Integrating SAP Fiori and SAP BusinessObjects BI

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SAP Design Studio apps, Crystal Reports, Webi reports etc. can now be integrated with the SAP Fiori Launchpad. In this blog we’ll look at how these reports/dashboards from the SAP BusinessObjects BI platform can be integrated with SAP Fiori landscape.

Before you jump on the how-to section, i recommend watching this demo video which shows how the reports/dashboards look in SAP Fiori launchpad.

 

Ok, I hope you watched the demo, now we’ll look at the how-to part.

The following walks you through the steps to integrate a SAP Design Studio application with SAP Fiori, however you can follow the same steps to integrate any report or dashboard with SAP Fiori.

Step 1: Generate the OpenDoc URL from the SAP BI Launchpad

• Login to the SAP BI Launchpad and right click on the report or SAP Design Studio app that you want to make it available in SAP Fiori Launchpad, and select Document Link

    

• Copy the link to a notepad.

 

Step 2: Create New Launchpad

• Login to SAP Fiori front-end server, and run transaction code LPD_CUST


• Click New Launchpad, and enter the details as shown in the below figure.


• Click continue

    

• Next, create an application by clicking New Application


• Enter the details as shown in the figure

Link Text: Liquidity Forecast

Application type: URL

Paste the URL which we copied in Step 1 in Additional Parameters

Application Alias: LiquidityForecastApp

    

Step 3: Create Semantic Object

            In SAP GUI, run transaction code /UI2/SEMOBJ, and add a new semantic object as shown in the figure below.

   

 

Step 4:  Create a new Catalog

• Login to SAP Fiori Launchpad Designer from your browser.

http://<server>:<port>/sap/bc/ui5_ui5/sap/arsrvc_upb_admn/main.html?sap-client=<client>?scope=CUST

• Create a new catalog by clicking


• Select Standard, and then enter the below details.


• Click Save

Step 5: Create a New tile and the Target Mapping

• Add a new tile in the Catalog by clicking


• Enter the General and Navigation details as shown below

• Click Save


• Now click to add a target mapping. Enter the following details:

 

Step 6: Create a New Group

• Select the Groups tab in the SAP Fiori Launchpad Designer.


• Create a new group by clicking


• Enter the below details and click Save

         

 

Step 7: Create New Role for the Catalog and Group

• In the SAP front-end system, run transaction code PFCG


• Enter a role name and click Single Role


• In the role menu add the Catalog and Group which we created in the previous steps.

• Click Save


• Select the User tab and enter the user ID/ID’s who needs access to this SAP BI Catalog.

• Click Save

 

Login to SAP Fiori Launchpad and you should now see the tile, catalog, and the group. Please watch the complete demo here.  

 

Happy Learning!

 

-Anil Bavaraju

SAP Press Author - SAP Fiori Implementation and Development