Purpose
A wiki for myself and everybody who is interested in developing ABAP using CDS (and/or HANA CDS).
A redesign of the content will follow the next few weeks. Time is limited, that's why I cannot name a date.
Overview
Most of the content will answer questions which I had to fight in the beginning using CDS. So this might be a good place to start with, because I also start using the CDS feature at the moment
Here is how Björn Goercke introduce CDS
New Core Data Services Features in SAP HANA 1.0 SPS 10 - Update on CDS by Thomas Jung
CDS - One Concept, Two Flavors - Difference between HANA-CDS and ABAP CDS by Horst Keller
Getting Started
Getting Started with ABAP Core Data Services - this is a great set of links by Carine Tchoutouo Djomo (It includes some of the links provided here, but also many others). It seems to be frequently updated.
ABAP CDS A short instruction by Horst Keller
ABAP Core Data Services @SAP TechEd 2015
ABAP meets SAP HANA - CDS <-- Article by SAPinsider
End to End Guide HANA to Fiori <-- Jasmin also added a very good part of CDS, it is worth to read it
Annotations (in NW 7.5)
http://scn.sap.com/community/abap/blog/2015/11/13/abap-news-for-release-750--annotations-in-abap-cds - really useful introduction, with useful links, by Horst Keller.
https://help.sap.com/viewer/cc0c305d2fab47bd808adcad3ca7ee9d/7.51.1/en-US/f8af07bb0770414bb38a25cae29a12e9.html with lots of information on the UI annotations
What comes next
In the next weeks I will take some time to build different CDS and want to compare the CDS on different databases and of course SAP HANA
So stay tuned and contact me if you miss something here.
Examples (Github / C&P stuff)
https://gist.github.com/js1972/5af45936d2c38dd95131#file-abap_use_cds_view-abap
Additional Info
You got something interesting to tell about CDS? Please leave a link here.
7 Comments
Julie Plummer
Hi Florian,
Thanks for this, it is really helpful. I also found the following useful:
http://scn.sap.com/community/abap/eclipse/blog/2014/02/04/new-data-modeling-features-in-abap-for-hana - CDS in SP 05 (useful for a newb like me to get the basics- by Christian Swnepoel)
http://scn.sap.com/community/developer-center/hana/blog/2014/12/09/sap-hana-sps-09-new-developer-features-core-data-services - new features in SPS 09 by Tom Jung
BR! Julie Plummer.
Florian Henninger
Hi Julie,
thank you for the addition here. Good to see that there are more people like me out there
~Florian
Pavlo Astashonok
So probably it's worth adding the content to the page?
Horst Keller
Hi Florian,
First of all thank you for your effort.
Since you say "developing ABAP using CDS" but link to Thomas Jung's blog about news in HANA CDS, I'm afraid there's some confusion about these concepts, Therefore, I wrote a small blog http://scn.sap.com/community/abap/blog/2015/07/20/cds--one-model-two-flavors, hoping to clarify a bit.
Best
Horst
PS: B.T.W., curly brackets are availlable in real ABAP (not only ABAP CDS) since 7.02 ...
Florian Henninger
Hi Horst,
thank you for adding a comment here. Your absolutely right. I also recognized the difference during the ABAP on HANA Codejam with Jasmin. At the moment I'm thinking about splitting it in two categories to not confuse someone (and of course me
)
~Florian
Julie Plummer
Hi
Khushdeep Singh
,
For some reason, I have been notified of your comment, but I can't see it (!).
Anyway, I suggest you post your question in the SAP Community:
https://www.sap.com/community/topic/abap.html - You will more likely get a response.
Best wishes,
Julie Plummer, SAP PM.
Michael Smith
The document in the link for CDS Annotations for Metadata-Driven UIs is no longer available - do you happen to have a direct link to the document?
Thanks,
Michael