How to enable SAP Easy Access Menu for Fiori Launchpad for S4HANA

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Hello everyone, in this blog post i would like to share step-by-step guide on how to enable SAP Easy Access Menu for Fiori Launchpad in S4HANA

SAP Easy Access Menu in Fiori Launchpad for S/4 HANA

S4HANA Fiori Launchpad AppFinder 8

In my recent project assignment i was asked to enable SAP Easy Access Menu for Fiori Launchpad.

At first i was not sure about the approach, after spending some time on internet and going through SAP best practice guides i am able to show the SAP Easy Access Menu (or) SMEN transaction with some hick-ups during the implementation.

The SAP Menu and the User Menu are also known as the SAP Easy Access Menus

Step-by-Step Procedure

1. Log On to SAP Gateway system if the Fiori deployment is Hub, in case of embedded deployment log-on to the system in which SAP_UI component is installed (..in my case it is Hub deployment S4HANA system as backend system and SAP Gateway as Front End Server).

2. Launch Activate and Maintain Services transaction using the tcode – /IWFND/MAINT_SERVICE. (..don’t forget to add /n in-front of the tcode)

3. Activate below OData services

/UI2/EASY_ACCESS_MENU Easy Access Menu service
/UI2/USER_MENU User Menu service

If you are not not familiar with OData activation process, click here to know the process.

S4HANA Fiori Launchpad AppFinder 14. Launch SAP Fiori Launchpad Designer. You can launch the Fiori Launchpad Designer in 2 ways

  1. Using the tcodes – /UI2/FLPD_CONF(cross-client) or /UI2/FLPD_CUST(client-specifc)
  2. Using any of these urls
  • http://[server]:[port]/sap/bc/ui5_ui5/sap/arsrvc_upb_admn/main.html?sap-client=900&sap-language=EN&scope=CUST
  • http://[server]:[port]/sap/bc/ui5_ui5/sap/arsrvc_upb_admn/main.html?sap-client=900&sap-language=EN&scope=CONF

change server, port and sap-client parameters as per your system details

5. Create a new Catalog by clicking on Add button

S4HANA Fiori Launchpad AppFinder 26. On Create Catalog dialog box provide values for Title and ID, hit Save to create the catalog.S4HANA Fiori Launchpad AppFinder 37. Navigate to Target Mapping tab and hit Create Target Mapping to create a new target mapping.S4HANA Fiori Launchpad AppFinder 48. On Configure Target Mapping provide these values for the respective fields.

Intent

Semantic Object Shell
Action startGUI

Target

Application Type Transaction(choose from the drop-down)
Title SAP Easy Access(any name of your choice)
Transaction SAPEasyAccess(any name of your choice)
System Alias leave it blank

General

Device Type Desktop

Parameters

Name Mandatory Value Is Regular Expression
sap-system Ticked S4HCLNT900 Not Ticked
sap-ui2-tcode Ticked .* Ticked

S4HANA Fiori Launchpad AppFinder 59. Hit Save button to save the configuration.

10. Create a new PFCG role and assign the Catalog.

11. Assign the PFCG role to the end users.

12. Finally launch Fiori Launchpad and navigate to App Finder, three new buttons will be added to the header like below

S4HANA Fiori Launchpad AppFinder 713. Select User Menu or SAP Menu, all transactions available in the back-end system added to you will be available like below

14. Click on “+” symbol to add any of these transactions to the group.

S4HANA Fiori Launchpad AppFinder 615. Navigate back to the Fiori Launchpad and the newly added tcode should be available as a tile under the selected group.

Points to be noted

  • SAP Easy Access menu is not supported on mobile devices

Other Terms

Conclusion

Congrats.! 🙂 you have successfully enable SAP Easy Access Menu for Fiori Launchpad in S4HANA.