The latest SAP DEVELOPER LICENSE AGREEMENT 3.2 makes it unnecessarily hard to use software released under it together with AI. The software released under the license cannot be used to train or refine an AI model. As the license states: “You are expressly prohibited from using the Software, Tools or Read more…
Problem You want to deploy a Fiori app using the Fiori tools. Running fiori deploy fails with an HTTP 403 error. Error: request failed with status code 403. The application output contains a reference to an ADT API service. There is also a guided guided answer for deploying to an Read more…
In case deploying a Fiori app via the Fiori tools fails due to an active virus scan profile, it is normally sufficient to deactivate virus scanning. In my case, virus scanning was turned off, yet the deploy continued to fail because of a missing default virus scan profile. Problem You Read more…
In 2021 I wrote about what is needed license-wise to make CAP a success. Short version: not much. What is needed are developers that use CAP. A license only must enable developers to use CAP. Developers must be able to discover CAP, learn it, use it in some projects and Read more…
I came across a presentation from SAP about clean core. It’s a L1 type presentation. This means it is a presentation focused on the why. The target group of such presentations is the manager that must be convinced to invest and not the person later charged with the task of Read more…
Over the last years I wrote a summary of UI5con and/or re>=CAP. Let’s continue this tradition. This year I participated by watching the keynotes and some online sessions. The second edition of Code Connect occurred from July 8th to 10th 2025 at SAP in St. Leon-Rot. The website for the Read more…
At the ABAPConf 2025 community day on 3rd June 2025 I gave a presentation with the title “Wait, that’s possible?”. In this post I’ll explain in more detail the reasoning behind the presentation. Every IT technology has its own ecosystem. SAP formed their own world, or better, universe. There are Read more…
The SAP Development Tech Radar 2025.6 is released and available here. Changes The following technologies were added: SAP Business Client (NWBC) AMDP Business Configuration Maintenance SM30 SAP List Viewer (ALV) SAPscript JCO, standalone BTP, ABAP environment No technologies were removed or moved to another ring. Status The SAP Development Tech Read more…
You want to adapt a Fiori app. You were able to create the project and now want to preview the app in BAS or VS Code. Opening the preview page shows no error. Yet, the preview page of the app only shows an empty, gray page. Problem: preview of app Read more…
I was searching for some UI information regarding S/4HANA. I ended up finding this SAP Help site: Overview of UI Technologies and Key Features. It is for release 2023 FPS03. Until the next S/4HANA release is available, this page is new enough. At the bottom of the page, you get Read more…