SAP Community and SAP Tutorial Navigator

Objectives

After completing this lesson, you will be able to:
  • List services offered by the SAP Community
  • Outline the idea of the Tutorial Navigator on SAP Developer Center

The SAP Community

The SAP Community is a social network that promotes and maintains the exchange of ideas and collaboration among SAP customers, partners, employees, and experts. Its members use the extensive possibilities to master business requirements more easily.

In short, it provides an excellent meeting point for SAP experts. Registered members of the SAP Community can access information from many different subject areas.

To visit the SAP Community, you can use the following URL: https://community.sap.com

Services in the SAP Community

Why should you join the SAP Community, what are the advantages and offers? The function of the SAP Community can be summarized in the animation "SAP Community".

SAP Community

A selection of functions provided in SAP Community are as follows:

  • Search function: Here, you can search for all kind of content in SAP Community.

  • Discussions (forum): Every member of the community can ask questions here. On average, a question asked in the discussion forum is answered within 20 minutes. Millions of forum entries were made in the past. Of course, you can also search the discussion forum.

  • SAP wiki: SAP wiki is a website that SAP Community members maintain for a wide variety of SAP topics. It contains step-by-step instructions for many processes, along with a great deal of other useful information, in a clear, orderly structure.

  • Events and webinars: This area provides an overview of all events (such as SAP TechEd, SAPPHIRE, and more), as well as available webinars.

  • Download zone: In the downloads section, you can get free downloads and trial versions such as SAP NetWeaver Application Server or the SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment, as well as useful tools for the application server such as Eclipse Memory Analyzer.

The SAP Community is a valuable addition to the existing online information sources of SAP.

If you need help using the SAP Community, see: https://community.sap.com.

Optional: Access the SAP Community

Business Example

You are new to SAP Community and looking for a good starting point.

Steps

  1. Open the SAP Community site at https://community.sap.com.

    1. Open a web browser of your choice.

    2. Enter the URL https://community.sap.com.

  2. Navigate to the Welcome Corner.

    1. From the menu, choose Get StartedWelcome Corner.

    2. Note the offered content.

SAP Developer Center

The SAP Developer Center is a central access to free tutorials, trials, downloads and technical production information curated exclusively for developers. In addition there is the possibility to subscribe to a Developer Newsletter. You can view developer showcases where can find some interesting projects. One of the main capabilities are the tutorials in the Tutorial Navigator.

Tutorial Navigator

Inside of the SAP Developer Center is the Tutorial Navigator. In the Tutorial Navigator you can search for tutorials regarding software development tasks. Some are a step-by-step guidance and others are just explanations of a specific topic. You can search via the search bar or filter based on a topic or a product. Lots of these tutorials are part of learning journeys too. All tutorials are categorized based on your experience. It is divided into:

  • Beginner
  • Intermediate
  • Advanced

All tutorials have a fixed duration which you should plan to have free to fulfil the whole tutorial. Depending on the tutorial, you will need between 20 minutes and several hours.

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