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Home - DEV268

Getting started

Before starting with the exercise please make sure that you have worked on the prerequisites that can be found in detail here

Connect to the system

  1. Start the ABAP Development Tools (aka ABAP in Eclipse)

  2. Select a directory as workspace. Click Launch

Select directory

  1. Close the Welcome screen

Close Welcome screen

  1. Check the perspective. If the perspective is still the Java perspective, then ...

Java perspective

  1. Open ABAP perspective (if needed)
  • Click on the Open perspective button
  • Select ABAP
  • Click Open

OpenABAP perspective

  1. Click File > New > ABAP Cloud Project to open a new ABAP Cloud project.

OpenABAP perspective

  1. Choose the option SAP Cloud Platform Cloud Foundry Environment and then click Next .

System connection options

Please note

You have two options how to connect to your SAP Cloud Platform ABAP environment system. We suggest to use the first option. Logon to the SAP Cloud Platform Cloud Foundry Environment and navigate to your ABAP instance. The other option would be to connect directly to the ABAP environment. For this you however would have to provide the service key that you have downloaded when setting up your ABAP instance.

  1. Provide the SAP Cloud Foundry connection settings.

    In this dialogue select the following values

    • Region: Select the region e.g. Europe (Frankfurt) or US East (VA).
    • Username: Enter your email adress
    • Password: Enter your password you use to log on to SAP Cloud platform

    CF connection options

    Click Next.

The API endpoint will be selected according to the region you have chosen.

  1. Select service instance details

    • Organization: Select your organization e.g. xxxxxxtrial
    • Space: Select the space in your CF sub account e.g. dev
    • Service instance: Click on the name of your ABAP trial instance e.g. default_abap-trial.

Click Next.

CF connection settings

  1. Check service connection settings and press Next.

    Service instance connection

  2. You can keep the default project name, e.g. TRL_EN unchanged and click Finish

    Project name

  3. Your ABAP Cloud Project should now look like follows

    Project name

Import of the helper class /dmo/cl_gen_dev268_artifacts

When you are running this mission in your own Steampunk system you have to

  1. import the helper class /dmo/cl_gen_dev268_artifacts and you have to
  2. import the RAP Generator https://github.com/SAP-samples/cloud-abap-rap

Create a package /DMO/DEV268

  1. Create a package with the name /DMO/DEV268 and choose ZLOCAL as the super package.

Create package

and create a new transport request.

Create transport request

Link package to ABAP Git repository

  1. Click on the tab abapGit Repositories
  2. Click on the green plus sign on right hand side
  3. Enter the following URL https://github.com/SAP-samples/teched2020-DEV268.git
  4. Press Next

Link abapGit repository

  1. In the next screen enter the name of the package that you have created in the first step /DMO/DEV268.
  2. Mark the check box Pull after link
  3. Press Next

Select package and branch

In the screen Select Transport Request select the transport request thatpress Finish

In the screen Pull from abapGit Repository select Finish

Pull

Navigate to the imported class /dmo/cl_gen_dev268_artifacts and press Activate

Activate class

Summary

Now you are ready to start with the first exercise.

Continue to - Exercise 1