Name: Activating SAP Fiori Content in Custom Business Roles in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition and SAP S/4HANA
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<div><div><div><div>Learn how to efficiently activate SAP Fiori Apps, custom built Apps and other launchpad content using SAP Fiori Rapid Activation Task List. Examples include: <br></div><ul><li>SAP_FIORI_FCM_CONTENT_ACTIVATION for activating custom business roles;</li><li>SAP_FIORI_FCM_CATALOG_ACTIVATION for activating catalogs.</li></ul>For more details refer to the following: <br><ul><li> Activating OData/ICF Services Using Task Lists: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" href="https://help.sap.com/docs/ABAP_PLATFORM_NEW/a7b390faab1140c087b8926571e942b7/48fde24f3eaf454eaf2052a56832fc84.html">SAP Help - SAP Fiori launchpad - Administration Guide - section Setting up Launchpad Content - section Setting up Business Catalogs</a></li><li>Adding SAP Fiori Launchpad Content: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" href="https://learning.sap.com/videos/bringing-apps-onto-sap-fiori-launchpad-for-sap-s-4hana-cloud-and-sap-s-4hana-cloud-private-edition">Bringing Apps Onto SAP Fiori Launchpad for SAP S/4HANA Cloud and SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition</a></li></ul></div></div></div>

Activating SAP Fiori Content in Custom Business Roles in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition and SAP S/4HANA

Hi, my name is Setu Saxena. I'm an SAP UX Architect in the SAP S/4HANA Regional Implementation Group. And in this video, we'll see how to activate SAP Fiori content in Custom Business Roles in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition and on-premise. You'll understand the typical errors you might encounter, when the content is not fully active and how to check whether the SAP Fiori apps in your custom business roles needs activation. We'll walk through running the SAP Fiori Content Activation task list and confirm that our business role is fully functional. SAP provides three different task lists for rapid activation of SAP Fiori content, each serving a similar purpose but targeting different levels of activations. Number one, SAP Fiori Content Activation for SAP Business Roles. This task list facilitates the activation of SAP business role templates for exploring and testing SAP Fiori content in a sandbox environment. Number two, SAP Fiori Content Activation for Custom Business Roles. This task list helps in generating custom business roles and activating the corresponding SAP Fiori applications. It also allows the configurations, entities to be transported to a production system. Number three, SAP Fiori Content Activation for Catalogs. This task list enables the activation of SAP Fiori content at the catalog level, offering a modular approach to the application activation. Today in this video, we'll focus on SAP Fiori Content Activation for Custom Business Roles task list which is specially designed for custom business roles. Before we begin, there are a few prerequisites. You'll need to be on an embedded SAP Fiori Front-End Server deployment and the task list should be run in your development environment. The latest version of SAP Notes listed here should be installed on your system. The task list SAP Fiori - Initial Setup for SAP Fiori Applications in SAP S4/HANA has been already executed on your system. You'll need access to some key transactions such as Launchpad Content Manager - Client Specific, Task Manager for Technical Configuration, Task List Run Monitor, and Role maintenance. You'll need a development package in the customer namespace and the task list would automatically create the necessary transport request for you. Once activated in development, you'll transport the activation to production following the recommended strategy. Optional but helpful is to have the App Support Launchpad plugin turned on. To demonstrate the activation of SAP Fiori content in Custom Business Roles, we will use a custom role Procurement Officer. This role is derived from standard SAP Business Role templates, Purchaser and Strategic Buyer, but it only focuses on the subset of functionality related to the monitoring activities. Let's have a quick look at these roles. Here is an example of SAP Business Role Purchaser, that is SAP_BR_Purchaser as you can see the role consists of procurement overview application this Procurement OVP provides an overview of the activities in the procurement line of business and is typically used by the Purchasers and the Buyers. This OVP consists of nine cards each of which is linked to different Fiori applications, for example, clicking on the Monitor Purchase Contracts card the first card opens the Manage Purchase Contracts application. Similarly , the second card, Purchase Requisition Item Types opens the Purchase Requisition Item Types application. Likewise, all these cards leads to different SAP Fiori applications. And now, let's have a quick look at the custom business role Procurement Officer, which contains five out of the nine cards discussed for the Procurement role, which are related to monitoring functionalities. And these cards would then lead to five different SAP Fiori applications. If I only activate the OVP selectively without activating the underlying five SAP Fiori applications, clicking on these cards would only result in errors for the Procurement Officer. This is why the task list for custom Fiori content activation is crucial and it ensures the complete activation of custom business roles. Before moving on to the activation part, let's first take a look at some common pitfalls or the potential problems that arise when the SAP Fiori content within a custom business role is not fully activated. To demonstrate these, we have intentionally set up our custom business role for the Procurement Officer in a way that it reflects these common content activation issues. This step allows us to systematically troubleshoot and activate the required Fiori content using the task list for custom Fiori content activation. Some of the typical issues that the users face when the SAP Fiori content is not fully activated includes, problem number one, SAPUI5 BSP node is inactive. In our setup, this issue is reflected in the Manage Purchase Contracts application where the ICF node for the BSP application is inactive, preventing the app from loading. Problem number two, OData v4 service group is not published. In our setup, this issue is seen in the Process Purchase Requisitions application which fails to function because the OData v4 service group used by the application is not published. Problem number three, OData v2 service is inactive. This is demonstrated in our application Monitor Supplier Confirmations where the OData v2 service used by the application is inactive, causing data retrieval issues. And problem number 4, Role Menu tree for the PFCG Role is not updated. In our setup, the Monitor Purchase Order Items application is accessible, but it throws the OData error because the required authorization default for the OData v2 service used by the application has not been updated in the Role Menu. Let's now take a look at our custom business role Procurement Officer. From our setup, we know that the BSP application for the Monitor Purchase Contracts app is inactive, meaning clicking on it should result in an error. Upon doing so, we observe that the SAPUI5 component, i.e. the app itself, failed to load due to an inactive BSP node. Having identified the issue, I'll now close this app and move on to the next card. We are aware that the Monitor Purchase Requisition Items app do not have its OData v4 service group published, making it likely to fail on loading as well. Let's click on the card to confirm this. As expected, there is an error displayed. However, it's too generic. Since it does not provide much details, I'll close this and instead open the App Support plugin to investigate further. Taking a look at the Gateway Errors in the App Support tool, we can see that the service is indeed not published which aligns with our expectations. Moving on to the next card, Monitor Purchase Order Items, we know that the role menu tree for the Procurement Officer role has not been updated with the authorization defaults required for its OData services therefore this should throw some authorization error while trying to access the data service, Now let's click on the card and attempt to fetch the data using the Go button. As we can see, the app does not retrieve any data, at this stage, let's take a moment to open the App Support plugin and diagnose the issue. Upon doing so we find that there is an authorization error. To validate this further, let's have a quick look at the Role Menu tree in the PFCG transaction. Since the authorization defaults are alphabetically sorted here, here we can see that the authorization default for the service are completely absent. Finally we move to our fourth card, Monitor Suppliers Confirmations, that should also fail to load as we know from our setup that its OData V2 service is inactive. Here, we learn that the root cause is, no service found for our service, which is our OData V2 service. So this confirms that our setup successfully demonstrate these four key issues, allowing us to walk through the resolution by running the content activation task list. As described before, we would first check if the SAP Fiori apps in the custom business roles needs to be activated and then see how to activate the same using the content activation task list. We open the Fiori Launchpad Content Manager Client-Specific by using the transaction code /UI2/FLPCM_CUST. We switch to the Roles tab and enter our custom business role Procurement Officer. And from the menu option Services, we click on Check and Show Services. Here, we can see that the OData v2 service for Managed Suppliers Confirmation is inactive. Then, moving on to the v4 tab, we see that the v4 Service Group required for Monitor Purchase Requisitions is not published. Finally, under the ICF Services tab, we could see that the BSP node for Managed Purchase Contracts app is inactive. To activate the content, you can directly trigger the task list from the Fiori Launchpad Content Manager itself by using the menu Services, Activate Services. With this option, you can see that the Custom Business Role Procurement Officer gets pre-filled in the task list. And the other way is to run the transaction code STC01, enter the task list name, and click on the button Generate Task List Run. Then, you need to choose the role name from the list of custom role names. And don't forget to select the package which is really crucial for transporting your content to the production. I am going to select my package Z_Fiori which is my package containing the relevant software component and transport options assigned to it. And based on the size of your role or the number of the roles that you are activating, you could either choose to run the task list in the dialog mode or in the background mode. I am going to run it in the dialogue mode. So the task list has run successfully and let's have a look at the logs. Checking the logs for the OData v2 services, we find that our OData service is active. Next, checking the logs for the OData v4 service groups, we find that our service group has been published. The logs for the activate ICF service node shows up that the BSP node required for the application is activated as well, and last but not the least the updated role menu is flagged green therefore our role menu has been updated as well. And a quick look at the PFCG role menu validates that the authorization defaults have been updated as well. Now let's go back to the Procurement Overview app to confirm if all the applications and the cards are working as expected. Clicking on the Monitor Purchase Contracts card open the Manage Purchase Contracts app with the data in it which validates the application. Next, we go back and launch the Monitor Purchase Requisitions Items card which opens the Process Purchase Requisitions app showing the data in it. Then, we go back and click on the third card which is Monitor Purchase Order Items which should open Monitor Purchase Order Items application. Clicking on the card, Monitor Supplier Confirmations also opens the app with data in it. So, this confirms that our content activation task list has successfully activated our custom business role. Let's review some key takeaways for efficiently activating SAP Fiori content. First, make use of rapid activation task lists. They significantly reduce efforts and help you avoid common content activation issues. The task list, SAP Fiori - Content Activation for Custom Business Roles takes care of activating and publishing the required services for your applications in your custom business roles. It also updates the Role Menu and captures the transportable objects for easy transport. It's important to run this task list proactively rather than waiting for the issues to surface. You can use this to activate the full or just the delta content in your custom business roles. Whenever you add new apps to the role, you can safely rerun the task list and only the delta services will be activated, so there is no risk of overriding the existing configurations. Finally, if you encounter any issues, use the App Support plugin which is a great tool for diagnosing and resolving the activation problems quickly. We hope you find this learning unit helpful, thanks for watching