Using Marketplace Data Resources

SAP Build Apps provides some example data resources that may be useful for your projects or give you sample data for testing.

In addition, you may have data that is reused in many projects and want to create a simple way to reuse it instead of defining the data resource in each project.

1. Open the Data tab.
2. Choose SAP Build Apps classic data entities → Create Data Entity → Marketplace Search, and you will see the out-of-the-box data resources.
3. Select RestCountries, and choose Install.
4. Back on the UI canvas, choose Variables, and create a Data Variable based on RestCountries.
5. Back on the UI canvas (choose View), select the text component and do the following:
   • Set Repeat With to Data and Data and Variables → Data Variable → RestCountries1, then choose Save.
   • Set the Content to Data item in repeat, and then select current → name.
6. Run the app, and you should see a list of countries.

1. Use the data resource for Customers, as described in the Create an OData Resource, or you can create one.

   Make sure that the data resource has a description.

2. On the Data tab, choose the three vertical dots.
3. Select Publish to marketplace.
4. Choose PUBLISH NEW.

You and others in your tenant will be able to find this data resource by searching its title or description.

You will get a GUID to the new data resource in the marketplace. You can always use that to uniquely identify and search for the data resource. Of course, your users can search for the component by the description and name.