Build and Deploy Your SAP Fiori App to SAP Business Technology Platform

1. In the Explorer pane, right-click the mta.yaml file and select Build MTA Project.

   
   
   

   

   The build process creates a multi-target archive (MTAR) file in your project that packages all the project modules for deployment. You can find the MTAR file in the FioriDemo/mta_archives folder.

   

If you are not logged in to a Cloud Foundry space - Before you can deploy your new application, set your Cloud Foundry preferences.

1. In the menu bar, select View | Find Command to open the command palette.

   

2. Select the command CF: Login to cloud foundry.

   Type cf to filter commands.

   

3. A Cloud Foundry Sign In tab opens in SAP Business Application Studio. Select the API endpoint, provide your credentials, and click Sign in.

   

4. Select the Cloud Foundry organization, Cloud Foundry space, and click Apply.

   

   You have been logged in. notification appears at the bottom-right of your screen.

   

Deploy your application to SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry environment.

1. Right-click the mtar file and select Deploy MTA Archive.

   

   The application deployment to the space you are connected to starts and a notification appears. You can follow the deployment progress in the Task: Deploy console at the bottom of your screen.

2. Wait for the deployment to complete.

   The deployment process takes a few minutes. When the deployment process is complete, the notifications Process finished. and Terminal will be reused by tasks. will appear at the bottom of the Task: Deploy console.

   

Run the deployed app on SAP BTP. The steps below show you how to access your new application and run it. You will use CF commands in a terminal for this.

1. On the menu bar select Terminal | New Terminal.

   

2. A new terminal tab is opened.

   

   The folder it is opened in is the specific project folder. You can use the following command in the terminal to verify it:

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   pwd
   

   

3. Open the mta.yaml file, and locate the destination service instance name. You can find it in the modules > requires section or in the resources section. In this tutorial it should be FioriDemo-destination-service.

4. Execute the following command in the terminal to get the details of the deployed application and its URL:

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   cf html5-list -di FioriDemo-destination-service -u -rt launchpad
   

   

   To find out more about this command execute in the terminal:

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   cf help html5-list
   

5. Press [CTRL] and click the app’s link in the terminal.

   

   You can use this URL in any browser to access your new application in your space on SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry environment.

   Here we are using the SAP Launchpad service you configured in an earlier step. It enables organizations to establish a central point of access to SAP (e.g. SAP S/4HANA), custom-built, and third party applications and extensions, both on the cloud and on premise.

6. The app is running on SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry environment, accessing data from an on-premise backend.