Help Content for SAP Business ByDesign
The different types of help content that are available in the studio are integrated and local. Now
what is integrated help?
Integrated help comes automatically when you install the studio itself. It's very easily
accessible and it never requires updating.
Why's that? When you go to the Help menu within the studio, you'll see some options up here. And the first one is the SAP Cloud Applications Studio Help. This is going to open an online
help page. So it's actually going to a help content that's already available online somewhere, it's always real time-updated, so any updates that are there, it's not local on your machine,
so you should have those updates, and it's very easy in the sense that you do not need to do anything extra to use this
help.
And this is the integrated help that's there in the studio. You can see there's lots of good
content in here. This is a very, very important page as a developer that you will reference often.
For example, let's look at Getting Started. I can see things about first steps, so how do I install
the studio? Here are all the details and things that we mentioned what are the
requirements, where do I go and how do I download? If I have trouble, who should I contact?
So you can see that if you do have issues downloading it, you can always contact
CloudSolutionPartner@sap.com.
Updating, there's also things like the user roles that we talked about. Also, how do I set up a
user?
There's also what's new within the studio, so in each release, obviously new content may come
out. And this will talk about what is new in each of those releases for you.
So very, very good content here in the help. We're going to look at this a lot because it shows
us code examples, what's the syntax for what we are doing, HowTos on some of these
different objects.
So this is the integrated help. Now if we go back, the other help content for us is the local help
content. Now, this is the same exact content, just a different way that we're going to access it. So this
also comes automatically when you install the studio, but you'll need to install the viewer that's
there. And that's specifically the Visual Studio Viewer to be able to view this content.
Now benefit of having it local, really a couple of benefits, one is that you can search for it. The
integrated help content online, you can't search directly for anything.
But with the local help content, you can search. So if you want to know elements specifically for
a business object, you can search for “element” and it'll help navigate you to the right place.
Also, this gives you context-sensitive F1 help. So if you're typing and you're wondering well,
when I define an element what do I do, you can actually click on the root element, then press
F1, and it's going to load the help content directly for an element.
So it can be really nice to have it local. It's updated every time you update your studio build
specifically, so it's always available to you there.
The local help content you can also find under Help, you'll see Help Content Installation, it'll
help you to install the actual Viewer if you need to, and then you'll have it available to you to view directly on your machine, so that's local, it's not
online but still the same content itself.
Now the online help, there's actually, you can very easily navigate to it if you go to help.sap.com.
So I'm here in the Help Portal. I'm going to go ahead to Cloud, and scroll down and let's look at
Software Development Kits (or SDKs) and the SAP Cloud Applications Studio.
Now, this great because it gives me a few different versions of the help. So I can see
specifically, a “What's new” section, the user resources – the majority of the help content and some additional help areas that might not be specific help content but still can provide me
help in developing for the studio.
All of these, it gives me an online version, which is the integrated help we'd see. Also a print
version, which is a large PDF of all the help content.
So if you actually wanted to have a local copy or print it off somewhere, you'll be able to page
through and make notes, you could print the printed version, and have it locally for you in your
hand.
Now it also shows the help content for each of the past releases, so as each release goes on,
new help content will be posted here for you.
Now this is the bulk of the help that you use, you'll use this very extensively, but there are a
couple of other resources when it comes to helping that are really good.
Specifically one thing, the SAP Cloud Applications Studio page in SCN. So the SCN page is
very, very great. There are lots of great people on there, many good partners, customers, there's
SAP people, experts. And you can go on there, ask questions, look at blog posts, there are lots of HowTo videos that
people have posted for some of the different things that you can do in the studio. It's a very,
very good resource that's available to you.
You can access it either from the link there or, if we go to the studio, you can see there's
actually a link here: SAP Community Network Forum, which will bring you right to that page as
well in SCN. So it's a very great resource for looking at different things and getting feedback, bouncing
ideas off of other developers, very helpful. And the other help that you have is the book that's there. So there is a book that was published
a few years ago called SAP Business ByDesign Studio.
This has not been updated in a little bit, but it is a very good book! It talks in great detail about
the basics of the studio in most of the content that's there. And it can be really helpful in understanding, a lot of the deeper understanding in the studio,
really why certain things are built, and how really relates to building the different content, and
how they relate with each other.
So it's a great book, it's available on Amazon, the link's available here on the slide to you. I
recommend to go out and grab yourself a copy of that as well.
So this is really what help content is out there within the studio. Anything you need to do you
can find on one of these pages.
The help content itself, whether you use the integrated or local help, will give you details on
any functionality that's within the studio.
And then you can always go on the SCN page to look for more, expert advice or feedback from
other people. And then the book, like I said, will give you lots of real content.
what is integrated help?
Integrated help comes automatically when you install the studio itself. It's very easily
accessible and it never requires updating.
Why's that? When you go to the Help menu within the studio, you'll see some options up here. And the first one is the SAP Cloud Applications Studio Help. This is going to open an online
help page. So it's actually going to a help content that's already available online somewhere, it's always real time-updated, so any updates that are there, it's not local on your machine,
so you should have those updates, and it's very easy in the sense that you do not need to do anything extra to use this
help.
And this is the integrated help that's there in the studio. You can see there's lots of good
content in here. This is a very, very important page as a developer that you will reference often.
For example, let's look at Getting Started. I can see things about first steps, so how do I install
the studio? Here are all the details and things that we mentioned what are the
requirements, where do I go and how do I download? If I have trouble, who should I contact?
So you can see that if you do have issues downloading it, you can always contact
CloudSolutionPartner@sap.com.
Updating, there's also things like the user roles that we talked about. Also, how do I set up a
user?
There's also what's new within the studio, so in each release, obviously new content may come
out. And this will talk about what is new in each of those releases for you.
So very, very good content here in the help. We're going to look at this a lot because it shows
us code examples, what's the syntax for what we are doing, HowTos on some of these
different objects.
So this is the integrated help. Now if we go back, the other help content for us is the local help
content. Now, this is the same exact content, just a different way that we're going to access it. So this
also comes automatically when you install the studio, but you'll need to install the viewer that's
there. And that's specifically the Visual Studio Viewer to be able to view this content.
Now benefit of having it local, really a couple of benefits, one is that you can search for it. The
integrated help content online, you can't search directly for anything.
But with the local help content, you can search. So if you want to know elements specifically for
a business object, you can search for “element” and it'll help navigate you to the right place.
Also, this gives you context-sensitive F1 help. So if you're typing and you're wondering well,
when I define an element what do I do, you can actually click on the root element, then press
F1, and it's going to load the help content directly for an element.
So it can be really nice to have it local. It's updated every time you update your studio build
specifically, so it's always available to you there.
The local help content you can also find under Help, you'll see Help Content Installation, it'll
help you to install the actual Viewer if you need to, and then you'll have it available to you to view directly on your machine, so that's local, it's not
online but still the same content itself.
Now the online help, there's actually, you can very easily navigate to it if you go to help.sap.com.
So I'm here in the Help Portal. I'm going to go ahead to Cloud, and scroll down and let's look at
Software Development Kits (or SDKs) and the SAP Cloud Applications Studio.
Now, this great because it gives me a few different versions of the help. So I can see
specifically, a “What's new” section, the user resources – the majority of the help content and some additional help areas that might not be specific help content but still can provide me
help in developing for the studio.
All of these, it gives me an online version, which is the integrated help we'd see. Also a print
version, which is a large PDF of all the help content.
So if you actually wanted to have a local copy or print it off somewhere, you'll be able to page
through and make notes, you could print the printed version, and have it locally for you in your
hand.
Now it also shows the help content for each of the past releases, so as each release goes on,
new help content will be posted here for you.
Now this is the bulk of the help that you use, you'll use this very extensively, but there are a
couple of other resources when it comes to helping that are really good.
Specifically one thing, the SAP Cloud Applications Studio page in SCN. So the SCN page is
very, very great. There are lots of great people on there, many good partners, customers, there's
SAP people, experts. And you can go on there, ask questions, look at blog posts, there are lots of HowTo videos that
people have posted for some of the different things that you can do in the studio. It's a very,
very good resource that's available to you.
You can access it either from the link there or, if we go to the studio, you can see there's
actually a link here: SAP Community Network Forum, which will bring you right to that page as
well in SCN. So it's a very great resource for looking at different things and getting feedback, bouncing
ideas off of other developers, very helpful. And the other help that you have is the book that's there. So there is a book that was published
a few years ago called SAP Business ByDesign Studio.
This has not been updated in a little bit, but it is a very good book! It talks in great detail about
the basics of the studio in most of the content that's there. And it can be really helpful in understanding, a lot of the deeper understanding in the studio,
really why certain things are built, and how really relates to building the different content, and
how they relate with each other.
So it's a great book, it's available on Amazon, the link's available here on the slide to you. I
recommend to go out and grab yourself a copy of that as well.
So this is really what help content is out there within the studio. Anything you need to do you
can find on one of these pages.
The help content itself, whether you use the integrated or local help, will give you details on
any functionality that's within the studio.
And then you can always go on the SCN page to look for more, expert advice or feedback from
other people. And then the book, like I said, will give you lots of real content.
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