Creation of Fiori Tiles for Backend Transactions – S/4 HANA

In some scenarios, there might be the need to create tiles for backend transactions in Fiori. These tiles
could be for backend transactions that currently don’t exist as a Fiori tile (you can confirm a tile for the
transaction does not exist already here) or for new Z-Transactions. This document will describe how to
create tiles for backend transactions.

1.) First, create a customizing request in the Gateway Development system. This will be used to
record the changes made in the Launchpad Designer.

2.) Once you’ve created your transport, navigate to the Launchpad Designer app in the Fiori
Launchpad. Be certain to choose the “Client Specific” app.

Note: You’ll need to have the following role: SAP_UI2_ADMIN_731 assigned to your user in the
Gateway system to access the Launchpad Designer this way). Alternately, you can access the
Launchpad Designer using a URL. This URL should be structured as follows:
[Link] where
<server>:<port> matches that of the Fiori Launchpad URL.

3.) The first thing that you should do upon entering the Fiori Launchpad Designer is to assign the
transport that you created in step 1. Unlike traditional configuration, you won’t be prompted to
save your changes to a transport. This means that if you don’t do this at the beginning, you’ll
have to make a change in each tile/group/catalog once you’ve assigned the transport to get
those changes to be recorded in the transport so that the new tile can be moved to other
clients and systems.

To do this, click on the “gear” icon in the top right corner.

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In the “Assign Transport Request” dialog box presented, uncheck the “None (Local Object)” box
and choose your transport in the “Customizing Request” dropdown. Then, hit “OK”

Once you’ve assigned a transport to the Fiori Launchpad Designer, any changes that you make
until you’ve released that transport (or update the transport by using the “Gear” to assign a new
transport) will be recorded. This includes any new tiles/groups/catalogs or modifications to
existing tiles/catalogs/groups. You won’t need to assign the transport at any other point in the
process.

4.) At this point in the process, you can choose to add the tile to an existing catalog on the left.
(Note: You should not modify any catalog that begins “SAP”). If you are adding a tile to an
existing catalog you can skip to step 6 below.

To create a catalog to which you want to add a new tile(s), select the “+” icon on the bottom left
hand corner of the screen.
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5.) You’ll be presented with the “Create Catalog” option.
 Leave the “Standard” radio button enabled
 Title – The title of the catalog will be visible to users. This will be modifiable once the
Catalog has been saved.
 ID – This should begin with Z to differentiate it from the SAP provided catalogs. You
won’t be able to use spaces or characters in the ID – you’ll get a message letting you
know that it’s an invalid entry. After you remove those characters/spaces, the “save”
option will be enabled. Once you have saved the Catalog, this ID will not be modifiable.
 Once you’ve entered all of the required fields, select “Save”

6.) Upon “Save”, you’ll be taken to your newly created Catalog. Now, you’re ready to add tiles. To
do so, select the “+” option.
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Note: You can also add tiles by selecting the “Create Tile” option on the bottom of the screen
while in the table view of “Tiles”

7.) In the screen presented, choose the “App Launcher – Static” option.

8.) In the screen presented, make the following entries:

 Title – This will be the name of the tile and visible to users. This will be the title they
search for the tile using.
 Subtitle (optional) – If you’d like, you can put the transaction code here (subtitle is also
visible to users).
 “Use semantic object navigation” checkbox should always be enabled
 Semantic Object – Enter the transaction code here. Don’t include / or /n in this field
 Action – display
 Parameters – For transactions, you should always enter: sap-ui-tech-hint=GUI in this
field
 Once you’ve entered all of the required fields, select “Save”
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9.) You’ll be returned to the Catalog. Once there choose the “Target Mapping” icon. Once you’ve
done that, select the “Create Target Mapping” option.
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10.) In this screen, we’re going to add the navigation to the tile that we created. Without the target
mapping, the tile won’t be visible to the user. The target mapping determines what the tile does
when it is selected.

Make the following entries:

 Semantic Object – this must be the same value used when you created the tile
 Action – display
 Application Type – select “Transaction” from the dropdown menu
 Title – should be the same as entered in the tile
 Transaction – enter the transaction (no /n required in front of the T-code)
 System Alias - S4XXX where XXX equals the module (ie: EAM for plant maintenance or
PP for Production Planning)
 Once you’ve entered all of the required fields, select “Save”

11.) You’ll be returned to the catalog. You’ve successfully added the tile to a catalog. At this point,
you could assign the catalog to a frontend role. Users assigned the frontend role will be able to
search for this app in the “App Finder” of the Launchpad. If you’d like to do that, you can skip to
step 18. However, if you’d like the tile for the transaction to be visible on a user’s Fiori
Launchpad, you need to assign the tile to a group.
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12.) To add the tile to a Fiori Tile Group, select the “Groups” tab. As per catalogs, you can add the tile
to an existing group (that does not start with “SAP”). If you’d like to do this, skip to step 14. To
create a new group for the tile, select the “+” icon in the bottom left corner.

13.) Make the following entries in the “Create Group” window:

 Title – This is what will be displayed on the Fiori Launchpad. Once you hit “Save” this will
be modifiable.
 ID - This should begin with Z to differentiate it from the SAP provided catalogs. You
won’t be able to use spaces or characters in the ID – you’ll get a message letting you
know that it’s an invalid entry. After you remove those characters/spaces, the “save”
option will be enabled. Once you have saved the Catalog, this ID will not be modifiable.
 “Enable users to personalize their group” checkbox:
o If this is enabled, users will be able to modify this group on their Fiori
Launchpad. This includes removing/adding tiles to it.
o If this option is disabled, users will not be able to add/remove tiles from the
group.
 Once you’ve entered all of the required fields, select “Save”
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14.) Upon saving, you’ll see a screen similar to the following. To add tiles to the newly created group
(or the group selected in previous steps), select the “+” icon.

15.) You’ll be taken to the following screen. You can select the catalog you just created from the
search. Once the catalog is selected, you’ll see all of the tiles that are a part of the catalog
selected. To add the tile to the group, select the “+” icon.
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16.) You’ll receive a success message and the “+” icon will become a green checkmark.

17.) Select the “back” icon and you’ll be returned to the group page.
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18.) Now that the tile you’ve created has been assigned to Fiori Tile Catalog and Fiori Tile Group, you
can assign these to a role. You can either create a new role, or assign the catalog to an existing
role (skip to step 19.) To create this role, once again login to the Gateway system. Once there,
navigate to transaction PFCG. Enter a name in the “Role” input field, then select the “Single
Role” option.

19.) Select the “Menu” tab. From there, select the more option on the “Transaction” option. A list of
options will be presented. Select the “SAP Fiori Tile Catalog” option.
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20.) The “Assign Tile Catalog” dialog will be presented. Leave all the default options as is and select
the search option in the “Catalog ID” field.

21.) Select the catalog you created from the list presented.
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22.) You’ll be returned to the “Assign Tile Catalog” dialog and the catalog selected will be displayed.
Select the “Enter” option.

23.) A message will be displayed letting you know some of the apps in the catalog are not in the
system. This is because you’re adding an app for a transaction that does not exist in the
Gateway system. Select the “Cancel” option.

24.) Now, select the more option on the “SAP Fiori Tile Catalog” to view the options available. Select
the “SAP Fiori Tile Group” option from the list presented.
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25.) Select the search option in the “Assign Group” dialog.

26.) Select the group you created from the list presented.
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27.) You’ll be returned to the “Assign Group” dialog. Select the “Enter” option. You’ll once again be
returned to the “Menu” tab. The SAP Fiori Tile Catalog and Group that you assigned will be
displayed.

28.) Navigate to the “User” tab. Enter the user IDs to whom you wish to assign the role.

29.) Upon the next login to the Fiori Launchpad, the app will be visible to the users who have been
assigned this role.