Greetings, fellow Builders! We are pleased to bring you the first SAP Build Apps release news of 2024. Recently, we published two major updates that will affect backend projects and enhance the fusion development experience:
Roles and access management in visual cloud functions
We have now added user authorization to visual cloud functions projects, a robust feature which enhances our built-in governance capabilities. This allows a system administrator or developer to create user roles within a backend project and assign specific permissions.
You can create roles for individual users or user groups to determine which actions are allowed. For example – admins can create a role for the entire sales team and allow them to update data entities and add new records but restrict them from deleting records.
To get started, you can now find the ‘Roles’ tab visible in visual cloud functions, where you can manage and assign user roles for your projects.
See the documentation: Visual cloud functions - User Authorization
Deploying a project with backend to SAP Build Work Zone
For your applications that include a backend project in visual cloud functions, we’ve now introduced a simplified method for integrating with SAP Build Work Zone. To get started with this feature, you will need to enable the Identity Authentication Service (IAS) tenant in SAP Build Work Zone, as this is a requirement for SAP Build Apps. We have included instructions for this below.
🔔 Important considerations for your current projects
If you currently have an SAP Build Apps project deployed to SAP Build Work Zone, you should not encounter any issues. However, once you update your app, create a new build and deploy it to your SAP Build Work Zone page you will notice that access to the app will not work.
Note: All SAP Build Apps users must make the changes described below before you deploy and integrate a new app version to SAP Build Work Zone, otherwise you risk losing access to your projects.
Steps to complete with your SAP BTP/SAP Build Work Zone Admin team
1. Enable IAS in SAP Build Work Zone.
2. Establish trust in IAS between the SAP Build Work Zone IAS application and the SAP Build Apps IAS application.
3. Deploy your application to the SAP Build Work Zone application router:
After the successful deployment, you can add the newly created app to your SAP Build Work Zone page! 🎉
Step-by-step instructions for this can be found in these tutorials:
See the documentation for this setup: Visual cloud functions - Deployed Applications
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These new features aim to bring our SAP Build portfolio even closer together and promote collaboration between teams, also known as fusion development.
We appreciate your continued efforts to innovate with SAP Build Apps and look forward to bringing you more exciting developments this year! Our product roadmap has also been updated for the year – feel free to check it out on the Roadmap Explorer.
To see all recent SAP Build Apps releases, visit the What’s New Documentation.
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