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Mastering Topic Taxonomies for Scalable Event-Driven Architectures

A single poorly named topic can break downstream consumers, trigger routing surprises, and make growth painful. These mistakes are common, and they are fixable once a clear taxonomy is in place. This session gives SAP developers, integration architec...

June Developer Challenge - CAP Knowledge - Task 12 - Query mode in cds REPL

The cds REPL is a powerful facility that helps us explore and debug. It's based on the regular Node.js REPL, which has a number of REPL-level commands:; node Welcome to Node.js v24.15.0. Type ".help" for more information. > .help .break Sometimes ...

CICD Actions for SAP Integration Suite / Managing parameters and log levels

The previous post walked through the Download → Git → Deploy pipeline from button press to a fully deployed package on TST. Near the end it mentioned that two JSON files are created alongside the package source in Git: one holding externalized parame...

June Developer Challenge - CAP Knowledge - Task 11 - Metaphysics of languages

At one level, the CDS family of languages cover definitions, queries and expressions, in the form of CDL, CQL and CXL respectively. Each of these languages have a human-readable form and a machine-readable form. For example, while CDL is the human-re...

June Developer Challenge - CAP Knowledge - Analysis

Greetings earthlings!We're part way through this month's SAP Developer Challenge on CAP knowledge, and you folks seem to be having a good time and doing well! Here are some stats - updated Tue 16 Jun @ 0600 BST (UTC+1).We've had a great number of res...

Unmanaged RAP application for Excel File Upload and CDS Custom Entity with Unmanaged Query Implement

IntroNowadays, finding information is easier than ever. Although, the experience still remains the key differentiator. And that’s what I would like to share through this blog – my experience in implementing the Excel File Upload in a RAP application ...

Beyond the Stochastic Parrot: How JEPA and World Models are Engineering the Future of Sustainable AI

Part I: The Critical Showstopper of Autoregressive ArchitecturesAt their mathematical core, modern frontier LLMs remain probabilistic engines. They calculate the statistical likelihood of the next word based on historical text training. To force thes...

Resolved! Requirement: Backdated Material Stock Report in SAP S/4HANA

Requirement: Backdated Material Stock Report in SAP S/4HANAHi Experts,I am working on an SAP ABAP ALV report in SAP S/4HANA to display the material stock position as of a user-selected historical (backdated) date.ObjectiveThe report should calculate ...

How to install SAP ABAP for practice in windows machines.

Could someone please let us know the steps to install the SAP ABAP dump on windows machines pls ?

Backdated stock report like MB5B with custom columns - ABAP program.

I am trying to develop an ALV report to fetch MB5B report with custom columns with below fields, is it correct program ? any suggestions or improvements are accepted.Output ALV Field:1. Material2. Material Description,3. Plant4. Storage Location5. Ba...

Resolved! How to check if a Standard CDS View can be extended?

I need to understand how to verify if a Standard CDS View in SAP S/4HANA can be extended using a CDS Extension View.Example: A_PRODUCT or A_MatlStkInAcctModCould someone explain the best methods to check this?Any guidance would be appreciated!

SAP Joule for Developers, ABAP AI capabilities including agentic capabilities is now available!

The re-invented SAP Joule for Developers, ABAP AI capabilities including agentic capabilities is now offered as a service across SAP BTP ABAP Environment, SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, and SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition for releases 2021 and h...

Integration Advisor – VDA Message Standard

I am extremely happy to share with you one more update to the B2B offerings of Integration Advisor and Cloud Integration (of SAP Integration Suite): VDA Message Standard is now supported. In this blog post, I want to give you a short overview of this...

Register now for SAP AI Adoption and Learning Week

Many organizations are exploring AI, but the real challenge is turning interest into adoption and business value. How do you identify the right use cases? How do you activate AI capabilities across your SAP landscape? And how do you scale AI securely...

June Developer Challenge - CAP Knowledge - Task 10 - Redirection targets

When defining a service, it's common to expose targets that are related. The classic example might be books and authors:using bookshop as my from '../db/schema'; service AdminService { entity ListOfBooks as projection on my.Books excluding { price...

SAP Developer News, June 11th, 2026

ItemsCAP Customer Roundtable 17 JuneBlog post https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blog-posts-by-sap/sap-cloud-application-programming-model-cap-customer-roundtable-june-2026/ba-p/14409654 Teams meeting link https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/326256...

Claude Generates So Much — Here's How I Actually Keep Up

Claude Generates So Much — Here's How I Actually Keep UpAI is producing an almost comical amount of output these days. In a single session, Claude can scaffold a feature, write the tests, refactor two files, explain the architecture, and suggest thre...

Talk to SAP System in Plain English: Building an S/4HANA Analyst with Pi SDK and SAP AI Core

Pi SDK in Action: Build an SAP S/4HANA AI AnalystWhat Are We Building?A CLI tool that answers natural-language questions about SAP ERP data. Ask a question, and Pi figures out which APIs to call, chains the lookups, and returns the answer. $ pnpm sta...

Beyond Basic AI Error Handling in SAP CPI - A Rules-First Architecture with HANA Cloud Learning

The Problem Every Integration Developer KnowsEvery SAP CPI developer has lived this scenario.An iFlow fails in production at an inconvenient hour. You open the MPL log, stare at a cryptic stack trace, and spend the next 30–45 minutes manually cross-r...

Modern ABAP Control Break Processing Using LOOP AT GROUP BY and REDUCE Operator

IntroductionWhile preparing for modern ABAP topics, I revisited one of the classic concepts we frequently use in reporting programs—control break processing. Most ABAP developers are familiar with statements such as AT NEW, AT END OF, and SUM for cal...

June Developer Challenge - CAP Knowledge - Task 09 - Injecting conditions via filters

When modelling with CDS and its family of languages we have access to a wide selection of clean and concise declarative syntax. In the expressions area there are expressions (and in particular path expressions) and also a certain style of filter.Thes...

Initiative does not appear on project builder screen despite being assigned in related items page

Hello Experts,we are facing an issue in SAP PPM after recent upgradescenario when an initiative is assigned to or removed from an item through the related item page, the initiative ID and description are not updated immediately in the project builder...

SQL Console executes and fails to execute identical query

Hi,In SQL Console in ADT something strange is happening. If I run SQL Console from Project's right-click it doesn't work, like you can see on the right side of split window below. But if I run from any of these options it's fine, as long as my SQL qu...

Migrating from @ui5/webcomponents-ngx to @fundamental-ngx/ui5-webcomponents*

Effective: 2026-04-27 - @ui5/webcomponents-ngx and @ui5/theming-ngx are deprecated and no longer maintained.Successor packages are part of the Fundamental NGX monorepo.Package MappingOld packageNew package@ui5/webcomponents-ngx@fundamental-ngx/ui5-we...

UI5 Web Components Angular Wrappers Have a New Home in Fundamental NGX

The Angular wrapper library for UI5 Web Components has moved.@ui5/webcomponents-ngx and @ui5/theming-ngx are now deprecated.Their successor packages ship as part of Fundamental NGX- @fundamental-ngx/ui5-webcomponents- @fundamental-ngx/ui5-webcomponen...

June Developer Challenge - CAP Knowledge - Task 08 - CXL case-when-then operator

Within the CDS family of languages we have CXL, the CDS Expression Language. In the context of CDS models and queries, CXL brings the ability to use expressions for describing calculations, declaring conditions, and more, all of which enriches the CD...

CICD Actions for SAP Integration Suite / The Download → Git → Deploy pipeline

The first post in this series introduced CICD Actions for SAP Integration Suite: what it is, why it exists, and what it looks like from the outside. This post goes inside the machine.The Download → Git → Deploy workflow is the beating heart of the pi...

Resolved! SAP BTP Trial – Booster and Subscription Errors with SAP Build Apps

Hello Everyone,Today my SAP BTP trial expired, and I subscribed to a new trial account. While setting up, I ran into several issues related to SAP Build Apps booster and entitlements.Entitlement Differences Between Old and New TrialIn my previous tri...

Using Domain Fixed Values as Value Help in SAP RAP Fiori Elements

IntroductionIn SAP RAP Fiori applications, value help improves the user experience by providing predefined selectable values for filter and input fields.One simple and efficient approach is to use ABAP Domain Fixed Values as value help instead of cre...

SAP S/4HANA Business Partner Address Management

Business Partner Address In SAP S/4HANA, the Business Partner (BP) acts as a centralized master data object. It serves as a single point of entry for managing all master data related to Customers, Vendors, and Suppliers. Unlike the older SAP ECC sys...

Custom Sales Order Creation Agent Using Joule Studio

Custom Sales Order Creation Agent Using Joule StudioHi Everyone!In this blog, we will see how we can create a simple custom Joule Agent to create a sales order using Joule Studio. We will also trigger an email notification once the sales order creati...

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Document Grounding Joule Custom Agent using SAP AI Core and Microsoft SharePoint - No AWS S3 Needed

The ProblemWe wanted to enhance our custom Joule agent in SAP Joule Studio which is being used for ABAP development capable of answering questions about internal development policies, naming convention and broader custom development governance guidel...

Using Claude for SAP ABAP development on RFC-only / SAProuter systems (even ECC R/3)

Update (June 2026): Confirmed working on classic ECC / R/3 too, not only S/4HANA. The only requirement is that the system has the ADT backend, i.e. the standard SADT_REST_RFC_ENDPOINT function module (ABAP Development Tools ship on SAP NetWeaver 7.31...

Cloud Integration - Attachment names missing using the XI Sender Adapter

During the migration of interfaces from PI/PO to the Integration Suite, there were XI Protocol-based interfaces that sent attachments. The attachments were supposed to be saved as files on an SFTP server in the target system under their original name...

Error Function code not defined for flow EWM RF Custom Application

Hello all,I am creating a custom RF application in SAP S/4HANA and I’m running into an issue where the screen is not rendering properly. I found a YouTube video suggesting this may happen when the PBO and PAI function modules have not been implemente...

June Developer Challenge - CAP Knowledge - Task 07 - Authorization annotations

Within the topic of security and data privacy and specifically within security, we have:Authentication: verification of a user's identityAuthorization: checking what level of access a given user hasIn other words, "who" a user is (authentication), an...

Unable to expose RAP OData V4 UI app in Fiori Launchpad (not visible in Custom Catalog Extensions)

Hi experts,I am currently working on a RAP (ABAP RESTful Application Programming) application in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition (ABAP Cloud / Developer Extensibility), and I am facing an issue when trying to expose the app in the Fiori Launchpad. W...

The Challenge: Large Platform, Demanding Operations

SAP Integration Suite is a powerful platform for building and operating integrations at enterprise scale. Its design environment is feature-rich, its runtime is reliable, and its API coverage is broad. But for teams managing dozens — or hundreds — of...

How to speed up blog post review?

Hello, colleagues.I've created blog post few days ago but it's still in "Awaiting Review" status. Do I need to ping someone directly?

Resolved! Document Ai Service

HiI am using the document Ai feature for invoices, I need to get the purchase order number and the document ai service works great when there is a label for the field e.g. PO or Purchase order.We have certain invoices that will have the purchase ord...

Which tables store custom catalog configuration and mappings?

Hi Experts,I want to know which tables are responsible for storing: - Custom catalog definitions - Tiles configuration - Target mappings - Catalog-to-tile relationshipsCould you please clarify:1. Which tables are the primary source for custom catalog...

June Developer Challenge - CAP Knowledge - Task 06 - Project specific configuration

The "effective" configuration for a given project is made up from values that can be taken from a number of different source locations, shown here:There are built-in defaults, user-specific defaults, static and user-specific project settings and more...

The RAG Chunking Strategies that can actually survive Production

The Chunking Strategies That Actually Survive ProductionIf your RAG quality has plateaued, the bottleneck is almost never your vector DB or your reranker. It is almost always your chunker. The naive splitters in every quickstart tutorial destroy the ...

Access Denied on AI Launchpad - SAP Generative AI Hub 30-Day Trial

Hi SAP Community,I am working through the SAP Generative AI Hub 30-day trial and running into an Access Denied error when trying to open AI Launchpad from within the trial workbook.My setup is as follows. I activated the trial using the link from the...

create Service PO using FM BAPI_PO_CREATE1

Dear Experts,I need sample ABAP coding to create Service PO using FM BAPI_PO_CREATE1.Kindly, help me.Thanks & Regards,M.Swaminathan.

Seeking Feedback on My SAP CAP/BTP Learning Roadmap (student)

Hello SAP Community,I am a college student who has recently completed my first year and will be starting my second year shortly ,currently learning SAP BTP and SAP CAP (Node.js).As someone at the beginning of this journey, I would be grateful for gui...

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AI Product Management: The Human Side of Agentic AI Nobody Designs

Post 8 — AI Product Management seriesIn December 1978, United Airlines Flight 173 ran out of fuel while circling Portland, Oregon. The aircraft was mechanically sound. The crew knew the fuel state was critical. The captain, fixated on a landing gear ...

AI Product Management: What Happens to Agents Nobody Plans to Stop

Post 9 — AI Product Management seriesIn 2021, a research team at the University of Michigan published an audit of the most widely deployed sepsis prediction algorithm in American hospitals. Epic Systems had marketed the Epic Sepsis Model with a claim...

AI Product Management: The Two Documents That Replace the PRD

AI Product Management seriesFor twenty years the artifact was the PRD. You wrote it, handed it to engineering, watched it get decomposed into an epic, and the team built it. That model worked because the hard part was building. With agentic AI, the h...

AI Product Management: Autonomy Is Earned, Not Scheduled

AI Product Management seriesHere is a sentence that appears, in some form, in most agentic rollout plans: "After thirty days of supervised operation, we will move the agent to full autonomy." Or "after five hundred clean actions." Or "following the f...