Exercise - Week 2

Setting Up an Account on HCP

1. Create a new SAP HANA Cloud Platform trial account
The SAP HANA Cloud Platform (HCP) is the platform-as-a-service offering from SAP that
provides instant access to the full power of SAP HANA. With flexible subscription models,
it enables you to build, extend, and run applications on SAP HANA in the cloud. In order to
use the SAP HANA Cloud Platform for the development of an SAP Fiori app, you need to
have an active account you can access from your PC.
In this exercise you will set up your own free developers account on the HANA Cloud
Platform. If you already have an active HCP account, you can use it and skip part one of
this exercise.
In order to register for your free HANA Cloud Platform developers account, go to the
following URL:

https://account.hanatrial.ondemand.com/register

If you dont already have an account setup with single sign-on, you will be presented with
the following screen, in which you can choose to register for your free account. Click on
Register Now.

Fill in the registration form. Make sure to provide a real and accessible email account,
which will be used to activate the account later. Scroll down to the bottom of the Terms of

Use so that you are able to check the acknowledgement check box and continue with the
registration.

The activation email will be sent to the address you provided.

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Log in to your mailbox and check that you got the activation email. If you are unable to find
it in your inbox make sure to check your junk/spam folder as well.

Click on the activate your account button to finish the registration.

Once the account is activated you will get another email with several useful links for
additional resources on the HANA Cloud Platform.
In order to start and use your free HANA Cloud Platform developers account, go to the
following URL:

https://account.hanatrial.ondemand.com/cockpit

It is recommended that you bookmark this URL as you are going to use it frequently
throughout this training.
You will be presented with a registration and login screen. Enter your email as the
username and then the password you chose during registration. This will enable you to
access your HANA Cloud Platform account cockpit.

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On the first login to your new account you might be presented with the following screen.
Click continue to create your account.

Congratulations! You should now have a fully functional developers account on the SAP
HANA Cloud Platform.

Later in this training we will learn how to use and configure the SAP HANA Cloud Platform
Cockpit in the creation of SAP Fiori applications.

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2. Create a new destination to an SAP Gateway OData Service

(NOTE: If either the NetWeaver Gateway Service Consumption System or the Sign Up
Form is not accessible, please continue to part three of this exercise)
Connectivity destinations are part of the SAP HANA Cloud Platform connectivity service
and are used for the outbound communication of a cloud application to a remote system.
They contain the connection details for the remote communication of an application.
Connectivity destinations are represented by symbolic names that are used by on-demand
applications to refer to remote connections. The connectivity service resolves the
destination at runtime based on the symbolic name provided. The result is an object that
contains customer-specific configuration details, such as the URL of the remote system or
service, the authentication type, and the relative credentials.
Before defining a new destination you need to obtain access to a data provisioning system
such as the SAP Netweaver Gateway or a public REST Service. During this training you
can use the SAP Netweaver Gateway Service Consumption System.
To obtain access to the SAP Netweaver Gateway Service Consumption system, follow this
link to the sign up form:

https://supsignformssapicl.hana.ondemand.com/SUPSignForms/
When you sign up, the form will take your SAP Community Network (SCN) data as user
data. The form also asks you to agree to the EULA. Once you have done that an email
will be sent to the email address that SCN has on file for your user with your logon
information. (Make sure that the email address displayed is a valid email address for you.
If it is not, please update your email address in your SCN profile before registering for the
system.)
To learn more about the OData services provided by this system, go to:

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-31221
Use the link to the Flight System Consumption Model that is provided in this document
to verify that you have access to the system.

For additional information on this system, go to:

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-40986

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Once you verified you have access to the Netweaver Gateway Service Consumption
system, go to the following URL, and log in to the SAP HANA Cloud Platform.

https://account.hanatrial.ondemand.com/cockpit
On the left bar menu, click on Destination and then choose New Destination...
Enter the following parameters in the new destination form:
Name

SAPGatewayDemo

Type

HTTP

Description

SAP Gateway Demo

URL

https://sapes1.sapdevcenter.com:443

Proxy Type

Internet

Cloud Connector version

Authentication

BasicAuthentication

User

<Your Username>

Password

<Your Password>

Properties:
TrustAll

true

WebIDEEnabled

true

WebIDESystem

ES1

WebIDEUsage

odata_abap,ui5_execute_abap,dev_abap

The complete destination form should look like this:

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3. Create a new destination to a public OData provider (Optional)

The Northwind Traders sample database contains the sales data for a fictitious company
called Northwind Traders, which imports and exports specialty foods from around the
world.
The Northwind sample database comes with certain versions of Microsoft SQL Server. It is
also available as a set of public services at HTTP://WWW.ODATA.ORG
The Northwind public OData service, like many other OData services, can be used as the
data source when creating SAP Fiori and other SAPUI5 applications.
If you want to connect your SAP HANA Cloud Platform instance to this public OData
service, enter the following parameters in the new destination form:
Name

northwind

Type

HTTP

Description

Northwind OData Service

URL

http://services.odata.org

Proxy Type

Internet

Cloud Connector version

Authentication

NoAuthentication

Properties:
WebIDEEnabled

true

WebIDESystem

northwind

WebIDEUsage

odata_gen

The complete destination form should look like this:

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