ABAP on Cloud – 4 – Your First ABAP Cloud Project

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My First ABAP Project on Cloud

ABAP on Cloud is a topic which everyone has heard about, but not many have worked hands on. In our series on ABAP on Cloud, we are trying to consolidate an online free repository where any beginners can visit and start their journey in this untrodden path of ABAP on Cloud. That is the reason, we are going very slow and being very elaborate. We are already on the fourth tutorial of the series and till now we have not written a single line of code. Hope you understand our dilemma. We really want to show the ABAP code on cloud, but before we do that, we want to have all the set up configured so that you have all the arsenal in place to conquer ABAP on the Cloud.

We are really happy to see the responses of the previous articles. They really keep us motivated. Please let them come in numbers.

In this tutorial, we will look learn how to create our First ABAP Cloud Project in the Eclipse IDE. The ABAP Cloud Project would pave way for the creation of your First ABAP Object in the Cloud. Are you excited?

1.    Create your First ABAP Cloud Project

Open the Eclipse workspace and navigate to the ABAP perspective. Click on “Create an ABAP Project”.

2.   Click on “Service Key” radio button.

3.   Provide the key copied in step “8” in “Service Key in JSON Format” window in ABAP on Cloud Part 2.

Refer to our ABAP on Cloud – 2 – ABAP Trial Instance on Cloud (Step 8). There we showed how to generate Service Key.

4.   Paste the Service Key details and click on “Next”.

5.   A new colorful window asking for the credentials pops up

*Remember: If this screen is not appearing there may be many reasons:

  1. There may be restrictions in the Network due to firewall. (check if pop up is disabled in the browser)
  2. Any of the previous steps are NOT followed correctly. In this case, refer to this previous steps right from beginning and check if anything is missed.
  3. Issue with SCP Account.

Also Read– ABAP on SAP HANA. Part I. First Program in ABAP HANA

6.   Provide the SCP account credentials, click on “Log On”, and wait until authentication is completed and a message as shown in next step is obtained.

*Note: There are two more options as seen at the bottom of same screen “Log On with Browser” and “Copy Logon URL”. Both can be tried out as per convenience.

7.   Below screen should complete the registration process.

8.   In this step just verify the system details and click on “Next”.

9.   Provide the Project name as per requirement. Can be defaulted as well.

Any existing packages can also be added by clicking on “Add” as favorite packages.

10. If “Add” was clicked in previous step, then below pop up appears.

*CAUTION: All the packages are in the public domain and is visible to developers across the globe. Care needs to be taken NOT to disclose ANY CLIENT information or personal data/information. After all you are in public cloud.

11.  Add the packages that is likely to be used. Click on “Finish”.

12. The ABAP perspective should be as shown:

That brings us to the end of the complete guide of all the steps to start our learning and understanding the ABAP Cloud. We are good to commence our RESTful ABAP Programming on Cloud from next tutorial. SAP is innovating in leaps and bounds and as the dedicated foot soldiers, we need to keep our artillery polished to make any war (read project) a success. 🙂

So, get your online trail account, Eclipse and other dependent system set up ready and prepare yourself to learn the new trades and tricks of ABAP on Cloud.

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12 COMMENTS

  2. hello Ruthvik,

    Thanks for these blogs. It helps a lot.

    I am getting below error.
    “An error occurred during JWT validiation. The JWT is expired. Therefore please check your local system clock.”

    Thanks

    • I have tried by deleting the previous service key and creating the new one again. I also deleted the service instance and created it again but still the same error.

  3. Hi Ruthvik,

    I’m getting an error – You were successfully authenticated, but an error occurred during the Service Instance logon. Please ensure that you have a user for the Service Instance. – after I logged on in Eclipse.

    I had a trial account previously and since it got expired I created a new one. But getting this error now.
    Please let me know how to resolve this.

    Thanks in advance!

    • Hi Divya,
      Sorry for late reply. I think you need to change the service key in your eclipse workspace. The problem may be that the older service key which was created for the original ABAP instance is again continued here. Please start afresh from step 1 and try again and let us know. Thanks.

  4. Hi Ruthvik,

    Thanks for starting the series, we are eagerly waiting for the upcoming tutorials.
    At the first step, I think we need to choose ‘ABAP Cloud Project’ instead of ‘ABAP Project’. Also I heard of WEB IDE in the place of Eclipse. Can you throw some light on this Web IDE vs Eclipse ?

    Regards,
    Raj

    • Hi Raj,

      Thanks a Lot for following us. The project was created in Article 3 Article 3 itself in Step 19. So, it is pointed out there. On the second part, we will discuss all of these in next few articles!!!

      Thanks,
      Ruthvik.

  5. hello team,
    i i am getting below error.
    An error has occurred while connecting to the Cloud Foundry environment. Please check your network connection and proxy settings.
    while putting service key in eclipse .

    • Hi Kushal,

      Firstly thanks a lot for following our blogs and it’s articles.

      This is an issue observed yesterday and it is not specific to any user but across the world. SAP might be on it to fix.

      Will keep you posted on this.

      Thanks,
      Ruthvik.

  6. Hi Ruthvik.

    Your notes on this subject will make me undertake to study this not simple (at first glance) task. We look forward to continuing this series of entries.

    Thank.
    Best regards.

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