April 24, 2017 1 minute read

Fiori Launchpad in SAP HANA 2.0 SP01

SAP Fiori launchpad is the strategic single point of entry for SAP business applications and analytics. It offers a role-based, personalized and real-time access for end users.

If you are not familiar with Fiori UX and Fiori Launchpad you can find more information here.

Starting from SAP HANA 2.0 SP01, you can aggregate Fiori applications running on this version with Fiori Launchpad and provide the end user with the Fiori Experience.

The Fiori launchpad capabilities include:

Role based access
Personalization
Theming and Branding
Translation

You can now start with creating your Fiori Launchpad site by using SAP Web IDE and add additional applications to it.

So, how to get started?

After you have the applications ready, you can create a new “Multi Target Application Project”. After the project is created you can select New and “SAP Fiori Launchpad Site Modules”. This will open a wizard that will guide you through the creation of a Fiori Launchpad Site that contains the applications you would like to include. Build the project to create an mtar file containing the out of the box content of the site. You can than deploy the mtar file by using the “xs deploy” command. During the deployment, you will receive the URL for the site. This URL can be send to the end users to access the Fiori Launchpad Site with all the applications.

The end user receiving the Fiori Launchpad Site will benefit from the capabilities of branding, translations and personalization.

Here is a movie created by our developers that shows step by step how to create a Fiori Launchpad site on SAP HANA 2.0 SP01.

More information on how to create the site and how to add more content to your site can be found here:

https://help.sap.com/viewer/4505d0bdaf4948449b7f7379d24d0f0d/2.0.01/en-US/fdb899c213d449158836669840fd2690.html

Good luck and let us know what you think,

Rachel.

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Mike Doyle

May 2, 2017 at 11:27 am

Thanks Rachel, this looks awesome. I have a question regarding the UI5 versions. In cloud Platform I can choose the UI5 runtime version in the configuration cockpit. Am I right in assuming that this isn't possible with an XSA launchpad? Is the version tied to the HANA release?

Former Member

September 14, 2017 at 6:39 am

Hi Rachel,

Really it is a very informative blog and I have already shared it. Mike, SAP Fiori 2.0 has introduced an important feature of managing large numbers of applications. Fiori has taken UI/UX to the next level like for example if we remember those initial Launchpad looks, which had a specific and restricted number of tiles/applications to this time when Fiori has become much more capable of handling entire business flows with a larger number of SAP Fiori applications.

Rachel Kahana Samet

Blog Post Author

May 2, 2017 at 6:03 pm

Hi Mike,

Your assumption is correct. This is just one of the (many) benefits for running your applications in the SAP Cloud Platform.

Best,

Rachel.

Alex Myakinkii

May 3, 2017 at 6:25 pm

To whom it may concern: there is a module @sap/site-content-deployer that is responsible for pushing the site-content params to sap-portal-persistency service.

So, basically deploy-tasks-manager.js tries to send it via HTTP/PUT with npm ‘request’ module which fails to do so with self-signed certificate (and deploy.js doesn’t print that error out).

One can overcome this issue with a well-known nodejs env var:

xs se <YOUR_CONTENT_APP_NAME> NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED 0

Also, I suppose defining ‘tasks’ section in mta.yaml to redefine deploy task with that env var should work as well.

Hope this helps.

UPD: ok, the reason why you would be interested in doing all that stuff above is the case when your launchpad site module successfully deploys, but the Content module does not.

There's also a small catch setting the node env var: 'xs se' cannot set a var to a non-existent app, so you can't issue the se command prior to 'xs deploy', but after you have tried to deploy your sample (or whatever) launcphad mtar and it failed (you can see it with 'xs mta-ops' command ) the content module ( which is actually an app in cf terminology) is created and the 'xs se' command will succeed.

You can then retry the deploy command with

xs deploy -i <OP_ID_FROM_XS_MTA-OPS> -a retry

Neha Werner

September 5, 2017 at 6:38 am

Setting the variable did the trick. I think it would be better to include it in the original post. 🙂

Matthew Wong

October 13, 2017 at 10:17 am

@myakinkii Thank you Alexey, will this command set for env var open up and security risks to the app or xs platform?

Matthew Wong

October 18, 2017 at 7:00 am

@myakinkii After doing your procedure, my content is still not available on the FLP. I can login to the FLP by url but no samples apps appear in my FLP homepage. Did you have this problem?

Your procedure:

xs deploy flp.mtar ->failure
xs se flp-content NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED 0
xs mta-ops
xs deploy -i 15001 -a retry
successful deploy

Matthew Wong

October 18, 2017 at 7:07 am

here is my error when loading Fiori Launchpad Site Module

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)
send @ jquery-dbg.js:9203
core-min-0.js:92 2017-10-18 15:04:54.316405 failed to load 'sap/ushell/adapters/cf/library-preload' (failed to load 'sap/ushell/adapters/cf/library-preload.js' from /resources/sap/ushell/adapters/cf/library-preload.js: 404 - Not Found) -  
K @ core-min-0.js:92
core-min-0.js Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)
send @ jquery-dbg.js:9203
core-min-0.js:92 2017-10-18 15:04:54.709754 failed to load 'sap/ushell/cloudServices/interceptor/library-preload' (failed to load 'sap/ushell/cloudServices/interceptor/library-preload.js' from /resources/sap/ushell/cloudServices/interceptor/library-preload.js: 404 - Not Found) -  
K @ core-min-0.js:92
core-min-0.js:92 2017-10-18 15:04:54.965774 registerResourcePath ('sap/ushell/services/cdm/NavTargetResolution', '/ushell/services/cdm/NavTargetResolution/') -  sap.ui.ModuleSystem
core-min-0.js:92 2017-10-18 15:04:54.966379 registerResourcePath ('sap/ushell/personalization', '/ushell/personalization/') -  sap.ui.ModuleSystem
core-min-0.js:92 2017-10-18 15:04:54.966604 registerResourcePath ('apps', '/apps/') -  sap.ui.ModuleSystem
core-min-0.js:92 2017-10-18 15:04:56.997754 registerResourcePath ('sap/ushell/components/flp', 'https://flp.convergencect.us:51035/resources/sap/ushell/components/flp/') -  sap.ui.ModuleSystem
xhr.js?eval:1 GET https://fqdn:51006/sap/es/ina/GetServerInfo?_=1508310293700 404 (Not Found)

Rachel Kahana Samet

Blog Post Author

October 22, 2017 at 1:59 pm

Hi,

Please open a ticket with the description of the issue and our teams will support.

Best Regards.
Rachel.

Nandan Chaturvedi

May 21, 2018 at 11:57 am

This somehow does not work for me:-( I keep getting "Deployment of site content to persistency failed [Deployment Id: deploy-etcetc]

Any clue on this?

Nandan Chaturvedi

May 21, 2018 at 1:33 pm

Hello there, I tried adding the above env variable but still getting the issue "Deployment of site content to persistency failed"

Any help on this?

Divya Munnuru

August 31, 2018 at 6:22 am

Hi Alexey ,

Could you please share rest of the steps on how to deploy the content to fiori launchpad.

Regards,

Divya

Bert Deterd

May 5, 2017 at 11:26 am

Done all the steps as shown in the video. Launchpad is up and running but the two sample apps are not showing .

Alex Myakinkii

May 6, 2017 at 11:10 am

Dear Bert, please refer to my comment above.

I think it would solve your issue.

BR, Alex.

Former Member

May 23, 2017 at 12:31 pm

Thank you @rachel.kahanasamet for the blog post.

I wonder if it is possible to add dynamic tiles to this Launchpad?

I already tried to add a serviceUrl to a tile configuration, but it seems to be ignored. It would be a pity if its not possible to use dynamic tiles on HANA Platforms since it is one of the bests features of Fiori Launchpad.

Greetings

Zohar Sheinberg

May 24, 2017 at 6:57 am

Hi Matthias,

It is possible to add dynamic tiles to this Launchpad:

Below I pasted some configuration sample snippet. The "indicatorDataSource" section makes the tile dynamic.

The 'path' specifies the url of the odata call that the tile will invoke.

"sap.app": {
"_version": "1.3.0",
"id": "72dc6cc1-bb3f-4c6a-899e-379821100c8e-1481201123960",
"title": "No resource selected",
"tags": {
"keywords": []
},
"crossNavigation": {

"inbounds": {
"SalesPerformanceDisplay": {
"semanticObject": "SalesPerformance",
"action": "Display",
"deviceTypes": {
"desktop": true,
"tablet": true,
"phone": true
},
"info": "",
"icon": "sap-icon://Fiori2/F0365",

"indicatorDataSource": {
"path": "/product_sales/resources/sap/demo/dynamictile/dynamic.json",
"refresh": "6000",
"displayNumberUnit": "%"
},

...

Some info about the dynamic data your Odata service need to return : https://help.sap.com/saphelp_uiaddon10/helpdata/en/4d/2b9e3c92e54b2192f031a2941927d6/content.htm

Regards,

Zohar

Former Member

May 24, 2017 at 8:22 am

Hi Zohar,

thank you for your detailed answer. With indicatorDataSource it's working perfect 🙂

Regards,

Matthias

Rachel Kahana Samet

Blog Post Author

June 7, 2017 at 1:21 pm

Hi,

We have released the following note that also include a Fix for connecting to databases when enabling SSL,

2479188 - SAP Fiori Launchpad for SAP HANA 2.0 extended application services, advanced model - SPS 01 Patch 01 central release note

Best,

Rachel.

Vladimirs Semikins

October 18, 2017 at 7:26 am

Here is a correct URL to the SAP Note - https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2479188

Dirk Raschke

June 30, 2017 at 8:39 am

Hi,

our deploying of this prototype fails, the app is crashing when starting.

In the logs I could find this issue:

ERR VError: environment-destinations/0/url: String is too short (0 chars), minimum 1

Has anyone an idea to solve this problem?

Thanks!

Former Member

July 1, 2017 at 9:29 am

Hello Mr. Raschke,

Would you please try to:

1. install the latest version of XSAC_PORTAL_SERVICES

XSACPORTALSERV01_1-80002098.ZIP

and after that to

2. reinstall SHINE

B.R.

Dirk Raschke

July 1, 2017 at 2:13 pm

Thanks a lot, this file fixed our problem.

BR,

Dirk

Former Member

September 21, 2017 at 2:16 am

Where can I find the portal services download? I tried to download it from support.sap.com but not even our system admin is authorized to download this specific file.

Thanks,
Sahil

Neha Werner

September 8, 2017 at 11:15 am

After successfully deploying the Fiori Launchpad on XSA, the sample applications still don't appear for me. Is some configuration is missing or is this problem known?

Serdar Simsekler

September 21, 2017 at 1:43 pm

Hello Neha

Have you resolved the problem where the sample applications do not show on the launchpad? If so, can you explain how?

Regards

Serdar

Neha Werner

September 27, 2017 at 7:56 am

No. It still doesn't work. We have multiple problems even in deploying manually a Fiori Launchpad and after 10-15 tries, when it deploys, there are no tiles and there is no help document available.

Matthew Wong

October 18, 2017 at 5:42 am

have you solved this problem Neha?

Vladimirs Semikins

October 26, 2017 at 10:32 am

Try to change the version of dependency "@sap/site-entry" to "1.9.6" in your package.json file and redeploy your app.

Zdenek Smolik

April 1, 2018 at 6:01 pm

Hi Vladimirs,

thanks, it helped.

Zdenek

Shivam Bedwal

August 18, 2018 at 9:50 am

Hello Experts,

If FIORI Launchpad Site can be deployed on HANA XS directly from SAP Web IDE. Then we do not need to install SAP Netweaver for running FIORI Launchpad on HANA XS. Is this understanding correct ? If yes, then what would be the FIORI version and how can we use features like Notification centre of FIORI Launchpad on HANA XS ?

Best Regards

Mahesh Jagannath

November 9, 2018 at 9:14 am

Hi,

I am trying to configure an existing UI5 app to the launchpad site using the SAP node module @sap/site-app-server but unable to do so.

The method described in the below link is not much of a help. Is there any tutorial or any sample app available that achieves this?

https://help.sap.com/viewer/4505d0bdaf4948449b7f7379d24d0f0d/2.0.02/en-US/8a583342d1c64822837fe49efbafdb53.html

Regards,

Mahesh

Sourav Panda

July 17, 2019 at 10:39 am

Hi Rachel ,

Thanks for the nice Blog. I have a question regarding SAP FIORI site module. I am trying to create a SAP FIORI site module in HANA 2.0 SPS 03. Suppose I create a sap fiori site module inside a MTA application giving name as ‘FLP’ , two folders are generated ‘FLP’ and ‘FLP-Content’. Then After bulding this a Mtar file is generated. After this when I am trying deploy to XS it is failed. Could you please suggest.

Thanks,

Sourav

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