Day 153 of Everyday Programming

SAP Fiori Elements, SAP ADT

ABAP Development Tools for VS Code

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Connect ABAP backend system to Business Apllication Studio (BAS)

Guided development for Fiori Elements in BAS

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Annotations:

• are metadata instructions that define how data should be displayed and behave in Fiori elements
• act as a bridge between backend data and the UI rendering
• replace manual UI5 coding with a metadata driven approach
• faster development
• consistency
• maintainability
• clean core
• flexibility

Types of annotations in SAP Fiori elements

based on location:

• backend annotations: defined in CDS / OData service
• frontend annotations : defined in annotation.xml file

based on origin :

• standard annotations : delivered by SAP
• custom annotations : not applicable for ABAP

based on domain :

• UI annotations: controls for UI rendering
• consumption annotations : enable filters, value helps, search etc.
• object model annotations : add business semantics, transaction behavior
• analytical annotations
• semantic annotations : currency, unit of measure etc.

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