Deploy an SAP Fiori App to SAP Cloud Platform

First set up a destination and its parameters for making a connection to the SAP Gateway demo system OData service from your SAP Cloud Platform subaccount.

1. From your SAP Cloud Platform Cockpit, click Connectivity > Destinations and click New Destination.

   

2. Define the following properties:

   Field	Value
   Name	ES5
   Type	HTTP
   URL	https://sapes5.sapdevcenter.com
   Proxy Type	Internet
   Authentication	BasicAuthentication
   User	Your ES5 user name
   Password	Your ES5 password

   

3. Click New Property and define the following properties:

   Field	Value
   sap-client	002
   Usage	Backend
   WebIDEEnabled	True
   WebIDESystem	ES5
   WebIDEUsage	odata_gen, odata_abap, bsp_execute_abap

   

   The Usage property is not in the list of properties. In order to consume SAP backend apps, (SAP GUI for HTML and Web Dynpro ABAP) in SAP Cloud Platform Portal sites, you must add it manually with value Backend.

4. Click Save.

5. Click Check Connection.

   Verify that you get the following message:

   

The SAP Cloud Platform Portal tutorial GitHub repository contains various SAPUI5 applications, Portal widgets, and Shell plugins used in Portal tutorials. Once deployed to your SAP Cloud Platform subaccount, they are available to add to your Portal site.

1. Go to SAP Cloud Platform Portal Tutorial Samples.

2. Click the Clone or download button and select Download ZIP.

   

   A cloud-portal-tutorial-samples-master.zip file is downloaded to your computer.

3. Right-click the cloud-portal-tutorial-samples-master.zip and extract the repository ZIP file into a folder.

   

   A new cloud-portal-tutorial-samples-master folder is created

4. Open the cloud-portal-tutorial-samples-master\TECHED2018 folder.

   For this tutorial we will be using the productslist app from the Portal samples repository:

   cloud-portal-tutorial-samples-master\TECHED2018\productslist.

1. Open the cloud-portal-tutorial-samples-master\TECHED2018\productslist\ folder.

2. Create a ZIP file from all of the underlying files:

   1. Select all of the included files (Ctrl^A).
      
   2. Right-click and select Add to productlist.zip.
   
   
   

3. A new ZIP file named productlist.zip is created inside the folder.

   

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1. In the SAP Cloud Platform cockpit, click Services in the left panel and open the SAP Web IDE Full-Stack tile.

2. From the SAP Web IDE Full-Stack- Overview page, click Go to Service to open the development environment.

3. Click the Development perspective:

   

You’ve opened your development environment, now let’s import our ProductsList SAPUI5 app into it.

1. In the development workspace, select the Workspace root folder.

2. Right-click and select Import -> File or Project.

   

3. From the Import dialog box, select the productslist.zip file located in the cloud-portal-tutorial-samples-master\TECHED2018\productslist\folder.

   

4. Check Extract Archive and make sure that Import to is /productslist.

   

5. Click OK to start the import.

You have imported the ProductsList app and now you need to deploy it into your subaccount.

1. Still in SAP Web IDE, right-click the productslist folder and select Deploy -> Deploy to SAP Cloud Platform.

   

2. On the screen that opens, click Deploy.

   

   You will get a confirmation message when your app has been deployed.

   

Now that the Products List app exists in your SAP Cloud Platform subaccount, you will be able to add it to the launchpad page in your Portal freestyle site.