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Connect SAP Web IDE with S/4HANA Cloud System

Beginner
15 min.
ABAP Development, ABAP Extensibility, Beginner, Tutorial
Expose needed services (scenario SAP_COM_0013) of S/4HANA Cloud system to SAP Web IDE and maintain S/4HANA Cloud system access in SAP Business Technology Platform Subaccount
You will learn
  • How to create a communication arrangement for SAP Web IDE scenario SAP_COM_0013 in S/4HANA Cloud
  • How to create a HTTP destination to S/4HANA Cloud in SAP Business Technology Platform
  • How to create a UI project in SAP Web IDE
raz-kornRaz KornNovember 27, 2024
Created by
mervey45
March 21, 2023
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Prerequisites

Authorizations: Your user needs
- a business role with business catalog Communication Management (ID: SAP_CORE_BC_COM) in your S/4HANA Cloud system
- Administrator access to your SAP Business Technology Platform subaccount
- Developer access to your SAP Business Technology Platform subaccount’s SAP Web IDE

You will learn how to enable SAP Business Technology Platform development with SAP Web IDE against a S/4HANA Cloud system via OAuth authentication. You will see that the communication arrangement for SAP Web IDE scenario SAP_COM_0013 in S/4HANA Cloud will expose essential services, that SAP Web IDE needs. SAP Business Technology Platform subaccount will get a destination which holds data for the connection and OAuth communication with the S/4HANA Cloud system. At the end you will see in SAP Web IDE a list of services that you can theoretically build extensions on.

Regarding the overall trust settings, you will now make your S/4HANA Cloud system trust your SAP Business Technology Platform subaccount.

S/4HANA Cloud trusts SAP Business Technology Platform

That enables its Web IDE to request data from the S/4HANA system during Custom UI development and finally to deploy that UI to the S/4HANA Cloud system. Both processes are so called inbound requests to the S/4HANA Cloud system.

Authentication and authorization handling during runtime

Additional Information

  • SAP S/4HANA Cloud Release (tutorial’s last update): 1902
  • Step 1

    Enter your S/4HANA Cloud system’s Fiori Launchpad and open the Communication Arrangements application from Communication Management.

    Open communication arrangements application

    Click New to create a communication arrangement.

    Create new communication arrangement

    Select SAP_COM_0013 as scenario, give a name and click Create.

    Select <code>SAP_COM_0013</code>as scenario

    Add your communication system to your communication arrangement. Select SCP_DEV with OAuth2.0 as communication system. Be sure that your service status of your launch SAP Web IDE is activated and click Save.

    Add communication system
  • Step 2

    For the OAuth destination on SAP Business Technology Platform being created in next steps you will need some OAuth details that you can get from the Communication Arrangement. Open the OAuth 2.0 Details from Inbound Communication section of the communication arrangement. Copy the data or simply leave the pop up open while maintaining the SAP Business Technology Platform destination.

    Button for OAuth 2.0 Details

    A pop up opens

    OAuth 2.0 Details pop up

    You will need following data

    Label in S/4HANA OAuth Details Label in SAP Business Technology Platform destination equals to
    Client ID Client Key Communications System’s Inbound User
    User Name Token Service User Communications System’s Inbound User
    Token Service URL Token Service URL
    Token Service URL: first parts (protocol + domain, for example: https://myXXXXXX-api.s4hana.ondemand.com) URL
    SAML2 AudienceAudience
  • Step 3

    Enter the SAP Business Technology Platform subaccount as an administrator. Switch to Destinations and click New Destination.

    Create HTTP destination

    Enter following data to your destination:

    Name Name of your destination
    Type HTTP
    Description Description of your destination
    URL first parts (protocol + domain, for example: https://myXXXXXX-api.s4hana.ondemand.com) of Token Service URL in S/4HANA Web IDE communication arrangement OAuth details for inbound communication:
    Proxy Type Internet
    Authentication OAuth2SAMLBearerAssertion
    Audience SAML2 Audience in S/4HANA Web IDE communication arrangement OAuth details for inbound communication
    Client Key Equals your S/4HANA Web IDE communication system’s inbound user
    Token Service URL URL + /sap/bc/sec/oauth2/token
    Token Service User Equals your S/4HANA Web IDE communication system’s inbound user
    Token Service Password Password of your S/4HANA Web IDE communication system’s inbound user
    Set destination data

    Add additional properties:

    authnContextClassRef urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:ac:classes:X509
    TrustAll true
    WEBIDEEnabled true
    WebIDEUsage odata_abap,ui5_execute_abap,dev_abap
    Destination’s Additional Properties

    Save your changes.

  • Step 4

    In your SAP Business Technology Platform Subaccount go to Services, search for SAP Web IDE and select it.

    Open SAP Web IDE service overview in SAP Business Technology Platform

    Click Go to Service to open SAP Web IDE.

    Open SAP Web IDE

    Select New Project from Template to start wizard for UI project creation.

    Select new project

    If you don’t see this welcome page then follow the alternative way:

    File > New > Project from Template

    Select the List Report Application template and click Next to create a new UI of this type.

    Select UI Project Template

    Enter basic information for the project, like Bonusplan as name and title.

    Enter basic information

    Click Next.

    To add a data connection click Service Catalog and set the destination SAP_DEV_SYSTEM which you have previously created on your SAP Business Technology Platform subaccount.

    Now you can see a list of all custom services in the S/4HANA Cloud system. But if you try to select the Bonusplan service, you’ll get an error message as it is not exposed yet. To finish creating your project, you have to expose that service before.

    Choose Data Connection
  • Step 5
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