Digitization of business processes and deriving intelligent action automatically is one of the mega trends across all industries globally. As part of this mission, should you choose to accept it, you will experience challenges and solution approaches firsthand acting as the much needed incubation team 🐣 of the Contoso Inc.
You will be expanding your ABAP developer horizon and ultimately be equipped to shape digitization efforts one step at a time. But first things first.
- Azure subscription with quota for Azure OpenAI Service and authorization to access API keys
- SAP S/4HANA Cloud ABAP environment (aka. Embedded Steampunk) 2022 or higher
- SAP Authorization to create ABAP artifacts
- Eclipse with ABAP Development Tools (ADT) installed (quest 1 leads you through the installation process)
- Access to any Copilot experience using GPT (Bing, Azure AI Studio, ChatGPT, ...) for fine-tuning your prompt
Our journey will start from SAP S/4HANA Cloud ABAP environment (aka. Embedded Steampunk) but your learnings will be applicable to BTP ABAP environment too. Also the ABAP SDKs used are usable with classic ABAP as well.
This lab was conducted with S/4HANA 2022.
Note
🏋🏽♂️Difficulty meter (1 star = walk in the park | 5 stars = squeeze your brains out ): 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 ⏱Allow ~2 hours to complete your journey
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Quest 1 - Setting up
You will setup your environment and start Eclipse with ABAP Development tools (ADT). Ideally this was pre-prepared prior the hands-on lab.
Ensure you are ready to go by logging in to your ABAP Cloud environment.
🌟🌟 🕒 30 mins
Quest 2 - Generate RAP service and Fiori UI
You will generate an SAP RESTful ABAP Programming model service based of a provided table definition. Moreover you will generate a Fiori UI to maintain values.
🌟🌟 🕒 15 mins
Quest 3 - Develop your AI prompt
Before you start using the Microsoft AI SDK for SAP, you will play with and fine-tune your prompt on the GPT enabled AI service of your choice.
🌟🌟🌟🌟 🕒 45 mins
Quest 4 - Add Microsoft AI SDK for SAP to your project
Once you are happy with your prompt, you will add the Microsoft AI SDK for SAP to your project and use it to generate fancy product descriptions during the create process.
Tip
🏆Finish the final quest, collect the pass phrase, and redeem it to claim your badge 😎