Wednesday, April 14, 2021

SAP Data Connection for FIORI Apps: Catalogue Service Availability

 In order to develop different FIORI or freestyle UI5 applications, a list of settings should be made in the Business Technology Platform, in the Cloud Connector, as well as in the Back-End system.

Once the settings are made, the developers assigned to the subaccount can start creating FIORI applications.

This post describes the possible issues behind the error message 'Catalogue Service Unavailable'.

If the Data Connection doesn't function properly, the following error message appears:


You can also debug this this error message in your browser and check the Network tab.


  • Catalogue Service

The issue here is that the Catalogue Service is not active.

Check transaction SEGW and make sure that the services /IWFND/SG_MED_CATALOG and ADT are activated. 


As next, Go To Transaction SICF and make sure the nodes for the ADT and the Catalogue Service are activated.

  • Authorizations

If this doesn't solve the issue, you can check wether there are any authorization issues. Either run the authorization trace or check transaction su53 for the User in the destination.

  • Cloud Connector

Further on, check your SAP Cloud Connector.


Go To Cloud-to-on Premise and make sure the resources are available.


Make sure that also that sub paths are available.


















Wednesday, April 7, 2021

Creating a simple FIORI Elements Application based on an oData Service (no single line of code)

 This is a continuation of my previous post where I explained how to publish an oData Service from a CDS view.

In this post I will demonstrate how to create a FIORI Application which consumes this CDS View. This will be done in the Business Technology Platform, using the WEB IDE.


In the WEB IDE, go to select 'New Project from Template'.

Then, select the List Application.

Enter the basic information.

Provide the Data Connection and find the oData service. (See previous post).


Maintain the Template Customization.






The newly created Test WL Application will appear in your Workspace and you can test it.



It looks like this: