What's New - Latest blogs and featured content
New Blogs and Resources
- OData V2 maintenance innovations with S/4HANA 2023
- New course on UX for functional consultants
- Activating Apps by Business Catalog
- Foundational SAP Notes for SAP S/4HANA 2023
- App Variants are the EASY way to control App Features
- Yes Key Users can create default app settings for filters, tables, and charts
- What is Key User Extensibility and Who are your Key Users
Recently Updated Blogs and Resources
Scope and Prepare - Resources to start your journey
- Join the 5 Steps to Fiori for customers bootcamp
- SAP User Experience Update: What’s New for SAP S/4HANA 2023 (Private Cloud and On-Premise)
- Showcasing SAP Fiori - the video collection
- SAP Activate – Introducing UX Value Goals for your UX adoption roadmap
- Recommendations for transitioning users from SAP GUI to SAP Fiori
- Foundational SAP Notes for SAP S/4HANA 2023
- SAP Readiness Check 2.0 – Details about the topic of SAP Fiori
Refine and Extend - Resources to adapt and extend apps and UIs
- What is Key User Extensibility and who are your end users
- Yes Key Users can set Default Values for other Users
- Yes Key Users can create default app settings for filters, tables, and charts
- Yes you need SAP Fiori to Configure, Adapt and Extend SAP S/4HANA
- App Variants are the EASY way to control App Features
- Converting a SAP Fiori “Manage” app to a Display Only using Adapt UI
- How to create custom fields in the Business Process with “Custom Field Fiori App ( ID F1481)”
Overview of tools for maintaining custom launchpad content and layout
- Creating your custom business roles – the end-to-end process and video playlist
- Limit Search Object Access in Fiori Launchpad made easier
FAQ for business users
How can a user easily know which system they are working in?
From SAP S/4HANA 2023, you can turn on the System Information Bar via your Launchpad Configuration Parameters (SYS_INFO_BAR and SYS_INFO_BAR_COLOR). This is a color-coded bar that appears at the top of the screen with the system id and client of your current system. Refer to SAP User Experience Update: What’s New for SAP S/4HANA 2023 (Private Cloud and On-Premise)
FAQ for business process experts and functional consultants
Where can I find useful resources on SAP Fiori for business process experts and functional consultants.
- Join the openSAP course SAP S/4HANA UX for business and functional experts
- Review the content and accelerators tagged as "User Experience" in SAP Activate Roadmap SAP Activate Methodology for RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition Refer to SAP Activate – Introducing the User Experience tag
- You will find the App Selection by UX Value Goal guides particularly helpful!
- Review the openSAP microlearning videos in the User Experience playlist for SAP S/4HANA
FAQ - for technical consultants
How can the Technical team best support business users using SAP Fiori?
You will find lots of helpful resources for your Product Support team on the official SAP Fiori for SAP S/4HANA support page. Make sure to select your SAP S/4HANA release!
Some good first steps:
- Make sure all users know how to capture exact details of what app they are using, including the app id. Refer to Finding the technical name of an app
- When users have an issue, help them capture and send you detailed information on any authorization errors, service errors, etc. by getting them to use App Support to find the errors, download them and send them to you. Refer to App Support for the SAP Fiori Launchpad
For further advice on initial recommendations review Support Best Practice Recommendations
What advice is there on how to migrate launchpad layout from Groups to Spaces and Pages
Refer to the advice in these blog posts:
- Migrating from groups to spaces and pages – Why, When, and Key Differences for Users
- How to migrate from groups to spaces and pages
P.s. If you are on SAP S/4HANA 2021 or higher, please start on Spaces and Pages. Do not use Groups.
How can I improve the performance of SAP Fiori?
Performance is a very broad topic in a web-based environment. Our best recommendations are in the following references:
When upgrading SAP Fiori for SAP S/4HANA, what should I consider?
Before you upgrade:
- There are recommendations on your options and the differences for upgrading SAP Fiori in How and why to upgrade SAP Fiori for your SAP S/4HANA solution
- Review the Best Practices for Upgrades and Application of Patches
- Before you upgrade your SAP S/4HANA release you can get a heads up on changes to your usage of SAP Fiori apps and classic UIs by running the Fiori Upgrade Impact Analysis. Refer to Upgrade Impact Analysis - Quickly identify successors for obsolete, deprecated and superseded apps
