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…
On the horizon changes are manifesting. And these will turn UI5 development into a rather obsolete skill. For many developers, freestyle UI5 development is the preferred approach to create a new UI5 app. It is a popular choice among UI5 developers for several reasons. First, freestyle UI5 development is the Read more…
Developing Fiori apps isn’t as easy as it once was. When Fiori was announced, it was a new and simple approach to design enterprise apps. Was, because the approach met reality. Reality regarding customer requirements as well as SAP specific requirements. With a customer base reaching from small to very, Read more…
Note: the Customer Influence website is currently down. The HANA Logon App for e.g. Admin, IDE, Repo is still accessible: https://influence.sap.com/sap/hana/xs/formLogin/login.html Recently I looked at the SAP Customer Influence website. Besides an interesting OData service I came across several other points I think are worth to mention. At the time Read more…
— Note: the customer influence website is currently offline, the links in the post won’t work — The SAP Customer Influence site exposes information about its users that goes beyond what the web site offers: a list of SAP customers, linked employees and their user ID and email address. That’s Read more…
When you try to develop a Fiori app with the SAP Fiori tools for VS Code you get the error “btoa is not defined”. This error is caused by another SAP extension: mobile Development Kit extension for Visual Studio Code. You have to disable the MDK extension to be able Read more…
To be able to access an OData service with OAuth, a scope is needed. I blogged about how to create a scope (using the wizard or a report) already. While adding a scope to a service is very easy, deleting is a little bit more effort. For instance, when you Read more…
If you are on a S/4HANA release like 2023, please use RAP. The odata.publish true approach shown here should not be used any longer. This blog is about how to create an oData service from a CDS View. The code and example follow closely SAP Help documentation and the included Read more…
Event information Location: SITMUC 2018, Einstein Kultur Date: 13.10.2018 Site: Event website Title: Creating apps with UI5 Presentation: PDF Additional information Make sure to select a language that supports the team, not just you. App development is not just coding: that’s why the presentation is about creating apps. It’s a Read more…
Old habits are not easily dying and replaced by best practices and general recommendations. In the early days, when UI5 started to gain traction, people discovered it, tried it out, wrote apps, made them somehow work. Everybody was learning, and things we can do today were not possible or known Read more…