Get Started with SAP Rapid Application Development by Mendix

Go to https://cockpit.hanatrial.ondemand.com/cockpit/#/home/trial.

Log into your SAP BTP account.

On the welcome screen of the SAP BTP cockpit, click Enter Your Trial Account to see your global account.

Bookmark the link for fast and quick access to the cockpit.

The global trial account contains one subaccount and space. Navigate to subaccount by clicking on the tile named trial (this name may vary if you created the subaccount manually).

To get to the space in which your applications and services live, click dev in the Spaces section.

Go to the Discovery Center and click on the Rapid Application Development by Mendix tile.

Under the Tools section, click Mendix Development Portal.

This opens the registration page.

Choose to Sign in.

Choose to sign in with SAP.

Choose your SAP BTP region from the drop-down and click Select region.

This will redirect you to SAP BTP’s login page. Enter your SAP BTP credentials and sign in.

In the Application Authorization popup, choose Authorize.

Choose Confirm.

Enter your name and a password and choose Create.

Select the best option and choose Next.

Select the reason you signed up for Mendix and choose Submit.

Now you’re in the Mendix development portal.

You need to set up an environment for your SAP app. An environment points to the Cloud Foundry environment that you want to deploy to.

You can do this now, or you can do this when you are ready to deploy. When you deploy, you will be prompted to create an environment. Environments are created for each project.

In the development portal home page, choose Create App.

In the App Templates section, enter SAP Fiori to see the related templates.

Choose the Blank App for SAP Fiori themed apps template.

Choose Select Template to view the template details.

Choose Select This Template.

Enter a name, and choose Create App.

Select a region for SAP BTP and choose Next.

Choose the Cloud Foundry environment to which you want to deploy.

• Select cfapps.YourRegion.hana.ondemand.com for the domain. For example, cfapps.eu10.hana.ondemand.com.

• Select hanatrial-schema for the database.

Choose Create.

The environment is created. To see it, go to Environments.

To start working on your app, choose Edit App.

Then choose Edit in Mendix Studio Pro.

You build apps using the Mendix Studio Pro, which is an application installed on your desktop. If you don’t have the Mendix Studio Pro, install it by going to the app store.