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Set Up SAP Business Application Studio for Development

SAP Business Application Studio is a development environment available on SAP Business Technology Platform. Before you can start developing using SAP Business Application Studio, administrators must perform the required onboarding steps that are described in this tutorial.
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  • How to set up SAP Business Application Studio
raz-kornRaz KornDecember 10, 2024
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December 10, 2024
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Prerequisites

The main focus of this tutorial is setting up SAP Business Application Studio in the trial environment.

For setting up SAP Business Application Studio in an enterprise account, refer to the Set Up SAP Business Application Studio topic of the SAP Business Application Studio Administrator Guide.

In an enterprise account you can set up SAP Business Application Studio as a free-tier service by selecting the free plan during entitlement configuration.

  • Step 1
    1. Go to https://account.hanatrial.ondemand.com and log in to your SAP BTP cockpit.

    2. You might be asked to accept the legal terms. Check the box and click Accept.

      BTPlegalterms
  • Step 2
    1. Click Go To Your Trial Account to open the list of available trial subaccounts.

      enter your trial account
    2. Select the subaccount you want to use for this tutorial.

      select subaccount
    3. In the overview page, check that Cloud Foundry is enabled.

      Cloud Foundry Enabled
    4. If Cloud Foundry is not enabled, press the Enable Cloud Foundry button.

      Enable Cloud Foundry
  • Step 3
    1. Go to Entitlements.

      Entitlements
    2. Make sure the entitlements listed below are added. If you can’t find the entitlements make sure to add them as described here: Setting Up Your Trial Account | SAP Help Portal.

      Authorization and Trust Management Service – add all 4 plans.

      Entitlements

      SAP Build Work Zone, standard edition – add the following two plans:

      Entitlements

      SAP Business Application Studio - add the following plan:

      Entitlements
  • Step 4
    1. Go back to Trial Home.

      TrialHome
    2. Click SAP Business Application Studio to launch SAP Business Application Studio.

      launch sap business application studio

      When you create a new trial account, you are subscribed to SAP Business Application Studio by default.

      If you receive an error message, we recommend that you recreate your account: delete the account and then Get a Free Account on SAP BTP Trial.

      Important: If you receive an error message but your account was not created recently, you need to add a subscription to SAP Business Application Studio. Answer the validation question of the current step, go to the next step in this tutorial, and proceed from there.

    3. You might be asked to accept the legal terms. Check the box and click OK.

      legalterms
    4. A new tab opens. If you have not created a dev space, the welcome page for SAP Business Application Studio loads.

      sap business application studio welcome

      If this is not the first dev space, the dev space manager for SAP Business Application Studio opens.

      Create Dev Space

    5. Click My Dev Spaces to open the SAP Business Application Studio dev space manager page.

      sap business application studio welcome

      Dev space manager for SAP Business Application Studio

      sap business application studio dev space manager

      Create a bookmark to this page to make it easy for you to get back to SAP Business Application Studio later.


      If you reached this point in the tutorial, you have successfully on-boarded SAP Business Application Studio. Answer the validation question of the current tutorial step and mark the rest of the steps as “Completed”.

    From which account do you subscribe to SAP Business Application Studio?

  • Step 5

    Depending on when you created the SAP BTP Trial account, this subscription might already be added to the subaccount. If you are not subscribed to SAP Business Application Studio, follow this step to add the SAP Business Application Studio subscription to a subaccount.

    1. Click Enter Your Trial Account to access the Cloud Foundry environment.

      Access SAP BTP Trial
    2. Select the tile of the subaccount in which you want to enable the SAP Business Application Studio subscription.

      For the trial environment, SAP Business Application Studio is only available on:

      • Amazon Web Services (AWS) - US East (VA) region (US10 trial).

      • Microsoft Azure - Singapore region (AP21 trial).

      An updated list of regions is available in SAP Discovery Center > Service Plan > Trial.

      When creating an SAP BTP Trial account a trial subaccount is generated.

      subaccount
    3. From the navigation area, click Service Marketplace.

      opensubscriptions
    4. In the Service Marketplace page, search for studio.

      filterservice
    5. Click the Actions icon (three dots) to open the list of available actions.

      subscribe
    6. Click Create to launch the wizard for subscribing to SAP Business Application Studio.

      subscribe
    7. In the wizard verify that SAP Business Application Studio is selected in the Service field and trial is selected in the Plan field.

      subscribewizard
    8. Click Create to subscribe to SAP Business Application Studio.

      subscribewizard
    9. A Creation in Progress popup appears. Click View Subscription to view the SAP Business Application Studio subscription in the Instances and Subscriptions page.

      subscriptioninprogress
  • Step 6
    1. Click Go to Application.

      gotoapplication
    2. You might be asked to accept the legal terms. Check the box and click OK.

      legalterms
    3. An Access Denied page may appear. Log out from SAP Business Application Studio and then log in as shown here.

      Logout

       

      Login

    4. Enter your credentials, and click Log On.

      authentication
    5. You might be asked to accept the legal terms. Check the box and click OK.

      legalterms
    6. A new tab opens and the welcome page for SAP Business Application Studio opens.

      sap business application studio welcome
    7. Click My Dev Spaces to open the SAP Business Application Studio dev space manager.

      sap business application studio welcome

      Dev space manager for SAP Business Application Studio

      sap business application studio dev space manager

      Create a bookmark to this page to make it easy for you to get back to SAP Business Application Studio later.


    Congratulations!

    With this, you have successfully completed the setup of SAP Business Application Studio.

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