Podcast Version: SAP Developer News January 11th, 2024 – SAP Developers (opensap.info) ‘Generative AI Hub – OUT NOW!’ + New GenAI Hub Tutorial  Blog post ‘Generative AI Hub – OUT NOW!’: https://blogs.sap.com/2023/12/21/generative-ai-hub-out-now/  New tutorial on GenAI Hub on SAP AI Core: https://developers.sap.com/tutorials/ai-core-generative-ai.html  Blog post ‘AI Foundation on SAP BTP: Q4 2023 Release Highlights’: https://blogs.sap.com/2024/01/09/ai-foundation-on-sap-btp-q4-2023-release-highlights/   SAP BTP events this month  SAP BTP Ask Me Anything about Enterprise Automation: https://blogs.sap.com/2024/01/09/sap-btp-ask-me-anything-about-enterprise-automation/   What’s New with SAP BTP – Quarterly Live Series: https://blogs.sap.com/2024/01/03/whats-new-with-sap-btp-quarterly-live-series/    'Did You Know' shorts Nr. 7 – SAP BTP cockpit's contextual help  SAP BTP cockpit: https://support.sap.com/en/product/onboarding-resource-center/business-technology-platform/btp-cockpit.html   SP09 of ABAP Platform Trial on Docker  SP09 of ABAP Platform Trial on Docker :  https://twitter.com/JuliePlummer20/status/1736786851409576323   ABAP Platform Trial on Docker : https://hub.docker.com/r/sapse/abap-platform-trial   ABAP Platform Trial : https://blogs.sap.com/2023/07/31/now-available-abap-platform-trial/    SAP Build Process Automation New Editor Layout   Layout & usability improvements in the process editor:  https://blogs.sap.com/2023/10/31/layout-usability-improvements-in-the-process-editor/  The new process editor layout is there – share your feedback!: https://blogs.sap.com/2024/01/08/the-new-process-editor-layout-is-there-share-your-feedback/  New tutorial to build first business process using the new layout and usability improvements: https://developers.sap.com/mission.sap-process-editor-layout-usability-improvements.html  Feedback survey link: https://sapinsights.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eXSZDjdER08uQYK   Joule Documentation on SAP Help Portal   https://help.sap.com/docs/joule?locale=en-US   ============================================================= CHAPTER TITLES  0:00 Intro  0:10 Generative AI Hub – OUT NOW! + New Tutorial  1:11 SAP BTP events this month  2:23 DYK Nr. 7 – SAP BTP cockpit's contextual help  3:06 SP09 of ABAP Platform Trial on Docker  4:01 SAP Build Process Automation New Editor Layout  6:25 Joule Documentation on SAP Help Portal  Transcript: 00:00:01.920 --> 00:00:06.080 This is the SAP Developer News for January 11th, 2024. 00:00:09.280 --> 00:00:11.740 The Genitive AI Hub that was introduced a decade last year, 00:00:11.740 --> 00:00:14.230 I'm sure you've all seen my use case in the Developer Keynote, 00:00:14.920 --> 00:00:17.360 has been released at the end of last year and is now generally 00:00:17.360 --> 00:00:18.860 available. 00:00:18.920 --> 00:00:21.320 There are multiple models available in the Genitive AI Hub 00:00:21.320 --> 00:00:24.740 on AI Core already, and you can see them in your SAP AI 00:00:24.740 --> 00:00:26.020 Launchpad. 00:00:26.020 --> 00:00:28.300 For example, we have the OpenAI GPT models. 00:00:28.320 --> 00:00:31.180 We have the OpenAI text embedding model, 00:00:31.200 --> 00:00:33.880 and we have the open source Falcon model available. 00:00:34.360 --> 00:00:35.860 I know of some more to come. 00:00:36.280 --> 00:00:39.460 For more information, check out Hadi Hares' blog post on the release 00:00:39.460 --> 00:00:40.960 of the generative AI Hub. 00:00:41.080 --> 00:00:44.240 And we also have a really cool tutorial available already 00:00:44.500 --> 00:00:49.240 by Paul Pinard, where he gives you, like he shows you how you 00:00:49.240 --> 00:00:52.600 can configure everything, and he also shows you some very 00:00:52.600 --> 00:00:53.640 great examples. 00:00:53.640 --> 00:00:57.400 for example, text summarization, translation, and sentiment analysis, 00:00:57.400 --> 00:00:58.720 and a couple more. 00:00:58.720 --> 00:01:02.200 And he also shows you how you can do good prompting, 00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:05.140 for example, a few-shot and zero-shot prompting. 00:01:05.640 --> 00:01:07.260 So there's a lot to learn, make sure to check it out, 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:09.380 and the links are, as always, in the description. 00:01:11.440 --> 00:01:14.860 There are a couple of events coming up later this month 00:01:15.040 --> 00:01:18.610 on the topic of the SAP Business Technology Platform. 00:01:19.080 --> 00:01:22.660 First up is a session in a new series, 00:01:22.960 --> 00:01:26.620 an Ask Me Anything series all about SAP BTP. 00:01:27.100 --> 00:01:31.240 This first session on Wednesday the 17th of January, 00:01:31.260 --> 00:01:34.220 which is next week if you're watching this news episode right now, 00:01:35.380 --> 00:01:39.860 is all about enterprise automation and features Stefan Schluchter 00:01:39.940 --> 00:01:41.440 and Manuel Namislo. 00:01:42.020 --> 00:01:46.480 Find out all about this session and how to join in Mayara's blog 00:01:46.480 --> 00:01:47.980 post. 00:01:48.200 --> 00:01:53.840 Then on Thursday the 25th of January, there's the first What's New with SAP 00:01:54.980 --> 00:02:00.300 BTP session of 2024, which covers recent innovation 00:02:00.300 --> 00:02:05.260 highlights, including document extraction premium 00:02:05.260 --> 00:02:07.720 edition, edge integration cell with SAP 00:02:07.720 --> 00:02:11.670 integration suites, and also the SAP BTP guidance 00:02:11.670 --> 00:02:15.290 framework for architects, developers, and operators. 00:02:15.940 --> 00:02:20.840 Find out all about this session and how to join in CC's blog post. 00:02:24.720 --> 00:02:28.480 Did you know that you don't have to know everything about the SAP BTP 00:02:28.480 --> 00:02:29.860 cockpit? 00:02:29.860 --> 00:02:32.020 That's because we provide help on every screen. 00:02:32.710 --> 00:02:35.110 Simply click the question mark in the upper right hand corner 00:02:35.560 --> 00:02:37.270 and it will bring up a contextual help 00:02:37.270 --> 00:02:40.650 menu that highlights different items on the page that you're looking 00:02:41.150 --> 00:02:43.210 at to give you guidance on how to fill in that information. 00:02:43.830 --> 00:02:46.960 If you go to a screen where it gives you information but you need a little 00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:49.000 more help, you may not just want to know 00:02:49.000 --> 00:02:51.400 about what it's talking about for importing a destination? 00:02:51.420 --> 00:02:54.740 Do you want to look at more documentation from outside on the SAP 00:02:54.740 --> 00:02:56.240 Help Document page? 00:02:56.580 --> 00:03:00.220 All within the SAP BTP Cockpit, you can be guided to the help 00:03:00.220 --> 00:03:01.720 that you need. 00:03:04.020 --> 00:03:07.740 Hello everyone, SAP has released SP09 of ABAP 00:03:07.740 --> 00:03:09.260 Platform Trial on Docker. 00:03:09.680 --> 00:03:13.560 I hope all of you remember that SAP has made ABAP Platform Trial 00:03:13.620 --> 00:03:16.290 available on Docker during SP07. 00:03:17.140 --> 00:03:21.000 ABAP Platform Trial is a downloadable ABAP platform 00:03:21.400 --> 00:03:25.860 on SAP HANA 2.0 for trying out the ABAP language and toolset. 00:03:26.420 --> 00:03:29.260 It is extensively pre-configured with SAP Fiori 00:03:29.260 --> 00:03:32.860 Launchpad, SAP Cloud Connector, pre-configured backend 00:03:32.860 --> 00:03:36.620 and frontend connections, roles, and sample applications. 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:41.020 It can be used by developers to get started with ABAP language and tools 00:03:41.320 --> 00:03:44.380 or to deep dive into the new features of ABAP. 00:03:45.040 --> 00:03:47.680 The address remains the same, but there is a change 00:03:47.680 --> 00:03:50.840 in the password, which is mentioned in the blog post 00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:52.340 by Julie Plummer. 00:03:52.640 --> 00:03:56.580 You can also find the prerequisites and other details in this blog post, 00:03:56.840 --> 00:03:59.390 so don't forget to check it out and happy learning. 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:02.440 Hello SAP developers, I have some exciting news 00:04:02.440 --> 00:04:05.620 on the new enhancements added to improve the usability 00:04:05.620 --> 00:04:07.600 in the SAP Build Process Automation tool. 00:04:08.560 --> 00:04:12.360 Robin Kivit has written a blog explaining the three key areas 00:04:12.360 --> 00:04:14.060 of improvements in the process editor. 00:04:14.950 --> 00:04:18.040 First off, let's talk about the process overview 00:04:18.040 --> 00:04:19.540 area. 00:04:19.880 --> 00:04:23.180 To make it easier for you to understand complex processes 00:04:23.180 --> 00:04:26.080 at a glance, the process layout is redesigned 00:04:26.080 --> 00:04:29.920 to use a vertical orientation, which makes better use of your screen 00:04:29.920 --> 00:04:30.290 space. 00:04:30.290 --> 00:04:34.260 The side panel is now collapsed by default and can be expanded 00:04:34.290 --> 00:04:38.260 by clicking on the information icon for global process settings 00:04:38.940 --> 00:04:41.260 or the respective step of the process. 00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:44.700 Next up is the ease of use aspect. 00:04:45.240 --> 00:04:49.220 Now, you can simply drag and drop individual or group of steps 00:04:49.260 --> 00:04:52.300 to the desired position and the process will automatically 00:04:52.300 --> 00:04:55.960 adjust itself while preserving all the sensible data mappings. 00:04:56.380 --> 00:04:59.800 This is a huge time saver, especially during the initial stages 00:04:59.800 --> 00:05:02.760 of development or when making adjustments later on. 00:05:03.540 --> 00:05:06.970 A new go-to-step feature is also introduced in the flow logic 00:05:06.970 --> 00:05:09.380 section, which allows you to easily connect 00:05:09.380 --> 00:05:12.240 to upstream or downstream steps. 00:05:13.170 --> 00:05:17.660 In the guided building experience area, in-app help can point you 00:05:17.660 --> 00:05:19.670 to specific elements on the canvas. 00:05:20.350 --> 00:05:22.980 This will help you quickly understand the new functionality 00:05:23.220 --> 00:05:25.940 available to you and the context-specific help 00:05:26.160 --> 00:05:27.660 while building a process. 00:05:28.200 --> 00:05:31.260 Additionally, a selection menu provides a better view 00:05:31.280 --> 00:05:34.400 of the available options when adding steps or flow 00:05:34.400 --> 00:05:35.900 logic controls. 00:05:36.100 --> 00:05:38.820 These layout and usability improvements are already 00:05:38.820 --> 00:05:43.380 available as of January 7th in certain regions and landscapes. 00:05:43.840 --> 00:05:46.220 They will also be made available in more regions 00:05:46.440 --> 00:05:47.940 on January 21st. 00:05:48.920 --> 00:05:52.540 And if you are a first time user of the build process automation tool, 00:05:52.960 --> 00:05:57.380 we highly recommend checking out our new tutorial called build 00:05:57.380 --> 00:06:01.000 your first business process using layout and usability 00:06:01.000 --> 00:06:02.720 improvements in the process editor. 00:06:03.860 --> 00:06:06.420 If you have already tried out these new improvements, 00:06:06.820 --> 00:06:08.620 We would love to hear your feedback. 00:06:09.660 --> 00:06:13.760 There is an anonymous feedback survey link in the description below for you 00:06:13.760 --> 00:06:15.260 to share your thoughts. 00:06:16.080 --> 00:06:19.980 Check out this blog post to learn more about the enhancements 00:06:19.980 --> 00:06:22.920 and features planned for release this year. 00:06:23.560 --> 00:06:25.060 Hello, everybody. 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:29.040 I once again wish you all a joyful New Year 2024. 00:06:29.680 --> 00:06:33.320 We, developer advocates, are delighted to bring you the latest 00:06:33.320 --> 00:06:34.820 SAP developer news. 00:06:35.360 --> 00:06:38.740 Joule, SAP's new generative AI copilot, 00:06:38.960 --> 00:06:43.300 a game changer 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(Check out the SAP Developer Challenge - APIs blog post for everything you need to know about the challenge to which this task relates!) In this task you'll become acquainted with entity sets in the classic Northwind service. Background You may have heard of, or even interacted with an instance of, the Northwind model and service, originally and properly called "Northwind Traders". It has a classic and well-known set of related entities and is often a first introduction for many to database schemas, OData services and more. It was originally shipped with the Microsoft Access database application. The entities and their relationships are easy to understand and it's partly for this reason that it's so popular. In this task, you will briefly explore the Northwind service offered by OASIS Open, the non-profit standards body, where there's a working group that looks after the Open Data Protocol (OData) standard. There are various services available at the simple landing page at https://services.odata.org and the one we will use is the OData V4 version, which is available directly at this address: https://services.odata.org/V4/Northwind/Northwind.svc/ Your task Your task specifically is to list the entity sets available in this service. They should be presented as a single string, following these rules: the entity set names should be exactly as specified in the service you should keep whatever case the entity set names are written in the entity sets should be listed in alphabetical order they should be comma-separated, with no spaces Here's a short example of what a list should look like: Categories,Customers,Suppliers There are more entity sets than just these three, this is just an example. Once you have constructed the list, you should hash it and post the hash as a new reply to this discussion thread, as described in Task 0 - Learn to share your task results. This means that to get the hash, you would need to make a call to the hash service like this (based again on the above short example), supplying your SAP Community ID in the appropriate header too: https://developer-challenge.cfapps.eu10.hana.ondemand.com/v1/hash(value='Categories,Customers,Suppliers') Hints and tips What is an entity set? It is essentially a collection (a set) of entities. There are two places where an OData service typically details the entity sets on offer. One is the service document, available at the root of the service's base URL. And the other is the metadata document, available at the service's base URL with $metadata appended. Metadata documents contain a wealth of information for an OData service; the entity set details are included, but there's a lot of other information that is included too, information that you must exclude or otherwise ignore. Simpler perhaps would be to take the service document, which has a set of collections (this harks back to the origins of OData, incidentally) which more or less equate to entity sets. If you request the service document (https://services.odata.org/V4/Northwind/Northwind.svc/) in your browser, you get an XML based representation in response. You can parse this XML with any XML library, or command line tool (such as xmlstarlet or xmllint. While the service document's XML structure is much simpler than the metadata document, it's still XML, and it's arguably easier these days to avoid XML altogether when doing ad-hoc parsing activities. With OData V2 services, the service document is only available in an XML representation. It's also available in a JSON representation with OData V4 services. Using a command line HTTP client, for example, to request the service document, we get an entirely different representation. For example, this invocation of curl: curl \ --url "https://services.odata.org/V4/Northwind/Northwind.svc/" returns a JSON representation, that looks like this (redacted for brevity): { "@odata.context": "https://services.odata.org/V4/Northwind/Northwind.svc/$metadata", "value": [ { "name": "Categories", "kind": "EntitySet", "url": "Categories" }, { "name": "CustomerDemographics", "kind": "EntitySet", "url": "CustomerDemographics" }, { "name": "Customers", "kind": "EntitySet", "url": "Customers" }, { "name": "Employees", "kind": "EntitySet", "url": "Employees" }, { "name": "Order_Details", "kind": "EntitySet", "url": "Order_Details" } ] } In case you're interested, the shell pipeline to produce this redacted representation was: curl \ --silent \ --url "https://services.odata.org/V4/Northwind/Northwind.svc/" \ | jq '.value|=.[:5]' Once you have a JSON representation of the service document, you can use your favorite language (JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, ABAP, or perhaps jq) to parse out the entity set names, and form them, in alphabetical order, into the comma-separated list that you need. Of course, if you prefer to parse the XML representation of the service document, then by all means do that. For discussion We get different representations of the service document resource, depending on where we make the request. In the browser, the representation comes back in XML form. Using curl on the command line, the representation is in JSON form. Why do you think that is? ... View more

(Check out the SAP Developer Challenge - APIs blog post for everything you need to know about the challenge to which this task relates!) This month's Developer Challenge consists of a number of tasks. Each task is introduced in a new, separate discussion thread on the SAP Community platform, specifically in the Application Development group. Background In each new discussion created, a new task will be presented. The context will be explained and relevant background information and pointers to helpful resources will be provided. But most importantly for you, the task itself will be described in detail, and that detail will include exactly the result that you need to produce. That result will be in the form of a string, which you will then need to share in a reply to that task's discussion thread. But. Instead of sharing the result in its raw form, you'll first need to hash it with your SAP Community ID. This is for two reasons: First, you can share your result but no-one can copy your answer, as it will be hashed with another value unique to you - your SAP Community ID. This means that you can share your hashed task result value openly but no-one can copy it and use it as their own. Second, it's a good opportunity to interact with a simple API, providing data in the URL path, but also providing your SAP Community ID as a value in a special header in the HTTP request. Hashing data is quite straightforward and there are libraries built into many programming languages to do this. It is not normally necessary to have to use an API call to use a hash function. We are just providing one here to give you some extra API work to do as part of this month's challenge! Hashing your value When you have a value which represents the result of a task, that you need to share, follow this procedure. For this example, let's say that the value is the string my-task-result. Call the hash endpoint to get your hash There's a simple HTTP service at https://developer-challenge.cfapps.eu10.hana.ondemand.com/ that currently provides a single endpoint /v1/hash. Use this endpoint as instructed to receive a hash. You must provide two pieces of information: the value you want to hash (as part of the URL path) your SAP Community ID (in a header) How you specify each of these two values is described on the HTTP service's landing page. Make sure you follow the instructions. If your call is successful, you'll receive a hash in response. The hash mechanism uses SHA256 and a hex digest is what's provided as the hash output, in case your interested. Reply to the task's discussion thread with that hash Once you have the hash, post a reply to the task's discussion thread, with that hash value. DO NOT ADD ANYTHING ELSE TO THAT REPLY. Don't be tempted to add any formatting, either. Include just the hash value, with no other content. This is because we will be automating the checks for correct responses, and if we cannot successfully parse out the hash value from your reply, that value won't be counted. Your task So the very first task of this month's Developer Challenge ... is to make sure you can follow the above process to hash a value (representing any given answer to a future task in this series) and provide it in a reply to the discussion thread. Use the static value this-is-the-year-of-the-api (don't include the line number 1 in there, that's just an artifact of how preformatted text is rendered on this platform) and follow the above process to get a hash for this value and post the hash as a reply to this discussion thread. You can call the hash endpoint any way you like. Note that you can't just call it in your browser, as a basic GET request. In other words, you can't just make a simple HTTP GET request to https://developer-challenge.cfapps.eu10.hana.ondemand.com/v1/hash(value='this-is-the-year-of-the-api') and expect to get a successful hash response. You must provide an extra HTTP header in your request, conveying your SAP Community ID, as described in the landing page. Hints and tips You can make the API call to get a hash for your combination of value and SAP Community ID any way you wish. Your favorite programming language For example, you could use your favorite programming language. There'll be a library that will let you make HTTP requests, add custom headers, and capture the body of the response. The REST Client extension If you're comfortable in VS Code or the SAP Business Application Studio, you can use the REST Client extension (which is built-in to SAP Business Application Studio Dev Spaces). This extension lets you define HTTP requests, and run them. Here's an example of this in action: Using the REST Client extension to make the hash API call Postman You could also use a graphical HTTP client such as Postman. Using Postman to make the hash API call A command line client You can of course use a command line client, arguably the most flexible and powerful approaches. And after all, #TheFutureIsTerminal, right? There are many command line HTTP clients, such as wget, httpie and of course curl, which is used everywhere, even on Mars. Here's an example using curl: curl \ --include \ --header "CommunityID: qmacro" \ --url "https://developer-challenge.cfapps.eu10.hana.ondemand.com/v1/hash(value='this-is-the-year-of-the-api')" The response (which includes the HTTP headers in that response, because we asked for them with the --include option), looks like this: HTTP/2 200 content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 date: Sat, 22 Jul 2023 13:53:34 GMT etag: W/"40-LWwbQuJtCsQ3SBBXmdG8hHlJ0EI" x-correlation-id: a718cf85-83a6-4d3a-54df-9791f1cea235 x-powered-by: Express x-vcap-request-id: a718cf85-83a6-4d3a-54df-9791f1cea235 content-length: 64 strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload; b8193c6703e9d123e4aa639e43eee631a2f6e3788508b5c6fb3098a3f201607c Sharing your hash in a reply to the discussion thread In each of these examples, the hash received in response is: b8193c6703e9d123e4aa639e43eee631a2f6e3788508b5c6fb3098a3f201607c This is the value that must be posted in a reply to this discussion thread. 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Hello, where can I find documentation of ECM APIs, e.g. CL_GENSRVC_CMIS_INTEG_API? Thanks, Peter       ... View more

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Critical security item for apps on SAP BTP Unveiling Critical Security Updates: SAP BTP Security Note 3411067: https://blogs.sap.com/2023/12/12/unveiling-critical-security-updates-sap-btp-security-note-3411067/  cds-launchpad-plugin Blog post: https://blogs.sap.com/2023/12/11/cds-launchpad-plugin-supercharged-ready-for-the-future-cap-plugin-ui5-tooling-support-async-launchpad/  “Did You Know” shorts Nr. 6 – Access SAP Business Application Studio from VS Code Documentation on SAP Help Portal: https://help.sap.com/docs/bas/sap-business-application-studio/working-remotely SAP HANA Cloud QRC4 What’s New in SAP HANA Cloud – December 2023: https://blogs.sap.com/2023/12/12/whats-new-in-sap-hana-cloud-december-2023/ Provisioning SAP HANA Cloud databases from Kyma and Kubernetes: https://blogs.sap.com/2023/12/11/provisioning-sap-hana-cloud-databases-from-kyma-and-kubernetes-1-concepts/ Calculation View Features of 2023 QRC4: https://blogs.sap.com/2023/12/12/calculation-view-features-of-2023-qrc4/ Fairness in Machine Learning – A New Feature in SAP HANA PAL: https://blogs.sap.com/2023/12/08/fairness-in-machine-learning-a-new-feature-in-sap-hana-pal/ SAP HANA Cloud’s Vector Engine for Unified Data Excellence: https://blogs.sap.com/2023/12/13/vectorize-your-data-sap-hana-clouds-vector-engine-for-unified-data-excellence/ ABAPconf and Fioriconf ABAPconf website: https://abapconf.org/ Fioriconf website: https://www.fioriconf.org/  ABAP2UI5 abap2UI5 – (11) Extensions II: Guideline for Developing New Features in JavaScript Blog post: https://blogs.sap.com/2023/12/11/abap2ui5-a4-extensions-ii-guideline-for-developing-new-features-in-javascript/ ===================================================================== CHAPTER TITLES 0:00 Intro 0:10 Critical security item for apps on SAP BTP 1:00 cds-launchpad-plugin 1:40 “Did You Know” shorts Nr. 6 – Access SAP Business Application Studio from VS Code 3:01 SAP HANA Cloud QRC4 4:52 ABAPconf and Fioriconf 5:54 ABAP2UI5 ... View more

SAP Builder Group Link to the group in the SAP Community: https://groups.community.sap.com/t5/sap-builders/gh-p/builders “Did You Know” shorts Nr. 5 – Using Content Assist in ABAP Development Tools ABAP Development Tools (ADT): https://tools.hana.ondemand.com/#abap   AI Foundation on SAP BTP AI Foundation, SAP’s all-in-one AI toolkit for developers: https://blogs.sap.com/2023/11/30/ai-foundation-saps-all-in-one-ai-toolkit-for-developers/ TechEd Session “Jump-Start Your Document Processing Use Case with Generative AI”: https://go3.events.sap.com/sapteched/virtual/2023/reg/flow/sap/sapteched23/catalog/page/catalog/session/1693019887245001sOwr Developer Keynote TechEd 2023: https://go3.events.sap.com/sapteched/virtual/2023/reg/flow/sap/sapteched23/catalog/page/catalog/session/1693942771811001abcI Build Intelligent Data Apps with SAP HANA SAP HANA Database Explorer Visual Studio Code Extension 2023 Recap: https://blogs.sap.com/2023/11/28/sap-hana-database-explorer-visual-studio-code-extension-2023-recap/ Webinar “Leverage the Latest Innovative Capabilities of SAP HANA Cloud”: https://broadcast.sap.com/video/231205NSQ_hc4 “Getting Started with Machine Learning using SAP HANA” as a SAP CodeJam topic: https://blogs.sap.com/2023/08/02/getting-started-with-machine-learning-using-sap-hana-as-a-new-sap-codejam-topic/ State of JS Survey 2023: Survey: https://survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey/state-of-js/2023 ================================================================ CHAPTER TITLES 0:00 Intro 0:10 SAP Builders Group 0:47 “Did You Know” shorts Nr. 5 – Using Content Assist in ABAP Development Tools 1:16 AI Foundation on SAP BTP 2:53 Build Intelligent Data Apps with SAP HANA 4:08 State of JS Survey 2023 TRANSCRIPT The SAP Community Groups are the best place to connect and engage with our 165,000 community members to get answers, discuss best practices and continually learn about SAP solutions. Today I want to bring to your attention the SAP Builders Group where you can engage with communities of peers to unleash innovation by building apps, process automations and science without writing code. Check out the discussions, blog posts and feature topics such as how-to, links to videos and release updates. The link is below where you can join the group and subscribe to announcements. I hope to see you there Did you know that while opening a web development object in ADT, you can make use of Content Assist. You can narrow down your search using object type, object type group, owner name, etc. In this particular example, I'm trying to search for a serious view with s-flight in its name. Hey there, Paul Pinard wrote a new blog post, AI Foundation, SAP's All-in-One AI Toolkit for Developers. And it is a must-read for every developer. If you have wondered until now how you can leverage AI, or even if you should use AI in your applications, I am sure you will discover many areas where AI Foundation on SAP BTP can help your use case. In this blog post, Paul gives a summary of all the AI tools SAP has to offer within the AI Foundation. Starting with the ready-to-use AI services for document processing, recommendations and translation, this month we will also launch the Document Information Extraction Premium Edition, which supports over 40 languages and uses generative AI to perform even better. So if that sounds interesting, make sure to check out the TechEd session that's linked in the comments. He also describes how you can use SAP AI Core and SAP AI Launchpad for all your custom AI development and he introduces the Generative AI Hub, which is available early next year. You can manage all the functionalities of the generative AI hub also in SAP AI Launchpad, of course, and also do tasks such as model grounding with your own data. And not to forget all the HANA machine learning functionalities ranging from HANA Predictive Analysis Library to the new HANA Vector Store. With HANA Vector Store you can also implement retrieval augmented generation use cases, like we showed in the developer keynote during TechEd. The link is also in the comments and for all the other data management SAP offers SAP Datasphere. Paul also gives a sneak peek into what SAP is doing with large language models and structured data, so that's really interesting. Make sure to check out the blog post and you will learn a lot about our AI portfolio. The new version of SAP HANA Database Explorer extension for the Visual Studio Code was recently released, and it came with a solid number of great new features, like local database connections to HDI containers, or improved database objects dependency viewer. Jonathan Bregler wrote a blog post to present some of them in detail. Please read his 2023 recap and leave your comment about what new features you would like to see improving your experience building intelligent data applications with SAP HANA. Talking about intelligent data apps, the recording of this week's webinar, Leverage the Latest Innovative Capabilities of SAP HANA Cloud, is available. Our colleagues from the COE (Center of Excellence) presented use cases leveraging multimodal capabilities of SAP HANA Cloud, along with the solution architectural diagrams and code repositories. the link to the recording in the description. And if you are looking for introductory hands-on experience with SAP HANA Cloud tools, building intelligent data apps, then please check out our SAP CodeJam Community Events program We just had a successful event on getting started with machine learning this week in Dusseldorf and I'm looking forward to 2024 where in the world would you like to host the next SAP CodeJam on this topic. Hi everyone and welcome to the SAP Developer News. If you are a JavaScript developer, consider taking part in the annual State of JS survey. The survey's goal is to measure the awareness and popularity of JavaScript features, libraries, and frameworks. OpenUI5, for example, which turns 10 years old this month, by the way, can be selected in the survey too. The survey runs until December 12th, so check it out and see you soon. ... View more

Upcoming UI5ers live episode celebrating 10 years of OpenUI5 OpenUI5 Events page, listing the upcoming UI5ers live session: https://openui5.org/events/  SAP Cloud Application Programming Model November Release Release Notes: https://cap.cloud.sap/docs/releases/nov23#cap-plugins  “Did You Know” shorts Nr. 4 – Using curl’s --data-urlencode parameter The relevant section on curl’s man page: https://curl.se/docs/manpage.html#--data-urlencode SAP Build Apps Best Practices Guide: Guide: https://help.sap.com/docs/build-apps/service-guide/right-way-to-sap-build-apps?locale=en-US SAP Build Apps What’s New for November 2023 Jesse Sukhbayar’s blog: https://blogs.sap.com/2023/11/20/whats-new-with-sap-build-process-automation-november-2023/ Public webinar on SAP Fiori and its tools & technologies A Hitchhiker’s Guide to SAP Fiori User Experience and its Technologies – December 2023: https://blogs.sap.com/2023/11/15/a-hitchhikers-guide-to-sap-fiori-user-experience-and-its-technologies-december-2023/ =============================================================== CHAPTER TITLES 0:00 Intro 0:10 Upcoming UI5ers live episode celebrating 10 years of OpenUI5 0:59 SAP Cloud Application Programming Model November Release 1:36 “Did You Know” shorts Nr. 4 – Using curl’s --data-urlencode parameter 2:17 SAP Build Apps Best Practices Guide 3:20 SAP Build Apps What’s New for November 2023 5:07 Public webinar on SAP Fiori and its tools & technologies   ... View more

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(Check out the SAP Developer Challenge - APIs blog post for everything you need to know about the challenge to which this task relates!) In this task you'll move from the public Northwind service to a simple version powered by CAP, and explore data with an OData operation and some system query options. Background The OASIS curated Northwind service is great, but it's also sometimes useful to have one's own version. There's an extremely simplified version of the classic Northwind service, called Northbreeze (get it?) at https://developer-challenge.cfapps.eu10.hana.ondemand.com/odata/v4/northbreeze. This Northbreeze service is powered by the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP) and offers four entity sets: Products Suppliers Categories Summary of sales by years (Well there's technically a fifth, TotalProducts, but that's just a calculation projection on the count of products). The reason for running our own version of Northwind is that we can modify and extend it as we see fit, plus being based on CAP, we can learn about and experiment with CAP's rich support for serving OData APIs. In this task you'll start to become familiar with the data offered. Specifically for this task, you'll need to become familiar with the Products data. To do that, have a look at the Northbreeze service's metadata document at https://developer-challenge.cfapps.eu10.hana.ondemand.com/odata/v4/northbreeze/$metadata. Identify the EntityContainer element that describes the entity sets available, in the form of EntitySet elements, and find the element describing the entity set with the name Products, which should look like this: <EntitySet Name="Products" EntityType="Northbreeze.Products"> <NavigationPropertyBinding Path="Category" Target="Categories"/> <NavigationPropertyBinding Path="Supplier" Target="Suppliers"/> </EntitySet> You can see that this entity set is a collection of Northbreeze.Products entity types. The 'Northbreeze' part is essentially the namespace, generated based on the service name. Follow the trail to the Products entity type, which will be an element outside the EntityContainer element, but still within the Northbreeze-namespaced Schema element. The Products entity type should look like this: <EntityType Name="Products"> <Key> <PropertyRef Name="ProductID"/> </Key> <Property Name="ProductID" Type="Edm.Int32" Nullable="false"/> <Property Name="ProductName" Type="Edm.String"/> <Property Name="QuantityPerUnit" Type="Edm.String"/> <Property Name="UnitPrice" Type="Edm.Decimal" Scale="variable"/> <NavigationProperty Name="Category" Type="Northbreeze.Categories" Partner="Products"> <ReferentialConstraint Property="Category_CategoryID" ReferencedProperty="CategoryID"/> </NavigationProperty> <Property Name="Category_CategoryID" Type="Edm.Int32"/> <NavigationProperty Name="Supplier" Type="Northbreeze.Suppliers" Partner="Products"> <ReferentialConstraint Property="Supplier_SupplierID" ReferencedProperty="SupplierID"/> </NavigationProperty> <Property Name="Supplier_SupplierID" Type="Edm.Int32"/> <Property Name="UnitsInStock" Type="Edm.Int32"/> <Property Name="UnitsOnOrder" Type="Edm.Int32"/> <Property Name="ReorderLevel" Type="Edm.Int32"/> <Property Name="Discontinued" Type="Edm.Boolean"/> </EntityType> Amongst other things, you can see that a product has an ID (ProductID), a name (ProductName), a count of the number of units currently in stock (UnitsInStock) and a boolean that is used to indicate whether or not a product is discontinued (Discontinued). Request the first few products to see data for these and the other properties, via https://developer-challenge.cfapps.eu10.hana.ondemand.com/odata/v4/northbreeze/Products?$top=5. You should see something like this: { "@odata.context": "$metadata#Products", "value": [ { "ProductID": 1, "ProductName": "Chai", "QuantityPerUnit": "10 boxes x 20 bags", "UnitPrice": 18, "Category_CategoryID": 1, "Supplier_SupplierID": 1, "UnitsInStock": 39, "UnitsOnOrder": 0, "ReorderLevel": 10, "Discontinued": false }, { "ProductID": 2, "ProductName": "Chang", "QuantityPerUnit": "24 - 12 oz bottles", "UnitPrice": 19, "Category_CategoryID": 1, "Supplier_SupplierID": 1, "UnitsInStock": 17, "UnitsOnOrder": 40, "ReorderLevel": 25, "Discontinued": false }, { "ProductID": 3, "ProductName": "Aniseed Syrup", "QuantityPerUnit": "12 - 550 ml bottles", "UnitPrice": 10, "Category_CategoryID": 2, "Supplier_SupplierID": 1, "UnitsInStock": 13, "UnitsOnOrder": 70, "ReorderLevel": 25, "Discontinued": false }, { "ProductID": 4, "ProductName": "Chef Anton's Cajun Seasoning", "QuantityPerUnit": "48 - 6 oz jars", "UnitPrice": 22, "Category_CategoryID": 2, "Supplier_SupplierID": 2, "UnitsInStock": 53, "UnitsOnOrder": 0, "ReorderLevel": 0, "Discontinued": false }, { "ProductID": 5, "ProductName": "Chef Anton's Gumbo Mix", "QuantityPerUnit": "36 boxes", "UnitPrice": 21.35, "Category_CategoryID": 2, "Supplier_SupplierID": 2, "UnitsInStock": 0, "UnitsOnOrder": 0, "ReorderLevel": 0, "Discontinued": true } ] } Your task Your task is to calculate the total stock quantity (i.e. the total units in stock) for all current products, i.e. products that are not been marked as discontinued. The result of this calculation should be a number. Once you have calculated the number, which should be an integer, you should hash it and post the hash as a new reply to this discussion thread, as described in Task 0 - Learn to share your task results and in a similar way to how you've done this in the previous task. Hints and tips Like all tasks in this challenge, you are free to approach this one however you see fit. One way would be to request all the products (https://developer-challenge.cfapps.eu10.hana.ondemand.com/odata/v4/northbreeze/Products) and manually sum the values of the relevant UnitsInStock properties. But where's the fun in that? How about requesting the entire products entity set in your favorite language and obtaining result by parsing the response and using that language to make the calculation? You could also use OData's $filter system query option to first reduce the entity set result to only those products that have the value false for the Discontinued property. And what about the $count facility, which in OData V4 is now a system query option as well something you can append to a resource path? This would also be a good opportunity to take your first steps exploring some great new OData V4 features supported by CAP, such as data aggregation. For discussion How did you approach this task? If you used a programming language, which one did you use, and how did you do it? If you used an $apply based data aggregation feature, what was it, and was was your experience using it? ... View more