You can provide end users with the option to select SAP GUI and Web Dynpro ABAP
applications retrieved from a user menu or SAP menu in the ABAP backend and add them to the
launchpad home page
Prerequisites
You have installed software component version SAP_UI 750 SP04 or higher or a higher component
version.
Context
The SAP Easy Access menu provides access to SAP GUI transactions and Web Dynpro ABAP
applications. There are two types of menus:
Here is a high-level overview of the configuration steps you need to perform if you
want to offer SAP Easy Access menu feature to launchpad end users:
Define the list of SAP systems for which SAP Easy Access menu entries should
be retrieved.
During launchpad runtime, a dialog with the list of defined
systems will be displayed. End users select a system to get the SAP Easy Access
menu entries displayed as tiles on the launchpad homepage.
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Establish connections between frontend server and relevant backend
systems.
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Activate OData services to retrieve the relevant menu entries from the
backend system.
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Enable that, during launchpad runtime, users can navigate from the launchpad
to the backend applications.
Here is a description of what you need to do in detail:
Procedure
- Create or select a system alias for each backend system to which you want to
connect.
- In Customizing, choose and launch the IMG activity Manage SAP System
Aliases.
- Create RFC connections pointing to the system alias.
- In Customizing, choose and launch the IMG activity Manage RFC
Destinations or directly launch transaction SM59.
- For each system alias identified in step 1, create two RFC
connections:
ABAP connection (type 3):
This connection type is used to extract SAP Easy
Access menu entries from the back-end server to the
front-end server. Use the following naming convention:
<Logical System
Alias>_RFC
- HTTP(S) connection (type H):
This connection type is used during the launchpad
runtime to start the Web Dynpro applications and SAP GUI
transactions from the launchpad.
Use the following
naming convention: <Logical System
Alias>_HTTP or <Logical System
Alias>_HTTPSNote
We recommend to use a HTTPS connection.
- Activate OData services.
- In Customizing, choose and activate the following OData services:
Table 1:
/UI2/EASY_ACCESS_MENU
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Retrieves the menu entries of the SAP menu.
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/UI2/USER_MENU
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Retrieves the menu entries of the user menu.
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- To add a service, choose
.
- Select the system alias of the backend system (see step 1), then select a service from
the table above.
For information about activating OData services, see the SAP Gateway
Developer Guide at .
- To allow navigation from the launchpad to SAP GUI transactions and Web Dynpro
ABAP applications, for each back-end system, you create one target mapping for
transactions and one for Web Dynpro applications.
- Start the launchpad designer.
- Select a catalog or create a new one.
- Create two target mappings as described under Creating Target Mappings for the SAP Easy Access Menu.
- Make sure the catalog is assigned to a PFCG user role.
- Make sure the users for which you want to offer SAP Easy Access menu
entries are assigned to the same role as the catalog.
Results
If a user who is assigned the role of the catalog to which you added the target mappings
opens the app finder in the launchpad, all SAP GUI and Web Dynpro ABAP applications
integrated in an SAP GUI user menu or SAP menu are retrieved from a selected back-end
system. The user can add these applications to the launchpad homepage.
For more
information, see Adding and Removing Apps.