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Introduction
In the service binding editor you now find a Create Fiori Project ... button beside the Preview button.
When pressing this new button either SAP Business Application Studio or VS Code will be launched. When selecting the wizard to create a SAP Fiori Elements list report, the dialogues to select the service and the leading entity will be pre-populated from the information that can be retrieved in ADT from the service binding.
This is a first light-weight integration that shall help to bridge the gaps between the different development environments that are currently required to build an SAP Fiori Elements app end-2-end and deploy it on an ABAP stack.
A in depth technical introduction of this integration between ADT and the SAP Fiori tools by my colleague IanQuigley can be found here.
SAP Fiori tools May 2024 release adds closer integration with ABAP Development Tools
This new feature was already spotted by others. As you can see in the nice and comprehensive blog post from BjörnS:
ABAP Tools - Configure Tool Bridge (software-heroes.com)
Backend Prerequisites
This integration works currently for:
- SAP BTP ABAP Environment
- SAP S/4HANA 2023 where SAP Note 3483359 is installed.
Pressing the button the first time
When you press the button Create Fiori Project ... for the first time you will be notified that you have to provide the connectivity details for starting the SAP Fiori development tools.
When clicking on the link external IDE or when selecting Properties --> ABAP Development --> External IDE Configuration from the context menu of your ADT project the External IDE Configuration dialogue is opened.
Here you have to decide whether SAP Business Application Studio or Visual Studio Code shall be used.
For SAP Business Application Studio you have to enter three connection parameters:
- URL
This is the URL you use to start SAP Business Application Studio - Dev Space ID
- Destination Name
This is the name of the destination that you use to connect to your ABAP system
When selecting VS Code as your SAP Fiori development environment the URL being used is hardcoded and you have to use or create a SAP system that has been defined in the SAP Fiori tools plugin.
For more details please see the blog post SAP Fiori tools May 2024 release adds closer integration with ABAP Development Tools from IanQuigley .
Result
Whatever SAP Fiori development you use, the result will be that the SAP Fiori tools are being started with prepopulated values from the service binding that you have selected in ADT.
VS Code
SAP Business Application Studio
Like in VS Code the leading entity is automatically selected.
