Upload data from excel in CAP (Node.js)Mass upload from a spreadsheet, both halves shown: an entity marked @cds.persistence.skip to receive the file, an INSERT built from the parsed rows, and a list report extended with the upload button that starts it.KM11, published 2022-11-21
Upload data from excel in CAP (Node.js)
Database connectors has changed twice since this was published, most recently in @sap/cds 10.1.0, 2026-09-07. Affects Runnable code.
Use SAP CAP SAPUI5 Smart Filter to Show Value Help that are not Associated EntititesUse SAP CAP SAPUI5 Smart Filter to Show Value Help that are not Associated EntititesValue help for a field with no association behind it, which is the case the annotation assumes away. Short, and the workaround is the content.JhoelAnthonyRamosRomeroPE, published 2024-10-07
Visualizing Your SAP Bill of Materials Using CAP, Fiori elements, and the UI5 Network GraphVisualizing Your SAP Bill of Materials Using CAP, Fiori elements, and the UI5 Network GraphA parent-child structure rendered as a network graph inside a Fiori Elements application, with the CAP service modelling the bill of materials behind it. Useful as one of the few worked examples of putting a non-standard visualisation into an annotation-driven floorplan rather than building a freestyle app around it.published 2025-02-24
Visualizing Your SAP Bill of Materials Using CAP, Fiori elements, and the UI5 Network Graph
Fiori annotations changed in @sap/cds-dk 9.6.0, 2025-12-17. Affects Runnable code.
What's new in SAP Cloud Application Programming Model – January 2026What's new in SAP Cloud Application Programming Model – January 2026December and January together: the new @assert feature, revised documentation, CDS editor work, and Kyma deployment additions.published 2026-02-09
What's new in SAP Cloud Application Programming Model – November 2025What's new in SAP Cloud Application Programming Model – November 2025The November edition, led by the Status Transition Flows feature presented at reCAP 2025.published 2025-12-08
What's new in SAP Cloud Application Programming Model – September 2025What's new in SAP Cloud Application Programming Model – September 2025The monthly release communication for CAP itself, and this edition carries the MCP servers and the Application Frontend Service integration. Kept because a dated list of what shipped when is the only record of that; three editions are indexed here rather than the whole run.published 2025-10-14
What's new with draft handling in RAP?What's new with draft handling in RAP?An ABAP-day session at Devtoberfest 2026 on two additions to draft handling in RAP: collaborative draft, where two users work on the same draft instance and a field is locked only while the other is in it, and draft scope, where editing an instance of one draft-enabled business object puts the related instances of a dependent one into draft as well. Andre Fischer shows what each costs in the behaviour definition and projection, the draft query view and its DCL that collaborative draft needs over a table-based business object, and the CDS table entities that remove both the draft query view and the persistence table, with their current restrictions in ABAP analytics and extensibility; the from-scratch generator in ADT grows a checkbox for them. Both demos run against the DMO flight scenario of SAP-samples/abap-platform-refscen-flight, and the last part hides the draft-related features of an OData V4 app in its manifest, which the session gives as the reason a simple create-update-delete app no longer needs a V2 service binding.published 2026-09-21
Why SAP Cloud Identity Matters for SAP Task Center: It’s About Trust and Global User IDWhy SAP Cloud Identity Matters for SAP Task Center: It’s About Trust and Global User IDA step-by-step configuration walkthrough for wiring SAP Cloud Identity Services as the trust and user-correlation layer behind SAP Task Center: establishing Identity Authentication as the sole trusted identity provider for the BTP subaccount, and generating the Global User ID — carried in the token's user_uuid claim rather than the SAML name identifier — that Task Center uses to match logged-in users to their tasks. It also covers syncing that ID between Microsoft Entra ID, the Identity Directory and SAP S/4HANA through Identity Provisioning jobs, and the principal-propagation trust the cloud connector needs to pass it through to an on-premise task provider.ivelinakiryakov, published 2024-11-25
XML Annotations: The Essentials Before Adapting Documentation Samples to Your ProjectXML Annotations: The Essentials Before Adapting Documentation Samples to Your ProjectWhat to understand before copying an annotation out of the UI5 Demo Kit, which is what everybody actually does. The samples assume context the sample does not carry, and adapting one without that context is where the afternoon goes.MioYasutake, published 2026-04-09
Agentic AI & AI AgentsAgentic AI & AI AgentsSAP's target picture for AI agents: Joule as the engagement layer — Joule Work, Joule Assistants, Joule Agents — with custom agents from customers, partners and SAP teams connecting through A2A for agent-to-agent collaboration and MCP for tool connectivity, on the SAP Business AI Platform. It says up front that parts are not generally available yet, in particular bidirectional communication with third-party agents through the Agent Gateway, so it reads as direction with the building blocks named rather than a design to copy today.published 2026-08-27
AI-native North Star architecture — Platform LayerAI-native North Star architecture — Platform LayerThe platform layer of SAP's North Star architecture, the chapter that says where agents run and what a developer builds them with. It names an AI Golden Path built on the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model, the ABAP Cloud development model with RAP and the SAP Fiori design system, and a managed agent runtime on SAP BTP that is designed to provide software development kits for building agents in any framework, an agent sandbox, container-hosted execution, a skills registry and continuous evaluations, which is the ground agent tooling covers. Agents are extended without changing their code through four patterns, the first of them tool extensibility through the Model Context Protocol, the concern MCP servers is named for; the process-layer chapter adds that a pro-code path with a standardised agent SDK and a prompt-driven path through the Joule Studio solution produce the same code artifact on the same runtime. It describes a design SAP intends rather than products that exist, and the SDK and the registry it names have no entry here yet.published 2026-05-13
AI-native North Star architecture — Platform Layer
Agent tooling changed in @cap-js/agents 0.9.1, 2026-08-14. Affects A reference.
Establish a central entry point with SAP Build Work ZoneEstablish a central entry point with SAP Build Work ZoneSAP's reference architecture for a business site in SAP Build Work Zone, standard edition or SAP Build Work Zone, advanced edition as one entry point to business applications, processes, information and communication, on the web or in the Joule Work mobile app. Three of its eight flow steps are how content gets in, the ground launchpad and site content covers: custom apps through the channel to the subaccount's SAP HTML5 Application Repository service for SAP BTP, other content through content providers that expose it over APIs from cloud or on-premise systems and content packages uploaded as files, and SAP Cloud Transport Management or manual export and import to move it between environments. Users and role assignments come from Cloud Identity Services, and the components inside the subscription, among them Notifications, SAP Mobile Services and UI Theme Designer, cannot be decoupled from the product, so a custom mobile app needs its own SAP Mobile Services subscription.published 2026-05-22
Establish a central inbox with SAP Task CenterEstablish a central inbox with SAP Task CenterSAP's reference architecture for SAP Task Center as one inbox for the tasks of several SAP applications, opened in the Task Center web app or as To-Dos in SAP Start and SAP Mobile Start, which is the inbox half of task and approval UIs. It rests on Cloud Identity Services: every task provider must work with Identity Authentication, its users must carry the Global User ID and so must the recipients of each task, and sign-on between the provider and Identity Authentication is what lets a user navigate from Task Center into the provider. Task Center reaches providers through destinations in a customer subaccount, with Cloud Connector for on-premise SAP S/4HANA.published 2025-02-11
Generative AI on SAP BTPGenerative AI on SAP BTPThe reference shape for a generative AI application on BTP: a CAP backend, SAP HANA Cloud holding data and embeddings for similarity search through its vector engine, and the Generative AI Hub in SAP AI Core as the single access point to foundation models. It shows retrieval-augmented generation on that stack and names the CAP plugins and SDKs that connect the pieces, for both Cloud Foundry and Kyma.published 2025-09-02
Generative AI on SAP BTP
LLM integration changed in @cap-js/ai 1.0.0, 2026-04-28. Affects A reference.
Integrating and Extending JouleIntegrating and Extending JouleSAP's reference architecture for SAP Joule across SAP cloud applications: a request is checked against a Scenario Catalog of the applications' skills and a Knowledge Catalog answered by retrieval-augmented generation, combined with the user's roles and history, sent to an LLM available through the generative AI hub, and, where a Joule function is needed, turned into a call to the backend. Its identity page is the authentication path: each user sits in the Identity Directory of Cloud Identity Services with a Global User ID, Identity Provisioning synchronises role assignments into SAP Build Work Zone, whose navigation service decides which functions a user may call, and the Destination service exchanges the user's token to call a function in the user's name. Its extension page covers Joule Studio in SAP Build, where Joule skills automate rule-based tasks over APIs and AI agents plan and reason with models and document grounding from SAP AI Core, the ground agent tooling covers; a later Joule Studio page describes a managed Joule Studio Runtime on the SAP Business AI Platform, which has no entry here.published 2026-03-16
Multitenant SaaS Application using CAPMultitenant SaaS Application using CAPSAP's reference architecture for a multitenant SaaS application on BTP built with CAP: one deployment serving many tenants with logically separated data, the subscription and onboarding flow, and the BTP services the design leans on. Written for partners and line-of-business teams building on BTP, and it is SAP's own side of the shape multitenancy takes on BTP.published 2025-01-31
SAP Document AISAP Document AISAP's reference architecture for SAP Document AI, first as SAP composes the service on BTP for document extraction: OCR, pretrained models, customer-defined schemas and LLM calls through SAP AI Core and its Prompt Registry in one pipeline, with tenant-isolated persistence in SAP HANA Cloud, PostgreSQL and an object store. Its scenario pages then lay out a solution in three layers: intake through Outlook and SharePoint inbound channels, the workspace UI, the Joule Work mobile app or the upload API; classification and extraction with a confidence score per field, automatic confirmation above a threshold and review of the rest in the workspace; and posting through outbound channels, directly to a REST API, through an SAP Integration Suite flow, or through a CAP service that maps the fields and calls SAP S/4HANA over OData. Enrichment beyond the service's own master data lookup is left to a CAP application or an Integration Suite flow triggered from an outbound channel, and direct API posting leaves error handling, retries and monitoring to the application.published 2026-06-03
Recent changes
- App hostingcore coverage revised
Reassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): names the SAP application router package the sentence already relied on.
- App hostingcoverage by ecosystem revised
Reassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): removed the absence claim about ui5 artifacts.
- App hostingcoverage by ecosystem revised
Reassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): removed the count of services.
- App hostingcoverage by ecosystem revised
Reassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): removed the count of services and linked the application router package.
- Custom controls and librariescore coverage revised
Reassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): independent maintainers, the abap2UI5 controls and a generator now shape the answer.
- Data bindingcore coverage revised
Reassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): independent packages now provide this capability on the UI5 door beside the framework's own binding.
- Data bindingcore coverage revised
Reassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): states the kinds the independent providers add; the option list names every provider.
- Frontend boundarycore coverage revised
Reassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): both providers of this capability are sap-official, so no artifact of another origin is present behind the door; the schema allows relationship only on a core-and-community block.
- Integrated frontend dev servercoverage by ecosystem revised
Reassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): the only provider of the capability that counts is cds-plugin-ui5, which sits on the CAP door and does not serve the UI5 door, so no provider of another origin counts there. The core stays present on the sourced what_core_does. The middlewares the removed sentence named are not providers of this capability.
- Launchpad and site contentcoverage by ecosystem revised
Reassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): a community-org package for UI5 launchpad tiles now provides this capability, so the community is present.