Deploy the Fiori App to Cloud Foundry

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Deploy the Fiori App to Cloud Foundry

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Deploy the Fiori App to Cloud Foundry

Marius Obert

April 8, 2021

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March 23, 2020

Beginner

20 min.

Deploy the application to the Cloud Foundry environment to be able to share it with your coworkers.

You will learn

How to build and deploy the application to the cloud
How to interact with the SAPUI5 flex services to adapt the application to end-users

Prerequisites

Make sure you have the proper entitlements set. If you are unsure which services you need, please refer to the table of step 2.

Step 1: Build the project

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Run the following command to package the project into one single archive. This archive contains the full source files (for debugging), as well as the bundled resources (for faster loading times).

npm run build:mta

Done

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Step 2: Deploy the built archive

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Next, deploy the generated archive and track the deployment progress in the terminal with the following command.

cf deploy mta_archives/products_0.0.1.mtar

Use cf login to establish a connection to the Cloud Foundry endpoint if you haven’t done so yet. This tutorial might help you if you are not sure how to do so.

The great thing about deploying a single .mtar file is that the Cloud Foundry environment will provision all required services for you. Here is a list of all services that are required for this project (you can see them enumerated in the mta.yaml file).

Service instance name	service	service plan
`products_destination`	`destination`	`lite`
`products_uaa`	`xsuaa`	`application`
`products_html5_repo_host`	`html5-apps-repo`	`app-host`

Done

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Step 3: Access the running web app

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At the end of the deployment process log, you should see a line that looks similar to this one:

Deploying content module "productsdestination-content" in target service "products_destination"...
Deploying content module "webapp_deployer" in target service "products_html5_repo_host"...
Skipping deletion of services, because the command line option "--delete-services" is not specified.
Process finished.
Use "cf dmol -i 0915a099-4130-11eb-b43e-eeee0a8f7188" to download the logs of the process.

This means you uploaded the app successfully. The URL of you web app will now follow this pattern: https://<yourID>.launchpad.cfapps.<region>.hana.ondemand.com/productsservice.tutorialproducts
With this URL, you are able to access the flpSandbox.html

You can also run cf html5-list -di products_destination -u --runtime launchpad to print the full URL of your web app.

Done

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Step 4: Embed the application in the SAP Fiori Launchpad

Now it’s time to embed the app in a full SAP Fiori Launchpad environment:

Open the admin UI of the SAP Launchpad service
Access the Content Provider menu. You should now see the following screen and hit the refresh button to synchronize the Launchpad with HTML5 application repository.
Open the Content Manager menu and click on the tab Content Explorer and select the tile that says HTML5 Apps.
You should now see the following screen from where you can select the web app you just deployed. Select the checkbox next of Product List and hit the Add to My Content button.
Switch to the My Content and click on the group default. In case you don’t see this group, use the + New button to create a new one.
Select to the Edit button to edit the group and click in the search field in the appearing Assignments side panel. You should be able to add the Fiori app to the group via the + button after selecting this search box. Don’t forget to Save the group before navigating back.
Now you need to make this application visible to your users. To keep it simple, we make the app visible to everyone. For this, select the Everyone role.
You are already familiar with the steps needed here. Select to the Edit button to edit the role and click in the search field in the appearing Assignments side panel. Add the Fiori app to the role via the + button and Save the change to the role.
Go to the menu Site Directory and use the Create Site button to create a new site if you don’t have an existing one.
You can choose any name for the new site, e.g. ProductsTutorial.
There’s not need to edit this site, all we need comes with the default configuration. Click the button on the top right corner to open your new site.

Done

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Step 5: Save a custom filter variant

Click on the Products to open your web application. Also note that you see your initials in the top-right user menu. This shows you that you have been signed in automatically via Single-Sign-On.
Apply another filter with the following criteria:
- The ProductID shall be less than 18
- The CategoryID shall be less than 60
Open the views dialog and save the current filter variant by clicking Save as.
Name the view TutorialFilter, check both checkboxes, and hit Save. This user-specific variant is now stored in the backend.