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My experience with Fiori Elements: Custom App Development & Standard App Extensibility(Part2)

Custom Fiori Elements Architecting & Development Overview

This is the second blog of my blog series for the my experience with Fiori Elements: Custom App Development & Standard App Extensibility.

In this blog, I would like to mention few of the important points for “Custom Fiori Elements Architecting & Development Overview” based on my experience:

  • Development Standards, Guidelines, Best practices should be set for the UX Development.

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Fiori Elements Vs Smart Controls Vs Free Style

  • Fiori Elements are most preferable, if not then smart controls with free style is preferable over complete free style development
  • Design consistency, development efficiency is great with Fiori Elements.
  • Backend Developers are encouraged to upskill and fully utilize the power of Fiori elements.

Highlighting Fiori Elements/ Smart Controls Features utilized:

 

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  • Decoupled Backend & UI Logic
  • Utilized CDS with annotation
  • Complete End to End Transactional apps with Fiori Elements having Multiple Facets with Active and Draft Persistence.
  • Complete End to End Analytical Apps using Fiori Elements Overview Page(OVP) Dashboard, Analytical List Page(ALP)
  • UI Extensibility is achieved with Fiori Elements extension i.e., Custom approval actions.
  • Custom Smart Tree controls with Flexible Column layout (FCL).
  • Custom Smart Tree controls with Flexible Column layout (FCL). Complex Hierarchical Business logic implemented via CDS-AMDP table functions.
  • Validations/exception handling, change documents are managed at Backend/ BOPF Layer.
  • Navigation from Fiori Elements (List Report) to Free style applications.

 

Fiori Elements: Key Lesson Learned from my experience

  • Almost 60-80% requirements can be managed with Fiori Elements / Smart control
  • Backend CDS Data Modelling is most critical and important.
  • Maximum utilization of SAP Standard CDS/ Standard Value helps CDS’s  provided.
  • Upskilling Backend developers with S/4HANA  i.e. CDS annotations etc. .
  • Strong QA review process / Standards / Guidelines for UX Development.
  • Keep exploring latest SAP Standard Fiori Elements based application .

 

In the next blog, I will cover various approaches used for the Fiori Elements / Smart control applications and also i will try to give a perspective for the modelling done at UI and Backend Layer.

Stay tuned.

 

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