SAP Fiori Launchpad Content Manager

SAP Fiori Launchpad App Manager (since SAP S/4HANA 2020)

• Web Browser SAP GUI transaction /UI2/FLPAM
• Customizing (transaction SPRO) path: SAP NetWeaver → UI Technologies → SAP Fiori → Setting Up Launchpad Content → Setting Up Technical Catalogs → Manage Technical Catalogs with SAP Fiori Launchpad App Manager
• In SAP S/4HANA 2020, the capabilities of the existing Mass Maintenance tool were extended, and to align with the broader range of capabilities, the app was renamed Launchpad App Manager. We no longer use the term “Mass Maintenance” for the app; it is now the Launchpad App Manager.
• The Launchpad App Manager supersedes the Launchpad Designer, and complements the Launchpad Content Manager.
• Launchpad App Manager is used to:
  • Manage all technical catalogs in one place, which makes it easier to manage launchpad app descriptor items
  • Explore existing technical catalogs and their content
  • Maintain technical catalogs
  • Maintain launchpad app descriptor items
  • Perform mass changes

Procedure to Setup Up a Technical Catalog with the Launchpad App Manager

1. Create a launchpad app descriptor item for each app you will integrate in the launchpad.
2. Add the launchpad app descriptor item to an existing technical catalog or your own custom technical catalog.
   • Leave the app type table empty in the embedded deployment to allow all application types to be maintained in the Launchpad App Manager
   • Catalog type must be maintained (How to maintain allowed catalog types for launchpad app manager)
     • Standard is for apps on the front-end server (e.g. SAPUI5 Fiori app, SAPUI5 Fiori app on Business Technology Platform, Tile only, URL app)
     • Replicable is for apps on the back-end server that have to be replicated to the front-end server (e.g. Transactions, Web Dynpro apps, WebClient UI apps)

You can now create a business catalog with references to the tile/target mappings from the technical catalog.

Launchpad Content Manager

• Upwards of 300 new SAP Fiori apps are introduced with each SAP S/4HANA release. This creates a need for a mass maintenance tool to manage the business catalogs and launchpad app descriptor items for the front-end target applications (SAP Fiori apps). The Launchpad Content Manager tool addresses this need.
• System-wide changes are stored in the configuration scope (transaction /UI2/FLPCM_CONF)
• Client-specific changes are stored in the customizing scope (transaction /UI2/FLPCM_CUST)
• Launchpad Content Manager is used to:
  • Search for launchpad content (both SAP-delivered and custom content)
  • Create custom catalogs
  • Copy catalogs (e.g. copy SAP standard catalog to customize)
  • Add/remove catalog content (references to tiles and target mappings)
  • Rename catalogs
  • Delete catalogs
  • Transport catalogs
  • View where launchpad content is used. For example:
    • Which business catalogs are used in which business roles
    • Which tile definitions and target mappings are defined in which technical catalogs or referenced in business catalogs