Product Information
SAP Business Application Studio – Info Blog I
At Q1 2020, we unveiled the new SAP cloud based Development Environment – the SAP Business Application Studio. Since then, we worked very hard to add new features, capabilities and supporting content to the product.
In this blog, I will share a selection of valuable “assets” for anyone that is interested to know more about Business Application Studio. You can also check out this link to see all available Business Application Studio Tutorials.
I hope you will find this list helpful.
Also, you are welcome to take a look at – Info Blog II that was released on January 2021
The content in this blog is grouped based on the following categories:
- Product vision & value
- Getting to know Business Application Studio
- Supported Development Scenarios
- Business Application getting started
- Web IDE to Business Application Studio migration
- Useful links
SAP Business Application Studio
Product vision & value
- Business Application Studio Value Proposition Blog
- To find out What’s new in Business Application Studio – take a look at the ”Its time to try our Sap Business Application Studio” blog
- To understand the Business Application Studio openness concept – take a look at the following Blog
Getting to know Business Application Studio
- Video: SAP Business Application Studio demo at UI5Con keynote session
- Video: SAP Business Application Studio on Fiori-Side-Chat podcast
- Understand the SAP Business Application Studio Dev Space concept.
- Get an introduction to the basic IDE features and functions in this product walkthrough
- Get to know the Business Application Studio productivity tools overview, that are key drivers in improving the development time-to-value.
- Multitarget Application (MTA) – development toolkit
SAP Business Application Studio – DevSpace creation screen
Supported Development Scenarios
One of the key strength of Business Application Studio is in the SAP Development Scenarios optimization. Hereby, is a group of assets dealing with various development scenarios:
SAP Fiori (frontend) development:
- SAP Fiori development with SAP Business Application Studio
- SAP Fiori Overview: Design, Develop and Deploy – openSAP course
- Evolved Web Apps with SAPUI5
- Adaptation Project – Your one stop tool for extending SAPUI5 Applications
- SAP Fiori Elements using SAP Business Application Studio
Full Stack development:
- Developing CAP applications in SAP Business Application Studio
- Build a Business Application Using CAP for Java
- Building Applications with SAP Cloud Application Programming Model – openSAP Course
- Call API Business Hub API from a SAPUI5 Application
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Develop SAP Cloud Platform Extension Factory, serverless runtime application
Building Mobile Apps:
Workflow Management:
SAP Business Application Studio – Getting Started
- SAP Multi-Cloud trial environment (Europe and US) where you can try it out.
- You can use this simple on-boarding tutorial to get started.
- Web IDE Trial update
- SAP Business Application Studio – Data Center availability.
- For information on service plan and pricing – SAP Cloud Platform Discovery Center
Web IDE to Business Application Studio migration
If you used to develop business application with SAP Web IDE and you are interested to move your applications to Business Application Studio. You will be happy to find these migration guides.
- Fiori for ABAP migration guide
- Migrating Your CAP Applications from SAP Web IDE to SAP Business Application Studio
Other Useful links:
- The Business Application Studio Community Page – is where you will find the most frequent product updates.
- The Business Application Studio Newsletter, is another excellent way to get informed about the latest and greatest – you can register for the newsletter here
- If you do not have a PPU (pay per use account) and you can purchase SAP Business Application Studio via the SAP Store
- Provdie your feedback or feature request via the SAP Business Application Studio Customer Influence Page
SAP Business Application Studio Intro Video
SAP WebIDE is included in PE Build Multi-cloud packs (e.g. #8005565), while Business Application Studio needs to be licensed per user. So we will probably stick with WebIDE for quite some time. Any plans to include Business Application Studio in Multi-cloud packs?
Hi Alejandro,
SAP Web IDE is sold as a standalone product and included in various packs like the PE Build Multi-cloud packs.
SAP Business Application Studio is also sold standalone and will be included in the new partner packages. There is no plan to include Business Application Studio in the PE Build Multi-cloud packs.
Thanks,
Keren
I agree. I see many SAP customers and partners are stuck with WebIDE due to this (who wants to make new, avoidable investments now?). It is a lose-lose scenario both for SAP and its customers. If SAP migrates/converts the existing WebIDE licenses into BAS, then that would be the real win-win scenario.
I am a VS Code user and naturally love the Business Application Studio.
Do you have any plans to move more HANA content (Calculation views etc.) generation functionality into the studio?
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Hi Martin,
We are looking at adding HANA tools support to Business Application Studio.
Great blog. From an Analytics perspective, I see that I can create CDS entities and expose them as OData services. Apart from this as of now what other Analytics features are available in Business Application Studio?
What are the new features that are going to be added from Analytics perspective apart from being able to create HANA Views?
Hi, thanks for your post,
¿Is it posible to create calculations views in BAS?
Hi Ubeimar Martinez ,
We're looking into adding SAP HANA tools to BAS. I recommend that you follow/re-visit this blog and BAS homepage to get updates.
Regards - Raz
Hi Ubeimar Martinez ,
SAP HANA tools including calculation views have been added to BAS.
You may find more information here:
Thanks,
Keren
Does Local BAS require license?
I'm using Visual sstudio code on my pc with some plugins installed.
If I only develop on may machine, Should I purchase a license for production system?
Hi Oh,
SAP Business Application Studio is a hosted environment which is available for trial and productive usage. Productive usage requires a license.
For using Visual Studio Code with plug-ins, there no need to purchase a license to Business Application Studio.
Thanks,
Keren
What about licensing for customers (f.e. customers with S/4 on premise only) which only need Business application studio for developing new FIORI applications and possibly adapting SAP application by using adaptation projects?
Do they need a "base" license for cloud foundry + BAS licenses? Or is there a possibility to make use of BAS only? No further runtimes are needed.
Will adaptations projects in the future be available as addon for VS Code?
Deployment from BAS to an on premise ABAP system is only possible with FES 5.0 or higher as could be read in the SAP help:
https://help.sap.com/viewer/584e0bcbfd4a4aff91c815cefa0bce2d/Cloud/en-US/340cf0109ec6451c88f7a0129990de59.html
For customers with a lower version of FES what to do? Do they have to use WebIde on the NEO environment?
In WebIde I "liked" the annotation modeler to add some annotations without need to code each line of annotation. Will this option be included in the future in BAS also?
Thanks in advance!
Hi,
Regarding the license, the customer can license BAS only.
For your question on adaptation projects. SAP has mid-term plans for making adaptation projects also available for VSCode. Currently there is no concrete timeline for this, as soon as we have it, we will publish this in the SAPUI5 Road Map.
Yes, deployment from BAS to an on premise ABAP system is supported from SAP_UI 753 SP00 or SAP Fiori FES 5.0. As SAP Fiori FES 4.0 is out of maintenance since end of 2020 (see note Note 2217489), we recommend updating this component.
Regarding the next generation of annotation modeler, there is currently a code-based tool that helps with context-sensitive annotations. We are looking for customer input on what is next https://blogs.sap.com/2021/01/20/provide-your-input-on-the-next-generation-annotation-modeler/
Thanks,
Keren
Hi Keren,
Thanks for the clear answers.
Just another question regarding licensing BAS.
In the post teched Q&A session (SAP Teched 2020 - Developing with SAP Business Application Studio, Next-Gen of SAP Web IDE (DEV930) ) 2 weeks ago you answered this question also (copied from the transcript):
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There's no need to to license additional runtimes or any other capabilities. So you'll have with that the ability to use the destinations and the cloud connector so that's possible. That's
pretty similar to what we had in the past with web ide. The cloud foundry runtime that is only required if you would like to test the application in the cloud and use the cloud foundry runtime also if you want to develop an application using the launchpad.
"
Will it be possible with a BAS license only (https://www.sapstore.com/solutions/45318/SAP-Business-Application-Studio) to test the application within Business application studio.
I assume it should be possible without the need of any further licensed otherwise the BAS only license is not very usefull at all.
Thanks again!
Hello, I have a question regarding the Date Picker Container Item in BAS/Web IDE. Is it possible to make the date value null (showing no value)?
If it is not possible, is there any alternative to this? Thank you
Hello Syed,
the DatePicker has a property placeholder: As default, the date format is displayed, placeholder: " " will show nothing (a blank). See details in the API Reference and Samples.
Keep in mind that showing no placeholder will be an issue for screen readers and keyboard only users.
Hope this helps.
Hi !
Does SAP Application Studio can be used for CDS view management ?
Thank you in advance,
Joelle
Are you planning to update all SAP Learning Hub's courses related to FIORI to include SAP BAS? at the moment all courses reference to SAP WEB IDE