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Omkar Surve

February 2, 2023 1 minute read

Fiori Tile Creation for Custom Transaction Codes/Reports

Overview:

SAP Fiori provides an easier, more intuitive way to run SAP applications in your organization.For SAP Projects we often deal with custom solutions/enhancements.This blog will help to create the Fiori tile for custom transaction codes or custom reports for sap object. This will be divided in mainly four parts:

Create Semantic Object
Create Catalog
Create Group
Create Role

Prerequisite:

Custom transaction code should be working in SAP system
Necessary authorizations should be provided to user to create Fiori tiles/groups

Process:

Create semantic object using Transaction Code SPRO.
SPRO >> SAP NetWeaver >> UI Technologies >> SAP Fiori >> Setting up Launchpad Content >> Setting up technical Catalogues >> Define custom semantic objects
Create new semantic object for Tcode & enter the description
Now create catalog using transaction code /n/UI2/FLPD_CUST.Click + and Enter Title & ID
Go to Target mapping and Click on Create target mapping
Enter relevant details and click on save
Go back to tiles and click on + to add tile
Click on App launcher Static, Enter the relevant details as shown below and save
Now to create groups, Go to Groups and click +
Enter the Title and ID, Click on show as tile and add the tile
Now to create a role,Go to PFCG and create new role
Go to add transaction then SAP Fiori Launchpad and first add catalog
Enter the catalog ID
Now go to add transaction then SAP Fiori Launchpad and now add group
Enter group ID
Assign respective user to the role
Now test it using Fiori launchpad
New tile should be available to homepage

Summary:

By following above steps you can create Fiori tile for any custom transaction code or report

Conclusion:

Hope you will find this information useful.

Thank you for reading the blog and please do let me know your thoughts in the comments if this content helps.

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Jocelyn Dart

February 3, 2023 at 4:51 am

Hi Omkar, Thanks for taking the time to blog your experiences! It's really important to share our knowledge with so many of us on similar journeys into SAP S/4HANA.

I suggest below a couple of recommended improvements to bring your approach up to best practice and some references to help you become an even better mentor to others.

We generally would recommend you ***avoid*** creating a Semantic Object.
- For ease of usability and to maximize the in-built app-to-app navigation, it's usually much more effective to use a SAP delivered Semantic Object.
- When you add your tile using a SAP delivered Semantic Object, your new tile is shown as a link in search results, in related apps, in list of links dialogs, etc.
- I would suggest the first step is to review the available Semantic Objects in transaction SEMOBJ_SAP and only create a new Semantic Object if you really can't find one.
- For example, if you are adding a tile for Purchase Order you would use the SAP Semantic Object PurchaseOrder. You would never create a ZPurchaseOrder.
- You can simply create your own custom action for an existing SAP delivered Semantic Object.

These days we generally avoid using the older tools such as Launchpad Designer.
- We moved away from that tool some time ago because it's slow and it doesn't scale well. Refer to SAP Fiori for SAP S/4HANA – Overview of tools for maintaining custom launchpad content and layout
- Instead use the Launchpad App Manager for the technical catalog entry. This now has an adaptation mode in SAP S/4HANA 2022 that can sometimes avoid having to create a new tile entirely. Refer to SAP Fiori Launchpad: New Fast and Easy Option to Adapt SAP-delivered Launchpad Content (for On-Premise and Cloud, Private Edition)
- For the business catalog entry you would use Launchpad Content Manager, i.e. to reference your technical catalog entry and assign it to a business role.

For including your tile on a layout we would recommend adding it to a Page rather than a Group. You can do this using the SAP Fiori app Manage Launchpad Pages.
- Groups have been deprecated since SAP S/4HANA 2021.
- You can find a discussion on this in Migrating from groups to spaces and pages – Why, When, and Key differences for users
- and What's involved in
- How to migrate from groups to spaces and pages

Chaouki Akir

February 18, 2023 at 8:54 pm

You can simply create your own custom action for an existing SAP delivered Semantic Object.

How do you create a "custom action" ? Is there an SM30 view ?

Dominik Meier

June 22, 2023 at 3:32 pm

You can create a custom technical catalog in /UI2/FLPAM.
Here you add the standard semantic object with a custom action in the app descriptor.
Then you can reference the tile from the custom technical catalog in your business catalog.

Jocelyn Dart

July 12, 2023 at 10:24 pm

Custom actions are freely definable - you just type in the action name. There’s a dropdown on the action field in the Launchpad app manager to show you some common suggestions but you can just type in what you want into the field

saumya das

July 12, 2023 at 1:01 pm

Hi Jocelyn,

If we're doing an UI adaptation for standard app and configuring the new custom tile, how should that be mapped, standard semantic object or custom?

Jocelyn Dart

July 12, 2023 at 10:26 pm

Hi Saumya Definitely use the same SAP Semantic Object as the original app and type in your own custom action name for the app variant. That’s the most effective option so that the app variant shows up in search results, list of links dialogs, related apps buttons etc just like the original.

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