Setup your SAP Web IDE on HANA Cloud Platform Part 3

In this and the next Blogs I will show you how you can set up your SAP Web IDE on Hana Cloud. I cut this in 5 parts:

part 1	Opening SAP Web IDE for the first time Entering the Git User Settings
part 2	Installing and configuring the HANA Cloud Connector
part 3 this part 😉	Connecting to the remote system
part 4	Test the SAP Web IDE
part 5	Enable your HCP Fiori Launchpad Register your App to the HCP Launchpad
part 6 (old part 5)	Deploy your application to the ABAP Repository Test your application at the ABAP system Import your application from SAP Gateway to SAP Web IDE

In the part 2 we have configured our SAP HANA Cloud Connector with a virtual server pointing to a given real server. This was pretty easy to do: now we have to say to our SAP Web IDE to point to the virtual server we have created, mapping to it all the related resources. We are going to setup, in the SAP HANA Cloud Cockpit, a new destination: this destination will give to the SAP Web IDE, the information about where to look for the specified backend.

Since you want to use the paths “/sap/opu/odata”, “/sap/bc/adt” and “/sap/bc/ui5_ui5”, you need to specify the usages odata_abap, dev_abap and ui5_execute_abap according to the table in the previous part.

Connecting remote system

From the HANA Cloud cockpit click on the left side on the link Destinations

Click on New Destination

Enter the following parameters and click on Save

Parameter	Value
Name	gm6
Type	HTTP
Description	GM6
URL	https://gm6.virtual:44333
ProysType	OnPremise
Authentication	NoAuthentication

Then click on New Property

Add the following new additional parameters:

Parameter	Value
WebIDEEnabled	true
WebIDEUsage	odata_abap,dev_abap,ui5_execute_abap
WebIDESystem	GM6

When finished click on Save

At the end you should have the following situation

Pay attention to the fact that:

the WebIDEUsage is a concatenation of some of the usages taken from the table at the previous part: just the ones we want to include in our
destination
the URL is not really the address of the real server, but it’s just the name of a virtual server.

+++ external Gateway or Northwind? Look here +++

How to configure an external GW system with SAP Web IDE

How to use Northwind OData service with SAP Web IDE

If you have reached this point, you might want to know if your system is really working or not. Let’s test it by creating a new SAP Fiori App that will consume the OData services provided by our GM6 backend. See part 4 🙂

More Web IDE stuff published by Technology RIG 🙂

See you

Claudi

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Michel De Kimpe April 20, 2015 at 5:11 pm

Hello,

Is it possible to connect to a netweaver trial system like NSP ?

Regards,

M

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Basar Ozgur Kahraman April 21, 2015 at 8:00 am

Hi Claudia,

Clear explanation,

Thank you.

One point that i need but not in blog, setting client number for on premise system. i added sap-client property to destination configuration at hana cloud cockpit

Regards

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1. Claudia Polster Post authorJune 23, 2015 at 1:07 pm
  
  Thanks for this information!
  
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Former Member June 21, 2015 at 7:49 am

Hi Claudia,

Followed all the steps but i get this error in webide . Do i need to configure anything extra .

I am trying to connect to external GW system . From my logon pad i able to access the GW system.

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1. Michal Keidar June 22, 2015 at 7:05 am
  
  Hi Kaitha,
  
  Kindly attach a screen shot of your configured destination.
  
  Thanks,
  Michal.
  
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  1. Former Member July 1, 2015 at 7:46 am
    
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    1. Former Member January 15, 2016 at 8:14 am
      
      Hi Arun,
      
      You are using the wrong address inthe URL. This value should be the ‘Virtual server’ and ‘port’ that you entered while adding the system in SAP Cloud connector (in the your local SAP system). Go to the cloud connect and the list will show you the virtual address cloud connector is using.
      
      /sap/opu/odata is a resource that should be added in Cloud connector. Its not a URL. Hope this helps.
      
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    2. Michal Keidar January 15, 2016 at 4:44 pm
      
      Remove the /sap/opu/odata from the url
      
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2. Claudia Polster Post authorJune 23, 2015 at 1:09 pm
  
  Can you give us more details.
  
  Have you read this blog which explain the steps for a external GW:
  
  http://scn.sap.com/community/developer-center/front-end/blog/2014/06/22/how-to-configure-an-external-gw-system-with-sap-river-rde
  
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  1. Former Member July 1, 2015 at 7:42 am
    
    Yes , i have followed the blog but the property Proxy Type as Internet is the root cause for my error i suppose because when i changed that property to On-premise my error vanished . As there are few issues with my access to the Gateway system couldn’t test end to end .
    
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Former Member November 17, 2015 at 7:49 am

hi Claudia,

i have followed ur steps mentioned above, but i m getting below error.

Configured Destination

Please help to solve the error, that where i m missing exactly

I am using trail version for this.

Regards,

Prathik.S

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1. Michal Keidar November 17, 2015 at 9:31 am
  
  Are you using HANA Cloud Connector?
  
  Share how you configured your system there, and also the network trace will be helpful.
  
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2. Claudia Polster Post authorNovember 17, 2015 at 11:26 am
  
  Thanks Michal for your quick answer!
  
  prathik jois I used the virtual host at the HCP. Are you using a Cloud Connector? If yes, as Michal wrote please let us know the configuration of it.
  
  Thanks
  
  Claudi
  
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Former Member November 17, 2015 at 12:23 pm

Hi Michal,

Thanks for reminding Hana Cloud Connector.

i was not aware of this as this is first time i am using onPremise proxy type,

it is working fine now.

@Claudia Polster thanks for the post, it was very helpfull.

Regards,

Prathik

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Former Member December 8, 2015 at 1:56 pm

Hi Claudia ,

To Connect to northwind do we need to install hana cloud connector or not required .As i have not installed hana cloud connector which is required to connect to on premise sytems

I still get the mesage when creating an fiori starter application in dataconnection tab the service URL says “GAtewy Timed OUT”. can you please suggest what to do for this

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1. Claudia Polster Post authorDecember 9, 2015 at 12:47 pm
  
  http://scn.sap.com/community/developer-center/front-end/blog/2014/07/07/how-to-use-northwind-odata-service-with-sap-river-rde
  
  Have you read this blog from my colleague. Can you check if the settings are correct?
  
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Former Member January 8, 2016 at 11:45 am

Great detail and clearly explained. Thank you!

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Former Member January 15, 2016 at 8:15 am

Great write up Claudia. Helped me a lot to add my system to cloud SAP Web IDE. I can start my Fiori journey now.. 🙂

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Former Member April 24, 2017 at 9:46 pm

Great article,

Thank you for your posting. I am having an issue, I am new to HCP, I follow steps which you provided set up Cloud Connector and then add Destination with all attributes. However I got a message “Backend Status could not be determined”. Please help me solve this issue.

Thank you!

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