Or how do I build an application on my ODT40?

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Hi,

My name is Robert I’m part of the SAP Event Management Team and today I want to share how I build a Fiori Application on the ODT40 Scenario in less than 10 Minutes™. 

Disclaimer: This step by step guide is neither a complete runthrough nor does it fullfill all nescessary steps to build your own SAP Freight Order Visibility Application, but it will provide enough input to give a good kickstart.

Presets:

• Working Web IDE
• Enabled SAP Transactional Template Plugin
• ODT40 Scenario in the backend
• Connectivity to the backend

Step one – Choose your Template

Starting a new Project from Template will show us this screen:

We’re choosing the Transactional App for SAP Event Management and while we’re at it we’ll favorite the template by pressing the heart shaped button in the left upper corner.

Step Two – Choose your Project Name

We choose a Project Name, that has nothing to do with how the application will be called in your Fiori Launchpad, neither will it choose the title of your application, it is for your local workspace of the SAP Web IDE:

Step Three – Find your Destination and Service

Choose the destination to your backend and the Event Management Service:

Step Four – Let’s get to business

As we want to build an Application based on ODT40 we take the “FreighOrder” OdataID.

Step Five – The Master List

The master list will be the things we want to keep track of. So the main purpose of our application, something catchy, for example if I would track penguins I would have some overview attributes of the penguins in this list, like color, or chipid, or pecksize…

But we want to track “Freight Orders”; So:

Static Filters help us predefine Filters that are always in place, for example keeping my users on the same carrier, or timeframe…

Or allow them only to view active Freight Orders. Placeholder and tooltip for the search bar will be adjusted here:

Now to the title of your tracked items: We choose to display SourceLocationCityName to DestinationLocationCityName. In order to concatinate those two we choose the conjunction word ‘to’, but we can imagine many more compositions, for example: First Property: “Carrier”, Second Property: “CurrentDelayInHours” Conjunction: “Is always late by:”

Attributes and Status of the Item will give us more opportunities to show relevant Information, without actually pressing on the item:

Step Six – Filter Filter Filter

When there is data there is always the possibility of filtering this data to the needs I have. So we provide an easy way to choose what and how your users will be able to filter your data:

So for this example, the user will be able to pick only one type of Carrier but multiple Transportation Status.

Step Seven – Lets go more into detail

The “Detail Step” is just as straight forward as the “Master Step”. We choose a title and the properties we would like to display:

The Event Messages to the tracked items will be displayed in the table underneath. The table is restricted to only five user defined columns in order to prevent strange looking tables.

If we want to add a tab, we press the button and have to provide more information on what we want to display there. Per default only table tabs are created, so the same rule about columns apply:

Step Eight – Reporting for duty

As we want a functional application we want the users to report the expected events, by checking the checkbox “Report unexpected” and we want to customize a unexpected event,to be reported as well:

We can not just choose what they will report, no, we can also choose the order which they have to do this!

Step Nine – More Details of the Details

The last step is all about the details of the Event Messages itself. You will be able to provide every property you would like to be displayed as details for the Event Messages.

Step Ten – Finnish

After the last step we run the newly created application with the localIndex.html and look at what we did.

There you go. A working Fiori Application for our SAP Event Managment in a short period of time!