I was recently in the situation that I have a complex OData model I needed to discuss with customers. Going through the metadata document requires a lot of brain power. The previous solution from XOData does not seem to work anymore.
So, I found a brilliant blog from Denise. I modified some steps and with the following steps you can view any Metadata document inside the SAP Web IDE.
- open your web IDE in the SAP Cloud Platform Cockpit
- create a new Project from Template
- Use the List Report Application and click on Next
- Add a project Name and Title and click Next
- Click on Filesystem and add your metadata.xml and click Next
- Click Next on the Annotation Selection
- Select a OData Collection for the List
- Click on Finish
- now open your project and navigate to Webapp->localService folder and double click on the metadata.xml
- switch the view in the bottom left corner from Source to Design
- The Result should be your OData model :
Excellent Sami. Can’t wait to try it out.
Thanks for sharing it
Best Regards
Smriti
Nice 🙂
Hi Sami
What are the prerequisites for this visualization? I’ve some projects, where the button isn’t available and some, where it works as described…
Is it also possible to visualize it directly from the Gateway and not from a (maybe outdated) file?
Regards,
Daniel
Hi
I found no limitations on this until now. I am able to upload any metadata file. Yes you can also point this against a live Gateway system if you have added this as a destination in the SAP Cloud platform.