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It’s Trial Time for ABAP in SAP Business Technology Platform

Update history:

  •  12.11.2019 – Added a “What’s new section”
  •  03.10.2020 – New screen shots showing the new “Booster”
  •  28.01.2021 – Changed the product name to SAP Business Technology Platform ABAP Environment

 

You have asked. We have listened.

Since SAP TechEd 2019 in Las Vegas the long awaited trial version of the SAP Cloud Platform, ABAP Environment is now available. Everybody can now get their hands dirty and can try out, for example the new ABAP RESTful Programming Model.

 

What do you need as prerequisites ?

 

Where do I find ABAP trial ?

The ABAP trial is part of the Cloud Foundry trial and can be easily accessed via the SAP BTP trial access https://cockpit.hanatrial.ondemand.com in just 3 steps.

    1. Click on Enter Your Trial Account.
    2. Click on Boosters in the menu on the left hand side
    3. Choose the tile Prepare an Account for ABAP Trial and follow the wizard

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For a detailed step-by-step description check out our Onboarding Tutorial.

A short description of the onboarding process can also be found in the SAP Online Help.

 

What are the Rules of the Game ?

This trial is a Shared Offering. Opposed to other trial offerings in SAP BTP this is a shared trial offering. Trial users share an instance of the same backend system. As in an on premise ABAP development system the content is not separated which means you are able to see and change all objects that other developers have created. And they can see and change the objects that you have developed. As a result we ask you to be careful when editing objects. So you should always be sure to replace the placeholders ### provided in our tutorials (e.g.zcl_generate_travel_data_###) with an unused 3-digit number or 3-character combination.

It’s for educational purposes only. The system may only be used to educate yourself. You must not use it for any other purposes.

It has a limited lifetime. The total lifetime of the shared ABAP trial system is bound to the lifetime of your trial account in the Cloud Foundry environment.  A trial account in the Cloud Foundry environment has a default period of utilization of 30 days. You can extend the trial period to a maximum of 90 days, after which your account is automatically deleted. At the end of the maximum usage period you will see a message like the following.

After your trial account has been deleted, you can create a new trial account in the Cloud Foundry environment, unless you would like to purchase an enterprise account as described in the SAP Online Help.

What is in that box and how can I import code?

For your convenience we have preinstalled the Flight Reference Scenario for the ABAP RESTful Programming Model. So no need for you to install it again. The Flight Reference Scenario provides sample data and services as well as legacy business logic to get familiar with the ABAP RESTful Programming Model. You can check out the end-to-end scenarios or build your own app based on the reference scenario and sample data.

As described in Use abapGit to Transform ABAP Source Code to the Cloud you can also import your own code into the trial system. This is possible using the abapGit client that comes with the ABAP Development Tools. But remember, this is a shared trial, so you must not upload anything beside your own demo code.

Though it is not possible to use the destination service and on premise connectivity (see section Known limitations) I have described a workaround to call remote OData services in a blog (see section Related blogs)

 

What should I do if I have a question or an issue ?

If you have questions or if you are stuck with something you can post your problem in the Q&A section of SCN using the tag SAP Cloud Platform, ABAP environment | SAP | SAP Blogs .

 

Known limitations

Due to the shared trial approach, the following features are limited:

  • Limited access to the apps of the administrator’s SAP Fiori Launchpad
    • No apps for Identity and Access Management (IAM)
    • No apps for Communication Management
    • No app for Software Component Lifecycle
  • No support for custom Identity Provider (IdP)

Most important limitations that result from the technical limitations above:

  • No usage of Destination Service
  • No usage of On Premise Connectivity
  • Business Roles can’t be created nor assigned
  • Custom Authorization Objects & Fields can’t be used

 

Related blogs

Where do I find further information ?

 

Whats’s new?

  • All trial systems are continously being upgraded to the latest release
  • As regions you can now choose
    • US East (VA) in Amazon Web Services (AWS) or
    • Singapore in Azure

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      Author's profile photo Syambabu Allu
      Syambabu Allu

      Hi Andre,

      I have tried it,Nice experience with SAP RAP.?

       

      Thank you,

      Syam

      Author's profile photo Pavlo Astashonok
      Pavlo Astashonok

      Hi, what password and user did you use to login to ABAP dashboard?

      Author's profile photo Jerrin Francis
      Jerrin Francis

      Use the e-mail Id and Password used to create SAP Account

      Author's profile photo Nirmal Kumar Jain S S
      Nirmal Kumar Jain S S

      I am not able to find my password is there anyway to reset it?

      Author's profile photo Guna Sampath
      Guna Sampath

      Use same BTP login user and Password

      Author's profile photo Paras Arora
      Paras Arora

      Although, i have submitted a question… on the link above.., I receive this error abruptly while attempting to use the clound foundry trial.., in a similar error message received earlier , it conveyed that Global account missing…, could all this be an issue with my trial user set up on SAP Cloud Platform ? ... how to get it fixed ?

      please advice…

      Author's profile photo Andre Fischer
      Andre Fischer
      Blog Post Author

      I checked as also Gaurav Karkara did that there is no general issue to create CF trial and responded to your post in the Q&A section.

      Author's profile photo Andre Fischer
      Andre Fischer
      Blog Post Author

      I got the confirmation from my colleagues that the issue that caused the problem in your specific case has been resolved and that you can simply access the trial home page and follow the same process / steps described in our onboarding tutorial.

      Author's profile photo Gaurav Karkara
      Gaurav Karkara

      Great news Andre! Since steampunk is available on trial now, I am expecting lots of experiments and lots of learning as well!. Thanks.

      Author's profile photo Jayakumar K B
      Jayakumar K B

      Thanks for enabling. A fantastic playground  !!!

      Created my first object in ABAP Cloud Platform.

      But the login page shows "This program cannot display the web page " while reconnecting again after some time.

      Thanks

      Jay

       

      Author's profile photo Andre Fischer
      Andre Fischer
      Blog Post Author

      Please post this question here: https://answers.sap.com/questions/ask.html and add more details such as a screen shot there.

      Author's profile photo Devraj Bardhan
      Devraj Bardhan

      This is one of the best trial offerings since HANA Express edition.  All of us are so looking forward to it. I am suprised that this has not gone viral yet.

      Author's profile photo Pavlo Astashonok
      Pavlo Astashonok

      I have no Service Marketplace menu, even no ability to unfold Services menu. What’s the matter?

       

       

      Author's profile photo Andre Fischer
      Andre Fischer
      Blog Post Author

      You are in the wrong, the Neo environment section of your trial. You have to navigate to the Cloud Foundry trial section instead.
      But as I said, I would like to ask to post questions not in the comment section of this blog but rather in the Q&A section . Otherwise the comment section will become to long ?.

      Author's profile photo Pavlo Astashonok
      Pavlo Astashonok

      Ok, created a question. Please answer in QA if you know what the issue is. Thanks

      Author's profile photo Sagar Bansal
      Sagar Bansal

      Hi Andre,

       

      Thanks for this awesome blog.

      I tried following the steps mentioned in your blog and while adding entitlements to my subaccount, I am getting the following error : "We could not save your changes. There could be conflicting changes that were made while you were editing. Refresh the page to see the current status of your entitlements."
      I even tried deleting the subaccount and creating a fresh one but the error remains the same.

      Could you please help me with this.

       

      Thanks & Regards
      Sagar Bansal

      Author's profile photo Andre Fischer
      Andre Fischer
      Blog Post Author

      I am checking this with SAP CP colleagues. Please send me your P-user id via a direct message.

      Author's profile photo Sagar Bansal
      Sagar Bansal

      Hi Andre,

       

      Thanks for your response.

      I tried sending you a direct message but I am not able to.
      Could you send me a message so that I can reply my P-user id on the same.

       

      Regards
      Sagar Bansal

      Author's profile photo Tapas Sahu
      Tapas Sahu

      Hello Sir,

      As per mentioned, we have followed the given steps but still we are facing same issue

       

       

      Author's profile photo Andre Fischer
      Andre Fischer
      Blog Post Author

      If your problem persists, please post your question in the Q&A area using the primary tag "SAP Cloud Platform, ABAP environment"

      Author's profile photo RUPAK BHATTACHARJEE
      RUPAK BHATTACHARJEE

      Can you pls help , cant see it

       

      Author's profile photo Andre Fischer
      Andre Fischer
      Blog Post Author

      Please check out step 2 of our Onboarding Tutorial.

      Author's profile photo RUPAK BHATTACHARJEE
      RUPAK BHATTACHARJEE

      Thanks for the response. I don't see the provide SAP when I create the sub account, may be that's the reason. How shall i get the provide as SAP as mentioned in the tutorial

      Author's profile photo Andre Fischer
      Andre Fischer
      Blog Post Author

      If your problem persists please post your question in the Q&A area using the primary tag “SAP Cloud Platform, ABAP environment”. Step 2 of the Onboarding Tutorial clearly describes what you have to do if you don't see the SAP Trial icon. You have to manually edit the subaccount assignments.

      Author's profile photo RUPAK BHATTACHARJEE
      RUPAK BHATTACHARJEE

      Thanks working. great help .. much appreciated

      Author's profile photo Babu Kilari
      Babu Kilari

      Excellent. Just finished my first RAP program. It was interesting to see all these new stuff ( Behavior definition etc.,) and how the Servicing Definition and Binding are all done at ABAP level. Good Bye dear SEGW 🙂

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Tried and found wonderful.

      Thanks a lot Andre and SAP Team, much appreciated. The barrier to ABAP programming is now very thin for people(like me) coming from the Web Development background. No longer you need a lot of formalities to be completed to just get started with the ABAP coding.

      Is it truly 1908 by the way?

       

      One of the issues found is that the trial system was not stable, if you are trying to complete the activities in one session? Yes, then everything goes smooth. However if you close the session(exit Eclipse and open once again), then the trial system may not be available. Brought this to the attention of the team as an issue below:-

      https://github.com/SAPDocuments/Tutorials/issues/4071

      Thanks,

      Jakes

      Author's profile photo Pradeep Tripathi
      Pradeep Tripathi

      Hi Andre

      I am trying to implement a small POC on ABAP on Cloud, for which I have installed Eclipse Oxygen and Eclipse Neon both. But in case of eclipse oxygen ABAP Development tools plugin is not available, on the other side in Eclipse Neon, I can only add on-premise system for ABAP development. Option ABAP cloud project is not coming in the list.

      Please respond.

      Regards,

      Pradeep

      Author's profile photo Andre Fischer
      Andre Fischer
      Blog Post Author

      Check out the following blog that describes the new release strategy for ABAP in Eclipse.

      https://blogs.sap.com/2019/04/15/important-changes-to-the-abap-development-tools-adt-release-cycle/

      Best idea is to go for the latest Eclipse Release which is 2019-09

      https://tools.hana.ondemand.com/#abap

      Author's profile photo Pradeep Tripathi
      Pradeep Tripathi

      Hi Andre,

      I got to know that ABAP on Cloud is supported by Eclipse Photon only. I also tested it from Eclipse Photon. it is working perfectly fine.

      Thank-you so much for your valuable response.

      Regards,

      Pradeep

      Author's profile photo Javier Rodriguez Prieto
      Javier Rodriguez Prieto

      Hi Andre,

      Thanks for your blog is really useful. I followed the guide to create a new instance of Abap... but says:

      This is just affected to my user or service is down?

       

      Thanks

       

      Author's profile photo Andre Fischer
      Andre Fischer
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Javier,

      the servic that is used to create new trial instances has an issue.

      I created a SAP internal ticket for this.

      Best Regards,

      Andre

       

       

      Author's profile photo Andre Fischer
      Andre Fischer
      Blog Post Author

      For me it works now. Please try again to create a trial instance.

      Author's profile photo Javier Rodriguez Prieto
      Javier Rodriguez Prieto

      yes, i can confirm that is working perfectly. 🙂

       

      Many thanks Andre for your help.

      Author's profile photo saurabh tiwari
      saurabh tiwari

      @Andre- Thank you for the nice post !

      Can we use CAL :webidecp to create an ABAP programs .

      Is it possible to write the 1st ABAP code 'Hellp World'  code on CAL without having SAP system ,ADT,Eclipse  installed on local machice of a user.( I am looking for if all the set-up is available on cloud where a trail user can just login and start building there code ).

      Do we have WebIDE on cloud which allows to create ABAP Project on Cloud . My ADT does not have option to create "ABAP Cloud Project'

      Author's profile photo Andre Fischer
      Andre Fischer
      Blog Post Author

      No, you can't use Web IDE to create abap programs. It's just the abap stack that's now also available in the cloud. The IDE still remains the same, it's ABAP in Eclipse.

      Author's profile photo Naresh Gadamsetti
      Naresh Gadamsetti

      how can I consume abap restful program I created on this trial abap system from webide? when I try to go abap dash board I dont see communication arrangments section or the destination i created in cloud does not show up in webide.

      I am not able to see abap services in webide (when created a project via template)

      Author's profile photo Andre Fischer
      Andre Fischer
      Blog Post Author

      Check out this tutorial that shows how to achieve this using MTA projects.

      https://developers.sap.com/tutorials/abap-environment-deploy-cf-production.html

      Author's profile photo Carolina Herrera
      Carolina Herrera

      Dear Andre Fischer

      I've been following the step-by-step of Create and Deploy HTML5 and SAP Fiori Launchpad Site Modules (https://developers.sap.com/tutorials/abap-environment-deploy-cf-production.html). I've created a MTA project and then I custom Cloud Foundry settings (api endpoint). When I tried to add the ABAP service to my multi-target application I can't find the ABAP on the SAP Cloud Platform Service list.

      Note: I've already enabled the ABAP Trial service on my CF Cockpit to develop a project using eclipse with my service key.

      I really appreciate your advice..

      Author's profile photo Philip MUGGLESTONE
      Philip MUGGLESTONE

      Just a shameless plug, but the hands-on video tutorial series for ABAP Environment has been completely refreshed and expanded and highlights some of the new capabilities introduced with release 2002 such as UUIDs. And you can now follow along using the free trial. More info here. Philip

      Author's profile photo Marçal Oliveras
      Marçal Oliveras

      Hi,

      I was trying to create CDS to test the ABAP RESTful Programming Model features and I see there are many unreleased annotations not available in this trial instance.

      Is there a plan to upgrade the trial to support the latest or newer features?

      These 3 annotations for instance can’t be used:

      @VDM.viewType: #BASIC
      @ObjectModel.representativeKey:'TestKey'
      @ObjectModel.semanticKey: ['TestKey']

       

       

      Author's profile photo Andre Fischer
      Andre Fischer
      Blog Post Author

      The trial always supports the latest and newest features.

      Unfortunately code completion offers you to add annotations that are not supported in SAP Cloud Platform, ABAP environment.

      For more details see my following blog post

      https://blogs.sap.com/2020/04/21/how-to-get-a-list-of-annotations-that-can-be-used-in-sap-cloud-platform-abap-environment/

      Author's profile photo Marçal Oliveras
      Marçal Oliveras

      Hi Andre,

      Thanks for the answer. The representative and semantic keys statements, return a “not released” error, while the VDM.viewType is not even recognized.

      I found out the reason is these annotations being available only in S/4 HANA but not in ABAP in SCP

      Author's profile photo Ruchira Ushan Sanjeewa
      Ruchira Ushan Sanjeewa

      Hi Andre,

      When trying to log into the service URL which has been created in the service binding , the login fails although I used the same credentials to log into the Cloud Cockpit. I have checked trail version but it is also not expired. I have followed the right steps to create the instance as well.Any reason for this issue?

      Regards,

      Ruchira

      Author's profile photo Kirill Slepuho
      Kirill Slepuho

      Hi, Andre!
      I was trying to login into the service and got such error. With what it can be connected?

      Author's profile photo Cristiano Marques
      Cristiano Marques

      I am happy to get come across this update now! But, until when the Gateway Demo System ES5 will be available? There are plans to shut down it?

      Author's profile photo Andre Fischer
      Andre Fischer
      Blog Post Author

      No there are no plans to shut it down.

      But ES5 cannot be used to develop own code opposed to this offering.

      So I do not understand the question really.

      Author's profile photo Cristiano Marques
      Cristiano Marques

      Thanks  Andre Fischer and sorry for not answer quickly.

      You have answered my question: "No there are no plans to shut it down."

       

      Regards.

      Author's profile photo Elias Kekakos
      Elias Kekakos

      I am trying to connect through ADT on Eclipse through the Service Key and I am getting the following error message:
      The provided Service Key does not meet the requirements.
      Can someone help me?

      Thanks
      Elias

      Author's profile photo Marc Zimmek
      Marc Zimmek

      I have the same problem.

      Do you have solve your issue?

      Author's profile photo Elias Kekakos
      Elias Kekakos

      As I saw in openSAP, I deleted the Europe trial account and create an American one. Now all are OK.

      Author's profile photo Pradeep Upadhyay
      Pradeep Upadhyay

      Hi Andre,

      Thanks for your blog. I am following the guide to create a new instance of ABAP but I got below Error:

      Highly Appreciate if you please do needful.

      Thanks

      Author's profile photo Pradeep Upadhyay
      Pradeep Upadhyay

      Thanks. It's working now.

      Author's profile photo Varnier Gatto
      Varnier Gatto

      Why it's not supported the type pools? You can create a table, but why in the abap for cloud it's impossible to create a type pool? it will be very usefull...

       

       

      Author's profile photo Sweta Gohil
      Sweta Gohil

      Not able to create service instance getting error Failed to create the service instance.
      Service broker error: Service broker abap-trial-broker failed with: Internal Server Error.

      Please help.

      Author's profile photo Ngan Bui
      Ngan Bui

      Hi Andre,

      I cann't verify my telephone number when trial account.

      Can you support me, please ?

      Thank you.

      Author's profile photo B.Sanjeev Naidu
      B.Sanjeev Naidu

      Any Advise on below error:

       

      Author's profile photo Andre Fischer
      Andre Fischer
      Blog Post Author

      I suggest to check your entitlements.

      Manage Entitlements on SAP BTP Trial | Tutorials for SAP Developers

      And since I see that you are using the Booster you can alternatively try to add the entitlements and create an ABAP instance manually stepy by step as described here:

      Getting Started with a Trial Account in the ABAP Environment - SAP Help Portal

      Hope this helps.

      If not, post a question in the Q&A section and provide more details what you have tried so far.

      Ask a Question | SAP Community

      Best regards,

      Andre

       

      Author's profile photo Kanika Gupta
      Kanika Gupta

      Andre Fischer : Is there any trial account for embedded steampunk as well? If customer is having S4HANA Cloud license then does that mean he can use steampunk free of cost?

      Author's profile photo Michał Badura
      Michał Badura

      Hi Andre!

      The second link is not working anymore. Can You please update it?

      Many thanks in advance!

      Author's profile photo Andre Fischer
      Andre Fischer
      Blog Post Author

      Sorry, but which of all the links is not working?

       

      Author's profile photo B.Sanjeev Naidu
      B.Sanjeev Naidu

      Thanks and able to login. but no roles assigned 🙁

      Best Regards,

      Sanjeev

      Author's profile photo Kanika Gupta
      Kanika Gupta

      Do we have any trial account for embedded Steampunk too?