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thomas_jung
Developer Advocate
Developer Advocate
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Please note that while we are publishing contest activities on Friday, September 20th; many badge assignments won't be active in the system until Monday, September 23rd.  If you happen to complete a contest activity before the badge is active, that's OK. You'll still get credit for it. It just won't show up in your gameboard totals until the new badges are activated and assigned.

Welcome to Devtoberfest 2024! We are back again this year with 4 weeks of fun and learning! Starting on September 23rd you can take part in the Devtoberfest contest (CONTEST OFFICIAL RULES HERE) and collect points for tutorials, quizzes and live sessions! Collect as many points as possible until the 25th of October and qualify for prizes such a trip to next year's SAP TechEd in person experience! For general information check out the overview about taking part in the contest here: Devtoberfest Contest - SAP Community Groups 

The table below shows you the points you can earn in the first week of Devtoberfest! Every week we will post an update with the new activities that will get you points in the contest! Each activity will earn you a badge applied to your SAP Community ID and points that you can track on the “for fun only” Devtoberfest Gameboard. The scavenger hunt is also back this year! The tutorials, quizzes and fun activities to earn even more points as part of the scavenger hunt will be posted here in week 3. And don't forget about Fun Friday Activities.  We are kicking things off there with the ever-popular Petoberfest

List of activities for contest week 1: 

DAYBADGE CODECONTENT WEEK POINTS
 Devtoberfest 2024 ParticipantRegister200
Monday#5E1C26Devtoberfest 2024 - ABAP, Week 1, Sept. 231200
Monday#D2EAF1Learn about the ABAP Data Dictionary150
Monday#BA7CC8Create an ABAP Database Table and Relevant ABAP Dictionary Objects750
Monday#1B0B12Create Database Table and Generate UI Service200
Monday#725772Devtoberfest 2024 - CAP, Week 1, Sept. 231200
Monday#94918CCreate a CAP Business Service with Node.js Using Visual Studio Code500
Monday#FAC0AADeploy a CAP Business Service to SAP Business Technology Platform300
Tuesday#2B2924Devtoberfest 2024 - Tooling, Week 1, Sept. 241200
Tuesday#D88A4DSAP Crossword1800
Tuesday#A5E5FBCreate a Composite Component (List with Rating)200
Tuesday#083676Create a Social Media Backend150
Tuesday#111D2ACreate a Product List Page with Ratings150
Tuesday#433433Prepare a Product Page150
Tuesday#2A170ACreate the Product Page UI with Ratings/Comments400
Wednesday#FEFEFFDevtoberfest 2024 - Integration, Week 1, Sept. 251200
Wednesday#676F49Set Up Prerequisites for your SAP Integration Suite & SAP Build Apps Mission200
Wednesday#5D219AConsume a Stripe service from SAP Open Connectors and SAP Cloud Integration to create payment transa...100
Wednesday#464471Save, Filter and Get your needed data in your Integration Flow100
Wednesday#D7D8D8Consume a SAP Sales and Service Core API to create Sales Orders using SAP Cloud Integration300
Wednesday#369A33Send SMS using SAP Cloud Integration while consuming a Twilio API100
Wednesday#B4ABA9Configure SAP API Management policies to avoid CORS issues and generate an API Key200
Thursday#EDBABCDevtoberfest 2024 - MAD (ML, AI & Data), Week 1 - Sep. 261200
Thursday#190B04Use Trial to Set Up Account for Document Information Extraction and Go to Application50
Thursday#413E44Use Trial to Extract Information from Custom Documents with Generative AI and Document Information E...250
Friday#85A969Devtoberfest 2024 - Frontend, Week 1 - Sep. 271200
Friday#228E80Get Ready for UI5-Development on Your Local Machine50
Friday#8F5D85Create an SAPUI5 App from the Command Line150
Friday Devtoberfest 2024 - Petoberfest1000

 

65 Comments
francisco_milan
Participant

Hi @thomas_jung,

Thanks for creating the table for easy access to the activities for Week 1 of Devtoberfest 2024—it’s really helpful.

I also wanted to give you a heads up that a couple of links in the table are directing to the wrong tutorials:

  1. The link for "Use Trial to Set Up Account for Document Information Extraction and Go to Application" leads to the tutorial "Get Ready for UI5-Development on Your Local Machine." The correct link should be: Use Trial to Set Up Account for Document Information Extraction and Go to Application.

  2. The link for "Use Trial to Extract Information from Custom Documents with Generative AI and Document Information E..." takes users to "Create an SAPUI5 App from the Command Line." The intended link should be: Use Trial to Extract Information from Custom Documents with Generative AI and Document Information E....

Thanks again for your work on this! Looking forward to the contest kicking off!

Best,
Francisco.

thomas_jung
Developer Advocate
Developer Advocate

@francisco_milan - thanks for letting me know about those two. I've corrected them.

mwn
Participant
0 Kudos

Today's session (23 September) about the ABAP dictionary has a link to a blog that's about 3 years old. Is there a newer link?
Thanks

thomas_jung
Developer Advocate
Developer Advocate

@mwn - it links to a tutorial.  We want to have a variety of tutorials that match with the topics covered.  This one is older but also fundamental information that will help beginners. 

mwn
Participant
0 Kudos

The task to create an ABAP database table etc doesn's allow using F8 to preview the table contents, at least with my version of ADT. It looks like the dataMaintenance: #NOT_ALLOWED causes an ADT error about not using standard tools for previewing. Changing to #RESTRICTED allows the preview to work OK.

thomas_jung
Developer Advocate
Developer Advocate

@mwn - Consider using the Feedback button and then choosing contribute in the tutorial itself.  That's the best way to communicate this directly with the tutorial author. 

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francisco_milan
Participant

Hi @mwn,

  This issue has already been reported, and @julieplummer20 is currently updating the tutorial.

https://github.com/sap-tutorials/abap-core-development/issues/2522

In order to display the contents of the table in ADT, you’ll need to recreate it after replacing "#NOT_ALLOWED" with "#ALLOWED"

 

Best,

Francisco.

 

Rush_SAP
Discoverer
0 Kudos

How to earn points for this task? I have attended the session but haven't received any points for same?

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thomas_jung
Developer Advocate
Developer Advocate

@Rush_SAP There will questions that you must answer about the lecture sessions.  These will be added within a day of the sessions having aired.  You will have to answer these questions to earn the points for having watched the lecture sessions. We can't add the questions in advance becuase the content hasn't happened yet. 😉

lin_fan_24
Explorer
0 Kudos

I finished this task but not getting badge or points, is this a technical issue?

https://developers.sap.com/tutorials/abap-dev-create-table.html

lin_fan_24_0-1727120989736.png

 

Other tasks I get badge and points automatically. 

thomas_jung
Developer Advocate
Developer Advocate

@lin_fan_24 Unfortunately with the new Community Platform we no longer get badge assignments from tutorials in real time. They are loaded in one batch at 2:00 am US Eastern each day. So you will have to wait a bit this year for your badges to be assigned in the Community after completing tutorials. The points should show up in the gameboard, however, as soon as the badge is assigned in the Community.

Bharathi_K
Explorer
0 Kudos

Shall the contest be completed within a specific day? I mean, whatever is mentioned under Monday, shall be completed within Monday? In other words, do we have a deadline for completing weekly tasks?

thomas_jung
Developer Advocate
Developer Advocate

@Bharathi_K @No you don’t have to complete the task on the specific day. That’s just the date of the lectures that are connected to the content. You have until the end of Devtoberfest to complete any of the activities.

Nikunj_Goel
Explorer

It seems badge for this task is not active yet

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Chiranjeevi1
Participant
0 Kudos

Hi ,

I have completed this activity, but the Badge not assigned yet.

Chiranjeevi1_0-1727161376139.png

 

Shilpa_Shankar
Developer Advocate
Developer Advocate
0 Kudos

Hi,

As mentioned by @thomas_jung above, badge assignments are loaded in one batch at 2:00 am US Eastern each day. So you will have to wait a bit this year for your badges to be assigned in the Community after completing tutorials. The points should show up in the gameboard, however, as soon as the badge is assigned in the Community.

Gus-Alvarez
Explorer
0 Kudos

Today i complete the "Learn about the ABAP Data Dictionary" and the 150 points where added directly to my gameboard  (no time wait).

Yesterday i complete the activity of "Devtoberfest 2024 - ABAP, Week 1, Sept. 23" and i don't see the points in mi Devtoberfest Gameboard.  So I'm wondering where are the 1200 points of the activity, i want mi points! jejeje i guess i have to wait a i little longer? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

brahammittal
Explorer
0 Kudos

My points does not seem to tally, I was able to finish the tasks for 23rd and 24th September.

thomas_jung
Developer Advocate
Developer Advocate
0 Kudos

@brahammittal - When I look at your gameboard - https://devrel-tools-prod-scn-badges-srv.cfapps.eu10.hana.ondemand.com/devtoberfestContest/17125

It shows you have 7400 points. What points do you feel are not tallying?

kallesh_kc
Explorer
0 Kudos

Hi  @thomas_jung , yesterday on 23rd I completed the 'ABAP Week 1 Contest' after the live sessions, I didn't receive the 'Devtoberfest 2024, ABAP week 1 badge'. For the other tasks I completed today (24th) received badge.


For Ref.:

Screenshot 2024-09-24 at 11.35.09 AM.png
Thanks.

Nikunj_Goel
Explorer
0 Kudos

Hi @thomas_jung , same for me as mentioned by @kallesh_kc .

Sayontan_Das
Participant
0 Kudos

Hi @thomas_jung  and @ShilpaSAP ,

I have completed all the tutorials.

Sayontan_Das_0-1727205358166.png

for this I have received the badge .

But for the below tutorial I have completed the questions and answers of the tutorial already one day before but the badge and point till not assigned so now the point is less than 1200 points. Can you please let me know the issue?

Sayontan_Das_1-1727205474698.png

 

 

brahammittal
Explorer

Facing issue with below task, I get and error saying Customer is not linked to the Card. I did add the payment method to the customer, this was a trial card as mentioned.

brahammittal_0-1727277471861.png

 

thomas_jung
Developer Advocate
Developer Advocate

There was an issue with the just the ABAP Week 1 badge not getting assigned correctly.  The issue has been resolved and the missing badges loaded manually. 
I checked the profiles, and the following people do have this badge now:
@lin_fan_24 
@Nikunj_Goel 
@Chiranjeevi1 
@Gus-Alvarez 
@kallesh_kc 
@Nikunj_Goel 
@Sayontan_Das 

That's everyone that reported having an issue with this badge.  That makes me feel pretty sure that the issue is actually resolved, and everything caught up on this badge now. 

thomas_jung
Developer Advocate
Developer Advocate

@brahammittal If you have a technical question on a specific tutorial, you are probably best asking that in a separate thread and notifying the tutorial author via an @ ping.  Or consider using the Feeback button at the top of the tutorial.  There you can create an issue in GitHub that is automatically assigned to the tutorial author/maintainer.  Otherwise, it's likely to get lost in the general discussion around the contest that happens here in this thread. 

zfiori
Participant
0 Kudos

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for creating the table for easy access to the activities for Week 1 of Devtoberfest 2024—it’s really helpful.

🙂

 

Regards.

ZFiori.

ymAllen
Participant

I have completed #5E1C26 ABAP Week 1 but I haven't receive my badge till now. Can help to check? Thank you.

vladimirs_semikins
Active Contributor

Hey,

I've completed https://developers.sap.com/tutorials/build-apps-socialmedia-3-product-list.html but unfortunately no badge has been assigned, who can support? 🙂

SonalPhadnis
Explorer

Thanks for week1 table.It helps to navigate .

 

 

thomas_jung
Developer Advocate
Developer Advocate

@vladimirs_semikins I've reported that one to IT to research.

thomas_jung
Developer Advocate
Developer Advocate

@ymAllen I have reported that badge for you to IT and they will research.

thomas_jung
Developer Advocate
Developer Advocate

@ymAllen - we don't see any record of your completion on that tutorial.  Can you please let us know the date you completed it and ideally a screenshot of the completion status from the tutorial. 

priyankaG
Participant
thomas_jung
Developer Advocate
Developer Advocate

@priyankaG I have reported those for your account to IT to research.

vishalakshmi
Contributor

I have completed all the content, but I still see less score 12450/14650. 

vishalakshmi_0-1727397419879.png

Thanks,

Vishala.

thomas_jung
Developer Advocate
Developer Advocate

@vishalakshmi  - According to the gameboard you have not completed the following:

#85A969 - Devtoberfest 2024 - ;1200
https://developers.sap.com/tutorials/devtoberfest2024-week1-frontend-session-validation.html

Devtoberfest 2024 - Petoberfest;1000

Which makes perfect sense.  Frontend day is tomorrow. You can't have completed that session validation yet.  And Petoberfest points won't be awarded until after Petobefest is complete. 

 

vishalakshmi
Contributor

both i have completed.

vishalakshmi_0-1727398570379.png

I have already posted photo for Petoberfest.

Thanks,

vishala.

 

 

 

thomas_jung
Developer Advocate
Developer Advocate

@vishalakshmi - As I said, the points will be awarded after Petoberfest is complete. That Fun Friday activity runs through tomorrow.  Also the validation is for lecture sessions that take place tomorrow.  Those points will be awarded after the sessions have taken place. 

bi7kiran
Active Participant

Hello Moderator

Have a issue with SAP Crossword, where for one of the question 15th

A useful component in SAP Build Apps under "Display" (10)

I see the answer is from the screen shot attaching from Build apps which is marked yellow, but the answer is showing as not correct. I see some of the people already completed this contest. But I have also cleared the cache and tried with different browser as well,  but the issue not fixed. 

Please let me know if any one faced such? and Any resolution for this to fix from backendsdn.PNG.

Thanks

Dan_Wroblewski
Developer Advocate
Developer Advocate

You are definitely on the right track, and perhaps my instructions were not clear. Just like a crossword, enter the answer without spaces or punctuation. Does that help?

dev_
Explorer

The first livestream on Tuesday the 24th from @Dan_Wroblewski is not available. Could someone please look into resolving this error? I was looking forward to seeing it.

Many thanks in advance!

thomas_jung
Developer Advocate
Developer Advocate

@dev_ Yes we are aware of two of the videos that are in a reprocessing status by YouTube. We can really only wait until YouTube is done with the internal processing of those videos. 

chaiphon
Contributor

Hi @thomas_jung 
I have same problem as @priyankaG on 
https://developers.sap.com/tutorials/build-apps-socialmedia-3-product-list.html
I completed it last year as part of Devtoberfest2023. However, new badge is not assigned so 150 points are missing.
Can you please help forward it to IT?

Thanks,
Chaiphon

thomas_jung
Developer Advocate
Developer Advocate

@chaiphon I have reported it to IT.

vishalakshmi
Contributor

Hello Thomas,

I’ve finished Petoberfest, but I don’t see the score reflected on my scoreboard. I’m excited to share it on LinkedIn! 😎😎😀.

vishalakshmi_0-1727542437172.png

Thanks,

Vishala.

Hi vishala.

Thomas said  "Then there are "manual" activities like loading all the Petoberfest entries.  We only load those badges once the special event day is complete."

Petoverfest finish 29th.

Best regards.

Rahul_Karda
Product and Topic Expert
Product and Topic Expert

Do we have a badge for the petoberfest?

francisco_milan
Participant

Hi everyone,

I’m currently working through the tutorial "Create a CAP Business Service with Node.js Using Visual Studio Code" (found here: SAP Tutorial) and I've hit a snag at STEP 7 - Add Initial Data.

After executing the command "cds add data", I expected the database tables to be created with initial data, and CSV files with a header line for all entities to be added to the db/data folder. However, nothing seems to have been generated in that directory.

I’ve submitted an issue on GitHub detailing my situation: GitHub Issue.

It seems like there might be some missing steps, or perhaps I’ve overlooked something. If anyone has successfully completed this step, could you please provide some guidance on what might be going wrong? I’ve also attached screenshots to illustrate the issue.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Best,

Francisco.

M-K
Active Participant

Hi @thomas_jung,

like @priyankaG and @chaiphon I'm missing this badge:

#111D2A - Devtoberfest 2024 - Create a Product List Page with Ratings

can you please forward it to the IT for me as well?

 

Thank you!

Alpesa1990
Participant
0 Kudos

Hi @thomas_jung,

I have the same problem with this badge:

#111D2A - Devtoberfest 2024 - Create a Product List Page with Ratings

Thank you!