SAP Community Escape House for August - Fiori Element with Flexible Programming Model

[AmarUbhe]

The eighth edition of the SAP Developer Challenge 2025 has officially kicked off!  A brand-new room has opened its doors inside the SAP Community Escape House.  Hope you all escaped alive from the SAP Application Event Hub room last month. 

In this developer challenge, we are focusing on SAP Fiori Element and the Flexible Programming Model. We are going to cover topics like:

FPM - Extension Points

FPM - Building Block

FPM - Controller Extension

Prerequisite

You have to clone the repository from:

https://github.com/SAP-samples/fiori-elements-fpm-exercises-codejam.git

For this challenge, you will be working in the finished-bookshop folder. This folder contains a completed CAP project that serves as the starting point for exploring extensibility using the Flexible Programming Model with SAP Fiori Elements.

All extension tasks, including UI enhancements and controller customizations, will be implemented on top of this CAP project. Inside this project, there is an existing Fiori Elements List Report application named bookshop-ui, which serves as the foundation for this challenge.

You will extend this application using the Flexible Programming Model, applying techniques such as Fiori extension points, building blocks, and controller extensions to tailor the UI and behavior according to developer challenge.

How to participate

Visit the SAP Community Escape House and enter your numeric SAP Community user ID.

SAP Community Escape House

If you're unsure of your user ID, you can find it on your user settings page url.

Goto SAP Community Page. Click on Account and then select My content. You can find the community user ID in the web page URL. Once you see the SAP Community Escape House, select the SAP Fiori Element room and start exploring it.

The user interface of an escape room includes the room itself as well as a terminal. You can click the objects in the room to receive tips. Like in a real (physical) escape room, you will have to try out a few things and explore the room until you receive helpful tips and, eventually, instructions. These tips and instructions are printed in the terminal next to the room. The terminal is also used to submit solutions to tasks. Read the instructions you receive carefully to understand how.

If you successfully escape the room (you will know when that happens), you will receive a badge in the SAP Community. We will assign the badges once the challenge closes.

The schedule

The SAP Fiori room will be unlocked on August 4th and will stay unlocked until the end of the year. However, the challenge closes on August 31st, so you must escape the room until then to qualify for a badge. Unlike the previous year, this SAP Developer Challenge does not consist of weekly sub-challenges. The next room (next challenge) will be unlocked in September.

Useful links for the challenge

• Flexible Programming Model : https://sapui5.hana.ondemand.com/test-resources/sap/fe/core/fpmExplorer/index.html#/overview/introdu...
• Fiori Element OData V4 : https://developers.sap.com/group.fiori-tools-odata-v4-incident.html
• FPM Code Jam : https://github.com/SAP-samples/fiori-elements-fpm-exercises-codejam/tree/main?tab=readme-ov-file

Good luck and happy escaping!

[KrzysztofF]

Thanks @AmarUbhe  for this fun challenge!

[sharanjee_186716]

Great learning. thank you for creating such a great Developer challenge. I am looking forward for similar challenges in future. 

[Aakash_06]

Successfully 🎉escaped from the SAP Fiori room, I enjoyed the entire Developer challenge. Thank you @AmarUbhe for this particular escape room challenge. I got an opportunity to learn SAP Fiori Element with Flexible Programming Model.

[Ruthiel]

Thank you very much for this challenge @AmarUbhe !!
I am feeling much more confident with FPM now!

The best challenge this year!

SAPUI5 

[GauravPhadnis]

Thanks @AmarUbhe  for exciting challenge.

[Greltel]

Thanks @AmarUbhe. That was a good one!

 

[mykhayloArtymyshyn]

Thanks @AmarUbhe  for exciting challenge. Escaped.

[Fahri_Donmez84]

Thanks to @AmarUbhe  for the fun and informative challenge. I managed to escape.

[FabioPagoti]

In case you are wondering why your changes are not reflected on the UI, add the following parameter in the app URL

 sap-ui-xx-viewCache=false

Depending on how you run the app, this parameter will either not be used or removed. Without it you might have many caching issues.

I really enjoyed how the rich text editor looks like a simple text in display mode. I found a bit confusing knowing which one should I use but the FPM documentation is all you need.

Congratulations for the team who managed to come up with this exercise.

[MatLakaemper]

Hi,

how can i access the links in the Escape-House Console?

I am working with Windows11. Context and "Copy" doesn't work.

My only approach is to save the complete Page via Save as, open the Saved File and copy the link.

Any Help appreciated.

Kind Regards,
Matthias Lakaemper

[Aakash_06]

Hi, @MatLakaemper  

I am working with Windows 11 too. Just select the whole link and click Ctrl + C before leaving the selected text, don't leave the cursor until you finish copying.

[MatLakaemper]

Hi,

@Aakash_06 

thank you, it works, but only with holding left Mouse-button pressed. - Interesting.

Kind Regards,
Matthias Lakaemper

[M-K]

Escaped! Thank you @AmarUbhe for this interesting challenge!

[termanico]

made it - was really fun! thx @AmarUbhe! 😀

I struggled a bit, navigating to the object page in initial edit-mode - it just worked with me applying this code-snippet:

However - this does not really work with the standard draft/edit flow.

Is there a better (best practice) solution to this?

br

Thorsten

[MatLakaemper]

escaped also,

wonderful and powerful kind of learning.

kind Regards,
Matthias Lakämper

[AmarUbhe]

Hello @termanico, 

Thanks for participation. For me its working with sap fiori default edit flow. We don't need to add onPageReady Event. 

[RohanSrivastava]

Completed What's next ?

[qwertie]

riddle solved

unfortunately there are only 10 players on the lineup poster in background instead of 11 ?

[Ihor_Haranichev]

Thank you @AmarUbhe for the challenge!

Completed!

[Guru_Charan]

easy one 🤞

[geek61]

[RohanShukla]

Thanks @AmarUbhe !! It was an interesting challenge , learnt a lot!!