How to create cf cap project on SAP Business Application Studio?

XAP Software · June 10, 2022

SAP CAP & SAP Business Application Studio

In this blog, I’ll explain how to create a cap project in SAP Business Application Studio.

Create Development space

Open SAP Business Application Studio and create new Dev Space.

Step 1

Enter a name for the workspace and select the type Full Stack Cloud Application.

Step 2

Now we create our dev space and we can start creating our application.

Step 3

Create simple CAP Project

Let’s create a project from the template.

Step 4

Select the CAP project.

Step 5

We will deploy the application on SAP BTP and HANA Cloud so we need to select the appropriate settings.

Step 6

We need to create files service.cds and service.js in folder srv/ and file schema.cds with simple code in folder db/ for CAP project.

File structure

// db/schema.cds

using {cuid} from '@sap/cds/common';

namespace db;

entity Foo : cuid {
    title: String default 'Hellow world';
    num: Integer default 0;
}

// srv/service.cds

using { db as db } from '../db/schema';

service MyService {

    entity Foo as projection on db.Foo;

}

Creating Fiori elements application

Select Create MTA Module from Template.

Step 7

Select ‘Create Approuter’.

Step 8

Enter the name and agree that you are planning to add UI.

Step 9

Select ‘Create MTA Module from Template’.

Step 10

Select Create SAP Fiori application.

Step 11

In this step we will create front-end application for our Full Stack Application. We can create SAP UI5 application or Fiori application from the template. For example, we choose Fiori elements List report.

Step 12