Before starting with the exercise please make sure that you have worked on the prerequisites that can be found in detail here
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Start the ABAP Development Tools (aka ABAP in Eclipse)
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Select a directory as workspace. Click Launch
- Close the Welcome screen
- Check the perspective. If the perspective is still the Java perspective, then ...
- Open ABAP perspective (if needed)
- Click on the Open perspective button
- Select ABAP
- Click Open
- Click File > New > ABAP Cloud Project to open a new ABAP Cloud project.
- Choose the option SAP Cloud Platform Cloud Foundry Environment and then click Next .
Please note
You have two options how to connect to your SAP Cloud Platform ABAP environment system. We suggest to use the first option. Logon to the SAP Cloud Platform Cloud Foundry Environment and navigate to your ABAP instance. The other option would be to connect directly to the ABAP environment. For this you however would have to provide the service key that you have downloaded when setting up your ABAP instance.
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Provide the SAP Cloud Foundry connection settings.
In this dialogue select the following values
- Region: Select the region e.g. Europe (Frankfurt) or US East (VA).
- Username: Enter your email adress
- Password: Enter your password you use to log on to SAP Cloud platform
Click Next.
The API endpoint will be selected according to the region you have chosen.
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Select service instance details
- Organization: Select your organization e.g. xxxxxxtrial
- Space: Select the space in your CF sub account e.g. dev
- Service instance: Click on the name of your ABAP trial instance e.g. default_abap-trial.
Click Next.
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Check service connection settings and press Next.
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You can keep the default project name, e.g. TRL_EN unchanged and click Finish
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Your ABAP Cloud Project should now look like follows
In this script we will use a suffix for the ABAP repository objects that you will create. This suffix you can choose freely but since we are using shared trial systems it might be that already another user has picked the same suffix.
In this blog it is described how you can check upfront whether the suffix of your choice has already been used by another user or not.
Blog - How do I find out if the suffix of my choice is already used in an ABAP trial system?
Now you are ready to start with the first exercise.
Continue to - Exercise 1