About the SAP Fiori Launchpad on Portal

End users can access the SAP Fiori launchpad on Portal on both desktop and mobile devices. The launchpad is role-based, displaying tiles according to the user role.

In the launchpad, the home page is the entry point to applications. The home page displays often-used tiles or favorite tiles, each tile representing a business application that the user can launch. Tiles can display live status indicators, such as the number of open tasks.

The tile catalog is a collection of tiles that end users can launch and add to their home page.

When end users first open the home page, it may already contain some content added by the administrator, or it may be empty.

Personalization

Administrators configure whether or not end users can personalize the home page.

Administrators can also lock one group of tiles to prevent personalization. If a group is locked, end users will not be able to add tiles to or remove tiles from the group, and will not be able to reorder tiles within the group.

If a group is a predefined group, that is, it contains tiles with the property Default App on Home Page selected, end users cannot delete it but they can personalize it and reset their changes. Changes that the administrator makes to predefined groups will not be visible to the end user unless one of the following occurs:

The administrator clears the personalization.
The end user resets the group.
The end user or updates the home page to synchronize it with the administrator changes.

When an end user logs on to the SAP Fiori launchpad for the first time, the home page state is saved. Changes that end users make to the home page are saved per device group. Saving changes enables end users to personalize their home page in one way for mobile devices and in another way for desktops, according to the device groups configured by the administrator.

SAP Fiori App Types

There are three app types, each with a different focus:

Transactional apps
Object pages
Analytical apps

For more information about SAP Fiori app types, in the SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com, navigate to Start of the navigation path SAP Business Suite Next navigation step SAP Fiori for SAP Business Suite SAP Fiori Overview SAP Fiori App Types and Database Requirements End of the navigation path .

SAP Fiori Launchpad Designer

As an administrator, you can use the launchpad designer deployed on the ABAP front-end server to manage ABAP/HANA catalogs, groups, and tiles, for your end users. The launchpad designer lets you create predefined groups for the home page and catalogs for the tile catalog. You can integrate the launchpad designer into the portal.

Additional Access Points

End users can access the SAP Fiori launchpad on Portal through the following:

SAP Fiori Client. A mobile application, which provides enhanced capabilities for end users accessing SAP Fiori applications on the home page from mobile devices.

For more information on SAP Fiori Client, in SAP Help Portal, navigate to Mobile SAP Fiori Client .
SAP NetWeaver Business Client for Desktop (NWBC). Administrators can configure the SAP Fiori launchpad on Portal to appear as an index page, which is the initial tab when an end user accesses the system in NWBC. This provides an optimized user experience for end users who work mainly with SAP GUI transactional applications.

For more information on SAP NetWeaver Business Client for Desktop, in SAP Help Portal, navigate to Technology SAP NetWeaver Platform UI Technologies in SAP NetWeaver SAP NetWeaver Business Client.