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November 28, 2017 3 minute read

Analysis Tool for Fiori Applications

Dear community,

We created a little tool to check the configuration and the development design of Fiori/UI5 applications. It verifies if the most relevant application files are available and checks if the application related services are active. Finally it displays the collected result in a table.

How to get the tool?

Implement the SAP notes 2549968 and 2553469 or deploy the in the notes’ stated software component. Please read the SAP notes carefully before implementing them since they imply manual activities.
Please implement also SAP note 2603238 to have the latest version of the tool.

How does it work?

Use transaction SE38 and execute report /SDF/FIORI_ANALYSIS. In the input form, you can set following three flags.

Check a single app: Only the application you entered in the input field will be shown. Please use the “Application Name” which is called “Technical Name” in the Fiori App Library.
Test also the application’s OData service.
Show the user IDs in the table fields “Last changed by” and “Created by”.

Then click on the RUN button to display the results:

Understanding the table

Only data which could be collected are shown. If some of the cells are empty just means that the data couldn’t be retrieved. This is not an error.

Column Name	Description	Problem Resolution
State	Rating: Green – the app has been developed and configured correctly to be used on the Fiori Launchpad Yellow – the app has been developed correctly but is not yet configured for use Red – the app has not been developed correctly or is not active	Check in SE80 if the application contains a Component.js file which includes a metadata declaration. Moreover, the ICF service of the application should be active and an active OData service should be used.
Application Name	Technical name of the UI5 (Fiori) application
Transported	Application has been transported to another system
Development Class of Service	Name of the transport package
Software component	The service’s software component if it can be read
SAP Release	Release number of the software component
Business Server Page Text	Application description
BSP ICF Service Active	Rating: Green – the app has been developed following the Fiori design guidelines and configured correctly to be used in the Fiori Launchpad Yellow – the app has been developed following the Fiori design guidelines but is not yet configured for use Red – the app has not been developed following the Fiori design guidelines or is not active	1. Activate the ICF service 2. The app name should not start with an “/” 3. The service should reside in directory /sap/bc/ui5_ui5/sap/
ID/Namespace	The app’s ID or namespace read from the Component.js file
Current Application Version	App version read from the Component.js file
Last changed on	Date when the file has been changed the last time
Last changed by	User when the file has been changed the last time
Index.html	“X” if the file Index.html exists, empty if not.
Component.js	“X” if the file Component.js exists, empty if not.
Component-preload.js	“X” if the app includes the file Component-preload.js, empty if not.
Metadata	Rating: Green – metadata is declared in the manifest.json Yellow – metadata is declared in the Component.js Red – no metadata declaration	Declare the metadata in the manifest.json file
OData URL	URL of the application’s OData Service
OData ICF Service Active	Rating: Green – Odata Service is active Red – Odata Service is inactive n/a – ICF node of the OData service cannot be found	Register the OData service in transaction /IWFND/MAINT_SERVICE
System Alias(es)	Assigned system alias(es)
HTTP Response Code	HTTP response code of the OData metadata call. The HTTP response codes are explained in this SAP blog.	Check if correct backend SW component is installed. Check the RFC connection, user authorizations, and ICF service activation
Min. UI5 Version	Displays the minimum SAPUI5 version specified in the manifest.json file. A developer can also refer to the installed SAPUI5 version. You will see then “${sap.ui5.dist.” in the cell
Used SAPUI5 Libraries	The field shows the SAPUI5 sub libraries used by the application.
# .js Files	Amount of Java Script files within the application which are not one of the following: Component-preload.js, Configuration.js, Component.js or Application.js
# .xml Files	Amount of XML files in the application
# .css Files	Amount of CSS files in the application
Initial Created On	Date when the file has been created.
Initial Created By	User who created the file
Vendor	“Customer” when the application is a custom app. “SAP” when it is an SAP standard application

Restrictions:

Only UI5 applications are checked. Classic applications (Web Dynpro, SAP Gui for HTML) are not considered.
The navigation buttons do not work in the input form. They will work when you upgrade to the necessary ST-PI SP level.

Like the tool?

Please help us to improve this tool by leaving comments. Do you miss any information in the result table? Is something not clear? Should we add a specific feature?

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Fábio Luiz Esperati Pagoti

November 30, 2017 at 2:03 pm

Hello Michael Albrecht!

Thanks for the information.

The installation process went really well and the good news ends here.

Personally, my first impression is that the tool will not be useful on a daily basis and that it contains a lot of bugs. I will not even mention details about the ABAP development approach taken (a module pool program which could easily be a report). Actually, I must comment something here... why not doing such a tool in Web IDE as an optional plugin?

It seems to be more useful after an upgrade in a back end system to check all odata services - but I bet that only a metadata call is done in order to check if the service is good. So it does not guarantee anything.

I must say that the tool is on **very** early stage (it does not even have a transaction code)... but I would like to know more about the direction this tool will take. For me, someone has invented this as an excuse to pratice some 1995 ABAP-style programming. Fair enough. I am in a project using Fiori available in HANA XSA 2.0 and I must say that such Fiori distribution lacks development tools way more than the Fiori available in Netweaver.

Finally... we are about to enter 2018 and (new) SAP standard code contains stuff like:

 wa_fieldcatalog-fieldname = 'state'.                      "#EC NOTEXT
  wa_fieldcatalog-seltext_s = 'State'(104).
  wa_fieldcatalog-seltext_m = 'App Validation'(004).
  wa_fieldcatalog-seltext_l = 'Application Validation'(005).
  wa_fieldcatalog-icon = 'X'.

  APPEND wa_fieldcatalog TO lt_fieldcatalog.
  CLEAR wa_fieldcatalog.

  wa_fieldcatalog-fieldname = 'appl_name'.                  "#EC NOTEXT
  wa_fieldcatalog-seltext_m = 'App Name'(002).
  wa_fieldcatalog-seltext_l = 'Application Name'(003).

  APPEND wa_fieldcatalog TO lt_fieldcatalog.
  CLEAR wa_fieldcatalog.

CALL FUNCTION 'REUSE_ALV_GRID_DISPLAY'

Sorry but I was expecting way more.

Former Member

November 30, 2017 at 3:59 pm

We have deployed the application on fiori launchpad which is configured on SAP portal. ?

Fiori launchpad is configured on SAP Portal. In that case how it will work??

Former Member

December 1, 2017 at 3:07 pm

we cant check the performance and the best practice followed ??

Michael Albrecht

Blog Post Author

February 16, 2018 at 9:53 am

Hi Kapil,

not with this report. I would recommend to use following Guided Answer document for performance troubleshooting: https://ga.support.sap.com/dtp/viewer/#/tree/1793/actions/23186

Best regards, Michael

Peter Muschick

January 16, 2018 at 4:25 pm

Hi,

getting error with download. Do you know what the issue is? Is it being maintained currently?

SAP Note 0002549969 incomplete

Message no. SCWN106

Diagnosis

SAP Note 0002549969 is incomplete.

System Response

This SAP Note cannot be imported.

Procedure

Contact SAP Support.

Michael Albrecht

Blog Post Author

February 28, 2019 at 4:03 pm

Hello Peter,

I suppose you selected the wrong SAP note. Note 2549969 has nothing to do with the Fiori Analysis Report.

Kind regards, Michael

ZALAK DALAL

February 22, 2019 at 6:27 am

I am getting below dump could you provide solution?

I have not change any field selection while importing SNOTE 2553469.

ZALAK DALAL

February 22, 2019 at 6:29 am

Michael Albrecht

Blog Post Author

February 28, 2019 at 4:00 pm

Hi Zalak,

have you followed exactly the implementation steps which are described in SAP note 2553469?

Implement SAP Note 2549968 with SNOTE.
Afterwards run report /SDF/NOTE_2549968.
Then implement this SAP Note with SNOTE.
As a final step, please run again report /SDF/NOTE_2549968 (it might be necessary to run in several times).

Maybe de-implement and re-implement it.

Kind regards, Michael

Technical Articles

Analysis Tool for Fiori Applications

How to get the tool?

How does it work?

Understanding the table

Restrictions:

Like the tool?

Assigned Tags

SAP Note 0002549969 incomplete

Diagnosis

System Response

Procedure