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  1. Making the Most of Metadata: Techniques for Extraction

    Reading time: 11 mins

    Knowing how BW handles metadata can make you a better BW developer. This article illustrates its importance by showing three ways of extracting source system metadata.   So far, no one has come up with a definition for metadata more elegant than “data about data.” It’s a little more helpful to say that metadata can...…

  2. Creating Metadata Framework Objects in SuccessFactors Employee Central

    Learn how to create objects in the Metadata Framework to extend your SuccessFactors Employee Central system with custom objects, fields, rules, and screens. Get an overview of what the Metadata Framework is, how it is used, and how to use it to bring more value to your SuccessFactors system. Key Concept The Metadata Framework is...…

  3. How to Develop an End-to-End Custom Application from Scratch Using SuccessFactors Metadata Framework and the Advanced Reporting Tool

    Learn how to exploit the Metadata Framework functionality and enhance the out-of-the-box solution by creating custom objects to manage employee records. See how to maximize the reporting capabilities of the Online Report Designer (ORD) tool by using these new objects. These objects can then be used to create, update, and delete warnings for the employee,...…

  4. Enhance Return on Investment by Customizing SuccessFactors Employee Central Using the Metadata Framework

    Learn how to use the features of the Metadata Framework in SuccessFactors Employee Central for customizing. Using these features, you can create custom objects, screens, and user interfaces; integrate processes; store data; and assign role-based permissions. Also learn how to enhance complex business rules, workflows, and validations for the data being added or stored. Key...…

  5. Enhance Return on Investment by Customizing SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Using the Metadata Framework

    Learn how to use the features of the Metadata Framework in SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central for customizing. Using these features, you can create custom objects, screens, and user interfaces; integrate processes; store data; and assign role-based permissions. Also learn how to enhance complex business rules, workflows, and validations for the data being added or stored.…

  6. Query SAP NetWeaver BI’s Metadata and Result Sets More Easily with New XML Web Items

    Reading time: 8 mins

    Two new XML Web items are available in the SAP BW 3.5 Web Application Designer that ease XML programming. Learn how they affect your query options. Key Concept Two XML Web items in SAP BW 3.5 provide programmatic access to query metadata and result sets in an XML output format. This paves the way to...…

  7. How to Enable, Create, and Manage the New SuccessFactors Metadata Framework-Based Talent Pools

    Learn how to create and manage the new Metadata Framework-based Talent Pools introduced in the November 2013 release of SuccessFactors. Learn how the Talent Pools work and how they can be leveraged for succession, development, and other business processes. In addition, find out how to enable and configure Talent Pools in your system. Key Concept...…

  8. Get Data From Any Table in Another SAP System: A Generic Way in ABAP

    Learn a new way to load data from any table in any SAP system to any other SAP system. See how to use a Remote Function Call (RFC) function module call, Runtime Type Service (RTTS), and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) serialization/deserialization. Key Concept A Remote Function Call (RFC)-enabled function module is a function module that...…

  9. Get Data From Any Table in Another SAP System

    Say you want to get the contents of a table from one of your SAP systems (called the source system) into a current system (called the client system). Most of the time if you want to access the table content of a source system, you need to: Check to see if the content is in...…

  10. Configure a Custom Identity Provider with SAP HANA Cloud Platform

    See how to configure SAP HANA Cloud Platform to switch from the standard identity provider (IDP) or SAP ID Service to instead authenticate users using your own custom identity provider. Learn how to configure a local IDP that you can create on the fly within Eclipse. You can create temporary users within Eclipse so that...…