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Importing Content to SAP Build Work Zone, standard edition

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to use business content from SAP S/4HANA Cloud on SAP BTP

Import Content to SAP Build Work Zone, standard edition

The following steps are required to integrate the content that was exposed from SAP S/4HANA Cloud into SAP Build Work Zone, standard edition:

Dedicated destinations should be created so that the SAP BTP subaccount can fetch and consume resources from SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
A content channel should be created within the Site Manager to work with the content.

The following destinations are required to connect to SAP S/4HANA Cloud from SAP BTP:

Design-time destination for fetching the content:
The location from which SAP Build Work Zone, standard edition fetches the exposed content
Runtime destination for consuming the content for dynamic tiles:
The location for retrieving dynamic data from the SAP S/4HANA Cloud tenant’s API to be displayed on dynamic tiles
Note
A dynamic tile displays information from a back-end system through a dedicated service (OData or other), which is refreshed on a predefined time interval. The dynamic information pulled from the back-end system overwrites the configuration values given in the tile configuration.
Runtime destination (default) for consuming the content:
The runtime destination defines the location from which the required resources to run the federated apps in runtime are obtained from

Prerequisites

SAP BTP platform admin user with admin access to the SAP BTP subaccount
Identity Authentication user, which is set up in Identity Authentication and SAP S/4HANA Cloud. It needs to be maintained with the exact same values for User ID and E-Mail address in both systems and assigned to some business roles on the SAP S/4HANA Cloud system.

Configure Destinations for Fetching and Consuming Business Content

Steps

In the SAP BTP cockpit, log on to your subaccount with the SAP BTP platform admin user.
In the navigation area, choose Connectivity → Destinations.

To create the destination for fetching the content, choose New Destination and enter the following information:

Property	Description/Value
Name	Enter <system ID><client>dt For example, s4h100dt Note: The destination name must be unique for the current application. It must contain only alphanumeric characters, underscores, and dashes. The maximum length is 200 characters.
Type	HTTP
Description	Enter a description, for example, <system ID>_<client> design-time connection
URL	https://<SAP S/4HANA Cloud tenant ID>-api.s4hana.ondemand.com/sap/bc/http/sap/aps_flp_content_exposure/entities
Proxy Type	Internet
Authentication	ClientCertificateAuthentication Note: If you chose Basic Authentication for the initial setup, provide Username and Password instead of Key Store Location and Password.
Use client-provided certificate	Keep unchecked
Key Store Location	Select the key store location that stores the relevant keys. Note: The key store location must be in the PFX format. Only public certificate authorities (CA) are supported.
Key Store Password	Enter your password.
HTML5.DynamicDestination (additional property)	`true`
Use default JDK truststore	Make sure that it is checked

Result

Screenshot of an example of a correctly configured design-time destination “s4h100dt”.

To create the destination for consuming the content for dynamic tiles, enter a URL to the SAP S/4HANA Cloud tenant’s API host as follows:

Property	Description/Value
Name	Enter <system ID><client>rt_tiles For example, s4h100_tiles
Type	HTTP
Description	Enter a description. For example, enter <system ID>_<client> runtime for dynamic tiles
URL	https://<SAP S/4HANA Cloud tenant ID>-api.s4hana.ondemand.com
Proxy Type	Internet
Authentication	SAMLAssertion
Audience	https://<SAP S/4HANA Cloud tenant ID>.s4hana.ondemand.com
AuthnContextClassRef	urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:ac:classes:PreviousSession
nameIdFormat (additional property)	urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.1:nameid-format:emailAddress
HTML5.DynamicDestination (additional property)	true

Result

Screenshot of an example of a correctly configured runtime destination for fetching dynamic tiles data “s4h100rt_tiles”.

To create the runtime destination for launching the federated apps, enter the direct URL to the SAP S/4HANA Cloud tenant’s UI host as follows:

Property	Description
Name	Enter <system ID><client>rt_apps. For example, s4h100rt_apps
Type	HTTP
Description	Enter a description. For example, enter <system ID>_<client> runtime apps.
URL	https://<SAP S/4HANA Cloud tenant ID>.s4hana.ondemand.com
Proxy Type	Internet
Authentication	NoAuthentication
HTML5.DynamicDestination (additional property)	true
sap-platform (additional property)	ABAP

Result

Screenshot of an example of a correctly configured runtime destination for launching apps “s4h100rt_apps”.

Note

Ensure the following when defining the entries in the destinations:

Do not use any extra "/" or space characters; for example, at the end of the string values
Values are case-sensitive; use the values exactly as mentioned in the tables

Related Information

Configure Destinations for Cloud Solutions

Import Business Content to SAP Build Work Zone, standard edition

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Test the Setup

You can now use a browser on the desktop to access the launchpad site on SAP Build Work Zone, standard edition, using end-user credentials that are defined in Identity Authentication and have relevant authorizations in SAP BTP and SAP S/4HANA Cloud. Test a few of the SAP Fiori apps to verify that the connection is working properly.

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