SAP Fiori Client User Guide

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Copyright 2014 SAP AG Friday, February 21, 2014 SAP Fiori Client User Guide Contents Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 1 Prerequisites ................................................................................................................................................. 2 Installing the Application .............................................................................................................................. 2 Launching the Application ............................................................................................................................ 2 Initial Configuration .................................................................................................................................. 3 SAP Fiori Logon ......................................................................................................................................... 3 Configuring the Application .......................................................................................................................... 6 Android ..................................................................................................................................................... 6 Cache Settings ....................................................................................................................................... 8 Logging Settings .................................................................................................................................... 9 iOS ............................................................................................................................................................. 9 Using the SAP Fiori Client ............................................................................................................................ 10 Navigation ............................................................................................................................................... 10 File Attachment Handling (iOS only) ....................................................................................................... 11 Security Configuration ................................................................................................................................ 11 Authentication and Certificate Requirements ........................................................................................ 11
Copyright 2014 SAP AG 1 Introduction SAP Fiori is a collection of Web applications that are designed to be multichannel: both desktop and mobile browser. This means a single instance of the application supports end users regardless of the device they are using. This is critical in a world where mobile devices, like smartphones and tablets, outnumber laptop and desktop computers. Running business applications in browsers on mobile devices presents challenges in performance, security, and the consistency of end-user experience: you do not have the same control over the network, device, or the browser application that you have with assets deployed within the company firewall. For example, Fiori application assets, like the Web content files that comprise the application, are cached by the mobile browser; but they may be quickly purged (within several hours or sooner) by the mobile device without the user’s knowledge. Subsequent loads of SAP Fiori (after the browser cache has been purged by the device) cause the full application assets to be retrieved again. Because mobile device browsers manage their own performance and memory footprints, any performance benefit a user obtains from the browser caching application resources between sessions is lost when the browser arbitrarily purges its cache. To help address these problems, SAP created the SAP Fiori Client, a native application runtime for SAP Fiori on Android and iOS devices. The app acts as an enterprise enhancement to the mobile browser when SAP Fiori applications are running. It uses the same multi-channel SAP Fiori Web application, but users get more consistent performance through the enhanced cache management features in the SAP Fiori Client. The application, a native mobile app built using the open source Apache Cordova framework, renders SAP Fiori application content, and provides more reliable asset caching (HTML, CSS, JavaScript files, and more) plus, on iOS, an enhanced attachment viewing process. SAP Fiori Client implements a cache management strategy that allows the native application to maintain its own cache of SAP Fiori application assets. Therefore, the application is not affected by browser cache issues. When the application runs for the first time, it retrieves the SAP Fiori application assets from the server just as the mobile browser does. On subsequent loads, however, the application uses local cached assets for the application. During operation, the application detects when updates are available to SAP Fiori applications and, when an update is detected, purges its existing cache of SAP Fiori application assets and pulls the updated content from the server. What this means is that SAP Fiori Client performance is comparable to the mobile browser on initial application load, and after an update has been made to the application; but at all other times it operates using the cached SAP Fiori assets. The benefit for SAP Fiori application users is increased overall performance for application loads, as the periodic purge of browser content no longer affects SAP Fiori. The application currently supports devices running Android 4.1.3 through 4.3, iOS 6, and 7. This guide shows you how to configure and use the SAP Fiori Client on your device.

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