In case a calculated field is required to deliver/filled by the CDS entity which is not persisted on the underlying database, you have several options: We are gonna examine the last option to see how ABAP can be involved. It only works via SADL, meaning in OData context forex and your class must implement the […]
You have an action defined in the OData v4 service, and You like to to display a confirmation dialog box for the end user, eventually with a custom text. Note this works only for v4 not v2 and applies to the Fiori Elements (FE) List Report template (sap.fe.templates.ListReport). Mark the Action as critical in the […]
This is the collection of Framework-specific ABAP CDS annotations used often during application implementation. Framework specific annotations are interpreted by variety of SAP software components like OData, UI and Analytics operating with ABAP CDS as data model. Annotations can be added within CDS views, entities, table functions and metadata extensions to elements, parameters, at the […]
It seems ABAP WebDynpro gets retired sooner than this issue. A nice error message is welcoming You in ADT when opening WebDynpro configurations. Browser not supported Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 and other legacy browsers are no longer supported. For more information see note 1672817.
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This is about some basic customization of SAP Business Application Studio for Fiori and CAP development. You can read about the installation of many required extensions in VSCode (which are already added when creating BAS workspaces) in Setup Local Dev Environment for Fiori/UI5 Development on Windows 10/11.
Using the Fiori List Report template of SAP in Business Application Studio contains no setting to automatically load data into the table. Users need to explicitly press the Go button so that the list is populated. In case You want to fill the table automatically, please add the following annotations to the manifest.json of the […]
This is a crime against the Fiori developer community . Stealing our time, really ? Using Fiori Elements List report template combined with OData v2 SAP backend services, the Value Helps are not shown in 2024. Why ? We have an ABAP CDS value help definition annotations/metadata, which then properly arrives as value-list annotation in […]
Doing CAP projects You have usually the i18n files in the same service project. In ABAP we have no such, only transaction SE63 to translate text annotations of CDS Metadata Extensions (MDE). The possibility is however given to do this outside ABAP CDS, this means You can refer i18n properties placed in the frontend UI5/Fiori […]
A RAP query is generally managed because the data can be collected using the modeled CDS entities and the corresponding associations automatically from the underlying tables. There are cases however where the query is too complex, due too many set of dataset exclusions by complex criteria in many steps, or even the record key is […]