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In this post, we’ll start working with SAP BTP, ABAP environment. We’ll explain in
detail the prerequisites and the development environment for application
development in SAP BTP, ABAP environment.

Setting Up an ABAP Cloud Project

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Create a custom package and capture these all objects in one transport request,
as shown below.

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Setting Up SAP Business Application Studio
Consumer applications can be built through SAP Business Application Studio, the
successor to SAP Web IDE. SAP Business Application Studio was released by
SAP in February 2020 and is used to build applicationsJoin theSAPSAPFioriPRESS
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For each of these application types, SAP Business Application Studio offers
different development spaces that act like isolated virtual machines (VMs) in the
cloud. SAP Business Application Studio can serve as an end-to-end development
environment that leverages open-source and leading industry standards,
enhancing productivity with direct command execution integrated with the
command-line interface (CLI). Applications can be executed locally or can be
deployed in the cloud with zero installation and maintenance. Thus, SAP Business
Application Studio reduces the total cost of development and accelerates
application development.
SAP Business Application Studio is available on the Cloud Foundry environment
and can be used with Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS). In
contrast, SAP Web IDE is available only on the SAP BTP Neo environment.
The “old” SAP Web IDE and SAP Business Application Studio differ in two broad
ways:
SAP Web IDE offers a generic workspace with tools while SAP Business
Application Studio dev spaces act like isolated VMs in the cloud. Each dev
space type contains tailored tools and preinstalled runtimes that simplify
setup activities and save time.
SAP Web IDE provides a browser-based experience, and the CLI is not
integrated. In contrast, with SAP Business Application Studio, the
development experience is improved with leading IDEs. SAP Business
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In an SAP BTP, trial account, SAP Business Application Studio is immediately
available as soon as the account is provisioned. The solution can be executed
directly from the initial page of trial account, as shown in the next figure.

Since SAP Business Application Studio is a multitenant application, a subscription

must be activated. You can activate a subscription in a specific subaccount by
navigating to Subscriptions, in the Extension Suite – Development Efficiency
section.
After the subscription is activated, you’ll need set up some roles. With SAP
Business Application Studio, three roles are delivered:
Business_Application_Studio_Administrator for managing user data
Business_Application_Studio_Developer for loading and developing
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Before assigning roles to users, you must create the corresponding role
collections. A role collection can contain multiple roles, but in the case of SAP
Business Application Studio, the best approach is to keep separate role
collections with corresponding roles. Role collection maintenance is performed
on the subaccount level, under the Security menu item. The final result should
look like the screen shown below.

After role collections are defined, you’ll assign them to users under the Trust
Configuration menu item.
Now, we’re ready to start configuring SAP Business Application Studio to make it
ready for development. The following procedure is the same for both trial and
productive environments.
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When starting SAP Business Application Studio for the first time, no dev spaces
will be assigned, as shown here.

Click the Create Dev Space button, and you’ll be navigated to a page offering a
variety of options, as shown in the next figure. On this page, you’ll define the kind
of application you want to develop and specify additional extensions you want to
include.

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This is used for development of freestyle SAP Fiori applications or SAP Fiori
elements applications.
SAP Cloud Business Application
This is used for building business services and business applications that extend
SAP S/4HANA, using SAP Cloud Application Programming Model.
SAP Cloud Platform Mobile Services
Now SAP Mobile Services, this is used for developing iOS and Android apps in the
cloud.

Basic
This is used for accessing basic tools provided by SAP.
Now, you’ll select additional extensions as needed. Then, enter a name for your
dev space and click on Create Dev Space. You’ll be navigated back to the initial
page, where you’ll now see your new dev space with the status STARTING. After
a minute or two, the status will change to RUNNING, as shown here.

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With that step, our development environment is ready for use. Enter the
development environment by simply clicking on the dev space name.
On the right, you’ll see tools that allow you to stop/start the dev space, download
its content, delete the dev space, or make changes. (The change option is only
available when the dev space has been stopped.) Also, notice that the dev space
stops itself after a certain amount of inactivity. If this occurs, simply restart the
dev space and start using it again.

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Editor’s note: This post has been adapted from a section of the book ABAP in the
Cloud: Development and Operations with SAP BTP, ABAP Environment by Gairik
Acharya, Aleksander Debelic, Shubhangi (Deshmukh) Joshi, and Aayush Dhawan.

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