What’s New in SAP Build – Q3 2024 Edition

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Greetings, Builders! We’re pleased to bring you the Q3 Edition of our What’s New in SAP Build series. In this edition, we’re covering product-specific updates for:

SAP Build Apps
SAP Build Process Automation
SAP Build Work Zone, SAP Start, SAP Task Center
SAP Build Code

SAP Build Apps

Release management and project lifecycle management: It’s now possible to release and transport projects across different tenants using SAP Cloud Transport Management System. You can transport project versions between subaccounts while isolating development, testing, and productive deployment of SAP Build Apps applications to their own landscapes. To get started, see this blog post.

Performant table list with large dataset from S/4HANA: Managing and displaying large amounts of data in an application can be challenging and cause performance issues. Check out this example of creating a performant list page for an S/4HANA Cloud endpoint with 65k+ records - see the blog post.

Copying pages within one project: This feature enables users to copy and duplicate a page within a project in SAP Build Apps – a simple, yet powerful, add-on to further speed up development.

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New Build Service: We recently launched a new and improved experience for deploying application packages. The build service includes managing image assets, iOS usage strings, mobile service enablement, package creation, and configuration management. The updated UI provides a much smoother experience for developers at the deployment phase, ensuring that every requirement is met and that your apps are ready to publish. Try it out today!

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Also check out Ludo Noens’ series on Consuming SAP with SAP Build Apps – Creating a CRUD Application
Learn more about what’s coming up on the SAP Build Apps Roadmap.

SAP Build Process Automation

Script Task Editor: It's now possible to write JavaScript code in the new Script Editor, allowing the execution of complex data type transformations and additional operations on the process context. Previously this was limited to automation - now it includes process inputs and custom variables, facilitating advanced data manipulation and transformation. See more in the blog post.
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Scheduled trigger: Now you can schedule process automations based on user-defined time intervals and dates at runtime. This allows you to enable system-centric and time-based process automation use cases, such as working and nonworking days in creating your automation scenarios to avoid resource mismatches.

Additional Outcomes in Forms and UI5 Support for Tasks: This enables citizen developers to configure additional outcome actions in the process to let approvers request rework in case of missing or wrong information in approval forms. You can also start filling out multiple forms efficiently through a guided experience.

Advanced Event Project Creation with Manual Specification Upload: This allows users to upload business event specifications for the creation of an event project in the lobby. The new feature adds support for business events across lines of business (LOBs) and custom events, including third-party events that are supported at runtime using SAP Event Mesh.

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Process Visibility enhancements: These include actionable insights, instance tracking for requestors and additional monitoring capabilities via CALM. Now you can turn insights into meaningful outcomes and enable the triggering of escalation flows based on visibility insights, to directly react and resolve critical situations. This enables auditable and governed escalation resolution, instead of having disconnected communication through different channels.