SAP Fiori Launchpad Designer

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This blog helps you to understand about activities that we perform during FLP custmization. SAP Fiori 3.0 introduced spaces, sections, pages which is not mentioned here. however user willl always have control for which one to choose.

SAP Fiori Launchpad Designer is a tool to configure the Fiori apps as tiles in the Fiori launchpad. It is basically a SAPUI5 application following the Fiori guidelines. It is part of the central UI of every ABAP since 7.40, as well as the Fiori launchpad. It offers below layers

  • Configuration: 
    • Configuration per system.
    • Changes performed have to be saved in a customizing request.
    • Can be accessed by both t-code(/n/ui2/flpd_conf) and URL.
  • Customization: 
    • Customizing per Client.
    • Changes performed have to be saved in a workbench request.
    • Can be accesssed by both t-code(/n/ui2/flpd_cust) and URL.
  • Personalization: 
    • End users can personalize their own settings in Fiori launchpad
    • Changes can be saved as a local object for the default setting
    • Can be accessed by both t-code(/n/ui2/flp) and URL.


SAP Fiori Launchpad: content concept
It SAP Fiori apps are organized throgh the entities.The entities delivered by SAP are divided into technical entities and business entities.
  • Technical catalogs and technical PFCG roles
    • Contain apps per component.
  • Business catalogs, business catalog groups, and business PFCG roles 
    • Contain apps for a specific role.

Technical catalog: it holds tiles and target mappings by technology per solution area, for example, factsheet, analytical, and transactional apps. 

Business catalogs: it holds reference tiles and target mappings of the technical catalogs per solution topic. The content of the business catalog is a subset of the content of the technical catalog. Each business catalog (BC) has one business catalog group (BCG) and business catalog role (BCR), which also includes the business catalog group (BCG).

SAP Businedd Suite on HANA as well as any other database and S4HANA are the available content models in SAP Fiori. The behaviour of above entities may vary for each content models.

The Fiori Launchpad Designer offers the same options as groups, catalogs, and tiles for both customizing and configuration layers.

Catalog:  A catalog is a set of apps the user want to make available for one role. Catalogs can be referenced in the FLP to create copy of the catalog consisting of reference to tiles and target mappings of source catalog. It is good starting point when defining catalogs to start with referencing a catalog shipped by SAP. if SAP ships a new version of catalog, all references immediately use the new version.  

The catalog consists of  

  • Tiles - Consists of General and Navigation settings of Fiori application. three different types are
    • App Launcher - Dynamic 
    • App Launcher - Static
    • News Tile - it shows Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds. 
      
  • Target Mapping: It contains Intent and Target settings of the Fiori application. which holds the information needed to start an application, with what parameters, and on what device types. this is identified by its intent, a combination of semantic object and action.
            


Intent-Based Navigation:
when the user chooses a tile, the intent-based navigation defined in the tile is started. The suitable target mapping then calls the target app that is defined i,e, the combination of sematic object and action. 

Semantic Object:
It represents a business entity such as a customer, a sales order, or a product. Semantic objects allow referring to business entities in a standardized way, abstracting from concrete implementations. All semantic objects delivered by SAP can be accessed by using t-code /n/UI2/SEMOBJ_SAP and can create own using the t-code n/UI2/SEMOBJ.

Groups: Subset of catalog that contains the apps visible on the SAP Fiori launchpad entry page. Which tiles are displayed on a user’s entry page depends on the group assigned to the user’s role.

      

For more information about the latest launchpad content tools

https://blogs.sap.com/2020/09/11/sap-fiori-for-sap-s-4hana-overview-of-tools-for-maintaining-custom-launchpad-content-and-layout/











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