Create an SAP BTP ABAP Environment Trial User

Merve Temel

May 10, 2021

Created by

September 6, 2019

Beginner

15 min.

Create a trial user and ABAP cloud project with SAP BTP 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 BTP: Get a Free Account on SAP BTP Trial
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.

This tutorial is part of a 3-part series of SAP BTP, ABAP Environment tutorials, each of which will earn you a badge:

Step 1: Start boosters

In your web browser, open the SAP BTP 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 SAP BTP Cloud Foundry Environment and click Next >.
Enter your connection settings:
- Region: choose your SAP BTP Cloud Foundry Environment region, for e.g. Europe (Frankfurt)
- Email: your email address
- Password: your password
Click Next >.
Set your service instance details:
- Organization: your organization
- Space: dev
- Service instance: default_abap-trial
Click Next >.

HINT: Your service instance is default_abap-trial when you use the ABAP trial booster on SAP BTP. If you create a manual instance, use your own instance name.
Click Open Logon Page in Browser.
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 BTP.

Go back to ADT.

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