Make Your Application Variant (created in an SAPUI5 Adaptation Project) Available to Business Users in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition (3 of 3)
- How to build and deploy your new application variant (created in Tutorial 1 / 2)
- How to configure SAP Fiori launchpad in ABAP Development Tools (ADT) as a developer
- How to configure SAP Fiori launchpad in your SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition system as an administrator
- How to access the new application variant as a business user
Prerequisites
You must first have completed all the steps in:
- Tutorial 1: Work with SAPUI5 Adaptation Projects to Change a Standard Fiori Application
- Tutorial 2: Work with SAPUI5 Adaptation Projects to Extend a Standard Fiori Application
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition delivers the latest industry best practices, innovations, and business applications to you as a service. If a standard SAP Fiori application doesn’t fully support your business process or the specific needs of some of your business users, you can extend SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition by creating and adapting an application variant, while the original SAP Fiori application remains available and unchanged. In an application variant, you can extend the original code to define changes that fulfill the specific business requirements of different business roles, user groups, organizational units, and countries. For example, you might want to create an application variant to simplify and streamline a specific process by hiding fields not required by casual users, visualizing data as a chart, or changing a responsive table to a grid table to make information easier to process.
New for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2402
As of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2402, developers can work with SAPUI5 Adaptation Projects in SAP Business Application Studio (BAS) to create application variants. Developers efficiently reuse the original SAP Fiori application together with its OData service and application logic to define changes that are specific to the application variant only.
After deployment, both the source application and the newly created application variant exist with distinct titles and can be made available to the relevant business users through uniquely named application tiles in SAP Fiori launchpad: My Home. After a Cloud upgrade, developers can test the application variant in SAP Business Application Studio and, if there are no issues, they can deploy it again to benefit from the latest SAP enhancements to the original application (see Check Whether the Base App of an Adaptation Project Is Up-To-Date).
The following figure shows the relationship between the source application (blue) and an application variant (green):
