Create an SAP Cloud Platform ABAP Environment Trial User

Merve Temel

November 18, 2020

Created by

September 6, 2019

Beginner

15 min.

Create a trial user and ABAP cloud project with SAP Cloud Platform ABAP environment.

You will learn

How to create a trial user
How to create an ABAP Cloud project

Prerequisites

You have read the blog post It’s Trial Time for ABAP in SAP Cloud Platform, including the section “Rules of the Game”
You have created a trial account on SAP Cloud Platform: Get a Free Trial Account on SAP Cloud Platform
You have a subaccount and dev space with Europe (Frankfurt) or US East (VA) as region
You have downloaded and installed the latest ABAP Development Tools (ADT).

You should have a subaccount on Cloud Foundry Trial with Europe (Frankfurt) - AWS or US East (VA) - AWS as region. The ABAP environment service is currently not available for Singapore - Azure.

Step 1: Start boosters

In your web browser, open the SAP Cloud Platform trial cockpit.
Navigate to the trial global account by clicking Enter Your Trial Account.

If this is your first time accessing your trial account, you’ll have to configure your account by choosing a region. Please select Europe (Frankfurt) or US (VA) as a region. Your user profile will be set up for you automatically.

Wait till your account is set up and ready to go. Your global account, your subaccount, your organization, and your space are launched. This may take a couple of minutes.

Choose Continue.
From your global account page, choose Boosters on the left side.
Search the Prepare an Account for ABAP Trial tile and press Start to start your booster.
If you already created a service instance and service key, then please skip this step and move on with Step 2.
Only one service instance can be created at a time.
Now the service instance and service key will be created for the ABAP trial user. The service key can be found inside the service instance.
The booster is now executed successfully.
Download the service key for later use. The service key is needed to setup the connection in ABAP Development Tools (ADT).

Done

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Step 2: Open ABAP Development Tools

Open your local ABAP Development Tools (ADT). You can download the latest version from https://tools.hana.ondemand.com/#abap.

Done

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Step 3: Create ABAP cloud project

Select File > New > Other > ABAP Cloud Project and click Next >.
Select Service Key and click Next >.
Select Import to import your downloaded service key.
You can find your service key in your default download folder. Search for default_key.json, select it and click Open.
Now your service key is pasted. Click Next.
Now you’ve been authenticated automatically.
Provide your credentials if requested.
The credentials are the same you used to create your trial account on SAP Cloud Platform.

Click Finish.
Your trial system appears on the project explorer.