You've already created an ABAP Trial Account and connected your ADT to it using a ABAP Cloud Project as described in the Requirements section.
Please note that ADT dialogs and views as well as Fiori UIs may change in upcoming releases.
Hints and Tips
Speed up typing by making use of the Code Completion feature (shortcut Ctrl+Space) and the prepared code snippets provided. You can easily open an object with the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+A, format your source code using the Pretty Printer feature Shift+F1 and toggle the fullscreen of the editor using the shortcut Ctrl+M.An overview of ADT shortcuts can be found here: Useful ADT Shortcuts
As the ABAP Trial environment is used by many people, we've defined a naming pattern for each artefact you are going to create to make sure it doesn't conflict with other ones. For this you'll find the placeholder ####
used in object names that must be replaced with the group ID of your choice during the exercises.
The group ID will be generated for you in the next exercise and it contains 4 numbers.
Hints and Tips
The screenshots in this document have been taken using group ID1234
and systemX11
.
In the course of these exercises you will frequently see the task to "replace the placeholder ####
with your group ID". For this it's recommended to make use of the Find/Replace feature of the Eclipse Editor. It can be opened either via the menu (Edit -> Find/Replace...) or via Ctrl+F.
Choosing Replace All allows you to replace all ocurrences of ####
with your group ID.
Enable the Link with Editor option. Whenever this option is enabled, the current object in the editor will be automatically selected in the expanded Project Explorer tree.
Now you can continue with the following exercise:
- [Fast Track]: Exercises 1-4 - Generate Data Model to generate the data model