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 […]
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 […]
This article is about providing some samples for CAP Queries, and the context to execute them. Let me mention a small comparison to querying in ABAP at the beginning. Working with Open SQL and with ABAP SQL for decades was very convenient in ABAP. I cannot tell the same for CAP now. While in ABAP […]
Purpose Help developers to find CDS annotation examples, especially when this error message appears in ADT: Text search services are not supported, because it is not available / not configured in the backend. I created it to help my students to find samples and for myself when dealing with the many possible annotations listed on […]
Salvation after 5+ years and variety of technological marriages, ABAP RAP is here finally. Fiori and WebAPI development can take a deep breath. This post is about common and uncommon snippets for ABAP RAP. This post is updated on regular manner including some facts about RAP as well.
Using the SAP Netweaver Innovation Package 7.51 sp1 you can implement new data models easily with CDS including full CRUD support, where change operations are managed by the BOPF framework. The BOPF Object is generated based on the Object Model annotations you put in the CDS View at activation. This solution using SADL shows a BOPF adoptation/consumption, […]
“Fiori Elements” is a great opportunity for rapid application development for simple scenarios. In lot of cases ABAP developers maintain domain fixed values to have a drop-down list automatically generated by one of the UI technologies like GUI and WebDynpro. Domain fixed value often represent a Status or something like that, where we can say the […]
Attention this article is not for S/4HANA, which already delivers standard CDS View I_DomainFixedValue for exposing domain fixed values. Use this approach in lower NetWeaver releases in non S/4HANA systems.