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Best practices, guidelines, good architecture & lots of stupid questions, etc.
What am I trying to achieve here?Well, a long time ago we were doing our first Web Dynpro Java project on what was then pretty bleeding edge technology from SAP. My colleague Richard Tucker and I...
View ArticleTDD and JavaScript - JavaScript Unit Tests for UI5 Applications
IntroductionUnit-tests are one of the crucial tools in Test-Driven Development (TDD) and should be an important pillar of your test strategy. If you're coming from a different programming language or...
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UI5 Boilerplate explained (Part 1)
In this blog I will describe the structure and concepts behind the UI5 SplitApp Boilerplate. It is a template/skeleton for Mobile UI5 Apps and follows the "Mobile First" approach, but also works on...
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Display Smartform (PDF) in SAPUI5
Introduction -Many times I saw questions on requirement to display smartform in SAPUI5. Below are few threads on same requirement, How to call smart from in sapui5?Print Forms in SAP UI5Open PDF...
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New cocktail: SAPUI5 & Web Page Composer
SAPUI5 has been based on standard & common technologies (JS/HTML5/CSS3) that lets us to deploy / embed wherever we want ( almost ): mobile online or offline (e.g. mixing PhoneGap), NW Portal, ABAP,...
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i181n Confusion, investigation and findings
Hi All, this posting started off as a simple(ish) question I was going to post as a discussion but as I went through building up my findings I ended up answering (some) of my own questions, so thought...
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Test driven development for advanced SAP UI5 Controls
This blog post covers test driven development (TDD) for SAPUI5 Controls by means of QUnit. It focuses on testing of animated UI control with interaction build with third party library.For more details...
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How to create custom control from scratch
Why create a custom control SAPUI5 offers several simple controls like TextField, Label... and really complex controls like ThingCollecion, Table, etc. All SAPUI5 controls are listed...
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Useful sapui5 coding help meta information files
When we write sapui5 code, we often need get the UI5 controls basic meta information: the property, aggregation, events, associations. It is not convenient in current Eclipse environment, as the...
View ArticlePublic SAP Mentor Monday 24 Mar 2014: UI5 with Andreas Kunz
On Monday 24 March 2014 we will have a public SAP Mentor Monday session on the subject of UI5. For those of you who don't know, a public SAP Mentor Monday is an hour-long webinar format where everyone...
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SAPUI5 Apps with secure and user-friendly logon and updates
This is my first blog on SCN which is somewhat late since I have been working with SAP since 1995. I am the CEO of a company called Neptune Software. My co-founder Njål Stabell has pestered me to...
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SAPUI5 Javascript and UniqueID definitions
Does the title of the blog look familiar? Many might think what is going to be different from the way things are working with Java scripts and its UI definitions and the answer is No - Nothing...
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Eclipse ain't all bad - a few tips & tricks that might help
Intro.I've used Eclipse in one form or another for a long, long time now. Mostly in it's NDS/NWDS guise it has always had a certain number of "features" that can drive you round the bend. Often, the...
View ArticleMy First SAPUI5 App, feeling excited!!!
Hi All, Just happened to try some hands on SAPUI5. Created a simple SAPUI5 application which just fetches data from public OData service Northwind into a table. The given application can be used as a...
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Mocking up the Payroll Control Center Fiori App
Following on from a great debate about Fiori and Freeori that stemmed from a post by John Appleby there were some comments about HCM app renewals. Latterly John Moypointed out a post "Improve payroll...
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Getting started with OpenUI5 using WampServer
In this post we’ll set up OpenUI5 version 1.16.8 for use in WampServer and create a Hello-world OpenUI5 app. OpenUI5 can also be used with LAMP, MAMP and XAMPP servers in a similar fashion. Lets get...
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Nested UI Routing in OpenUI5
Hi all, I’m a big fan of the SAP javascript framework called OpenUI5. It’s a big change when you come from WDA but it has a lot more advantages. Besides SAP, there are other Javascript frameworks like...
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Draggable Controls in UI5 !
Hi All, As some were asking about draggable controls in UI5, instead of scratching the head to build draggable UI5 Control i have accomplished it with jQuery draggable and the use of native HTML in UI5...
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Fighting the corner for Eclipse (still)
Intro.Following my last blog post that contained a few hints and tips on how to be more productive with Eclipse, I saw this video that DJ Adams posted over the weekend, along with this supporting blog...
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OpenUI5 with bootstrap for the design
Hi, This blog is an extension on my previous blog about Nested UI routing in OpenUI5. Nested UI Routing in OpenUI5 There I talked about navigation between pages without changing the whole page but only...
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