Preparing SAP BTP Subaccount

To connect to the SAP S/4HANA system, import the content, and access business data, two destinations need to be created in the SAP Business Technology Platform subaccount:

• Design-time destination – used by SAP Build Work Zone, standard edition to fetch the exposed content from the SAP S/4HANA system
• Runtime destination – used during runtime, that is, whenever a user is working on the launchpad and accesses back-end data

Log on to SAP BTP subaccount, navigate to Destinations, and click Create Destination.

Clicking New Destination opens a destination template – enter the following information for the Design-Time destination. For name, use the SAP S/4HANA system ID with the suffix "dt" for Design-Time, for example, s4hdt. As the authentication method, use "BasicAuthentication" and enter the credentials of the exposing user.

Next, the runtime destination will be created. This destination is required to access the business data of the connected SAP S/4HANA system. It does point to the base host, so apps that are requesting data can add to the path to request the data from specific endpoints.

For the name, use the SAP S/4HANA system ID and the suffix "rt" for runtime, for example, s4hrt.

Similar to the Design-Time destination, use the BasicAuthentication for now. Enter the credentials of an SAP S/4HANA user that can be used to perform a first test for the business content. This could either be your own or a dedicated test user that holds authorizations to the business content in the exposed roles.

In the next lesson, the authentication method will be changed from BasicAuthentication to PrincipalPropagation to enable a connection based on the user logged into SAP Build Work Zone, standard edition.

For the other input fields and additional parameters, use the guidance of the following table:

Save the entered information.