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Removal of Business Groups in SAP BTP ABAP Environment: Switching to Spaces and Pages

2026-01-28T11:58:43.178000+01:00

Recently, we announced My Home in SAP BTP ABAP environment.
My Home is your personalized entry page that provides you with easy access to the business insights and applications you need to do your job with greater speed and agility.

As a prerequisite for My Home, SAP Fiori launchpad spaces and pages need to be enabled.
The spaces mode was developed to offer more flexibility to influence the launchpad layout for specific user groups. Pages are assigned to users via spaces that are assigned to business roles. The business role defines which users see a specific space. By defining pages with meaningful sections, you can define in which order the apps are sorted on the page.

Switching to Spaces and Pages

Spaces and pages have been announced as the standard layout approach for structuring content in the SAP Fiori launchpad with SAP BTP ABAP environment 2302.
Consequently, the classic Fiori launchpad home page with business groups will be removed gradually until 2608 in favor of SAP Fiori launchpad spaces and pages.

Luckily, this is no news: The transition is going on for quite some time now, as spaces and pages are already the default in newly provisioned systems for several years.
The removal of groups will affect newly provisioned systems at first with 2602. Later, with 2605, the switch will take place for existing systems as well.

This means in detail:

With 2602, it is no longer possible to switch between spaces and pages and the classic Fiori launchpad home page with groups in newly provisioned systems.
With 2605, spaces and pages will be the default in existing systems as well. The option to switch to the classic home page with groups will still be available for end users if the administrator has enabled it in the Manage Launchpad Settings app.
With 2608, the option to switch to the classic FLP home page will be removed completely in production systems.

How to Prepare for the Transition

Good news: The transition is straightforward, but there are a few important points to note. Until now, users couldn’t create their own groups in the SAP BTP ABAP environment. They relied on SAP-delivered groups and personalized them by adding, removing, or renaming tiles.

SAP provides predefined spaces and pages with similarly structured content. SAP-delivered groups will be switched to these predefined spaces and pages. Important: user-level personalizations made to the previous groups will not be carried over and will be lost due to the switch. You will need to recreate personal adjustments after the transition.

To be as well prepared as possible, we recommend administrator to enable the switch to spaces and pages now to remain productive after the transition.

Here are our best practices for end users:

Plan the switch carefully and identify which adjustments are important to you.
Document your existing personalizations so you can rebuild them in spaces and pages.
Use SAP’s predefined spaces and pages as a starting point and tailor them to your workflow.

For Administrators: Summary of the Upcoming Changes

As part of the mentioned transition to spaces and pages, SAP will change the SAP Fiori launchpad settings in the Manage Launchpad Settings app for administrators accordingly over the next release upgrades:

With SAP BTP ABAP environment 2602:

The parameter SPACES is removed in newly provisioned systems.
The parameter SPACES_ENABLE_USER is removed in newly provisioned systems.
The parameter SPACES_CUSTOM_HOME is true (ON) as default for all existing and newly provisioned systems. The setting to disable My Home is still available. Since spaces and pages need to be enabled as a prerequisite for My Home, this needs to be manually activated for existing systems.

With SAP BTP ABAP environment 2605:

The parameter SPACES is true (ON) as default in existing systems.
The parameter SPACES_ENABLE_USER is false (OFF) as default in existing systems. The settings to enable switching between the classic FLP homepage and the spaces and pages layout is still available.

With SAP BTP ABAP environment 2608:

The parameter SPACES is removed.
The parameter SPACES_ENABLE_USER is removed.
The parameter SPACES_CUSTOM_HOME is removed.

Ultimately, there will be no option to switch back to groups or to enable toggling between spaces and pages and groups after the SAP BTP ABAP environment 2608 release upgrade. You must complete the transition to spaces and pages before the final, irreversible switch in production systems with the 2608 release upgrade.

We therefore invite all customers to begin transitioning now and proactively embrace this change.

Practical SAPUI5 Form Validation: Name, Email & Password Fields

2026-01-28T14:21:49.330000+01:00

Introduction

Form validation plays a critical role in SAPUI5 applications. It ensures clean data entry, improves user experience, and adds an extra layer of security.

In this blog, In this article, we build a simple employee registration form that focuses on practical, real-world basic validation scenarios as follows:

Allow only alphabets in the Name field
Validate Email format as the user types
Block copy, cut, and paste for the Password field
Show clear, real-time validation feedback

If you are unfamiliar with regex, please refer to my previous article Understanding Regex in JavaScript - A Beginner-Friendly Guide for a better understanding before proceeding.

Let's discuss, along with the use case basic employee registration screen where data quality matters from the start:

Names should not contain numbers or special characters
Email addresses must be structurally valid
Passwords should be typed manually to avoid reuse or weak stored values
Users should immediately know what is wrong and how to fix it

SAPUI5 provides built-in support for this through value states and event handling.

Form.view.xml

<mvc:View
  controllerName="demo.controller.Form"
  xmlns:mvc="sap.ui.core.mvc"
  xmlns="sap.m">

  <VBox class="sapUiSmallMargin">

    <Input
      id="nameInput"
      placeholder="Full Name (Alphabets only)"
      liveChange=".onNameChange" />

    <Input
      id="emailInput"
      placeholder="Email Address"
      liveChange=".onEmailChange" />

    <Input
      id="passwordInput"
      type="Password"
      placeholder="Password (Copy/Paste Disabled)"
      paste=".onPasteBlock"
      copy=".onCopyBlock"
      cut=".onCutBlock" />

    <Button text="Submit" press=".onSubmit" />
  </VBox>
</mvc:View>

Please Note: Using liveChange allows us to validate input as the user types, rather than waiting until submission.

Name Validation (Alphabets Only)

Names typically contain letters and spaces. A following simple regular expression helps enforce this rule.

Form.controller.js

onNameChange: function (oEvent) {
  var sValue = oEvent.getParameter("value");
  var oInput = oEvent.getSource();

  var oRegex = /^[A-Za-z ]+$/; //Alphabets Regex

  if (!oRegex.test(sValue)) {
    oInput.setValueState("Error");
    oInput.setValueStateText("Only alphabets are allowed.");
  } else {
    oInput.setValueState("None");
  }
},

//Accepted: John, Anna Marie
//Rejected: John123, Anna!

Email Validation (Structural Check)

Instead of allowing any string, we validate whether the email follows a basic, widely accepted format.

Form.controller.js

onEmailChange: function (oEvent) {
  var sValue = oEvent.getParameter("value");
  var oInput = oEvent.getSource();

  var oRegex = /^[^\s@]+@[^\s@]+\.[^\s@]+$/; //Email Regex

  if (!oRegex.test(sValue)) {
    oInput.setValueState("Error");
    oInput.setValueStateText("Invalid email format.");
  } else {
    oInput.setValueState("None");
  }
},

//Valid example: test@example.com
//Invalid example: test@, name@mail

Please Note: This doesn’t verify whether the email exists, but it prevents clearly invalid entries early.

Password Security: Blocking Copy, Cut & Paste

For sensitive fields like passwords, allowing paste can lead to reused or insecure credentials. Here, we explicitly block copy, cut and paste actions.

Form.controller.js

onPasteBlock: function (oEvent) {
  oEvent.preventDefault();
  var oInput = oEvent.getSource();
  oInput.setValueState("Error");
  oInput.setValueStateText("Pasting is disabled for security reasons.");
},

onCopyBlock: function (oEvent) {
  oEvent.preventDefault();
},

onCutBlock: function (oEvent) {
  oEvent.preventDefault();
},

Final Submit Check

Before submission, we verify that no field is in an error state.

Form.controller.js

onSubmit: function () {
  var sNameInput = this.byId("nameInput");
  var sEmailInput = this.byId("emailInput");
  var sPasswordInput = this.byId("passwordInput");

  if (
    sNameInput.getValueState() === "Error" ||
    sEmailInput.getValueState() === "Error" ||
    sPasswordInput.getValueState() === "Error"
  ) {
    sap.m.MessageToast.show("Please fix the errors before submitting.");
    return;
  }

  sap.m.MessageToast.show("Form submitted successfully!");
},

This keeps the logic simple and ensures only valid data moves forward.

Conclusion:

With minimal code, we have achieved a clean and secure SAPUI5 form featuring:

Cleaner and more reliable user input
Immediate feedback using SAPUI5 value states
Better password handling for sensitive fields
A smoother and more professional user experience

This approach significantly improves data quality and user experience in SAPUI5 applications.

This is basic form validation using regex, but if you have alternative methods, improvements, or insights, please feel free to share them. I would love to learn from your experience too!

Thank you for taking the time to read this blog! If you found this helpful, i would love to hear your thoughts, feedback or questions in the comments. Let's keep learning and growing together!

I’m still new to blogging, so if you notice anything that could be improved or corrected, please don’t hesitate to let me know.

Fix pdfmake Table Width Issues with Long Continuous Text and Special Characters (SAP UI5)

2026-01-29T05:49:14.250000+01:00

Introduction
I recently hit a really specific edge case while building a PDF feature for our SAP UI5 app. We were using pdfmake, and honestly, everything looked great during standard testing. But then the backend sent over some real-world data—specifically these massive, continuous strings of text—and the whole layout just fell apart.
Even though we had set fixed column widths, the table completely ignored them. The text refused to wrap, spilled right over the borders, and basically ruined the document structure. It’s one of those issues you don't usually catch until you throw messy, non-standard data at your code. In this post, I’ll break down exactly why pdfmake struggles with this and the simple workaround we found to keep the layout intact without changing how the text looks.

Problem Description
We get a specific edge case while building a PDF feature in our SAP UI5 app using pdfmake(pdf playground). Everything looked fine until the backend sent over a massive string of text, which is mix of special characters. Even though we had fixed-width columns, the table ignored them—text wouldn't wrap, it spilled over the cell borders, and basically broke the whole layout.

The issue became easier to reproduce when the input text had:
Very long continuous strings
No spaces
A lot of special characters

Example:
ssssssssss@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@uuuuuuuuuuuuuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Even noWrap: false was already set, it didn’t help.

The reason became evident after studying the text analyzing logic of pdfmake.

When the text consists of a single, continuous word, pdfmake determines the whole length of the string from considering it as a single, unbreakable unit.

Both of the font issue and the PDFmake bug aren't the root cause of this. Wrap points can't be put into continuous text; additionally fonts like Roboto or NotoSans only aid in character rendering.

This will fix when we insert invisible wrap points into the string before sending it to pdfmake.

We used a zero-width space character that is (\u200B), which is invisible for human eye but allows PDF engines to wrap text safely

Code:

function safeBreak(str) {
  return (str || '').replace(/(.{1})/g, "$1\u200B");
}

This will not change the text looks in the PDF, but it gives pdfmake to break point to respect the table width and wrap content correctly.

The user can view the PDF in exactly the same manner. So as for pdfmake is properly wrap the text so the table width, this simply adds a few break points.

This turned out to be a invisible (for human eye) edge case when generating PDFs with dynamic data. Adding zero-width spaces solved the problem without affecting visible output.

Before Applying the Fix

After Applying the Fix

Try the Working Demo
If you want to see how this project, we put together a complete SAP UI5 sample app. It covers the basic pdfmake setup and shows exactly how to handle those long strings inside table cells so they don't break your layout. You can check out the code here: PDF_SAP

Conclusion
Long, unbroken strings are definitely one of those hidden edges when you're generating PDFs with dynamic data. Since pdfmake needs explicit breakpoints to know when to wrap a line, it will break your table layout if it doesn't find them.
We went with the zero-width space (\u200B) in the end because, frankly, it just works. It makes the text wrap properly so the table widths doesn't get destroyed, but visually, you can't tell the difference, this annoying bug can be easily and safely fixed.

Adding Custom Fields to a Fiori App Using Custom Fields and Logic

2026-02-04T08:29:33.635000+01:00

Introduction:

SAP S/4 HANA provides in-app extensibility and the Adaptation Transport Organizer (ATO) framework to safely create, enable and transport custom fields without modifying standard code. In this blog, I will walk through a step-by-step process to set up ATO, prepare custom fields, enable them, publish them and finally add then to a custom Fiori app.

Step 1: Initial ATO (Adaptation Transport Organizer) set up:

Go to transaction SCFD_EUI

2. Close the initial pop up and click on Auto Setup and following screen will populate:

3. Create below packages using SE80:

Local package TEST_KEY_USER_LOCAL
Sandbox package TEST_KEY_USER_SANDBOX

4. Now enter the local and sandbox package name and click on ‘Setup with specific data’.

5. It will then prompt you for a transport, for this first create a workbench transport and assign it in the popup to enter the transport and save your entries.

6. Input table name ‘GMGR’ and field ‘Z*’ and hit Execute:

Step 2 – Understanding Field Statuses

After execution the output screen shows three possible field statuses:

Enabled: This is already enabled and available in custom field APP

Can Be Enabled: This can be enabled by clicking Enable button in tool bar

Preparation Required: Click on Prepare button, it will show the further steps to make it

‘CAN BE ENABLED’ status.

Step3: Changing Status from preparation required to can be enabled

Select ZZPIAR_EMAIL and click on Prepare.

2. The message below will be shown:

3. Go to T-code SE11 and check GMGR table.

4. The field ZZPIAR_EMAIL does not have domain associated

5. Once Domain is created for this field, the status of the field will become ‘CAN BE ENABLED’.

Step4: Enabling the custom field

The below field ZZFINALEXP is in ‘CAN BE ENABLED’ status:

2. Select ZZFINALEXP and click Enable button:

3. Select correct enabling type and click ok:

4. Select the package and create a workbench transport and Provide Transport number at Request/Task click ok.

5. We can see that the field ZZFINALEXP status changed to ‘Enabled’ status:

Step5: Publish the custom Field

Go to T-code /n/ui2/flp
Login to FIORI
Execute ‘custom field’ app
The below screen appears, this app shows all ‘Enabled’ fields, we see ‘Final Expense’ field here which we have enabled in above steps(step3).
Now select ‘FINAL EXPENSE’ field and click on the arrow.

6. The screen below opens, now enable Additional selection-Grant

7. Click on publish

The field is published now.

Step6: Add Custom field to ‘Custom’ App

Now go to the custom app and click on ‘Adapt UI’ as shown below.

2. Now the page becomes ‘Editable’, right click on screen, we can see option add field

3. Select Final expense field here and click OK.

4. Final Expense field will be added to the screen, now click Publish and save and exit.

Conclusion:

By following these steps, you can manage custom fields using SAP’s standard extensibility framework without touching the core objects. This approach reduced upgrade risk, supports transport consistency, and aligns with SAP’s clean-core strategy. The same method can be reused for other tables and fields across S/4HANA landscape.

SAP UX Q1/2026 Update – Part 3: AI (Beta) Innovations in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2602

2026-02-04T13:58:42.831000+01:00

This third post in my series gives an overview of the very latest AI-related user experience innovations in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2602, which are so new that they are only released for customers to try them out via beta testing. Particular highlights are the planned AI-assisted Task Automation via “smart helpers” and the AI-assisted Easy Fill for SAP Fiori elements-based applications. Plus many exciting application-specific UX innovations, where AI helps users get their work done more easily.

In case you missed them, Part 2 of my series covers the generally available UX innovations in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2602, and Part 1 provides general updates about Joule, SAP Work Zone and SAP Mobile Start.

I’ve grouped the AI innovations currently in beta testing into four main sections.

Cross-area UX innovations.
Application-specific Joule agents.
Application-specific AI for helping users deal with errors.
Application-specific embedded AI use cases.

The third section features some Joule agents as well as some embedded AI use cases, all related to helping users deal with errors.

Cross-Area UX Innovations

AI-assisted task automation is an exciting brand new innovation for the 2602 release, planned to become available for beta testing in May with 2602.3, but you can sign up for the beta program already today. The other two innovations, AI-assisted smart solution for situations in My Home and AI-assisted easy fill of SAP Fiori elements-based applications are already available for you to try out. You can try out any of them by signing up here.

Beta: AI-Assisted Task Automation

The planned AI-assisted task automation (beta) allows your key users and end users to automate repetitive activities based on SAP Fiori apps with so-called ”smart helpers”. They are created in a design time and accessed through My Home. What makes this approach so powerful is that you simply need to describe your desired business outcome in natural language, related to a specific SAP Fiori elements-based application, and the smart helper will take care of it for you.

Let us take the example shown in Figure 1: for the application Create Sales Orders – Automatic Extraction, the user has invoked the task automation application Manage Smart Helpers and entered “Select sales order requests with status complete. Simulate the sales order and where the simulation is successful, create the sales order”.

Based on this instruction, SAP Business AI creates an execution plan and shows it to the user, as you can see in Figure 1 too, where the application is listed as well as the proposed actions to execute.

Figure 1: Beta: Manage Smart Helpers application for defining instructions for the planned AI-assisted task automation. Alt Text: Screenshot showing the instruction text at the top, an empty section for attachments, and the execution plan with four steps: read order requests, analyze request data, simulate pending requests, create sales orders.

Figure 2 shows how we currently envisage that users will get an overview of the smart helpers that they have created.

Figure 2: Beta: The planned way of giving users an overview of the AI-assisted task automation smart helpers in My Home. Alt Text: Screenshot of My Home with a section “Smart Helpers” above the “Apps” section, with two tabs “Smart Helpers (4)” and “Active Runs (3)”. The latter is selected, showing three cards with title, description and executed step shown: one is completed, two are running.

Have a look at this video to get a better idea of how this will work:

Video: AI-Assisted Task Automation (2:00 minutes).

Beta: AI-Assisted Smart Solution for Situations in My Home

With this feature, you can now get details of a Business Situation shown directly in place on My Home, and even initiate quick actions or make changes to business data there. This is achieved by expanding the Situation card on My Home when you click on it, as you can see in Figure 3, or in action in this video:

Video: AI-Assisted Smart Solution for Situations in My Home in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition (0:50 min.)

Figure 3: Beta: AI-Assisted Smart Solution for Situations in My Home. Alt Text: An image with two screenshots: the upper one show the top part of My Home showing five Situation cards in the To-Dos section. One titled “End Date for Project Digital Media Assessment for Media Corp…” is linked with an arrow to an expanded card shown in the second screenshot – the card is taller and wider, contains a summary on the left with two action buttons “Assign To Me” and “Close Situation”, and more details on the right.

Beta: AI-Assisted Easy Fill

Users often receive requests via e-mails or chats to change data in the system. This new feature makes it much easier to update the fields in the various sections of an object page based on SAP Fiori elements, such as a sales order. Instead of manually scanning the e-mail and navigating to the relevant sections and fields in the object page, you can just paste the text into Easy Fill and it will automatically identify the correct fields to update, with proposals for the correct entries.

The power of AI means that the new values do not have to be exactly contained in the text. Figure 4 shows an example, where the new address is given without actually mentioning the name of the city, only the street and post code, along with an abbreviation for the state and country (“BW DE”). As you can see, the proposed new values are correct, despite this missing or abbreviated information.

Figure 4: Beta: AI-Assisted Easy Fill for SAP Fiori elements based applications. Alt-Text: A screenshot showing an Easy Fill pop-over, with a text entry field on the left with text from a customer e-mail informing about a change of name and address for their store, and on the left showing the “Filled Fields”, a list of seven fields for which new values are proposed.

Watch a demo:

Video: AI-Assisted Easy Fill of SAP Fiori Elements-Based Applications in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition (1:15 min.)

Note that this feature is only available for applications based on SAP Fiori elements.

Application-Specific Joule Agents

Agents that are specialized on specific application use cases can be particularly effective at helping users get their work done more easily. As you can see with these examples, good use of AI has considerable benefits for user experience.

The first two agents that I have highlighted below are brand new in the beta program with the 2602 release.

Beta: Project Setup Agent

This is new with the 2602 release, available now for beta testing by signing up here. This agent helps project managers create a new project based on a reference project. It also allows them to staff key resources directly and release the project for time booking. By guiding the user step by step, Joule helps to streamline the process and ensure that it is free of errors, so that project managers can spend more time on their projects rather than on administration.

Figure 5: Beta: Project Setup Agent. Alt Text: Four screenshots of Joule. 1) the user prompts “Create Project”; Joule asks for detail like the name. 2) Joule found a similar project. 3) Project successfully created, user prompts “Staff Users”, Joule asks who to staff. 4) User lists names, Joule says Nancy is already booked, user says keep the position open, and ask Joule to notify the staff.

Figure 5 above shows an example, you can dig deeper by watching this video:

Project Setup Agent in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition (1:33 minutes).

Beta: Dispute Resolution Agent

This is also new with the 2602 release, available now for beta testing by signing up here.

In an ideal world, customers pay all your invoices on time, no questions asked. In the real world, customers sometimes dispute payments, claiming that the invoices are incorrect. The new dispute resolution agent helps contract accountants identify and resolve disputes by analyzing both the invoice details and the contractual terms and identifying discrepancies, errors, or mismatches. Based on this analysis, it then suggests how to proceed to resolve the dispute.

Figure 6 shows an example, where the customer has complained that the invoiced amount is too high. Analysis by the dispute resolution agent reveals that the invoice is indeed too high, more than the 2% annual rise in service basis fee stipulated in the contract. It then recommends creating a credit memo.

Figure 6: Beta: Dispute Resolution Agent. Alt Text: Screenshot showing a dispute case full screen application, with Joule opened. User prompted “Help me with dispute 40000000171”, Joule replied with sections Overview, Discrepency Identified, Finding, I recommend, each containing detailed text.

Watch it in action and find out more:

Video: Joule Agents: Dispute Resolution Agent (1:38 minutes).
SAP Discovery Center: Dispute Resolution Agent

Beta: Accounts Receivable Agent (soon GA)

This agent helps accounts receivable (AR) accountants to reduce Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) by prioritizing the closure of open items and highlighting high-value follow-up actions. It analyses receivables data across customer balances, dunning history, and dispute items and makes recommendations based on these data-backed insights.

Overall, the agent reduces the amount of time AR accountants need to spend reconciling and managing receivables. Figure 7 shows an example of an analysis of a specified customer account along with the recommended actions.

The beta-testing program is closed for this agent, we expect it to become generally available in the next month or two.

Figure 7: Beta: Accounts Receivable Agent. Alt Text: Two images of Joule. On the left the user has asked “Analyze overdue balances for GreenWheel Inc….”, Joule shows a card “Analysis” with a list including totals, disputed amount, non-disputed overdue. On the right the Dispute Case Status is shown, and the user asked “Show Recommended Actions”.

Watch the video and read more:

Video: Accounts Receivable Agent (3:19 minutes)
SAP Discovery Center: Accounts Receivable Agent.

Beta: Accounting Accruals Agent

An accrual is an accounting entry which represents revenue which has been earned or expenses which have incurred but for which no payment has yet been made. That way, when looking at a particular period such as a quarter or a month, accountants get a more accurate picture of a company’s financial position. For example, if a service was delivered, but not paid for within the period, having the accrual means that the cost of delivering the service and the revenue associated with it both appear in the summary for the period.

Calculating accruals and deferrals is often time very time consuming. It can also require estimates based on historical data, if for example invoices have not yet been created, or payment amounts can be reduced if payments are made quickly in the future.

The new accounting accruals agent can significantly speed this up, potentially reducing the time spent on these activities by 80%! This frees up accountants to work on more value-adding activities, such as analysis. As you can see in Figure 8, the agent creates a list of accrual proposals. For each proposal, you can see details on the recommendation, including an explanation for the basis of the recommendation.

Figure 8: Beta: Accrual Proposals made by the accounting accruals agent. Alt Text: A screenshot of the Accrual Proposals applications, showing a list of six accrual proposals on the left. The details of the one selected are shown on the right, showing the recommended accrual amount, the proposed line items and a section “Basis of AI Recommendation” with a natural language explanation along with a bar chart and a forecast line for the trend per month.

Watch this video to find out more:

Video: Accounting Accruals Agent (1:36 min.)
SAP Discovery Center: Accounting Accruals Agent.

Beta: Cash Management Agent

Cash managers need to manage the company’s liquidity, by transferring money to accounts that are in the red and making informed decisions on investment or borrowing opportunities. With the Cash Management Agent, Joule gives the cash manager an overview of the current cash position by collecting opening balances and expected cash flows, and then calculating expected closing balances. Joule automatically identifies potential cash shortages and surpluses according the customer’s treasury policy, and proposes appropriate bank transfers. This reduces the time needed to retrieve the relevant data and make informed decisions significantly.

Figure 9 shows an example where the cash manager asks “Show me my priorities today”, Joule provides the daily cash position summary with the main negative and positive accounts, and makes proposals for bank transfers.

Figure 9: Beta: Cash Management Agent. Alt Text: Six images of Joule, on the very left the start screen with options as buttons. 1) The user chooses “Show me my priorities today”. 2) shows a Daily Cash Position Summary card, with tables for positive and negative balance accounts; 3) shows the user has scrolled horizontally in the table to show the opening balances. 4) Joule shows bank transfer proposals, each with a “Select” button. 5) Details of the one the user chose. 6) User entered “Confirm and Create”, Joule informs successfully created.

Find out more here:

Video: Cash Management Agent
SAP Discovery Center: Cash Management Agent

Beta: Production Planning and Operations Agent

This agent helps production planners save time releasing production orders. It checks material, capacity and scheduling availability. If there are no issues, the orders can be released immediately. Where it helps most is in cases where there are material shortages: it suggests workarounds such as alternative components or materials or adjusting schedules. Once all the criteria are satisfied, the planner can release the order directly within Joule, and the agent will complete the production order release.

Figure 10: Beta: Production Planning and Operations Agent. Alt Text: Screenshot of the “Manage Product Orders” app, with Joule opened, stating that a production order has been released, but a component is not available, and suggests to reschedule to a later date. The user entered “Reschedule and release”, and Joule confirmed success.

See it in action and read about it:

Video: Production Planning and Operations Agent
SAP Discovery Center: Production Planning and Operations Agent.

If you are interested in trying this out, you can sign up here.

Beta: International Trade Classifications Agent

I am highlighting this because it can save users 50% of their time, in some cases up to 80%! (as verified by user research with our first customers). The job to be done here by product classification specialists is to classify products that are to be shipped abroad. They need to assign the correct customs tariff numbers and commodity codes according to trade regulations, and provide a rationale for their decision so that the whole process is compliant and will hold up in an audit.

The process is labor intensive and error prone, since a few trade compliance specialists typically need to handle a high number of complex products (goods, software, services).

The International Trade Classifications Agent helps enormously here, since it looks at a product’s characteristics as maintained in the system, and then recommends the appropriate classification, with an easy to understand rationale for the recommendation. Even better: if there are potentially many classifications, it will rank them and provide a rationale for each one. Figure 11 shows an example for a fitness watch that needs to be classified.

Figure 11: Beta: International Trade Classifications Agent. Alt Text: A screenshot of Classify Products, with a list of four AI-generated proposals for product classification, each with a “Select Proposal” button.

Watch this video to get the full picture, using the fitness watch as an example:

Video: International Trade Classification Agent (3:50 minutes).
SAP Discovery Center: International Trade Classification Agent.

If you are interested in trying this out, you can sign up here.

Beta: Maintenance Planner Agent (Soon GA)

This agent helps maintenance planners manage and prioritize maintenance tasks, thus ensuring equipment reliability and minimizing downtime.

Video: SAP S/4HANA Asset Management – Maintenance Planner Agent (2:41 minutes).
SAP Discovery Center: Maintenance Planner Agent.

The beta-testing program is closed for this agent, we expect it to become generally available in the next month or two.

Application-Specific AI for Helping Users Deal with Errors

Dealing with errors takes a lot of time and effort, and can also be frustrating. Hence we have identified areas where AI can help. In my previous blog post I featured the AI-Assisted Error Explanation which is generally available now. This feature uses AI to explain error messages from the system when incorrect data is entered into the application.

Application-specific errors are more complex to deal with, since they turn up when a process has started and subsequently runs into issues. This example of AI-assisted error resolution using Joule is already generally available:

AI-assisted posting issue handling for billing documents
supports tasks related to resolving such issues and managing billing documents, including providing resolutions for posting errors caused by an unopened posting period, enabling the posting of valid billing documents, and allowing users to modify the billing date of existing billing documents as needed.
- Video: Process Billing Documents with Posting Issues (2:47 minutes).
- Blog post: How to Handle Posting Issues for Billing Documents Using Joule.

AI-Assisted Error Resolution for Product Cost Accounting

This is new for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2602, planned to be available with the Joule 2603 release in March.

Errors are brought to a user’s attention via Intelligent Situation Handling notifications and To-Dos on My Home, but users can also directly ask Joule to “show my errors in company code XXX” to get an overview. Joule will display the errors , help you discover the root cause and guide you through the resolution with clear, step‑by‑step instructions, as shown in Figure 12.

Figure 12: AI-Assisted Error Resolution for Cost Accounting (planned availability with Joule 2603 release). Alt Text: Five Joule images, starting with the list of situations, then showing the Explanation and Resolution content, which spans the other four images, with three detailed steps for the user, and at the end links to apps to use. Find out more here:

Video: AI-Assisted Error Resolution for Cost Accounting (2:00 minutes).
Documentation: AI-Assisted Error Resolution.

Beta: AI-Assisted Payment Exception Analysis

Most payments to vendors are automated, the first step being the payment proposal run which checks for payments that are ready to be made. Errors that surface after such a run need to be checked and resolved manually, which can be time consuming. This is where the new payment exception analysis comes in handy: it helps accounts payable (AP) accountants to identify the root cause of the error, giving them the context, and a step-by-step guide for resolving the issue. Figure 13 below shows an example.

Figure 13: Beta: AI-Assisted Payment Exception Analysis. Alt Text: Screenshot of the Revise Payment Proposals app with an Exception Analysis and Resolution pop-over, with sections “Analysis”, “Resolution” and “Logs”.

Watch it in action and find out more:

Video: AI-Assisted Payment Exception Analysis (1:21 minutes)
SAP Discovery Center: Payment Exception Analysis.

Application-Specific Embedded AI Use Cases

Beyond dealing with errors and exceptions, we also have a number of interesting cases available for beta testing where AI helps users get their work done directly within their application. I have chosen to feature just one of these, but after that you will find links to more examples.

Beta: EHS Permit Management

This new feature also has huge potential for saving effort and cost: we estimate 65% cost reduction in environmental permit management cost, and 80% reduction in environmental management penalties and fines. In other words: a huge improvement in user experience and user satisfaction!

Environmental, health and safety regulations can range from a few pages to hundreds of pages, depending on what it is regulating. Checking these documents and ensuring that your company is compliant, with all the necessary tasks in place to stay compliant, is a tedious and time-consuming task.

This new permit management feature automatically extracts and sets up an EHS- permit from PDF documents. It identifies all the requirements and makes proposals for the necessary tasks, ranging from simple ones to maintenance notification tasks and reporting tasks. The user can flip through the regulatory document in the left side of the screen. For each page that they look at, they see highlighted the part of the document containing a concrete requirement, and on the right side of the screen a list of proposed tasks. With one click, the user can select a proposed task and create an actual task. Figure 14 shows an example.

Figure 14: AI-Assisted Permit Management for SAP EHS Management, environment management. Alt Text: Screenshot showing one page of a PDF document on the left with a paragraph higlighted, and a list of proposed tasks on the right.

Have a look at this video to see it in action, in particular how users can select from the proposed tasks to create tasks:

Video: EHS Permit Management.
SAP Discovery Center: EHS Permit Management.

Additional Use Cases for Embedded AI in Beta

Here are three more examples for AI embedded in applications, helping users get their work done more easily.

Beta: AI-Assisted Compliance Information Processing

With this innovation, master data specialists can automatically process supplier compliance disclosures information such as regulations, status and upstream suppliers data, and map it to compliance requirements in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition for product compliance.

Video (1:28 minutes) and SAP Discovery Center entry.

Beta: AI-Assisted Safety Instruction Generation

This innovation for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, EHS workplace safety, automatically generates clear, structured and easy-to-understand safety instructions for specific equipment.

Video (1:35 minutes) and SAP Discovery Center entry.

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I hope you enjoyed this third part, covering the new UX innovations available for beta testing with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2602. Here's a link to part four, covering exciting new UX innovations available in SAP Success Factors:

SAP UX Q1/2026 Update – Part 4: SAP SuccessFactors (AI, Joule and More).

Do keep posting your experiences and recommendations yourself in the SAP Community, with the SAP Fiori and/or the User Experience tag! In case you are wondering how to get a list of the most recent blog posts on SAP Fiori and User Experience in our new SAP Community, use these links:

TCode也能快速启动了

2026-02-06T06:01:41.135000+01:00

在之前介绍2602版本新功能的博客里，我提到了被广大SAP用户熟知的/n和/o的快捷键指令也能在ERP公有云版本中使用了。比如我在搜索框中输入/nf2450，就会打开f2450对应的应用：IAM信息系统：

之前，通过这样的方式打开应用只支持Fiori的应用，不支持WebGui版本的应用。但被广大SAP用户所熟知的都是以前那些常用的TCode，比如VA01，VA02，VA03，MM01，MIGO等等。

现在，我们这个快速启动应用的功能做了改进，也支持WebGui的应用了，也就是那些常用的TCode也能快速启动了！

比如，我在搜索框中输入/nVA03：

系统就会在当前页面打开“显示销售凭证”的WebGUI版本的应用：

再比如，我们常用的TCode：MIGO，当我输入/nMIGO后：

系统就在当前页面打开了我们最常用的MIGO应用：

快速总结一下：

搜索框中/n和/o的快捷指令从2602版本开始支持。
除了支持Fiori ID外，以前的TCode（如果有相应的WebGUI应用）也支持了，这对于SAP ERP的老用户非常友好，进而提升工作效率。

SAP UX Q1/2026 Update – Part 4: SAP SuccessFactors (AI, Joule and More)

2026-02-09T10:23:23.505000+01:00

This fourth post in my series gives an overview of user experience innovations in SAP SuccessFactors. The major UX highlight is the new home page design. Beyond that, we’ll look at examples of good UX in applications, new Joule, AI, and analytics capabilities helping users become more effective, and enhanced integration into Microsoft Teams.

Before reading this, do read the first blog post introducing the series and providing general information about Joule, SAP Build Work Zone and SAP SuccessFactors Work Zone, and SAP Mobile Start, along with links to all the published parts of this blog post series:

SAP UX Q1/2026 Update – Part 1: AI, Joule, SAP Build Work Zone, SAP Mobile Start.

Also, if you missed it, do have a look at the many UX innovations which already came out with the SAP SuccessFactors 1H2025 release:

SAP UX Q3/2025 Update – Part 4: SAP SuccessFactors (AI, Joule and More).

Our strategy for user experience has three aspects for helping users save time and effort, and helping their business run better:

Enjoyable: providing a modern, accessible user experience, consistent and integrated, with good usability.
Better: helping users achieve better outcomes with AI and embedded analytics.
Together: helping users work together in teams.

In this post, I have picked the following highlights from the latest SAP SuccessFactors 2H2025 release showcasing each of these aspects:

Enjoyable: design and usability enhancements
o. New Home Page design (web and mobile) and WalkMe update.
o. Examples of good UX in Workforce Management.

Better outcomes with AI and Analytic
o. Career and Talent Development for employees and managers: skills, succession.
o. Performance and Goals: Joule agent, AI and analytics for managers.
o. Additional Joule support for employee self-services

Together: supporting collaboration in teams
o. Joule integration into Microsoft Teams.
o. AI-assisted quick writing available im Microsoft Teams

Enjoyable: Design and Usability Enhancements

The new home page design for the product will benefit all users. When it comes to specific applications, the 2H2025 release has a huge number of great enhancements, so it wasn’t easy to pick ones to highlight. I have chosen to include some of the innovations in Workforce Management. At the end of the blog post you’ll find links to all the news for the 2H2025 release.

New Home Page Design (Web)

The new Home Page design not only looks better, it also gives users tangible benefits, by becoming more intuitive and efficient, streamlining navigation and supporting personalization.

As you can see in Figure 1, the new design is cleaner and more attractive. The top navigation row contains Quick Actions, more compact than before. Below that the greeting section is new, with quick links and cards featuring timely and relevant information going beyond the user’s workflow actions and to-dos.

Figure 1: New Home Page for SAP SuccessFactors. Alt Text: Screenshot showing all the sections described in the text.

As you can see in Figure 1, we have separated Quick Actions and the Quick Links: the Quick Actions row at the very top allow users to quickly make updates or look at information while staying on the home screen: clicking on one of the Quick Actions opens a pop-over in which the user can do the action. Figure 2 shows two examples, where the user has chosen the Manage My Team and Give Feedback Quick Actions.

Figure 2: Quick Actions in the new home page. Alt Text: two screenshots each showing pop-overs for quick actions for (1) Manage My Team, with a list of team members on the left and two columns with links to actions, in groups “Change”, “View” and “Other actions”, (2) Give Feedback, with fields for the person, the topic and three questions (what went well, what to improve, additional comments).

Greeting Section: this section contains Quick Links on the left, that take you directly to the respective applications. On the right, the system displays cards featuring timely and relevant information that extend beyond the user’s workflow actions and to-dos.

Needs Attention: As before, tasks, to-dos, and workflow actions are available on the home page, but now with the improved design it is more intuitive and easier to use. The Needs Attention section provides a stack of cards for each type of task, to-do or action. They are displayed in just one row, within a carousel. If you have more than one card in the stack, the “View All” link opens a pop-over where you can see and interact with all the cards. Figure 3 shows an example, where the user has clicked on “View All (5)” in the leftmost card (shown in Figure 1) representing “Compensation Planning”.

Figure 3: Needs Attention “View All” example, showing all tasks of type “Remind a team member to complete pending tasks”. Alt Text: Screenshot of a pop-over showing a card for each of the five team members, each with the task type as title and a “Send Email” button.

Organizational Updates: This section is for links to organizational information, including custom cards for company initiatives or messages. As you can see, we have standardized the card pattern and display information using only the smaller-sized cards here.

Explore More: this is where customers have more freedome to place data visualization and banner cards. With the 2H2025 we provide two analytic cards that can be made available there: Time Sheet Status and Upcoming Absences. Find out more in the

Documentation: Analytical Cards on the Latest Home Page.

Personalization: at the very bottom of the home page (see Figure 1), you have a “Personalize your home page experience” button to do that, via a pop-over (Figure 4). You can personalize the selection of Quick Actions, Quick Links and also choose whether you want your name to appear in the Greeting section or not.

Figure 4: Personalization of the home page. Alt Text: A screenshot of the home page with a popover “Home Page Settings” with three tabs “Greeting”, “Quick Links” (selected), and “Quick Actions”, and a list of links to choose from (Time Sheet, Team Absence Calendar,…), all currently selected.

Watch it in action and find out more about the new home page for web and mobile here:

Video: Meet the New Homepage & Mobile Experience in SAP SuccessFactors – 2H 2025 Release (3:10 minutes)
SAP SuccessFactors HCM: Updated Home Page 2H 2025
More design backround: Exciting updates are coming to your SAP SuccessFactors home page!

New Home Page Design (Mobile)

We have also updated the SAP SuccessFactors mobile app correspondingly (Figure 5). You can see the Quick Actions along the top of the Home screen, above the Needs Attention section. To-Dos are on a separate screen, divided into two tabs Approvals and Other, with a section for each type of To-Do. Filters at the top of the screen let you quickly get to those To-Dos you are most interested in at the moment.

Figure 5: New Home and To-Do design for SAP Success Factors mobile app. Alt Text: Two mobile screens, on the left the Home screen, with Quick Actions at the top, then “Needs Attention” and “Featured” sections, each with a row of cards. On the right the To-Do screen, with Approve and Other tabs, above filters for “My Team”, “Learning Assignments”,…, and sections “My Team (7)” and “Learning Assignments (4)”, each with one row of cards.

Easy On-Boarding with WalkMe

The new home page is intuitive, so that most users should be able to adapt to it easily. To ensure that all users feel comfortable with it, we have adapted the WalkMe onboarding tour to explain how to use the new home page. The short video in Figure 6 shows what this looks like:

Figure 6: WalkMe for the new home page. Alt Text: A video showing WalkMe appearing as an overlay on the home page, starting with an “Explore updated home page” pop-over, followed by pop-overs next to each explained feature.

Examples of Good UX in Workforce Management

I’d like to highlight the new capabilities for workforce scheduing and geofencing for time tracking.

SAP SuccessFactors Workforce Scheduling

The brand-new shift scheduling solution SAP SuccessFactors Workforce Scheduling is for companies that need to plan their production workforce schedules. It enables demand-driven workforce planning, supporting both weekly and monthly shift plans that account for operational requirements, employee skills, and labor regulations.

As you can see in Figure 7, it makes it easy for users (schedulers) to get visibility into workforce availability, allowing them to minimize downtime, increase productivity, and better align labor supply with business demand.

Figure 7: Workforce scheduling. Alt Text. Screenshot of a schedule with a list of people on the left and a calendar on the right with rows corresponding to the people, showing who is allocated to which shift on which day. The screenshot shows a shift being assigned, with a date-picker popover.

Geofencing in SAP SuccessFactors Time Tracking

In this release, customers can leverage a new geofencing feature that helps ensure employees clock in and out only when physically present at their designated work location. Geofences can be defined for specific groups, with real-time visibility into proximity, helping to improve compliance with location-based policies and prevent time recording outside authorized areas.

Figure 8: Geofencing. On the left: defining the geofences. On the right: what it looks like for a user clocking time on a smart phone. Alt Text: Two screenshots: on the left the app Manage Geofences with a list of locations on the left, and on the right for the selected one a map with areas marked with a circle, a triangle and a polygon. On the right a mobile screen for clocking time, showing the user’s location within the marked circle on a map, and a “clock time” button.

Read more about these in this blog post:

Second Half 2025 Release: What's new in SAP SuccessFactors solutions for Workforce Management

Better outcomes with AI and Analytics

SAP SuccessFactors continues to invest heavily AI and analytics to help users work more effectively with a better overall experience. I have chosen to highlight how employees benefit when planning their careers and their further development, how employees and managers benefit when they need to evaluate performance and goals, and how Joule is making employee self-services easier:

Career and Talent Development for employees and managers: skills, succession
Performance and Goals: Joule agent, AI and analytics for managers
Additional Joule support for employee self-services

Career and Talent Development for employees and managers: skills, succession

Automatically Create Skills from Resume

A system, or for that matter a manager, can only help people grow in the direction they would like if they know what skills a person has, and what development goals they aspire to reaching. This means you need to have people’s skills maintained in SAP SuccessFactors in order for the system to guide employees and managers.

People often have a wide variety of skills, so manually maintaining the full list of their skills is time-consuming and can mean that people don’t bother – resulting in a lack of data in the system.

Now, the 2H2025 release uses AI to make this much easier: users can simply attach their resume, and the system will extract skills from there automatically. Figure 9 shows an example.

Figure 9: Using AI to extract skills from your resume. Alt Text: Screenshot of the Growth Portfolio app with an “Add from Resume” pop-over, showing the file name Resume.pdf and a list of 16 skill groups, such as “Agile Methodology”, “Communication Skills”, each with a check box for selecting to add or not.

Once the skills have been created, you will want to be able to easily search through them or filter them – which is why we have introduced search and filtering to the skills page, as shown in Figure 10.

Figure 10: Search and filter your skills. Alt Text: Screenshot of Growth Portfolio app with a filter bar at the top with a search field and filter fields for Proficiency Level, Categories, Tags, and Time Period. The page shows three rows of six cards, each representing a skill with a horizontal chart shosing the current level of proficiency on a 1 to 5 scale.

AI-Recommended Development Goals Based On Skills

Now that you have your full set of skills maintained in the system you can start using SAP SuccessFactors to guide your growth. This is an important enabler of our goal to empower employees to take control of their professional development.

After maintaining your development goals, the 2H2025 release of SAP SuccessFactors uses AI to make recommendations for suitable learning courses and available assignments relevant to achieving your goals. Figure 11 shows an example.

Also new: development goals can now be transferred between multiple jobs held by the same person, ensuring continuity in their growth within the company.

Figure 11: AI recommendations for learning and assignments based on skills and development goals. Alt Text: Screenshot of Goal Details, showing a card for Linked Assignments above the main section Opportunities to Grow, containing two cards: one for Learning, one for an Assignment. Each card has an image, title and a few details.

AI and Analytics for Managing Career and Talent Development

People Intelligence, our new people analytics application, is now generally available. It is built on SAP Business Data Cloud, and fully integrated in SAP SuccessFactors. It offers intuitive dashboards, AI-assisted insights supported by Joule, and hundreds of HR metrics. To help customers get started, the application includes nine pre-built use cases, each for a specific HR domain.

One of these pre-built use cases is Skills Insights. It helps to identify existing skill strengths and gaps in the organization, to compare current skills to target proficiency levels, and to align workforce capabilities with your organization’s priorities. Figure 12 shows an example of the overview page, from where you can drill down into further detailed views.

Figure 12: An example overview page of Skills Insights. Alt Text: Screenshot showing various charts (line chart, horizontal bar charts, heat map) for Skills Adoption Overview, Employees with Skills, Most Adopted Skills, Proficiency Overview.

Find out more about Skills Insights in:

Documentation: Skills Insights.

Career Development Insights is another of the pre-built use cases. Figure 13 shows an example of the development goals page that offers insights into participation rates, alignment with learning and critical skills, and organizational progress.

Figure 13: An example of the development goals within Career Development Insights. Alt Text: Screenshot showing a panel on the left with filters, on the right two sections: Summary, with numerical KPIs; Details, with four horizontal bar charts and a donut chart showing number of employees with goals, goal status, most and least popular skills.

Find out more about Career Development Insights in:

Documentation: Career Development Insights.

AI Successor Recommendation Based On Skills

Another example of how SAP SuccessFactors uses AI to give people a better user experience is the new skill-based successor recommendations capability. This uses AI to identify who would be best suited to be your successor, by matching skill sets and attributes to the specific role requirements. Figure 14 shows what it looks like.

By analyzing skill proficiency levels and internal work experience in the employee growth portfolio, it recommends potential successors who might have been overlooked using traditional metrics.

Figure 14: AI successor recommendation based on skills. Alt Text: Screenshot of Succession app showing org chart view for manager John Williams with 3 successors underneath his image. There is a pop-over for John, with details of the position, and a list of three other suggested successors. For the first one, Michael Pittman, a further pop-over “Role Readiness Explanation” is shown listing five matched skills and competencies and four unmatched ones.

Performance and Goals: Joule Agent, AI and Analytics for Managers

When the time arrives for managers to review the performance of their team members, they typically need to reserve a considerable amount of time in getting an overview of each person’s activities, achievements, and feedback they have received.

Now, managers can save a lot of time by using the new Performance and Goals Agent within the SAP SuccessFactors Performance and Goals solution. Using Joule, managers get AI-guided insights – for example, into their areas of strength, areas needing improvement, goal progress summaries, key accomplishments, and development recommendations. Figure 15 shows an example.

Figure 15: Performance and Goals Agent. Alt Text: Joule in full screen mode, with a prompt “I have to meet with Christine Dolan about her performance. What should I know about her areas of strength and what she needs to improve?”. Below that the reply in two sections “Areas of Strength” and “Areas Needing Improvement”, containing bullet points.

The UI for managers to enter their assessment is intuitive, as shown in Figure 16. Now, with the 2H2025 release, HR departments can define business rules that trigger actions for users based on what they have entered. For example, a rule might stipulate that a low rating requires a comment to be entered, resulting in the comment field only being exposed when a user actually gives such a rating.

Have a look at many more examples of how the agent helps managers:

Video: Introducing the Performance & Goals AI Agent in SAP SuccessFactors (3:27 minutes).

Also helpful for managers is the enhancement of the AI-powered Writing Assistant that is now available: they can use it to help formulate comments for performance ratings, as shown in Figure 16, and in the video linked above.

Figure 16: AI Writing Assistant for formulating comments when rating performance, embedded in the intuitive performance review UI. Alt Text: Screenshot of Performance feedback app, showing a list of goals with manager and employee rating, and a panel on the right with evaluation details for the goal “Ensure production documentation complies with standards”. The comments field is in focus, with a popover “Generate Comments” listing suggested texts – “Regularly review and update documentation” is highlighted.

Performance Insights

People Intelligence also comes with pre-built use cases for the performance and goals area, giving managers insights into performance metrics across the organization. Figure 17 shows an example of an overview.

Figure 17: Performance Overview in Performance Insights provided by People Intelligence. Alt Text: Screenshot with three sections Overview (showing KPIs), and Performance Distribution and Performance Rating Changes, containing a line chart, horizontal bar charts and a donut chart.

Find out more about what’s new for Performance and Goals here:

Additional Joule support for employee self-services

Employees typically only rarely interact with the HR system, so they are casual users, who especially need an easy to understand, intuitive user experience. Joule helps here enormously, since users can just state what they want and Joule will help.

With the 2H2025 release, we have added further Joule actions. Users can now upload files directly through Joule in the flow of supported Joule scenarios, view organizational information of themselves or others, view extended time-off data, and create half-day leave requests based on scheduled working time. Figure 18 shows examples for a half day leave request and for viewing time off guidelines.

The “explain my pay” feature, that I highlighted in my previous UX blog post on SAP SuccessFactors, is now also available for employees in Mexico and in Germany – in their respective languages (Spanish and German). Figure 18 shows an example for Mexico.

Figure 18: Further Joule actions available now. Alt Text: three images of Joule: 1) with prompt “I wann apply half day leave tomorrow morning”, with Joule showing time off request; 2) “what is the time off guideline”, with Joule summarizing time off types and purposes; 3) “Explique mis deducciones”, with Joule providing a pay explanation in Spanish.

Together: Supporting Collaboration in Teams

Users working with Microsoft Teams can chat directly with Joule from within Teams, as well as benefitting from AI-assisted quick writing directly in-place.

Joule integration into Microsoft Teams

Users can now access chat with Joule while using Microsoft 365 Copilot within Microsoft Teams, as shown in Figure 19.

Figure 19: Access Joule from Microsoft Teams via Microsoft 365 Copilot. Alt Text: A screen showing Copilot open in Teams, where the user has typed in “show my leave requests”.

AI-assisted Writing Available in Microsoft Teams

Furthermore, AI-assisted writing is now built into the SAP SuccessFactors quick actions that are available to users in Microsoft Teams, such as giving feedback or creating activities. This helps users communicate more clearly and consistently, and save them time in formulation too. Figure 20 shows an example for giving feedback directly from within Teams.

Figure 20: AI-assisted writing in Microsoft Teams. Alt Text: A screenshot of Microsoft Teams showing Quick Actions for SAP SuccessFactors behind a pop-over for giving feedback, with some text entered into the “What went well?” question and a context menu pop-over listing the writing assistant menu items, with “Enhance Writing” in focus.

Further Information on 2H2025 Release Highlights

These four assets give you an overview of the overall release highlights for 2H2025, in increasing level of detail:

The following posts give details of innovations in the 2H2025 release in these areas:

Finally, for all the details, have a look at the documentation:

SAP SuccessFactors What’s New Viewer.

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I hope you enjoyed this fourth part, covering SAP SuccessFactors, with great new user experiences helping employees and managers work more efficiently and effectively.

Here's a link to part five, covering latest UX innovations for managing your supply chain with SAP Integrated Business Planning:

SAP UX Q1/2026 Update – Part 5: Innovations in SAP Integrated Business Planning.

Part 1 of the series lists all the parts, and links to those parts that have already been published:

SAP UX Q1/2026 Update – Part 1: AI, Joule, SAP Build Work Zone, SAP Mobile Start.

Welcome to the Technology Learning Group!

2026-02-09T10:28:41.705000+01:00

We’re excited to welcome you to our brand-new Technology Learning group – your go-to space for learning SAP technologies and growing your skills together with a global community of learners.

This is where SAP technology enthusiasts come together to explore topics such as SAP HANA, ABAP, authorizations in SAP S/4HANA, SAP Fiori, and SAP Cloud ALM (CALM). Connect with SAP experts, exchange ideas with fellow learners, and stay inspired on your learning journey.

As a member of the Technology Learning group, you’ll be the first to hear about new courses, course updates, live learning sessions, and certification news. We’ll keep you informed and help you stay one step ahead as SAP technologies continue to evolve.

This community is all about learning. It complements—rather than replaces—the existing SAP Community groups that focus on product-specific discussions and troubleshooting. For deep dives into product features or technical issues, those groups remain the best place to connect with developers and consultants.

Here, the focus is on learning content: courses, learning journeys, certifications, and live sessions. It’s a welcoming and supportive space where no question is too small. Everyone here is learning—just like you—so feel free to ask, share, and join the conversation.

We’re here to support you every step of the way, whether you’re getting started with a new topic, progressing through your learning journey, or preparing for certification. Watch out for expert blog posts, tips, and guidance designed to help you succeed.

Join us and take the next step in your SAP Technology Learning journey

Implementing Authorization Checks for Data Modification Using CDS Access Controls

2026-02-09T15:31:50.886000+01:00

Introduction

Using CDS Access control we can restrict data selection access. It allows you to put checks on the data using standard authorization object and limiting values for the same

e.g. This is one of the standard access control for Profit Center

In this blog, we will look at how access control can be used to control UI‑level modifications—for example, managing the visibility of Create, Edit, and Delete options—without the need for additional custom coding.

Backend Implementation

To begin, create a CDS view that lists all business objects requiring this authorization control. Add an entry for each operation—such as create or edit. For demo, I’ve included activity '02' (change).

Next, define an Access Control object that links your CDS view to the relevant authorization object. This authorization object will be maintained for the associated Fiori application. Set the required activity type based on the configuration in your CDS access control.

In this example, I’ve used the standard CDS view I_PROFITCENTER, but you can replace it with your own entity that needs authorization‑based restrictions.

When a user with the correct authorization views the CDS data,

User not having authorization for activity will see content as below

Once the CDS view is ready, include it as an association within your main entity that is exposed via your OData service:

...

association[0..1] to ZTEST_BO_AUTH as _BOAuth

on cdsviewname = 'I_PROFITCENTER'

{

...,

_BOAuth

}

Applying Authorization in the Fiori UI

In your Fiori application, bind the visibility or enabled property of Create/Edit/Delete buttons to the isEditable property provided by this child association:

{/ZTEST_BO_AUTH('I_ProfitCenter')/isEditable}

Get this entityset loaded at the beginning.

var oModel = this.getView().getModel();

oModel.read("/ZTEST_CBO_AUTH", {

urlParameters: {

"$filter":"BusinessObjectID eq 'I_PROFITCENTER'",

"$orderby":"isEditable desc"

success: function (oData) {

if (oData?.results ) {

var bEditable = oData.results[0].isEditable; // boolean conversion

}

When a user without activity '02' opens the app, the Edit button will no longer appear.

Conclusion

Using CDS Access Controls is one of the clean way to enforce consistent authorization across backend services and Fiori UIs. Instead of scattering checks across controllers and handlers, developers can define access rules once and rely on CDS to enforce them everywhere. This low‑code technique reduces maintenance effort and makes the implementation much easier.

SAP Fiori for SAP S/4HANA Cloud – New User Experience Switch Enhanced Explained

2026-02-11T10:52:06.571000+01:00

In SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, the New User Experience Switch has been enhanced to make change even easier for you and your business users.

Examples of New Version Switch messages

Find out how:

The New User Experience Switch makes change easier
What’s New in the New User Experience Switch for 2602
What you need to do as a business user
What you need to do as an administrator
FAQ

Making change easier with New User Experience Switch

“Progress is impossible without change.” George Bernard Shaw

In SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud Edition, you receive the latest innovations every 6 months.

With each new release, new apps are phased-in and sometimes old apps may need to phased-out.

For business users that means moving from an old app to the new app that replaces it.

You will have at least 12 months (2 x releases) to make the shift. Sometimes that 12 months can pass very quickly. It can help to have a little push in the right direction to get you started.

The New User Experience Switch makes change easier by:

Letting you know a new app is being phased-in
Encouraging you to try out the new app
Warning you when the old app is being phased-out
Giving you a gentle push to move to the new app before time is up!

You only see the New User Experience Switch if you are using an app that is planned to be phased-out.

How does the New User Experience Switch work in 2602

The New User Experience switch was first introduced with release 2502 and has been enhanced in releases 2508 and 2602.

The New Experience Switch consists of a popover displayed when launching the old app and a toggle button in the shell bar that allows users to switch between the old and new app. The switch changes appearance depending on the stage of the app replacement to an Information, Warning, or Alert message.

Information

In this stage the New Experience Switch lets users know that a new app version is being phased-in, explains its benefits in comparison to the old one and encourages users to try it.

New User Experience Switch - Information message example

If you like the new app, you can opt-in to start using it immediately. During phase-in, you can switch back to the old app at any time.

Warning

As soon as the old app is to be phased out (also known as deprecated), the New Experience Switch changes to the Warning mode to let users know that the app will be removed in an upcoming release.

Example of a New Version Warning message

Alert

In the last release before the old app is finally removed, the New User Experience switch indicates the urgency for users and shows when the app will be removed.

Example of a New Version Alert message

IMPORTANT: Once the app has been removed, you must move to the new app.

With release 2602, if an old app is being split across multiple new apps, during phase-in and phase-out the New User Experience helps you choose by explaining the choices.

Example of New Version available, warning, and alert messages where there are 2 new apps replacing an old app

What you need to do as a business user

Make sure you use the option to give feedback on the new app especially if you notice something is missing! SAP product managers are making decisions based on your feedback. For example, they may delay the phase-out to the next release, while the missing feature is resolved, or new extension options are added.

Do NOT leave giving your feedback until the Alert stage! By then it may be too late. Silence is consent!

There’s two ways to provide feedback on the new app:

1. Toggle back from the new app to the old app
If you are in the new app and toggle back to the old one, a push survey comes up asking you for your feedback. Especially interesting for SAP product teams are the comments regarding missing features or suggestions for improvements.

Example of the Feedback Survey

2. Use the Provide Feedback button in the Welcome popover in the new app
You can directly access the push survey from the “Welcome” popover available in the new app. After launching the new app, click the icon next to the toggle to display the “WeIcome” popover and use the button “Provide Feedback”.

Provide Feedback button in the Welcome popover for the new app

Make sure you use the option to give feedback if you have any concerns and especially notice if something is missing!

Product managers are making decisions based on your feedback. For example, they may delay the phase-out to the next release, while the missing feature is resolved, or new extension options are added.

IMPORTANT: Do NOT leave giving your feedback until the Alert stage! By then it may be too late. Silence is consent!

What you need to do as an Administrator

During phase-In, make the new app available to business users so they can try ir out early, and opt-in to the new app if they wish.

HEADS-UP: Starting with release 2602, new apps (delivered for the first time in 2602) are delivered as inactive (due to the underlying IAM apps delivered as inactive). This means, that the new experience switch for these app replacement cases is initially not displayed (even if the new app is delivered in the same business catalog). You need to activate the new successor apps first, before the New Experience Switch is displayed to your business users.
You can find more information in the 2602 - What’s New in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition
You can find a list of the impacted apps in 2602 in SAP Note 3545277 - New Experience Switch in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition: Overview of Apps in the Attachments section.

During phase-out, you need to plan for replacing old apps with the new apps in your next release upgrade, and remind your users of which apps are due to be replaced.

For more advice on what to do during release upgrades, refer to:

SAP Help – SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition – Identity and Access Management – App Replacement and Deprecation
SAP Help – SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition – Upgrade phase - Manage App Replacements and Deprecations

You should also know that once the old app reaches the warning (deprecated) phase:

If you are a new customer joining SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, you will be moved to the new app immediately. The old app will not be available to you. This means the New Experience Switch will not be displayed to your users.
If you are an existing customer, move to the new app as soon as possible. If you have decided to switch to the new app for your entire company, you can stop the appearance of the switch by deactivating the IAM apps of the old app. With this you stop the availability of the old app for your users, and this also turns off the New Experience Switch for that app.

For more on what’s changing in the latest release, view the SAP Community topic page for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition.

FAQ

How do I avoid or minimize getting the New User Experience message

No-one likes too many reminders.

For business users, the popover is only automatically expanded if you launch the old app. Launching the new app displays the toggle, but the popover is not automatically expanded.

The frequency of the automatically expanded popover differs according to the stage.

During the phase-in of the new app, you can use the option Don’t show this again to stop the expansion for an entire release.
During the phase-out the urgency to switch to the new app increases to keep you reminded of the need for change. You can use the option Remind me Later to postpone the popover appearance for one month (Warning) or one week (Alert).

When is the best time to give feedback on the new app

You can send SAP feedback at any time by using the feedback icon in the shell bar at the top of the launchpad. Select the icon to give feedback on the current app.

Good to know: The Switch and its latest features were based on User Research feedback with some of our SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition customers – just like you! If you would like to get involved in future changes you can reach out through our SAP Customer Engagement Initiatives on the SAP Community topic Customer Influence and Adoption.

Accelerating SAPUI5 Migration to BAS: A Practical Framework

2026-02-12T08:43:37.222000+01:00

Introduction:

SAP has transitioned its development paradigm from SAP Web IDE to SAP Business Application Studio (BAS), pushing developers to migrate from legacy UI5 to Fiori applications to the new environment. This paper outlines a structured and scalable methodology to migrate SAP UI5 applications from WEB IDE to BAS, focusing on connectivity, tooling and configuration challenges.

Methodology:

Log in to your BTP Account. Go into your space. Go to the Service Marketplace. Search for Business Application Studio. Open Business Application Studio Application.

Note: Pre-Requisite - Cloud Connector and Destination should be set up for connectivity with the S4.

2. Click on Create Dev Space. Give some Dev Space Name—select the SAP Fiori on the left. On the right side, under Additional SAP Extensions select HTML5 Application Template, Launchpad Module, Basic UI5 Template. Click on Create Dev Space.

3. Dev Space is created as shown below. It will take a few minutes to start. Once it's started, click on the Dev space. Here, I have named it “DemoMigration”. It will open the Development workspace. Bookmark this URL for future use and easy navigation to Workspace.

4. For the first time, click on the menu on the top left and select the open folder. Search for Projects Folder. Click on OK.

5. Click on Import on your Get Started page. It will prompt to start the migration. Select migration option. Below screen will appear.

6. Select Destination and Hostname and Client Details.

Conclusion:

Migrating SAP UI5 applications from SAP Web IDE to SAP Business Application Studio is more than a technical upgrade. It represents a strategic change towards a cloud-native and future ready development environment aligned with that of SAP’s roadmap. This blog outlined a well-structured migration methodology, which includes prerequisite connectivity set up, dev space configuration, project import and environment preparation within BAS. By following these steps, organizations can ensure a smooth transition while minimizing disruption to existing Fiori applications. This structured approach simplifies migration from WEB IDE to BAS. It supports scalable and cloud-aligned SAPUI5 development for public institutions and enterprises.

SAP UX Q1/2026 Update – Part 5: Innovations in SAP Integrated Business Planning

2026-02-16T08:39:30.781000+01:00

This fifth post in my series gives an overview of UX innovations that came in the last six months, with the SAP Integrated Business Planning (SAP IBP) releases 2508, 2511 and 2602. In many areas Joule and embedded AI helps users with their planning, with explanations and guidance. We have also focused on improving usability of applications, usability of the SAP Fiori launchpad, as well as features for collaboration and Microsoft Teams integration.

In case you missed it, Part 1 provides general updates about Joule, SAP Work Zone and SAP Mobile Start.

I’ve grouped the UX innovations into these main sections:

Joule
AI-assisted features (embedded)
SAP Fiori launchpad
UX enhancements in applications
Collaboration enhancements (Microsoft Teams)

Let’s first look at how Joule is using AI to help users, before continuing with the embedded AI and the AI-assisted features.

Joule

Joule: AI-Assisted Supply Optimization Analysis

Joule helps planners to quickly understand the results of supply optimizer planning, and boosts their productivity by allowing easy comparison of different planning scenarios. Not only does this make their work easier, it also leads to a reduction in lost sales and inventory costs.
Planners can ask Joule about their supply planning runs, including time series optimization. Joule analyzes the planning run logs and provides explanations for missed demand fulfillment, inventory targets, and manual adjustments, as shown in Figure 1. Joule also addresses identified issues and provides suggestions for resolving them. It can also compare different planning runs to give additional insights.

Figure 1: SAP Integrated Business Planning, AI-assisted supply optimization analysis. Alt-Text: Screenshot of Planner Workspace, with four images of Joule overlayed: first the user asked “Provide the status of the last planning run for planning area XAP4”, after seeing the status summary asked “Why the demand fulfillment rate low”, resulting in an analysis, then asked “Summarize the KPIs”, resulting in a tabular response, and then “What are the mitigation options to resolve demand fulfillment for PRODUCT02 and Customer 101?”, resulting in detailed analysis.

Watch it in action and find out more:

Video: AI-Assisted Supply Optimization Results Analysis in SAP IBP - 2511 Release Highlights & Demo.
SAP Discovery Center: SAP Integrated Business Planning, supply optimization analysis.
Documentation: AI-Assisted Supply Optimization Analysis.

Simplified Job Scheduling with Joule

You can execute jobs and monitor them without having to leave their application – simply by asking Joule. You can list your saved jobs with a simple ask and schedule jobs directly through Joule. You can also check job statuses, including your own jobs, failed jobs from today, or jobs created by colleagues. Figure 2 shows an example.

Figure 2: Job scheduling with Joule. Alt Text: Screenshot of Intelligent Visibility showing a world map, with four images of Joule overlayed. The user prompted “I would like to run my saved job”, Joule asks to select one, the user selects “Forecast to Loads”, is shown the details and says “Run the job”, finally receiving a success illustrated message.This is interactive planning, reimagined for speed and simplicity.

Video: Job Scheduling with Joule in SAP IBP - 2508 Release Highlights & Demo (1:47 minutes).

Using Joule to Run Master Data Health Checks

Users can now ask Joule to run a master data health check for any master data type they specify, as show in Figure 3. In the past, health checks could only be started from the Manage Master Data app or using the Master Data Health Check application job, but as of SAP IBP 2508, users can define their query in a conversation with Joule and read the job results in a result table displayed in the Manage Master Data app.

Figure 3: Running master data health checks with Joule. Alt Text: Two screenshots, each with Joule in foreground. 1) User prompts “In my last supply planning run, I had some errors that may originate from master data inconsistencies. I suspect the error is in ZP1LOCATION. Could you please check it?”. Joule replies that it found 16 messages, here are the first 10, listing them in a three column table. 2) “Can you please also check ZP1LOCATIONPRODUCT?”, result: illustrated message “no inconsistencies found”.

AI-Assisted Features (Embedded)

We have introduced a number of AI-assisted features, embedded in applications, that help planners save time in their daily work: AI planning assistance helps them create formulas and formatting rules, the other analysis features help planners understand the outcomes of the often complex planning algorithms, as well as making recommendations for even better outcomes.

AI Planning Assistance

AI planning assistance is now generally available with the 2602 release for SAP Integrated Business Planning (SAP IBP), add-in for Microsoft Excel, having benefitted from feedback from our customers during beta-testing these last six months.

Planners can now easily generate formulas and formatting rules for their planning views, by simply saying what they need using natural language. This makes their lives much easier, since in the past creating formulas was complex and often required an administrator.

Figure 4 shows an example for generating formulas, where the user first asks to calculate deltas, upon which new rows for the deltas are added. Next, the user asks to add totals per year, resulting in new columns being added for each year.

Figure 4: Generating formulas using natural language with AI planning assistance. Alt Text: two pairs of images showing planning sheet and bar chart, first with prompt pop-over, then with resulting update to the sheet, as described in the text.

In addition to creating formulas, planners can use natural language to highlight critical values in their plan, making it easy to identify aspects that need further attention. Figure 5 shows an example query.

Figure 5: Formatting data using natural language with AI planning assistance. Alt Text: screenshot of part of a planning sheet with 8 rows below a bar chart, with a pop-over for entering the instruction “Show a red font in case capacity supply expansion is greater than capacity supply”.

This generative AI feature streamlines the planning process, empowering planners to focus on adding value rather than spending time on technical details.

To see this in action and find out more, have a look at:

Video: AI-Assisted Generation of Formulas (4:52 minutes).
Video: AI-Assisted Generation of Formatting Rules (3:23 minutes).
Documentation: Planning Assistance and General Availability of Planning Assistance.

AI-Assisted Forecast Results Analysis

Making forecasts with advanced models is powerful, but the outcomes are not necessarily intuitive and easy to understand. This is where SAP IBP, AI-assisted forecast results analysis helps users.

You can now display detailed explanations for values of the main forecast key figures. This can help you understand how each algorithm in the forecast model calculated the forecast, how the best-fit algorithm was selected, and how you could enhance parameter settings to improve forecast accuracy. Figure 6 shows an example.

These explanations are available both in the Planner Workspaces app and in the SAP IBP, add-in for Microsoft Excel.

We continue to enhance the scope of what the analysis can explain. With the 2602 release, it can explain the impact of independent variables, offsets, and system-generated features selected in the forecast model. Also, both Statistical Forecast Details and the assisted forecast results analysis includes product lifecycle information. In addition to that, you can now navigate from Statistical Forecast Details to the application log and forecast model that are relevant for the selected forecast results.

Figure 6: SAP Integrated Business Planning, AI-assisted forecast results analysis. Alt Text: Screenshot of Planner Workspace, with a section on the right supporting vertical scrolling containing sections for Summary, Recommendation (both visible), Forecast Algorithms and Parameter Explanation.

Find out more:

Video: AI-Assisted Forecast Results Analysis (2:36 minutes)
Documentation: Check Statistical Forecast Details in Planning UIs and Enhancements to Statistical Forecast Details in Planning UIs.

AI-Assisted Inventory Optimization Analysis

Inventory optimization algorithms can also be challenging to understand, which is where our AI-assisted inventory optimization analysis comes in: with this, inventory planners can save up to 25% of their time on analyzing optimizer run results!

It summarizes key reasons for the recommended safety stock output values and adjustments made, impacting final safety stock for use in downstream processes. Demand variability, lead time fluctuations, service levels, and other relevant modeling inputs are highlighted as key influences, alongside planner deviations from recommendations. Figure 7 shows an example.

Figure 7: SAP Integrated Business Planning, AI-assisted inventory optimization analysis. Alt Text: Screenshot of Planner Workspace, with the bottom half containing AI-Assisted Inventory Analysis, containing sections for Summary, Analysis (both visible), and Diagnostic Key Figures.

With the 2602 release, it now also provides insights into how the immediate upstream and downstream nodes in your supply chain network impact the safety stock levels for the product-location you're analyzing. This means that you can better understand safety stock drivers across multiple stages of your supply chain.

Find out more:

Video: SAP Integrated Business Planning for inventory (2:11 minutes).
Documentation: AI-Assisted Inventory Analysis and What’s New in 2602: Analyzing the Network of Safety Stock Results with AI-Assisted Inventory Optimization Analysis.

AI-Assisted MRO Inventory Analysis

In addition to the AI-assisted analysis for inventory used for production and sales, with the 2602 release we now provide SAP Integrated Business Planning, maintenance, repair, and operations, AI-assisted MRO inventory analysis. With this, MRO planners can get a 30% reduction in time spent on analyzing inventory runs.

With just one click, the new AI-Assisted MRO Inventory Analysis gives the planner a concise summary and intelligent analysis of MRO inventory planning runs, accompanied by a table that highlights the inputs and settings considered, as shown in Figure 8.

It is available in both Planner Workspaces and in the SAP IBP, add-in for Microsoft Excel, and you can review operator settings and configuration on the same screen where planning occurs.

Figure 8: SAP Integrated Business Planning, maintenance, repair, and operations, AI-assisted MRO inventory analysis. Alt Text: Screenshot of Planner Workspace, with the bottom half containing AI-Assisted MRO Inventory Analysis, containing sections for Summary, Analysis, General Settings (all three visible), and Key Figures.

Watch it in action and find out more:

Video: AI-Assisted MRO Inventory Analysis in SAP IBP – 2602 Release Highlight & Demo (2:05 minutes)
Documentation: AI-Assisted MRO Inventory Analysis.

SAP Fiori Launchpad and Design Updates for Suite Consistency

We have made design improvements which are relevant for a consistent user experience across the entire SAP Business Suite, and which are now also available with SAP IBP. As I mentioned in my April blog post Upcoming Design Updates for the SAP Business Suite (SAP Fiori for Web), consistency of the user experience across the various applications used by a user is an important part of overall usability, helping users to feel confident and at ease when using a suite of products – no unexpected surprises.

In this section, we’ll look at these updates (the first two cover the design updates for consistency):

New navigation menu, with direct access to favorite apps.
Updated design of notifications and user menu.
Launch apps directly via transaction code.
Update for administrators

Navigation Menu: Side Navigation

Many SAP products already offer a navigation menu on the left of the screen, a pattern already familiar to many people. Hence we have decided to apply that approach to navigation across the SAP Business Suite in upcoming releases.

In SAP IBP the side navigation is displayed as an overlay, as you can see in Figure 9 on the left. It gives you direct access to your favorite apps, either directly or via the folders you have created. It also gives you direct access to your Spaces and Pages. The previously available menu to access all your spaces and pages along with personalization options is available via the entry “All Spaces” at the bottom of the menu.

A big benefit of this new navigation menu is that you can now access your favorite apps directly from any application. Previously, you would have to return to My Home and then click on your favorite app, now you can access it directly from the menu, as shown in Figure 9.

Figure 9: New navigation menu and updated design of notifications and user menu. Alt Text: 3 screen snippets showing each of the menus as a pop-over.

Updated Design of Notifications and User Menu

The new simplified design of notifications shown in Figure 9 fits better with the overall design of SAP IBP, and provides simplier interactions. By default notifications are sorted by date, with grouping by “Today”, “Yesterday”, “Last Week”, “Last Month”. Users can also choose to sort by importance.

The new user menu design shown in Figure 9 provides more space for the avatar of the user, and provides more space between items for easier selection. The settings are always at the top as the first entry, and the “Sign Out” option is separated from the actual navigation options in the list, to make it easier to find.

Launch Apps Directly via Transaction Code

I already covered this new feature in detail in part 2 of my series, since the launchpad is used by SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2602 too. Rather than repeating it here, I suggest that you look at the examples in the corresponding SAP Fiori launchpad subsection of my part 2 blog post:

Launch apps directly via transaction code.

Find out more:

Documentation: What’s New: Launching an App with its Transaction Code in SAP Fiori Launchpad and Searching and Launching Apps.

Administrators can Upload and Download Spaces

In the Manage Launchpad Spaces app of the SAP Fiori launchpad, administrators can download existing spaces together with their assigned pages and upload them again to another system.

This enables you to transfer spaces and their assigned pages to other systems, for example, when you can't use transports, meaning that you can improve productivity and consistency across systems. Find out more:

Documentation: Downloading and Uploading Spaces

UX enhancements in applications

We have introduced two very significant innovations that provide a much better user experience, but without dramatically updating the actual UIs! This is because user experience is so much more than just the UI: if a user can get more done than before, with less effort, achieving better ourcomes, then that is a definite improvement in their experience with the system.

The first of these, introduced with the 2508 release, is the harmonized planning area. The second, introduced just now with the 2602 release, is harmonized scenario management. In both cases, the “harmonized” in the name signifies that these new capabilities unify and simplify how users work.

Beyond these, we have introduced a number of user experience enhancements for planning UIs and for master data management, which are covered below too.

Harmonized Planning Area

The harmonized planning area lets you use one planning area to plan both mid- to long-term supply, demand and inventory with time-series buckets and short- to mid-term supply with orders.

Even better, it integrates both live (real-time) and scheduled data flows using the same data model, i.e. attributes, master data types, key figures, planning levels, time profile etc.

With integrated, harmonized tools and processes, planners can smoothly adopt additional SAP IBP capabilities, leading to better reporting and planner efficiency. Improved flexibility in time-series supply planning helps planners quickly adapt to changing demands and market conditions. Centralized application mapping and name space management as well as a new central unit of measure and currency conversion help to streamline configuration. Additionally, planners have on-the-fly access to order key figures, enabling more informed decision-making.

Find out more and watch a demo here:

Harmonized Scenario Management

Available with the 2602 release, harmonized scenario management in SAP IBP unifies and simplifies how you work with scenarios across orders and key figures, letting you manage the full lifecycle in Planner Workspaces: create, modify, simulate, and promote both order and key figure data within one framework. It extends scenario lifetimes across orders and key figures and adds new promotion options for orders. Controlled shine-through now includes orders, giving you better control of how baseline changes propagate.

Together with the harmonized planning area, it advances integrated planning so orders and forecasts work seamlessly without separate processes. Look at an example and find out more:

Video: Harmonized Scenario Management in SAP IBP - 2602 Release Highlight & Demo.
Documentation: Harmonized Scenarios.

Planning UI Enhancements

Enhanced Filtering of Workspaces and Segmentation Variants

Introduced with the 2508 release, users can explore data sets more easily now by leveraging segmentation variants. This provides a third level of filtering flexibility for users. The first two options were available previously, the third one is new:

Manually define filter values for the data
Use filter variants to store combinations of filter values for reuse, so that you just choose the variant rather than manually maintaining all the filters.
Define segments using attributes like “Product ID” and “Customer ID” with which you can step through the filtered data from (2).

The new segmentation variants are helpful when a selected filter variant results in a large list of data. Without the segmentation variant, users would still have to do a lot of scrolling. This targeted approach significantly reduces data volume, enhances speed and focus, and delivers a smoother experience to your planning process. Have a look at how it works:

Video: Segmentation Variants in Planner Workspaces in SAP IBP - 2508 Release Highlights & Demo. (2:26 minutes)

With the 2602 release, we have further enhanced filtering in the Planner Workspaces app. You can now:

Manage planning filters directly in Planner Workspaces, including the options to share, edit, delete, and assign groups to existing filters.
Overwrite an existing planning filter when you create a new planning filter with the same name.
Use advanced operators to define attribute-based filters in many areas across Planner Workspaces, as well as in URL-based navigations to workbooks and variants.
Filter aggregated constraint key figures by the (Not Specified) attribute value.

The advanced operators improve usability significantly: you can use “starts with”, “contains”, “greater than” to quickly get to the data you are interested in. Figure 10 shows an example. You can find our more here:

Documentation: Enhancements to Filtering in Planner Workspaces.

Figure 10: Filtering with advanced operators in the Planner Workspaces application. Screenshot of Planner Workspace with filters Time Periods “Next 10 weeks”, Product Group “SMART*” and Location Desc “*DC*”. The list at the bottom shows six entries fulfilling the filter criteria.

Navigate Directly to Root Cause of Planning Obstacle

SAP IBP 2508 enhanced the Planner Workspaces application so that users can navigate directly from an identified issue to the root cause, be it a gating resource or component constraint.

Dedicated planning views provide a clear overview of supply and demand dynamics at these critical bottlenecks, empowering you to make informed adjustments. By encompassing both gating resources and components, this feature accelerates root cause analysis and resolution improving planning efficiency and decision-making. Figure 11 shows an example.

Figure 11: Navigate directly to root cause of planning obstacle within the Planner Workspaces application. Alt Text: Screenshot of Planner Workspace with an open context menu next to a cell in the Demand sheet with a red number. The entry “Show Gating Resources” is highlighted in the menu, with an arrow pointing down to a second sheet at the bottom of the screen showing Capacity.

Easy Scenario Comparison with Scorecards in Planner Workspaces

Scorecards let planners compare what-if scenarios across multiple KPIs to select the best option. Introduced in SAP IBP 2508 and enhanced in 2511, they support up to seven KPIs, each based on a key figure. For each KPI, you can set filters and define a direction: “Bigger is better”, “Smaller is better”, or “Within a range”. Figure 12 shows an example where three scenarios are being compared.

Figure 12: An example scorecard for comparing scenarios in Planner Workspaces. Screenshot of Planner Workspace with a pop-over “Compare Scenarios with Scorecard” showing columns for three scenarios Baseline, Promotions, and Promotions wo AIR, and a list of 7 KPIs for each of them. The baseline column is a different color than the others.

When a key figure appears multiple times, you can rename KPIs for distinct views (e.g., Capacity Supply for Assembly vs. Sub-Assembly). You have a lot of flexibility in how you visualize the comparisons: you can compare scenarios by absolute or percentage differences, and also swap rows and columns. You can also promote the optimal one from the scorecard.

Find out more here:

Video: Scorecards in Planner Workspaces in SAP IBP - 2511 Release Highlights & Demo (3:10 minutes).
Documentation: Working with Scorecards.

Further Usability Enhancements in Planning UIs

Have a look at the What’s New documentation for further usability enhancements with the 2602 release:

Smarter Master Data Management with New Application

The new version of the Manage Master Data app delivers enhanced functionality with focus on planning area scope and master data relationships. Users can explore comprehensive parent-child connections and drill down into dependencies for thorough impact assessment. The app enables personalized experiences through customizable columns, groupings, and sorting based on parent master data attributes.

Teams can collaborate more effectively by sharing standardized views through public variants, all while benefiting from robust, fine-grained access control through planning area-specific authorizations that ensure security across all operations.

Find out more here:

Video: New Manage Master Data App in SAP IBP - 2511 Release Highlights & Demo (1:57 minutes).
Documentation: Manage Master Data (New Version).

Collaboration Enhancements (Microsoft Teams)

In addition to the built-in collaboration enhancements mentioned above (for example, in the new master data application), we have invested in real-time collaboration with messaging into Microsoft Teams.

Real-Time Microsoft Teams Messaging for Planners

Planners can now send real-time messages to Microsoft Teams channels directly from SAP IBP when saving key figure data or scheduling application jobs, sharing reason codes, comments, and contextual details. They can select the target Microsoft Teams channel directly, either in the SAP IBP, add-in for Microsoft Excel (see Figure 13), or in the Planner Workspaces application.

This reduces communication delays and ensures transparency across planning teams, especially for those colleagues and stakeholders who aren’t regular SAP IBP users.

Planners also benefit by having less manual effort, since they don’t have to create separate nofifications or e-mails.

Figure 13: Real-time messaging for planners via Microsoft Teams. Alt Text: Two screen snippets: 1) a pop-over for “Save Key Figure Changes”, with a field at the bottom “Share With” containing the entry “Sales and Operations Team/General”. 2) a pop-over showing Microsoft Teams General channel for Sales and Operations Team, with a comment in the thread.

Integration of Microsoft Teams for Jobs

Also new with the 2602 release, you can have jobs automatically post comments to Microsoft Teams channels to indicate when a job step starts running. This ensures that everyone is kept up-to-date in real time, including those colleagues who are not regular users of SAP IBP. Read more here:

What’s new documentation: Integration of Microsoft Teams for Jobs.

Further information

For information about all the new enhancements for SAP IBP, have a look at these blog posts and the links therein:

Continued soon …

I hope you enjoyed this fifth part, covering the new UX innovations available for SAP Integrated Business Planning. I will post part six in the next few days, covering exciting new UX innovations available for spend management.

Advance and Accelerate your Mobile Workflows with Embedded AI

2026-02-18T09:31:42.841000+01:00

In today's fast-paced digital landscape, embedded AI is revolutionizing mobile workflows by bringing intelligence directly into applications. This integration enables faster decision-making, smarter actions, and seamless productivity without the need to switch contexts. Here are several ways embedded AI is transforming mobile experiences:

Delivering contextual assistance at the moment of need
Embedded AI offers timely support precisely when users require it, enhancing decision-making processes directly within the app.
Automating repetitive tasks to boost efficiency
By automating routine tasks, AI frees up time and resources, allowing users to focus on more strategic activities.
Unlocking organizational knowledge for faster and smarter decisions
AI leverages existing organizational data to provide insights that enable quicker and well-informed decision-making.
Empowering users on-the-go with real-time, intelligent insights
Mobile users receive dynamic and contextually relevant information, which enhances their ability to act swiftly and effectively.
Transforming mobile apps into proactive productivity tools
With embedded AI, mobile applications become active parts in driving productivity.

UX Components and Patterns for Enhanced Clarity, Trust, and Usability

To ensure the smooth integration of AI into mobile workflows, we have designed UX components and patterns that prioritize clarity, trust, and usability. These UI elements are thoughtfully crafted to embed intelligence directly into applications, thereby enriching the user experience.

AI Notice

The AI notice feature transparently communicates when and how AI is being used within an app, building trust with users by keeping them informed. It is applied on components or pages that contain AI-generated fields, appearing interactively beneath each field. Users can tap a hyperlink within the notice to access additional information about the AI technology used to generate the content, including data usage, privacy, and potential risks.

Learn more about the AI notice pattern in our design guidelines.

AI notice examples

AI Button

The AI button acts as an entry point for initiating AI-driven actions, enabling users to interact with AI seamlessly. It allows users to activate AI-powered features within a user flow, with the AI icon indicating where such features are available. Tapping the "Generate" button starts the content generation process. During this process, the button updates to "Stop Generating," giving users the option to pause the process at any moment. Once the generation is complete or stopped, the button changes to a "Revise" button, allowing users to make adjustments or regenerate content.

Check out AI buttons to get more details.

AI buttons

AI Acknowledgement

AI acknowledgement ensures informed user consent, capturing and recording acceptance of AI functionalities. It delivers crucial information about AI services to users in a standardized manner, focusing on updates, data privacy, and potential risks, thereby establishing clear user expectations and fostering trust. To keep users informed about any AI service updates, contextual hints are recommended on the settings page, allowing users to review changes. Within the settings, users can also choose to opt out of in-app AI features and data collection. Depending on the definition of opting out, users may disable AI data collection while still being able to use AI features.

For more information, refer to AI Acknowledgement.

AI acknowledgement screens

AI Progress Indicators

AI progress indicators manage user expectations by visually displaying the status during AI processing, ensuring users know their request is actively being processed. Once content generation begins, the indicator changes its state to "processing" or "loading," persisting until the task is completed or stopped. The indicator appears one second after the process starts and remains visible for at least 1000ms to prevent flickering, with pulses between animation loops. Offering users the option to stop the AI generation process is recommended for greater control.

Learn more about AI Progress Indicators.

AI progress indicators

AI Writing Assistant

The AI writing assistant supports content creation by providing contextual help right where it’s needed. It efficiently edits text in input fields using prompts displayed in a panel, helping users refine their input and complete writing tasks smoothly. Tapping the "Writing Assistant" button opens the panel above the keyboard, and users can close it by clicking "x" if they haven't yet edited content. After their first edit, navigation changes to "Cancel" and "Done," where "Done" saves changes and "Cancel" offers a confirmation dialog to keep or discard edits. Users can interact with elements outside the panel and are prompted with a dialog if they attempt to switch text fields. Each quick prompt selection updates the text instantly and increases the version number, allowing users to track changes easily.

Check out the AI Writing Assistant design guideline article for mor details.

AI writing assistant

AI User Feedback

The AI user feedback feature gathers user feedback to continually refine and enhance AI quality and functionality. It enables users to provide positive or negative feedback on their experiences with embedded AI, from component-level to page-level interactions. AI feedback can e accessed through automatic pop-ups after AI experiences, in-line thumbs-up or thumbs-down buttons next to components, or through flexible re-entry points like overflow buttons. For positive feedback, users tap the thumbs-up button, triggering a toast message confirming their submission. For negative feedback, users tap the thumbs-down button, with options to provide additional details, requiring a manual tap on "Submit" to finalize. If users reconsider negative feedback, they can change it to positive by tapping the thumbs-up button in the detail view, and the system updates the feedback accordingly.

Find out more about AI User Feedback.

AI user feedback

Use Cases - AI Writing Assistant

In the SAP SuccessFactors Mobile app, the AI writing assistant is set to serve as a powerful tool for users to efficiently draft goal descriptions. This planned feature will aid users in bypassing the often tedious and error-prone process of composing these descriptions manually. For instance, when a manager needs to set performance goals for their team members, the AI writing assistant can suggest clear and concise descriptions, ensuring alignment with company objectives and language standards. By providing a few keywords or phrases, users will be able to generate well-structured goal descriptions, reducing errors and saving valuable time. This streamlined process promises to enhance productivity while ensuring consistency and clarity in goal-setting across the organization.

Goal description using the AI writing assistant

Embedded AI Resources

For those eager to integrate embedded AI into their mobile workflows, the following resources are now available for Android and iOS: software development kits, comprehensive design guidelines, and Figma UI kits, all crafted to empower you to harness the potential of embedded AI effectively.

Unlock the power of embedded AI and transform your mobile experience today!

Get Started - In-App AI Design Guidelines for SAP Fiori for Android

Get Started - In-App AI Design Guidelines for SAP Fiori for iOS

Figma UI Kit - SAP Fiori for Android

Figma UI Kit - SAP Fiori for iOS

What’s New in My Home SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2602 Release?

2026-02-18T16:26:28.224000+01:00

My Home already serves as a centralized entry point for business users by providing immediate access to key insights, supporting the efficient management of tasks and situations, and enabling users to organize their favorite pages and apps. This helps streamline daily operations and reduces the time spent navigating across the system. The 2602 release builds on this foundation by enhancing how information is delivered, personalized, and consumed—ensuring that users can focus on what matters most.

The 2602 release of My Home in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition introduces a range of new delivered and beta features, along with meaningful UX enhancements designed to elevate the overall user experience. In this blog, we’ll explore what’s new in this release and how these updates help business users work more efficiently and stay better informed.

Mandatory News – Ensuring critical information is seen by all business users

With the 2508 release, administrators gained the ability to deliver timely and targeted updates directly to business users through the My Home centralized news feed. The 2602 release takes this a step further by introducing mandatory news articles. News articles containing essential company information can now be marked as required reading. Business users must acknowledge these articles, confirming that they have read and understood the content. This feature plays a critical role in ensuring compliance with legal, safety, and policy-related requirements. It also helps eliminate knowledge gaps by ensuring that all employees receive the same information. During periods of change—such as the rollout of new policies or process updates—mandatory reading ensures that users understand both the reasons for the change and its potential impact, improving alignment across the organization.

An example of a news article that is required reading. Alt Text: A screenshot of My Home with a pop-over “Required Reading” that is also highlighted with “Contains Critical News”. The news article has an image at the top, followed by text showing the first part of the article. The “Done” button is greyed out, the “Remind me later” button is visible.

The Manage News app has a toggle to mark articles as “Required Reading”. Alt Text: Screenshot of the Manage News app with the toggles set to “Yes”, and some news text in the Description field.

News and Pages visibility - A more focused experience

In the 2602 release we introduced enhanced customization options, allowing business users to control the visibility of news and pages within My Home. This enables users to tailor their workspace according to their role, priorities, and daily responsibilities. By showing only relevant information and tools, My Home becomes more focused and clutter-free, helping users stay productive and work more efficiently without unnecessary distractions.

My Home with enhanced personalization, showing News deselected and Pages selected. Alt Text: A screenshot of My Home, with eight cards in one row in the Pages section, below the ToDos section showing one situation and the Apps section.

My Home Settings pop-over with the new selectors for News and Pages within the News and Pages section. Alt Text: A screenshot showing the Layout part of My Home Settings, where users can select or deselect sections. For the News and Pages section, News is deselected, Pages are selected.

Improved Mobile Experience with horizontal scrolling

For business users on the move, the My Home mobile experience has been enhanced with horizontal scrolling. This update supports visual browsing and improves the discoverability of tasks, apps, and insight cards on smaller screens. As a result, mobile users can navigate content more intuitively and access important information quickly—wherever they are.

AI-assisted Content Addition - Adding apps using natural language.

My Home enables you to do your job with speed and agility. Even more so now that our 2508 Beta AI – Assisted content addition feature is now available in our 2602 release as a premium feature. Business users can now add applications using natural language in two clicks. The business user can review and verify the results generated by AI ensuring accuracy. This saves time by dramatically simplifying the process of adding new applications and tiles to My Home. Now with this new AI assisted feature, there is no longer a need for business users to discover the appropriate application or even to navigate away from their home page to the application and manually apply filters to find the information they require — thanks to Generative AI, the relevant information can be surfaced quickly and effortlessly using natural language. This significantly reduces the effort needed to discover and add Insights Cards.

AI-Assisted Smart Personalization of My Home for Applications. Alt Text: The image shows three screenshots: at the top an extract of My Home showing the blue salutation bar, with an AI button “Add Content” on the right. An arrow has been added linking it to the second screenshot, where a popover “Add Content” is shown, where the user has entered “I want to monitor sales orders what app should I use to do this”, and two of four results are listed and visualized: “Track Sales Orders” and “Manage Sales Orders” (shown as an insight tile). Below that a screenshot of the outcome in My Home: the former is added to Apps Favorites, the latter to Insights Tiles.

Smart Helpers - Automating Repetitive Tasks

Business users now have access to the Beta AI – assisted task automation in the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2602 release. It allows key users and business users to automate their daily activities in SAP’s Fiori apps by using generative AI to create so call “smart helpers”. Those “smart helpers” execute the repetitive activities on behalf of the business user either from the SAP Fiori apps while always keeping the business user in the loop for decisions on data changes. Business users simply describe their desired business outcome in natural language, related to a specific SAP Fiori elements-based application, and the smart helper will take care of it for you.

Beta: The planned way of giving users an overview of the AI-assisted task automation smart helpers in My Home. Alt Text: Screenshot of My Home with a section “Smart Helpers” above the “Apps” section, with two tabs “Smart Helpers (4)” and “Active Runs (3)”. The latter is selected, showing three cards with title, description and executed step shown: one is completed, two are running.

Beta: Manage Smart Helpers application for defining instructions for the planned AI-assisted task automation. Alt Text: Screenshot showing the instruction text at the top, an empty section for attachments, and the execution plan with four steps: read order requests, analyze request data, simulate pending requests, create sales orders.

AI-assisted Smart Solution for situations – Simplifying workflow

The Beta AI-assisted Smart Solution for Situations in My Home simplifies workflows by dynamically adapting the user interface to guide business users through resolution steps using the power of generative AI. Key information and actions are surfaced though dynamic cards reducing the need for in-depth navigation. One click resolution of situations directly from the homepage thereby enhancing efficiency. There is support for bank messages for alerts, reaching project end dates when a project stage is not completed and sales quotation expiry situations.

Beta: AI-Assisted Smart Solution for Situations in My Home. Alt Text: An image with two screenshots: the upper one show the top part of My Home showing five Situation cards in the To-Dos section. One titled “End Date for Project Digital Media Assessment for Media Corp…” is linked with an arrow to an expanded card shown in the second screenshot – the card is taller and wider, contains a summary on the left with two action buttons “Assign To Me” and “Close Situation”, and more details on the right.

Final Thoughts

The My Home 2602 release demonstrates our continued focus on usability, personalization, and effective communication. From mandatory news articles that drive accountability to enhanced customization and mobile usability, these improvements help ensure that My Home remains a powerful and user-centric entry point to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition. The SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2602 Beta AI-assisted features such as Beta AI-assisted Smart solution for situations and Smart Helpers are now available for Beta Testing with the 2602 release. At SAP, we’re committed to delivering the best experience possible, which is why we’re inviting you to join our Beta Testing Program. By participating, you’ll get early access to these features, have the chance to share your feedback, and help us fine-tune them before the official launch. Your input will play a key role in shaping the quality and usability of these new capabilities.

Also, If you are interested in hearing about the latest innovations in SAP Cloud ERP, please join our Public Cloud Practitioner Forum in which SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition customers share best practices and provide feedback to the SAP development teams about new functionality.

How to Integrate ABAP Composite Roles in SAP Build Work Zone

2026-02-20T10:22:56.337000+01:00

When you're integrating launchpad content from SAP S/4HANA or SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition to SAP Build Work Zone and have an existing role model built on composite roles in your ABAP system, you've likely encountered the challenge of efficiently exposing these roles. The good news is there are two ways to expose composite roles from your ABAP backend to Work Zone, using the Common Data Model (CDM) content exposure. In this post we will break down what your options are, each with distinct technical implications.

Option 1: Direct Exposure of Composite Roles

With this approach, you select the composite role itself for exposure in the ABAP transaction /UI2/CDM3_EXP_SCOPE (Launchpad Content Exposure to SAP BTP). The content of all underlying single roles is aggregated into the selected composite role, which is then exposed as single role to SAP BTP.

Key points

The consumer (Work Zone) sees the composite role as a single, unified role containing all the launchpad content of its component single roles.
The individual single roles inside the composite are not exposed separately.
Should you require separate access to the single roles beyond the unified composite role, you'll need to manually include each single role in the exposure selection.
Exposed roles are available in the BTP cockpit and can be assigned to users. However, IPS can optionally be used to automate role collection assignments and reduce administrative effort.
Direct exposure is available since SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition release 2023 or release 2022 with note 3325870

Option 2: Indirect Exposure via Single Roles (with IPS)

The second approach keeps your original role structure and the IPS ensures correct user to role assignment between the ABAP system and BTP.
You select only the single roles which contain launchpad content for exposure in /UI2/CDM3_EXP_SCOPE (not the composite role itself).
During content calculation, the system checks whether these single roles belong to any composite roles. If they do, it includes a reference to this relation in the exposed CDM content. The composite role itself is not exposed to Work Zone.

IPS handles the role assignment logic, ensuring users with composite roles get the correct roles assigned on BTP side.

Key points

Each exposed single role includes information about its composite role relationships, but those composite roles are not directly available in the Content Manager on BTP.
The Identity Provisioning Service (IPS) ensures that when an user is assigned to a composite role in ABAP, all required single roles (now exposed) are assigned in Work Zone/BTP. For further information see Configure Integration with the Identity Provisioning Service and Exploring Role Assignments

If you expose only some single roles from a composite role, any other single roles within that composite are not automatically included. Users will only see apps from the exposed single roles in Work Zone not the full composite role content.

Indirect exposure is available since SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition release 2022.

Next Steps

Both approaches are technically valid and work with CDM exposure version 1 and version 2.

If you're invested in IPS-driven provisioning the indirect approach gives you flexibility for Work Zone integration by keeping the existing role structure and automated user to role provisioning. Without IPS you have the option to directly expose composite roles and maintain user to role assignment on BTP side.

In any case avoid creating dedicated roles solely for exposure purposes. Instead, use the same roles that are actively used by your local entry point (SAP Fiori Launchpad). This ensures consistency between your on-premise and cloud experiences, reduces administrative overhead, and maintains a single source of truth for your role-based content model.

Using AI Agent Cline to Remove Deprecated Code from SAP Fiori Applications

2026-02-21T17:10:44.622000+01:00

Using AI Agent Cline to Remove Deprecated Code from SAP Fiori Applications

Introduction

SAP Fiori applications are built on the robust foundation of UI5 libraries, which are updated each quarter to deliver new features and controls. Traditionally, these libraries have evolved with a strong emphasis on backward compatibility, where addressing deprecated code was encouraged but not strictly enforced.

However, with the imminent Fiori UI5 2.0 release, all deprecated elements will be removed, making the elimination of deprecated controls not just a recommendation, but a clear guideline.

In addition, maintaining clean and up-to-date code is crucial for enhancibility, performance, security, and compatibility. Deprecated APIs, outdated libraries, and legacy patterns can lead to technical debt and potential issues in future upgrades.

In this blog, we’ll explore how AI Agent Cline can help identify and remove deprecated code from Fiori applications efficiently.

1. Configuring Cline for Fiori Applications

Before using Cline, ensure it is properly configured to analyse SAPUI5/Fiori applications.

Prerequisites

GitHub Copilot license
Visual Studio Code
Installation of GitHub Copilot extension in Visual Studio Code

Installation of Cline extension in Visual Studio Code

Click on Extension icon (Ctrl+Shift+X)
Search for cline
Click on install
Open Cline by clicking on the Cline icon in the vertical icon toolbar in VS code.

The Cline welcome screen is shown.

Click on Settings icon in the top right corner

Select GitHub Copilot as the API Provider and copilot -claude-sonnet-4.5 as Language Model and press “Done”.

Installation of the MCP server for SAP Fiori

In the cline panel, click on the MCP Servers icon on the top-right corner.

Click on Configure
Click on Configure MCP Servers.
The file cline_mcp_settings.json opens. Maintain UI5 MCP server as shown below and click on Done.

Note: (@ui5/mcp-server) is a SAP published UI5 MCP server. It allows AI assistants to write SAPUI5 code. SAP currently prevents the usage of MCP servers together with GitHub Copilot. Hence, Cline is being used as an alternative. However a GitHub Copilot license is required for accessing SAP’s approved AI models. UI5 MCP server supports UI5 Linter along with other tools. Linter in particular is useful in identifying deprecated code from the applications and for working on subsequent fixes.

Now that we have configured VS code with all the required tools, we can proceed with fixing the deprecated code issues.

2. Prompting Cline to Evaluate Deprecated Code

After trying multiple approaches to prompt Cline to evaluate and fix deprecated code following steps proved to give consistent results. This approach is equally effective for free style applications as well as Fiori element based applications.

Tips:

Following example is an approach which worked for my use case. There were apps with ~800 issues. So going slow initially helped me gain confidence in the solution provided by AI. There by reducing subsequent effort in error fixing.
In Cline, describe the task as precisely as possible.
Clone the repository to your workspace
Mention the relevant project in task prompt, if you have multiple repos in your workspace.
Mention that the available MCP servers should be used.
Working context is set in the first prompt and then tasks are executed under it. If a new task is started, then the context is to be set again.
Cline would ask for your approval for using MCP server, for executing certain commands. Auto approval can be configured in MCP configuration.
File changes by Cline can be reviewed in Git Lens view of VS code.
If automation test scripts with good coverage is available in the repository, a better approach will be to fix the deprecated code in test scripts first. These scripts can then be regularly executed by cline to validate changes.

Example:

Prompt 1: Setting “Working context”

Cline was asked to find and evaluate deprecated code issues (both error and warning) in the application using linter command. Working context is set for Cline to follow SAP UI5 guidelines only and use the configured UI5 MCP server. This context helps Cline to stay within the SAPUI5 guidelines while solving the issues going forward.

Cline would eventually categorize the issues and prepare a roadmap for fixing the same.

In cases with large number of identified issued, which might span over days to fix, Cline might prepare a .md file with following type of details for future reference.v

Categorisation of the issues into Low Medium and High
Issue detail with suggested solution
Number of files affected with same issue
Effort breakup to fix the issues

Testing strategy to mitigate subsequent breakdowns
Resource required

Risk Assessment

Prompt 2: Start Fixing the Issues

For start we picked 1 type of issue, and fixed it in all files. Maybe start with a low or medium category. Such issues require less effort, get fixed quickly with negligible breakdown in the application. The number of issues start reducing at a fast pace.

We asked Cline to suggest which issue to start with. It evaluated the list of issues to prepare a suggestion. Developer can choose the fixing strategy and include it in the prompt for Cline to suggest accordingly.

We started with a low priority issue as per suggestion shared by Cline.

For first few files, Cline asked developer to validate the changes before saving. Cline can be instructed to save the file directly.

Once some issues are fixed and tested, you can instruct cline to replicate the fix in other files without approval. Change log can then be viewed in Git Lens.

A summary get generated by Cline for developer to check how far they have come along with the suggestion for the next steps.

Note:

We were able to resolve 200 (low + medium) errors and 200 warnings in 1 PD using this approach.
If your application has custom logic coded in UI. Recommendation would be to break a big controller task into small steps for Cline. This would improve the efficiency of the solution being generated.
Considerable effort reduction can be achieved once initial steps are eased into.
Approximately 30-40% of manual effort is saved with the approach suggested. Once the confidence in AI suggestions improve, the number might be higher.

Tags: #SAPUI5 #Fiori #DeprecatedCode #AI #Cline #SAPDevelopment

When Business Asks for a Bicycle, Don't Build a Spaceship

2026-02-21T19:02:14.003000+01:00

When Business Asks for a Bicycle, Don't Build a Spaceship

I have developed a comprehensive playbook demonstrating how modern SAP tools and AI can deliver solutions in DAYS instead of MONTHS.

The shocking math:
- Traditional approach: 6 months, $650K in delayed value
- SAP tools + AI: 1 week, $25K in delayed value

This isn't just theory—it's a practical guide that covers:
- CDS Views for data modeling
- CAP for service generation
- Fiori Elements for instant UIs
- Integration Suite for connectivity
- AI to accelerate everything

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rajesh-putumbaka-456267101_sap-btp-ai-development-playbook-ugcPost-7431029390173696001-y7Yn?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAABnYP8IBvlY4GDRmR8utVFLHXZ61gUvSa-0
Download the full playbook (PDF attached) and share your thoughts: Have you encountered the "perfect is the enemy of good" trap in your SAP projects?
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SAP User Experience Q1/2026 Update – Part 6: SAP Fieldglass

2026-02-23T09:03:08.673000+01:00

This sixth post in my series gives an overview of latest UX innovations in SAP Fieldglass, for managing your external workforce. The design of the supplier home page has been updated, and a number of further design updates have been made for a consistent SAP Business Suite experience. On-boarding is now made easy with WalkMe. Joule supports further use cases now, and also supports multiple languages, not just English. We have some nice embedded AI use cases, creating a better user experience, as well as many improvements in details that make a difference in day-to-day work.

In case you missed it, Part 1 provides general updates about Joule, SAP Work Zone and SAP Mobile Start.

I’ve grouped the UX innovations into these main sections:

Updated Supplier Home Page.
Design Updates for Suite Consistency.
Joule Innovotions.
Embedded AI for improved UX.
WalkMe for Easy On-Boarding.
Selected Usability Improvements in Applications
Further Information

Redesigned Supplier Home Page

The supplier home page is the first place that suppliers go to when using SAP Fieldglass, and hence it is crucial that it provides the most important information, actions and navigation options. Based on thorough user research, we have now redesigned the page to deliver a more streamlined and user-centered experience. At the same time, the new design also supports our focus on providing a consistent user experience across all products within the SAP Business Suite, as described in the next section.

Figure 1 shows an example. As you can see, the Announcement card is prominently visible. Users can choose to close it, in which case a button appears allowing them to re-open. The short video in Figure 2 shows what this looks like on a different example page.

You can configure the layout of the redesigned home page for each role with the Layout Manager, which was introduced in the May 2025 release. This learning journey tells you how to do it.

Figure 1: The redesigned supplier home page in SAP Fieldglass. Alt Text: Screen image showing a welcome banner at the top, and a collapsed vertical navigation bar running down the left side. The main screen has a section with pinned links, below which a selection of various cards are shown such as a list of My Work Items, Active Job Postings, Announcements. Two cards have an illustrated message that they have no data to display.

Figure 2: Hiding and re-opening the Announcement card. Alt Text: a short video showing the top half of the home page and the user clicking on “Close” and then “View Announcement”.

Find out more:

Smooth and Superior: The New, User-Centered Supplier Home Page.
Documentation: Redesigned Supplier Home Page.

Design Updates for Suite Consistency

We have made design improvements which are relevant for a consistent user experience across the entire SAP Business Suite, and which are now also available with SAP Fieldglass. As I mentioned in my April blog post Upcoming Design Updates for the SAP Business Suite (SAP Fiori for Web), consistency of the user experience across the various applications used by a user is an important part of overall usability, helping users to feel confident and at ease when using a suite of products – no unexpected surprises.

In this section, we’ll look at these updates (the first two cover the design updates for consistency):

Shell bar, navigation menu, user menu.
Redesigned user settings.
Design updates for more consistent applications.

Shell bar, navigation menu, user menu

Figure 1 above already features the new shell bar, with the collapsed side navigation bar on the left, showing a vertical list of icons representing menu entries. Users can expand the menu to better understand what each menu icon represents, as shown in Figure 3. This is done by clicking on the icon in the top left corner to the left of the SAP logo. It stays expanded until the user closes it, by clicking on the same icon again.

Figure 3 also shows the redesigned user menu, which follows the design for all SAP Business Suite products.

Figure 3: Navigation menu expanded, new user menu. Alt Text: screenshot of the home pages with the navigation menu on the left showing titles next to the icons, the user menu showing two entries “Settings” and “Legal”, and a separate “Sign Out” option at the bottom.

Redesigned User Settings

Selecting Settings in the user menu shown in Figure 3 above brings you to the redesigned settings page, shown in Figure 4 below. This design follows the SAP Fiori design guidelines, thus providing additional UX consistency across the suite. Beyond these visual aspects, it consolidates fields from the My Profile page and the My Preferences page into a single unified Settings page, which is easily accessed via the user menu. Some of the categories have been renamed too. Find out more.

Documentation: Updates to Settings Page.

Figure 4: Redesigned and consolidated user settings. Alt Text: Screenshot showing setttings, with full width cards “User Information” and “Appearance”, each with an “Edit” button top right.

Design Updates for More Consistent Applications.

SAP Fieldglass has also introduced the new illustrations from the SAP Design System (SAP Fiori). You can see some examples in Figures 1 and 2 above.

In addition to that, we have also aligned the design of individual applications with the design system. For example, the decision form list view now has the filters at the top of the page, and the Apply Filter button has been renamed to Go, thus aligning terminology – see Figure 5.

Figure 5: Decision form list view filters and Go button. Alt Text: Screen snippet showing “Decision Forms” above two rows of six and three filters. On the far right a highlighted “Go” button.

We have also moved the icons for table actions to the top of the decision form table, again for more consistency. Find out more in the documentation:

Decision Form List View UI Updates.

We have made similar updates in other applications, such as the project list view. You can find the full list in the What’s New documentaiton:

Joule innovotions

Now, you can use Joule:

in many languages, not just English;
to recommend job posting templates when create job postings;
to approve decision forms, including legal entity recognition.

Joule: Multi-Language Support

You can use Joule in all the languages available in SAP Fieldglass execept for Mongolian, which is currently not available in Joule. Figure 6 shows an example using French, which is used in many countries, not just France.

Figure 6: Joule multi-language support, showing an example in French. Alt Text: Three Joule images starting with a list of suggested prompts, the user chose “Créer une offre d’emploi”, then showing how Joule asks for details, the user entered “chef de projet”, Joule offered three templates, the user chose one and Joule shows the details. In the background a screenshot showing user preferences with the language French selected.

Not only can you interact with Joule in your native tongue, you can also use Joule to find job posting templates and statement of work templates that your company has translated into your language.

For companies that translate job postings and statement of work templates into multiple languages, Joule can automatically detect the user's preferred language and retrieve the corresponding localized template, if available. If not available in the user's preferred language, templates in the company-defined language will be returned. Find out more:

Documentation: Translated Template Retrieval in Joule.

Joule: Job Posting Template Recommendations

If you need to create a job posting, Joule can make this easier for you: after stating your requirements for the job, Joule will recommend the top three job posting templates that match best. Figure 7 shows an example where the user has asked for a “Project Manager with 3+ years experience”. In this example, Joule is in full-screen mode, giving space for details of a selected template to be shown on the right. The example shows that the user has clicked on the first suggestion in the list on the left.

Figure 7: Using Joule for SAP Fielglass to create a job posting for a contingent worker, with Joule providing top 3 matching job posting templates. Alt Text: Screenshot of Joule in full-screen mode, with prompts and outcome as described in the text.

Joule: Legal Entity Recognition

If Legal Entity functionality has been enabled in your SAP Fieldglass system, so that you can manage the external workforce for more than one company, you can now specify the legal entity as part of your requirement to Joule when creating job postings or statements of work. Figure 8 shows an example for creating a job posting for the legal entity “UK”.

Figure 8: Legal Entity Recognition by Joule for SAP Fieldglass when creating a job posting. Alt Text: Four Joule images, from left to right, with prompt “Create Job Posting”, Joule asks for details, then “programmer, legal entity is UK”, Joule shows 3 templates, user chose one, Joule asks to confirm, user says “yes”, Joule shows details for reviewing before creating.

Documentation: Legal Entity Recognition in Joule.

Joule: Decision Form Approvals

When asking Joule for pending work items, Joule will now include Decision Form approvals too, as shown in Figure 9.

Figure 9: Joule for approving Decision Forms. Alt Text: Five Joule screenshots, user chooses “View my pending items”, Joule shows one “Contractor Vetting” pending approval, user selects “Approve Decision Form” from the context menu, Joule asks for a comment, user says “no comment”, decision form is approved.

More Information on Joule

Read this blog post and watch the video to learn more:

What’s New for Joule in SAP Fieldglass – November 2025.
Video: Introducing Joule in SAP Fieldglass (3:30 minutes).
Video: SAP Fieldglass 2025.11 Release Highlights Video - Joule (5:17 minutes).

Embedded AI for improved UX

AI-Assisted Skills-Based Hiring

When looking to hire consultants or contingent workers, you want to ensure that you get people with the right skills. Now, SAP Fieldglass makes this easy, with AI assistance.

AI helps you to specify which qualifications to ask for when creating a new job posting: AI-powered qualification recommendations uses AI to analyze your job title and description and then suggests relevant skills. The screen on the left in Figure 9 shows what this looks like.

AI helps you to consolidate qualifications that have different names for the same qualification. Suppliers describe the skills of their employees themselves, leading to a many different names for essentially the same skill. For example, “Azure Cloud,” “Azure”, and “MS Azure” could be used for someone with skills with Microsoft Azure Cloud. With the help of AI, these qualifications can be consolidated into one unique qualification. The screen top right of Figure 10 shows an example of how this is done.

Once skills have unique names, the other aspect that needs to be harmonized is the rating scale: some suppliers use 1 to 5, others perhaps 1 to 6 or 1 to 10. SAP Fieldglass normalizes these.

Having created a posting with appropriate skills, SAP Fieldglass helps you select candidates by making proposals based on the skills (and their ratings) that match, in addition to proposing candidates that have the appropriate job code. The image in Figure 10, bottom right, shows an example.

Figure 10: AI-powered qualification recommendations, qualification consolidation and skill-based candidate proposals in SAP Fieldglass. Alt Text: Three screen snippets. On the left a list of 6 recommended qualifications for skills such as Excel, Powerpoint, Word, with a relevancy shown as a percentage (55%, 50%, …). Top right a list showing Qualification “Microsoft Azure” as heading, with two entries below “Azure Cloud” and “MS Azure” and buttons “Consolidate Qualifications” and “Cancel”. Bottom right a list of 4 potential candidates, their names greyed out, with the qualification matching percentage shown in the far right column.

Automated Approvals for Resource Time Sheets

Another example where AI can make users much happier is approving resource time sheets. In industries that have high volumes of worker time submissions, manually and dealing with discrepencies in the submitted time sheets can be tedious and time consuming. Now, you can define tolerance limits so that hours that fall within the defined tolerances are automatically approved. This reduces manual effort significantly, freeing up users to do more value-adding activities.

WalkMe for Easy On-Boarding

First-time users can often feel a bit lost when using new business software, no matter how easy it is to use – simply the fact that it is unfamiliar can make people feel uncomfortable.

This is where WalkMe comes in, helping users discover how to use the product. SAP Fieldglass now provides WalkMe content out of the box. Figure 11 shows how users can choose from a list of topics. Figure 12 shows how it looks like if a user starts a topic (the welcome pop-over shown on the left), and how WalkMe gives users guidance for each step in the process (the image on the right).

Figure 11: Starting WalkMe in SAP Fieldglass. Alt Text: Screenshot of the home page with a full-height pop-over on the right with heading “Type in your question” above a text entry field, below that sections “General”, “Contingent Workforce”, “Services” with a list of entries such as “Review work items” or “Create a job posting”.

Figure 12: WalkMe examples in SAP Fieldglass. Alt Text: Two screenshots with pop-overs. On the left: “Review work items” with a description and a “Guide me” button; on the right “Approve Time Sheet” pop-over with a small popover connected to the “Approve” button, explaining what to do.

Find out more:

Documentation: WalkMe Walkthroughs Available in SAP Fieldglass.

Selected Usability Improvements in Applications

Applications in SAP Fieldglass are constantly improving, in many cases not just with new features and functions but also with aspects that improve the overall user experience. Even if they are only improvements in details: the details matter if you want to provide a good experience, since if you get them wrong, they can be very annoying.

Below are some highlights for these improvements in details.

Reusable Resource Types for faster resource creation
Rather than having to always manually enter all the data for a new contractor or piece of equipment, you can define those entries that you want to have pre-filled, by defining reusable resource types. For example you can define address, job code, time tracking, work schedule, activity checklist and more just once, and then use this to pre-fill your fields when creating a new resource. Find out more here:

Standardize Resource Creation with Reusable Resource Types in SAP Fieldglass

Tailored list views based on user roles
List views are core to daily operations for teams managing job postings, work orders, and statements of work. However, only some of the many columns shown are relevant to a user in specific role. Although users could customize their views, it turns out that this is rarely done. Now, customers can define views per role, specifying which columns to show and which to hide. This supports faster, more focused decisions and delivers a cleaner, more intuitive experience. Find out more:

Documentation: Customized List Views.

One-click line item copy for purchase orders
Here is a nice little detail that will make users smile: with one click, you can now copy the previous line item when creating a purchase order. In many procurement scenarios the same services are purchased regularly, so it is very helpful for users to copy an item and then make only the few necessary changes before continuing with the next item. As you can see in Figure 13, we have introduced a “copy” icon to duplicate the existing PO line.

Figure 13: One-click duplication of purchase order line. Alt Text: a screen snippet showing a PO line with the icon for copying the line on the left of the line.

Making it easier for suppliers to manage line items
We have introduced a number of improvements for suppliers working on SoWs (Statements of Work). For example, when purchasing contracts are in place, it makes sense to include information from the contract in a purchase order to ensure compliance, accurate pricing and so on. Navigating to the right information in the contract when creating a purchase order has been a challenge – but no longer! Suppliers can search and insert contract segments in any order now. Find out more:

Documentation: Supplier Workflow Enhancements on SOW Characteristics Tab.

Making it easier for suppliers to maintain charges against PO items
In asset-intensive and plant maintenance industries, suppliers frequently need to submit or resubmit charges against PO lines. This is especially common when working with complex SOWs that involve multiple tasks and services. Up until now, suppliers encountered multiple navigation paths when adding or correcting line items, particularly after a charge is rejected due to issues like incorrect pricing or missing details. Now, this has been made significantly easier: all relevant actions are accessible no matter where they begin the process. Figure 14 shows an example.

Figure 14: Supplier access to all actions when managing PO line charges. Alt Text: two screenshots, showing the card “Corrective maintenance repairs – Engineering Repairs Services and Parts” in different contexts, on the left with an “Edit” button, on the right with an “Itemize” button.

Further Information

For an overview of the major new features with the 2511 release, have a look at:

SAP Fieldglass 2025.11 Release Spotlight Features Guide.

These videos are available too:

Have a look at all the latest updates, month by month, in the

What’s New Viewer for SAP Fieldglass.
This blog post explains how to use the What’s New Viewer:
SAP Fieldglass November 2025 Release Communication Now Available!

Another good place to stay up to date is the SAP Fieldglass page on SAP Community.

Continued soon…

I hope you enjoyed this sixth part, covering SAP Fieldglass.

I will post part seven next, covering latest UX innovations for spend management with SAP Ariba.

Part 1 of the series lists all the parts, and links to those parts that have already been published:

SAP UX Q1/2026 Update – Part 1: AI, Joule, SAP Build Work Zone, SAP Mobile Start.

For general information on design at SAP and SAP Fiori, check out:

Gregor Wolf

2026-02-23T18:24:58.182000+01:00

About Gregor

Germany | SAP Mentor since 2007 | Follow Gregor on LinkedIn

I am an independent SAP solution architect, developer and SAP Mentor. I focus on SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP), Node.JS, SAP Fiori Elements and Security. I've supported several customers during their SAP Cloud ERP Private Edition (S/4HANA On Premise) implementation. Since the end of 2024 I support the technical topics at an SAP Cloud ERP Public Edition Customer.

Topics of interest: SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP), SAP Cloud ERP public and private, SAPUI5, OpenUI5, SAP Fiori, SAP HANA Cloud

Gregor, what inspired you to become an SAP Mentor?

A key influence early in my SAP Community journey was Mark Finnern. He is the father of the SAP Community. Mark encouraged me to move beyond answering questions and start sharing detailed technical how-to's but also event reports in blog posts. In 2007 Mark also founded the SAP Mentors program which gave me the opportunity to provide structured, experience-based feedback to SAP product teams and help bridge the gap between product vision and real-world implementation.

What advice would like to share with other SAP community members?

My advice to other SAP Community members is simple: contribute consistently and think long-term.

Start by answering questions and helping others solve real problems - but don’t stop there. Document your lessons learned, share architectural insights, and write about what worked and what didn’t. That’s how collective expertise grows. And you will be amazed how often you research years later and find your own answers and blog posts to solve a problem you're just facing. Despite all the new stuff SAP has quite a long tail that doesn't change quickly.

Engage constructively, challenge respectfully, and focus on signal over noise. The community is not just a support forum - it’s an ecosystem where practitioners can influence product direction, elevate standards, and shape the future of SAP together.

Configure Your SAP Fiori Elements Apps: Introducing Fine-Tuning in the SAP Fiori Development Portal

2026-02-24T13:45:32.257000+01:00

Throughout our blog series on the SAP Fiori development portal, we've explored how SAP Fiori elements leverages metadata and annotations to build enterprise-grade UIs following the Global UX design principles. But what happens when you need to adjust UI behavior in ways that aren't expressed through annotations? That's what we call configuration – and the Fiori tools are the best place for it. But we're excited to introduce a new feature in the SAP Fiori development portal that makes configuration discovery and experimentation easier than ever.

Understanding Fine-Tuning in SAP Fiori Elements

SAP Fiori elements applications are primarily driven by metadata and annotations - this is their superpower. Annotations define what data to display, how to structure it, and which features to enable. However, not every UI behavior can or should be controlled through annotations. Some aspects require configuration settings that fine-tune how building blocks render and behave.

Let's take the table building block as a perfect example. When you annotate your service with UI.LineItem, SAP Fiori elements automatically selects an appropriate table type based on your entity's capabilities and the Global UX design guidelines:

If your entity set is analytics-enabled, an Analytical Table is displayed, providing built-in aggregation and grouping capabilities
For standard use cases, the Responsive Table is shown by default - it's optimized for various screen sizes and delivers the best user experience across devices
But what if you need to display massive datasets where scrolling performance is critical? The Grid Table excels at rendering huge amounts of data efficiently

Here's the challenge: there's no annotation to switch between these table types. This is where fine-tuning comes into play. You configure these settings in your application's manifest.json or directly in the building block definition when using XML views. But how do you discover what's configurable? What are the available options? What values can you set?

Introducing the Fine-Tuning Panel in the SAP Fiori Development Portal

The SAP Fiori development portal now includes a dedicated Fine-Tuning panel that answers these questions interactively. When you open the code editor for any building block - let's use the table as our example - you'll notice two tabs at the top: "Code" and "Fine-Tuning."

Fine-Tuning Panel

The Fine-Tuning panel reveals all available configuration settings for the building block, complete with:

Clear descriptions explaining what each setting controls
The current value applied in the sample
A searchable interface to quickly find specific settings
Immediate visual feedback when you change values

Exploring Fine-Tuning: A Table Story

Let's walk through a practical scenario. Navigate to the Table Building Block in the SAP Fiori development portal and click "Show Code" to open the code editor. Now switch to the "Fine-Tuning" tab.

You'll see a comprehensive list of configuration options. Let's say you're working on an application that needs to display thousands of travel records, and scrolling performance is becoming an issue. You remember hearing about the Grid Table's superior performance with large datasets, but you're not sure how to enable it.

In the Fine-Tuning panel, use the search box and type "type." The list immediately filters to show the "type" setting, which controls the table visualization. You'll see:

A description explaining the table type setting
The current value: "ResponsiveTable" (the default)
A dropdown showing all available options: ResponsiveTable, GridTable and AnalyticalTable

Searching for settings

Change the value to "GridTable" and watch the magic happen. The preview immediately updates, showing your table rendered as a Grid Table.

Changing the table type

You can see the visual differences

the denser layout
the different scrolling behavior
the optimized rendering for large datasets

But here's where it gets even better. Switch back to the "Code" tab, and you'll notice the code has been automatically updated:

<core:FragmentDefinition
xmlns:core="sap.ui.core"
xmlns="sap.m"
xmlns:macros="sap.fe.macros">
   <macros:Table metaPath="/Travel/@com.sap.vocabularies.UI.v1.LineItem" type="GridTable"/>
</core:FragmentDefinition>

The `type="GridTable"` attribute has been added automatically. If you're using building blocks directly in your XML views, you can simply copy this code into your application. Perfect for custom page development!

From Exploration to Implementation

The Fine-Tuning panel serves as your bridge from exploration to implementation. You can experiment with different settings, understand their effects, and see the exact code needed - all in one interactive environment.

However, it's important to understand where these settings belong in your application architecture:

For Building Blocks in XML Views (like in custom pages): Apply the settings directly as attributes on the building block, just as shown in the code editor. The portal gives you the exact syntax you need.
For Standard Floorplans (List Report, Object Page, etc.): The table building blocks are already integrated into the page structure. To fine-tune them, you add configuration settings to your application's manifest.json file. The SAP Fiori tools Page Map provides a user-friendly interface for configuring these settings without manually editing JSON.

This two-path approach ensures you can fine-tune your application whether you're building custom pages with building blocks or extending standard floorplans.

The Fiori Development Portal as Your Fine-Tuning Laboratory

Think of the SAP Fiori development portal's Fine-Tuning panel as your laboratory for configuration experimentation. You can:

Discover settings you didn't know existed
Understand the purpose and impact of each configuration option
Test different combinations to find the optimal setup for your requirements
Learn the exact syntax needed for implementation
Make informed decisions backed by visual evidence

This interactive approach transforms configuration from a trial-and-error process into a guided, informed decision-making experience.

But keep in mind: SAP Fiori elements applies Global UX design principles automatically. Only fine-tune when you have specific requirements that justify deviating from the defaults.

What's Next

The Fine-Tuning panel represents another step in our commitment to making SAP Fiori elements development more accessible, efficient, and collaborative. But we're not stopping here. We have exciting enhancements planned that will further improve your development experience with the SAP Fiori development portal.

Stay tuned for upcoming blog posts where we'll introduce additional features that continue to bridge the gap between exploration and implementation, making your journey from concept to production even smoother.

To get the full overview of the SAP Fiori development portal, check out the following blog posts of the mini-series: