Extract Applications for a Single System Alias

If you create your own technical catalogs in the backend, you replicate these catalogs to the frontend system using a single system alias.

Prerequisites

You are assigned to authorization role SAP_UI2_ADMIN_750.
This role is included in the composite role SAP_UI2_ADMIN. See Configuring Roles with Launchpad Start Authorizations.

Perform the following steps on the front-end server:

Launch the program /UI2/GET_APP_DESCR_REMOTE_DEV.
In the System Alias field, enter the name of the system alias for which the catalogs should be replicated.
In the Catalog ID field, enter the name of the technical catalog which you want to replicate.
Choose an extraction mode:
- Delta extraction: The selected catalogs are only replicated if changes were made since the last replication.
- Full extraction: All selected catalogs are replicated.
Mark the Test mode checkbox and choose Execute.

The catalogs will not be replicated. A log is displayed.
If the log does not contain any errors, unmark the Test mode checkbox and choose Execute.

On the frontend server, the program creates a catalog with the following naming convention:

X-SAP-UI2-ADCAT:<ID of technical catalog in BE>:<System Alias of BE>

Example: X-SAP-UI2-ADCAT:SAP_TC_FIN1:S4FIN.

Based on the application descriptor which you defined in the mass maintenance tool (see Create Application Descriptors Using the Mass Maintenance Tool), each application contained in the backend catalog produces the following:

An app launcher tile containing the intent, the texts (title, subtitle, keywords and information) and the icon maintained in the mass maintainance tool
A target mapping containg the intent, the parameters and the title maintained in the mass maintainance tool. The HTTP connection, which is associated with the system alias is entered in the System Alias f ield.

You can display the replicated catalogs in the launchpad designer but you cannot edit them there since the original data is located in the back-end.