In my blog Timeout page and WebUI freezing issue – Another cause, the behavior that a time out page is displayed in UI, although there is no time out at all but instead some exception occurred in ABAP backend. From my point of view this time out page is misleading. In that blog I share one of my …

Sometimes you would like to view the content of field with RAWSTRING type for a table:

However, it does not appear in “Not assigned” group range when I try to specify its number range logic via tcode COMCMATERIALID:

So far we have a working CDS view ready for us to create a UI5 application on top of it via Smart Template in WebIDE within just a couple of minutes. Once done, the UI5 application will display the data from our CDS view like below. For step by step how to achieve this, please refer to this blog:…

In previous blogs I have introduced how to use SmartTemplate + CDS view to build service order application with search, display and update function enabled:

You might observe the same number value but displayed with different format if you log on the same system with different user.

Part1 – how to test odata service generated by CDS viewPart2 – what objects are automatically generate after you activate one CDS viewPart3 – how is view source in Eclipse converted to ABAP view in the backendPart4 – how does annotation @OData.publish workPart5 – how to create CDS view which supp…

In the blog Step by Step to create CDS view through SmartTemplate + WebIDE and Create a CRM Service Order Fiori application within a couple of minutes we get an Fiori application generated which needs several fine-tuning on appearance. For example, the status field is by default rendered as a pur…

In this blog, I will show you how to create a CRM Service Order Fiori application within just a couple of minutes. You don’t need to write even one line of JavaScript code to get this responsive application.

Let’s try to resolve one real issue now. What we want to achieve is: in CRM we need a CDS view which returns the service order guid together with its Sold-to Party information, “Title” ( Mr. ) and “Name” ( blGMOUTH ).