Connecting to a clients development server

[mcgunarathna2]

Hi,

Can you pls tell me how a third party abap programmer log on to his clients development server or abap workbench in HANA? Thanks in advance.

[JurgenLootens]

There could be 3 elements to your question:

- connectivity

- toolset

- access rights

Which one is an issue?

[mcgunarathna2]

Hi @jurgen.lootens13

I'm new to this. It is great If I can have a brief idea of all the 3 areas.

Thanks in advance! 🙂

[Sandra_Rossi]

HANA is a database software, so there's no ABAP Workbench.

ABAP Workbench is part of ABAP-based software, including R/3, ECC, S/4HANA (means S/4 on HANA database).

To connect to ABAP Workbench, you must install SAP GUI (whatever it's "for Windows", "for Java" or "for HTML"), configure the connection data to the ABAP-based system, log in with the credentials given by the company, and run transaction code SE80.

Of course, a modern ABAP developer uses Eclipse with the ADT plugin.

[mcgunarathna2]

I'm interested to be a freelance developer. Now I'm learning ABAP on SAP ADT which is cloud based.

I'm curious how a SAP ADT based developer should connect to the SAP system of a client to develop, what they need. I'm completely new for this. Pls bare with me. Thanks! 🙂

[Sandra_Rossi]

If you have a precise question, I'd be happy to answer. Most of freelance developers started by working for a company, whatever it's IT, service or other kind of company.