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Combine your skills in ABAP, SAP Fiori, core data services, and more to master the end-to-end development process for SAP S/4HANA applications. Learn to use the ABAP programming model for SAP Fiori to build applications from scratch, or use SAP Fiori elements to get a head start! Then, deploy your applications to SAP Fiori launchpad and get the best practices you need to operate applications post-development, including Git version control, application tests, and setting up an integration pipeline.


a. Getting Started
Get the development foundation you need and master SAP S/4HANA architecture, SAP Fiori, design-led development strategies, and the ABAP programming model for SAP Fiori.
b. End-to-End Development
Use step-by-step instructions to develop in SAP S/4HANA using core data services, SAP Gateway, OData, service adaptation description language, and BOPF. Create list reports and object pages, overview pages, analytical list pages, freestyle applications, and more.
c. Operating Applications
Once your applications are developed and exported, get the best practices you need to operate them: Git version control, automated backend and frontend testing, and continuous integration for SAPUI5 and ABAP.

1) ABAP programming model for SAP Fiori
2) SAP Fiori
3) Git
4) SAP Web IDE
5) ABAP Test Cockpit
6) Core data services (CDS)
7) Business Object Processing Framework (BOPF)
8) Service Adaptation Description Language (SADL)
9) OData services
10) SAP S/4HANA Cloud SDK

ABAP Development for SAP S/4HANA: ABAP Programming Model for SAP Fiori

... Preface ... 15

... Purpose of This Book ... 15

... Target Audience ... 16

... Structure of This Book ... 16

... Acknowledgments ... 18

PART I ... SAP S/4HANA and SAP Fiori ... 21

1 ... SAP S/4HANA Architecture ... 23

1.1 ... Core Architecture ... 23

1.2 ... Backend ... 29

1.3 ... User Experience ... 41

1.4 ... SAP S/4HANA Editions ... 42

1.5 ... SAP Cloud Platform ... 46

1.6 ... Summary ... 47

2 ... SAP Fiori and the Design-Led Development Process ... 49

2.1 ... What Is SAP Fiori? ... 49

2.2 ... Design-Led Development Process ... 62

2.3 ... Different SAP Fiori App Types ... 64

2.4 ... Prototyping Tools ... 77

2.5 ... Summary ... 94

3 ... ABAP Programing Model for SAP Fiori ... 95

3.1 ... Core Data Services ... 95

3.2 ... SAP Gateway ... 97

3.3 ... OData ... 99

3.4 ... Service Adaptation Description Language ... 109

3.5 ... Business Object Processing Framework ... 113

3.6 ... SAP Fiori ... 116

3.7 ... Summary ... 117

PART II ... Developing Applications for SAP S/4HANA ... 119

4 ... Developing an SAP Fiori Elements List Report and Object Page ... 121

4.1 ... Core Data Services Views ... 121

4.2 ... Transactional Processing with the Business Object Processing Framework ... 150

4.3 ... Virtual Elements in Core Data Services ... 160

4.4 ... Creating an OData Service ... 161

4.5 ... Adding User Interface Annotations ... 164

4.6 ... Generating a List Report Template in SAP Web IDE Full-Stack ... 177

4.7 ... Extending the User Interface ... 181

4.8 ... List Report Application versus Worklist Application ... 187

4.9 ... Summary ... 187

5 ... Developing an Overview Page ... 189

5.1 ... Core Data Services Views ... 189

5.2 ... Adding User Interface Annotations ... 199

5.3 ... Creating an OData Service ... 206

5.4 ... Exposing CDS Views as an OData Service ... 208

5.5 ... Generating an Overview Page Template Project in SAP Web IDE ... 210

5.6 ... Summary ... 225

6 ... Developing an Analytical List Page ... 227

6.1 ... Introduction ... 227

6.2 ... Building the Required CDS Views ... 227

6.3 ... Configuring the Title Area ... 232

6.4 ... Configuring the Filter Area ... 236

6.5 ... Configuring the Content Area ... 239

6.6 ... Combining All the UI Annotations in the Metadata Extension View ... 243

6.7 ... Generating an Analytical List Page from SAP Web IDE ... 247

6.8 ... Summary ... 259

7 ... Developing a Freestyle Application ... 261

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