BTP

BTP - starting point to SAP Business Solutions

Provides, administrative tools to organize accounts, security, services. Everything to configure environment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFLW2hrsbUc

BTP Trial

1. Create an SAP account at sap.com (the "Log On / Register" link). If you've ever had an SAP user (a P/S/C/D/I number) you can reuse it. - You have to verify telephone number first!
2. Go for: https://cockpit.hanatrial.ondemand.com/trial
3. Create trial account
4. In the cockpit, open your trial subaccount, then go to Instances and Subscriptions and create a new SAP HANA Cloud instance using SAP HANA Cloud Central.

ABAP environment

SAP BAS - Business application studio

Basic application creation

Create new project from template

Create FIORI generator

Press basic version

Select NONE data source

Editing the applicatoin

Edit views

i18n properties

Visual Studio Code development

npm i -g @sap/cds-dk 

VS code extensions

code --install-extension sapse.vscode-cds         # for .cds models
code --install-extension mechatroner.rainbow-csv  # for .csv files
code --install-extension qwtel.sqlite-viewer      # for .sqlite files
code --install-extension humao.rest-client        # for REST requests
code --install-extension dbaeumer.vscode-eslint   # for linting

If you have problem to find CDS on mac you have to add NMP global package

echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.npm-global/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
source ~/.zshrc

Install VS code for Template Wizard