Set Up SAP Business Application Studio

SAP Business Application Studio is a development environment available on SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP). Before you can start developing applications with SAP Business Application Studio, you must perform the required onboarding steps that are described in this tutorial.

• How to subscribe to SAP Business Application Studio
• How to launch SAP Business Application Studio

Prerequisites

• You have an enterprise global account in SAP BTP. To use services for free, you can sign up for an SAP BTPEA (SAP BTP Enterprise Agreement) or a Pay-As-You-Go for SAP BTP global account and make use of the free tier services only. See Using Free Service Plans.
• You have a platform user. See User and Member Management.
• You are an administrator of the global account in SAP BTP.
• You have a subaccount in SAP BTP to deploy the services and applications.
• You have one of the following browsers that are supported for working in SAP Business Application Studio:
  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Google Chrome
  • Microsoft Edge

  This tutorial follows the guidance provided in the SAP BTP Developer’s Guide.

  Open all Close all Configure entitlements for SAP Business Application Studio

  This task is usually done by the administrator of the global account in SAP BTP. Developers then need to create their personal development space by following the instructions in Step 4: Launch SAP Business Application Studio below.

  1. In the SAP BTP cockpit, choose Entitlements → Entity Assignments.
  2. In the Subaccounts/Directories field, select the subaccount you have already created.
  3. Choose Edit and then choose Add Service Plans.
  4. In the Add Service Plans dialog, search for SAP Business Application Studio and select plan free (Application).
  • A user can only have up to 2 dev spaces.
  • A user can only have 1 dev space in the RUNNING state at a time.
  • When working in the Full-Stack Application Using Productivity Tools dev space, a user can deploy a maximum of 2 times.
  • The maximum size limit of a dev space is 4 GB.

  

  Subscribe to the SAP Business Application Studio

  This task is usually done by the administrator of the global account in SAP BTP. Developers then need to create their personal development space by following the instructions in Step 4: Launch SAP Business Application Studio below.

  1. Navigate to your subaccount and choose Services → Service Marketplace.
  2. Search for the SAP Business Application Studio tile and choose Create.

  

  

  Creating your new subscription might take some minutes. You can check the current status of the submission on the Service Instances and Subscriptions page.