How to create a Fiori Tile for any traditional Tcode ?

Something funny happened to me last week ... I thought I have seen it all in terms of "bad SAP resources" but I keep on getting surprised everyday. I had to teach a "Fiori Consultant" how to create a Fiori tile for a standard traditional SAP GUI Tcode so we could execute it directly in Fiori. He/she should know that by hard as this is the bread & butter of Fiori ...

Creating a Fiori tile out of a standard Tcode is something easy if you have the accesses and permissions. In some cases, SAP has not delivered standard Catalogs and Security roles that will contain the Tcode that you are looking for and you will have to create a Custom Tile. Now a days, more and more projects get delivered with Fiori only accesses, which it should be the way to do it now. So, in those cases, you will need to create a Fiori Tile capable of executing a traditional SAP Tcode.

First thing you need to check, is how the Tcode is defined by SAP in its standard.

Execute Tcode SE91, enter the Tcode you want to convert into a Tile and click "Display" (Ex. F-29)

Down below in the "GUI Support" section, you need to check if your desired Tcode has activated the "SAP GUI for HTML" option. If it has, you will be able to call if from Fiori.

Then you will have to open the Fiori App Library and look for your Tcode as you will need to get certain information from there that it will be needed in subsequent steps.

https://fioriappslibrary.hana.ondemand.com/

Going back to your system, open your Fiori Launchpad Designer (not your regular Fiori Launchpad FLP link, this is the "Designer")

Click in "Catalogs" and click in "+" to add a new Catalog.

Assign a Title for your Custom Catalog and an ID, recommendation is to start with Z*. Then <Save>.

After that, click on "+" in the square to Add a Tile to the Catalog that you just created.

Here we will have to enter different information and parameters, some of them will be ones corresponding to your Tcode information from the Fiori App Library. 

From the searched Tcode in the Library, go to "Implementation Information" then "Configuration"

From there we will need to use "Semantic Object", "Semantic Action", "Parameters".

Now you will start completing the information in the Tile that you want to add.

Enter your desired Title for your Tcode, subtitle you can put the Tcode so you keep reference, keywords too. Icon you can give any icon you want from the list. Then enter the Semantic Object and Semantic Action from the Fiori App Library and the Parameters-value in Parameters. Once completed, click <Save>.

Next is to "Create the Target Mapping", On the top click in "Target Mapping" then at the Bottom part of the screen click on "Create the Target Mapping".

Here you will have to enter similar information that you collected from the Fiori App Library.

Semantic Object, Action, System Alias and Title. On Application Type, select "Transaction" and then on Transaction, enter your Tcode (Ex. F-29). You can also decide if you want this tile to be called on Desktop mode, tablet or even Phone. Then <Save>.

So in the 1st step you are assigning some information and in the 2nd you end up assigning the real Tcode. I know ... it seems repetitive, but it might have a reason, but I am not that much of a Fiori expert to tell you the difference. I just know enough to get around.

Once the Catalog has been created, we will create a Group where we can include this Tile or any other tile that exists out there from any other Catalog.

Click in "Groups" on top of the screen. Then "+" to add a Group.

Assign a Group Name and ID, in this case I kept it equal to the Catalog but it can be different. This Title is the one that will show in your Fiori Groups assigned to you when you will be navigating.

Click in the square "+" to add a new Group

Then look for your Group name created in prior steps. (Ex Z_AR... )

Once selected it will show you Tiles from that group and you just need to confirm / add them by clicking in the "+" underneath each Tile. Once it turns green, it means you added to the Group.

If you added one by mistake, you cannot unclick it. You need to drag and drop to the bottom right corner to delete it.

Now we have completed the Custom Catalog and Group creation. Next step is to create a Security role that will call them. You might not have enough Security accesses in your organization to create this and you might have to work with your Security person.

Execute Transaction PFCG, enter a Role Name (Ex. Z_AR_TEST_AD) and click in Single role.

Assign a description and <Save> the role. Then go to "Menu" tab, click on "Transaction" -> SAP Fiori Launchpad" and Catalog and Group. Assign the names of the Catalogs and Group you created in the prior steps in the Launchpad Designer. Save the role and get the role assigned to your SAP username.

The result will be that you have the Group "Customer - TEST AD" available within the Group lists in your Fiori Launchpad

Then the only Tile that I had added to my group (Ex. F-29) will appear.

Finally your F-29 Tcode can be executed as a GUI HTML from Fiori.

If your Company and/or Project needs to implement this, or any of the functionalities described in my Blog, or advise about them, do not hesitate to reach out to me and I will be happy to provide you my services.

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