Subscribe to the SAP Launchpad Service

In this tutorial, you will use the SAP Launchpad service to access your CAP service and its UI. Additionally, the SAP Launchpad service provides features like personalization, role-based visibility, theming, and more. You can add multiple applications to one launchpad, including subscribed ones and applications from SAP S/4HANA or SAP BTP.

1. Enter your Global Account. If you are using a trial account, choose Go To Your Trial Account.

2. Choose Account Explorer.

3. In the Subaccounts tab, choose the subaccount where you have deployed your service and application.

   

4. Choose Services → Service Marketplace on the left.

5. Search for the Launchpad Service tile and choose Create.

   

6. Keep the default settings for Service and Plan and choose Create.

   

You have now subscribed to the SAP Launchpad service.

You need to assign your user to the Launchpad_Admin role collection, so you don’t get an error accessing the Launchpad Service site later on.

1. Choose Security → Users on the left.

2. Choose your user.

3. Under Role Collections on the right, choose Assign Role Collection and assign the Launchpad_Admin role collection to your user.

   

4. Open another browser or clear your browser’s cache.

See section Initial Setup in the SAP Launchpad service’s documentation for more details.

1. Choose Services → Instances and Subscriptions on the left.

2. Locate the Launchpad Service under Subscriptions and choose Go to Application.

   

3. Choose Channel Manager on the left and refresh the HTML5 Apps entry there.

   

   Content providers aren’t reloaded automatically when you push an app, so it’s important to manually refresh.

4. Choose Content Manager → Content Explorer and open the content provider HTML5 Apps.

   

5. Add the Risks and Mitigations to My Content.

   

6. Choose Content Manager → My Content.

7. In the item list, choose the item Everyone.

   

   Everyone is a role that has to be assigned to the Risks and Mitigations apps so all users can access them.

8. Choose Edit, click on the search field, assign the Risks and Mitigations apps to the role, and choose Save.

   

9. Navigate back to My Content.

10. Choose New → Group.

    

11. Type in Risk Management as the title of the group and assign the Risks and Mitigations apps to it.

    

    This way, you are telling the SAP Launchpad service to display the Risks and Mitigations apps in a group called Risk Management.

12. Choose Site Directory → Create Site.

    

13. Type in Risk Management Site for the site name and choose Create.

    The new site gets the Everyone role by default, so you don’t have to assign it explicitly. The default site properties are sufficient for the purposes of this tutorial.

1. Choose Go to site.

   

   You can see the Risk Management group that includes the Mitigations and Risks apps.

2. Open the Risks app.

   

You have launched your Risks app through the SAP Launchpad service.

If you choose Go, you will get an error because you haven’t assigned a role collection to your user yet. We’ll do it in the next tutorial.

The result of this tutorial can be found in the launchpad-service branch.