Name: Develop your own Mobile Task App - SAP S/4HANA Supply Chain
Uploaded: 2020-4-28
Duration: 714 s
Description: In this video you learn how to develop your own SAP Mobile Warehouse Task App.

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<div><div>In this video you learn how to develop your own SAP Mobile Warehouse Task App.</div></div>

Develop your own Mobile Task App - SAP S/4HANA Supply Chain

Hello, everybody, and welcome to microlearnings. My name is Markus Oertelt. I'm an SAP S/4HANA Cloud senior solution  advisor, and I work in the area of Product Success and  Customer Co-innovation at SAP. During this microlearning, we will cover how to  develop your own SAP mobile warehouse task app. This is interesting for you so that you can get an  idea of how you can support your warehouse team with a mobile strategy with S/4HANA Cloud. If you are an S/4HANA Cloud application  consultant, or process consultant, or a technical-minded project/program manager, this microlearning is especially for you. The main focus is a short introduction about the SAP Cloud Platform cockpit for mobile services and IDE full-stack. Secondly, I will briefly present some insights into how a mobile app can be designed with the mobile development kit. Let's move into the system and get started. Welcome to the SAP Cloud Platform cockpit. In order to create a mobile app for your  warehouse tasks, you need two services. The first one is the mobile service for users. In short, you use mobile services for users to  develop mobile applications, to secure your apps, monitor performance, and manage updates. You also deploy apps to iOS, Android, and  Windows devices. The second service you need is SAP Web IDE  Full-Stack. What is SAP IDE? It's an extensible Web-based tool that simplifies both the development of end-to-end SAP Fiori  apps and the full-stack application lifecycle. For example, your UI, business logic, and  database. Let's start with the first service. What I want to do is, I want to go here and click  on Services, and the system proposes to me all categories. So, I want to look for my "Mobile Services,  users", click on it, and then I want to go take action and go to the service. And my overview or preview of "Build mobile  apps in a snap" is coming up. What I want to do next is, I'm going to hit  "Create new app", and then I want to have a Mobile Development  Kit config template. I need an ID, so let's call this COM.SAP. Let's call it WM (warehouse management), for  example. We can also include a TASK. And then I want to copy this, and I also use it for my name. I could give it a longer description, MICROLEARNING, for example. And here I could include a vendor if I really want  to. So let's hit Save, and now my application details are showing up. So, here I can see my assigned features. I already have activated an App Update, for  example. My Client Policies and the Cloud Build have incomplete configurations, Connectivity is not set up yet. I can work offline with this app. And also, my security settings are all set up. So this was just a really, really short look at the mobile service for users, and now I want to focus a little bit longer on the SAP Web IDE Full-Stack. For the SAP Web IDE Full-Stack, I also go to  Services, and have a look in my categories, by searching for Web, for example, and the system is proposing to me already what I'm looking for. Going to click on it. And now I take action by clicking on Go to Service, and this is opening the layout editor. So, the first question usually we receive from customers or SAP partners is usually, "Where do I activate my extensions?" And here's a short answer of how to do it. You're going to Preferences. You see under workspace Preferences  "Extensions". By typing in "mobile", you come to Mobile Services App Development  Tools, and here you see mine is already activated. But this is important, this is the first thing you have to do. You have to activate your Mobile Services App Development Tools. The second question we usually get is, "How does a customer or an SAP partner develop a warehouse mobile app for S/4HANA  Cloud?" And this can be done with the SAP mobile development kit, and this is what I would like to show you now. So, this is our SAP mobile development kit, our  wizard, and you can see here the workspace. I'm going to open it. And for example, if you want to completely  create a new app, you would go to "Workspace", "New", and then, for example, "MDK Base Project", and you can open it. And you could just go through the wizard here and create a completely new app, or design one if you want to. Then, also in this workspace here, for example, OpenWT. This is important because you can validate your metadata, for example. You can also migrate your metadata, and you can also deploy and activate certain functionalities. Also, what else is important here in the  workspace, actions are clearly important. Then we have the images, objects, we have the  pages, how the pages define what the app looks like. We have rules, what should happen with error  messages. You can put rules into place. There are already standard functionalities you  can use. And if I open the left panel, for example, you have all the controls. And if I open up the right panel, then you can see the properties with the events. So, let's just take the example or the scenario that you have a warehouse clerk that comes to  you and says, "Hey, I really like our mobile developed app, but I'm not so happy because I'm missing a log  off button." And this is what I would like to show you, how to create a log off button in your mobile  app. So here, like I said, in the control area, you have the toolbar item. You can, for example, put that in here, in my WarehouseOrderList.page, because this is where the warehouse clerk  wants to have it. Just call it LOG_OFF, for example. A caption too. It already shows you what it would look like on your cell phone or your mobile device. So the next thing I would like to do is, I'm going to create an action. In this page here, I could also go to Events and look what kind of action rules I already have. But in our case, I would like to create a new one. So I'm going to go to Actions and say "New MDK Action", click on it, and we would like to implement a new OData  action. So I'm going to click on OData Action, say Next, and now the wizard is asking me for an action  name. Let's call this LOG_OFF_RESOURCE. And it's not a Create one. I want to have a CallFunction. So, going to click on Next. Then the system or the wizard is asking me for  a service. I have two choices, either the task or resource. The log off button is for resource. And now the system is asking me for a function. The function is also the resource. I have to define some parameters for the action. For my Warehouse parameter, I would like to have a value. So I'm going to go to "Control and ClientData", type in "WHS" (warehouse), and here I have a  value. I'm going to insert this one, OK. And for my WarehouseResource, I also want to have a value. I'm going to go to "Control and ClientData",  "rsrc", And here, the SelectedValue. So I'm going to insert that one. I click OK and choose Next, and now the wizard is just asking me for a  confirmation, and I say Finish. And with this, as you can see, I have a LOG_OFF_RESOURCE.action created  in this system. So the next thing I would like to do with this new  action is to go to Common Action Properties. In here, I can define the action result, the  success action. So if my logoff is successful, or for example a failure action - for example, in  our case, if the log off button will fail. I'm going to look if we already have something in the system I can use under "Action and Rules". And here, for example, for error message, I could say missing resource. But this is not the right one. What I want to do is I want to check the  resource, and here I already have an action called  LOG_OFF_FAILED. And this one, I want to put in my field. And with that, I just showed you how to enter a new item in a page, and also how to create a new action for an  OData service. The thing you would do now is, you would go and deploy and activate it, and there are unsaved changes in your files. You would save and deploy. And then the app would be adjusted and your warehouse clerk can use the new field you requested. Before ending this microlearning, let's recap what we have covered. How to use the SAP Cloud Platform cockpit to  find your service. As well as mobile development kit - how an SAP mobile app can be designed for your warehouse processes for S/4HANA  Cloud. For further learnings, check out openSAP  course "Building Tomorrow's ERP with SAP S/4HANA", as well as openSAP course "Build Mobile Applications with SAP Cloud  Platform Mobile Services". All right, now it's time to apply what you have  learned. Thank you and goodbye.