xSync – Making HANA XS development easier

Update: March 7th 2014

– Added support for SAP HANA SPS07 
– Ability to ignore local deletes, which would leave the files on the server 
– Shortcut link opens the Web Editor, and another to open IDE in your browser 

– Stability and speed improvements 
– Corrected multiple minor bugs  

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A couple of weeks ago, I started playing with HANA development after going through a couple of the opensapcourses. One of my biggest surprises was that HANA Studio was windows only. As a Web/Mobile/App developer spending majority of my time on the Mac platform, having to get my Dell out was a walk down memory lane, and caused me to not spend as much time working on the projects as I would have liked. Since Rev 52 of HANA included a XS Engine Lite IDE, a useful web based IDE for your XSJS/SAPUI5 development. I was been looking forward to getting it installed on my AWS machine and giving it a test drive. Last weekend Juergen Schmerderposted a updated really easy to follow and simple guide of going through the process and within a hour, I was up and running on the newest available rev. read more

Quick View for SAP Notes

In my ever growing quest to provide quick and easy access to SAP Notes (which Dagfinn Parnas started a couple of years ago with the Android Note Viewer), I recently finished creating a windows version of a small app to make opening notes just a little easier.

When deciding if I should get this done, it was purely out of personal need. Having spent the last few months building up a couple of Gateway test, stage and Prod systems, the ability to open a SAP note quickly, always seemed to elude me. Open service.sap.com/support -> click on Help & Support -> Type the note and go. Albeit the app developed still has some user interaction (until Google Glass arrives?) … it does make it a little simpler. I also found a small cmd script online which looked helpful. read more

S2F – Building a custom iPad app using Netweaver Gateway

S2F is a blog series around building custom native iOS apps using SAP Netweaver Gateway, you can read Part 1and Part 2, as well as the introduction from talk at TechEd in Las Vegas.

Last Week Guy Stoffer, put together a great blog outlining how quick and easy it was to create an iOS app using the SAP Netweaver Gateway Tool for XCode. The tool creates proxy classes and even handles the security which makes creating a starter gateway app simple. In my previous post covering my talk at TechEd in LV, I mentioned I would show an alternative to using the Gateway Tool for XCode and this blog outlines this. read more