This blog contains all steps relevant to the initial configurations, required to setup an ABAP environment on SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP). The blog will take you through the process of setting up a trial account on BTP, initial configurations that are required to setup an ABAP Environment on BPT and also the relevant configurations required to setup ABAP Development Tools (ADT) on Eclipse.
The topics relevant to this blog are as follows.
First, we need to visit www.sap.com, in which you need to create an account.
Enter the following details on the registration screen and click the submit button for account creation.
Now check your mail to find the activation link, which you need to click in order to activate your account.
Note: It may take a couple of minutes or few hours for you to receive this email. Be patient 🙂 .
First you need to login to the SAP BTP (Business Technology Platform) Cockpit. The following URL will take you to the SAP BTP Cockpit.
https://cockpit.hanatrial.ondemand.com/trial/#/home/trial
The user created in the previous step should be used to access the BTP Cockpit. Enter the Login Credentials and Click Log On.
A verification code will be sent your mobile, which you need to enter in the next screen to proceed to the BTP Cockpit.
Note: Try the option in which you will receive a call with the verification code as text messages do not work as expected in certain occasions. If you try more than 5 times, you will no longer be able to request a verification code for the same account again.
Now you will be redirected to the BPT Cockpit welcome screen, where you need to create a trial account.
Here, you can now create a subaccount that lives in a geographic region. I will be proceeding with Europe (Frankfurt) from this list where you have to click Create Account to trigger the provisioning process.
You will then see a dialog box while the account is being created. Upon completion, click Continue to close the popup and to navigate to the new account.
The global trial account contains one subaccount at this point. Navigate to subaccount by clicking on the tile named trial (this name may vary if you created the subaccount manually).
Now click the “trial” subaccount that was created, which will take you into the cloud foundry environment.
Now we have completed setting up the basic configurations that are needed to setup a trial subaccount, in which we will create a SPACE, where we will be setting up the ABAP Environment/instance.
To create a SPACE, give the space name as “dev” and create the space in which we will be doing our developments. Similarly, for Quality and Production environments we can have two other SPACEs but at this point, we will be focusing only on the Development space.
Now we will be creating the ABAP environment by searching for the relevant instance in the Service Marketplace.
In the service marketplace you can find all services that are available. Select Service Marketplace on the left to see all available services and add a value in the filter bar to find the service you are looking for. From here you can specify a service plan to provision service instances.
Note: Only Europe (Frankfurt) and Japan (Tokyo) regions are available yet to subscribe for the ABAP Environment, on Enterprise and Trial Accounts.
Please check here for more details regarding features that are available for different regions.
We can now create our ABAP environment inside our space.
Give a relevant name for your ABAP environment/instance.
Provide your email under the following JSON parameters and click NEXT.
Now your ABAP instance has been created successfully.
First you need to have the Eclipse IDE set up on your local environment. Incase you do not have the IDE, the latest version can be downloaded from https://tools.hana.ondemand.com/#abap.
At the point of documenting this guide, the latest version available for download was Eclipse 2021-03. You can download the installation, which gives us a heavily optimized IDE compared to previous eclipse versions.
First you need to get HANA tools installed as a separate software on the Eclipse IDE.
HANA tools can be accessed via the following URL, in which you would see all the eclipse version that support HANA tools.
https://tools.hana.ondemand.com
Since I’m using Eclipse 2020-12, I will be accessing the tools that are available on https://tools.hana.ondemand.com/2020-12. If you are using the latest version u can always use https://tools.hana.ondemand.com/latest.
To install HANA tools on eclipse, we must go to the following path, in which we will be entering the relevant URL to install all HANA tools.'
Help -> Install New Software -> Enter URL -> Select All Services -> Next.
Once the installation is completed, Eclipse will restart automatically and now you should have ABAP tools installed successfully.
Now we can proceed with creating our first ABAP cloud project. This is where we will start all our ABAP in the cloud related work.
To create a new ABAP Cloud Project,
Select File -> New -> Other -> ABAP Cloud Project and click Next.
On the System Connection window, choose SAP Cloud Platform Cloud Foundry Environment as service instance connection option and hit Next.
On the Connection Settings window, provide all necessary information like below and hit Next.
Region : Europe (Frankfurt)
API Endpoint : automatically populates based on region
Email : email id of SAP Cloud Platform
Password : password of SAP Cloud Platform
On Service Instance Details window, provide the details by using the drop-down list boxes.
Now you would see all information that were used in creating the trial account on SAP BTP Cockpit, where these will be automatically populated as dropdowns.
Now on the Service Instance Logon window, Click on “Open Logon Page in Browser”.
Enter the username and password that was used to create your account on the BTP Cockpit and click Log on in the browser.
The following message will appear on the browser, which indicates that your login was successful.
You can simply close the browser window and go back to your Eclipse IDE, in which you would see a global package under Project Explorer.
The above package could be used to do all your ABAP related developments on the cloud platform. Creation of Fiori Applications with help of the ABAP RESTful Programming Model, Creation of CDS views, Side-by-Side Extensions between SAP Cloud Platform ABAP and Remote APIs, Consumption of a Whitelisted APIs, Consumption of On-Premise OData Services, Consumption of On-Premise RFCs, Custom Code Transformation etc. are some of the tasks that can be carried out using the ABAP Environment that we have created in the above mentioned steps.
I will be posting more details related to ABAP in the Cloud Environment in near future.
Thank You!
The topics relevant to this blog are as follows.
- Create a SAP Account.
- Create a SAP BTP Trial User.
- Create an ABAP Environment on SAP BTP.
- Setting up ABAP Development Tools (ADT) on Eclipse.
1. Create a SAP Account
First, we need to visit www.sap.com, in which you need to create an account.
Enter the following details on the registration screen and click the submit button for account creation.
Now check your mail to find the activation link, which you need to click in order to activate your account.
Note: It may take a couple of minutes or few hours for you to receive this email. Be patient 🙂 .
2. Create a SAP BTP Trial User
First you need to login to the SAP BTP (Business Technology Platform) Cockpit. The following URL will take you to the SAP BTP Cockpit.
https://cockpit.hanatrial.ondemand.com/trial/#/home/trial
The user created in the previous step should be used to access the BTP Cockpit. Enter the Login Credentials and Click Log On.
A verification code will be sent your mobile, which you need to enter in the next screen to proceed to the BTP Cockpit.
Note: Try the option in which you will receive a call with the verification code as text messages do not work as expected in certain occasions. If you try more than 5 times, you will no longer be able to request a verification code for the same account again.
Now you will be redirected to the BPT Cockpit welcome screen, where you need to create a trial account.
Here, you can now create a subaccount that lives in a geographic region. I will be proceeding with Europe (Frankfurt) from this list where you have to click Create Account to trigger the provisioning process.
You will then see a dialog box while the account is being created. Upon completion, click Continue to close the popup and to navigate to the new account.
The global trial account contains one subaccount at this point. Navigate to subaccount by clicking on the tile named trial (this name may vary if you created the subaccount manually).
Now click the “trial” subaccount that was created, which will take you into the cloud foundry environment.
Now we have completed setting up the basic configurations that are needed to setup a trial subaccount, in which we will create a SPACE, where we will be setting up the ABAP Environment/instance.
To create a SPACE, give the space name as “dev” and create the space in which we will be doing our developments. Similarly, for Quality and Production environments we can have two other SPACEs but at this point, we will be focusing only on the Development space.
3. Create an ABAP Environment on SAP BTP
Now we will be creating the ABAP environment by searching for the relevant instance in the Service Marketplace.
In the service marketplace you can find all services that are available. Select Service Marketplace on the left to see all available services and add a value in the filter bar to find the service you are looking for. From here you can specify a service plan to provision service instances.
Note: Only Europe (Frankfurt) and Japan (Tokyo) regions are available yet to subscribe for the ABAP Environment, on Enterprise and Trial Accounts.
Please check here for more details regarding features that are available for different regions.
We can now create our ABAP environment inside our space.
Give a relevant name for your ABAP environment/instance.
Provide your email under the following JSON parameters and click NEXT.
{
"email":"anslem******@***.com"
}Now your ABAP instance has been created successfully.
4. Setting up ABAP Development Tools (ADT) on Eclipse
First you need to have the Eclipse IDE set up on your local environment. Incase you do not have the IDE, the latest version can be downloaded from https://tools.hana.ondemand.com/#abap.
At the point of documenting this guide, the latest version available for download was Eclipse 2021-03. You can download the installation, which gives us a heavily optimized IDE compared to previous eclipse versions.
4.1 Installation of HANA Tools
First you need to get HANA tools installed as a separate software on the Eclipse IDE.
HANA tools can be accessed via the following URL, in which you would see all the eclipse version that support HANA tools.
https://tools.hana.ondemand.com
Since I’m using Eclipse 2020-12, I will be accessing the tools that are available on https://tools.hana.ondemand.com/2020-12. If you are using the latest version u can always use https://tools.hana.ondemand.com/latest.
To install HANA tools on eclipse, we must go to the following path, in which we will be entering the relevant URL to install all HANA tools.'
Help -> Install New Software -> Enter URL -> Select All Services -> Next.
Once the installation is completed, Eclipse will restart automatically and now you should have ABAP tools installed successfully.
4.2 Create an ABAP Cloud Project
Now we can proceed with creating our first ABAP cloud project. This is where we will start all our ABAP in the cloud related work.
To create a new ABAP Cloud Project,
Select File -> New -> Other -> ABAP Cloud Project and click Next.
On the System Connection window, choose SAP Cloud Platform Cloud Foundry Environment as service instance connection option and hit Next.
On the Connection Settings window, provide all necessary information like below and hit Next.
Region : Europe (Frankfurt)
API Endpoint : automatically populates based on region
Email : email id of SAP Cloud Platform
Password : password of SAP Cloud Platform
On Service Instance Details window, provide the details by using the drop-down list boxes.
Now you would see all information that were used in creating the trial account on SAP BTP Cockpit, where these will be automatically populated as dropdowns.
Now on the Service Instance Logon window, Click on “Open Logon Page in Browser”.
Enter the username and password that was used to create your account on the BTP Cockpit and click Log on in the browser.
The following message will appear on the browser, which indicates that your login was successful.
You can simply close the browser window and go back to your Eclipse IDE, in which you would see a global package under Project Explorer.
Conclusion
The above package could be used to do all your ABAP related developments on the cloud platform. Creation of Fiori Applications with help of the ABAP RESTful Programming Model, Creation of CDS views, Side-by-Side Extensions between SAP Cloud Platform ABAP and Remote APIs, Consumption of a Whitelisted APIs, Consumption of On-Premise OData Services, Consumption of On-Premise RFCs, Custom Code Transformation etc. are some of the tasks that can be carried out using the ABAP Environment that we have created in the above mentioned steps.
I will be posting more details related to ABAP in the Cloud Environment in near future.
Thank You!
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