Question Re: Documentation: Deploy SaaS Solutions (MTX) - Dependencies to Destination / Connectivity Service in Technology Q&A

Documentation: Deploy SaaS Solutions (MTX) - Dependencies to Destination / Connectivity Service

gregorw — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 16:21:49 GMT

Hello CAP Team, Hi iwona.hahn,

in the last days I've spent quite some time to get remote services, defined in destinations of the Subscriber Subaccount working. The most crutial part was to return the xsappname as described in Register the Multitenant Application to the SAP SaaS Provisioning Service from the Variable: <VCAP_SERVICES.<service>.credentials.xsappname.

The Cookbook - Deploy SaaS Solutions does mention the SAP BTP Dependencies but uses this example

"mtx": {
  "dependencies": ["xsappname-1", "xsappname-2"]
}

to be put into the package.json. But as the xsappname is dynamic I would suggest to replace this with the code I've added to the server.js:

const xsenv = require("@sap/xsenv");
xsenv.loadEnv();
const services = xsenv.getServices({
  dest: { tag: "destination" },
  conn: { tag: "connectivity" },
});

cds.env.mtx.dependencies = [services.dest.xsappname, services.conn.xsappname];

In addition the section Use Destinations from Subscriber Account should mention that for On Premise destination also the connectivity service must be bound. Especially as an S/4HANA System is given as an example.

Best Regards
Gregor

Re: Documentation: Deploy SaaS Solutions (MTX) - Dependencies to Destination / Connectivity Service

chgeo — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 17:04:57 GMT

Thanks for the great suggestion. We are anyways about to overhaul the deploy and SaaS guides.
Stay tuned!

Regards,
Christian

Re: Documentation: Deploy SaaS Solutions (MTX) - Dependencies to Destination / Connectivity Service

gregorw — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 15:50:31 GMT

Hi christian.georgi,

do you have any update on this topic? SaaS Service Dependencies wasn't changed yet.

CU
Gregor

Re: Documentation: Deploy SaaS Solutions (MTX) - Dependencies to Destination / Connectivity Service

MustafaBensan — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 01:20:07 GMT

Great suggestion, gregorw. I am also keen for an update on this important topic.

Regards,

Mustafa.

Re: Documentation: Deploy SaaS Solutions (MTX) - Dependencies to Destination / Connectivity Service

sreehari_vpillai — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 05:33:53 GMT

gregorw Can you please share the mtx projects , where you tried this ? I am stuck at similar issue.

Re: Documentation: Deploy SaaS Solutions (MTX) - Dependencies to Destination / Connectivity Service

gregorw — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 11:16:26 GMT

Hi rene.jeglinsky,

can you check with the MTX(S) experts if this could be added to the documentation?

Best Regards
Gregor

Re: Documentation: Deploy SaaS Solutions (MTX) - Dependencies to Destination / Connectivity Service

Attila — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 21:11:31 GMT

+1 vote for this Christian christian.georgi , and Rene rene.jeglinsky if You could help on this documentation update. It would be a great help to many of us fighting daily with such problems and debugging to get the expected result if we can, sometimes not. At the moment I have a feeling we get answers from the tears of debugging of the SDKs instead of simply reading the documentation because we have no such putting the pieces together. If we newcomers to a topic are lucky, we might get help from pioneers, and this is why this community is so awesome.
Thank You
Best regards
Attila

Re: Documentation: Deploy SaaS Solutions (MTX) - Dependencies to Destination / Connectivity Service

Steven-Mason — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 19:23:58 GMT

Thanks Gregor! This was very helpful this week trying to accomplish this exact task.

Regards,

Steven

Re: Documentation: Deploy SaaS Solutions (MTX) - Dependencies to Destination / Connectivity Service

Ivan-Mirisola — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 23:32:03 GMT

Hi gregorw,

I know this question is a bit old, but there is also a "catch" related to the usage of destinations via Cloud SDK on a Multitenant Application.

For future reference and for those that are using Cloud SDK, please check the following documentation at session dedicated to Multitenancy:

https://sap.github.io/cloud-sdk/docs/js/features/connectivity/destinations#destination-service

Best regards,
Ivan

Re: Documentation: Deploy SaaS Solutions (MTX) - Dependencies to Destination / Connectivity Service

gregorw — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 23:49:35 GMT

Hi Ivan,

my"Question" is actually more of an improvement request regarding the pre-requisite to use subscriber subaccount destionations. Because you need to return the destination service, and when using on premise destination you also need to return the connecitvity service as a dependency while subscribing in the dependency callback.

Best Regards
Gregor