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SAP open sources UI development toolkit "SAPUI5"

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Re: SAP open sources UI development toolkit "SAPUI5"

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The date-picker has a bug, it shows calendar week "53" instead of 1 (first week of 2014): http://postimg.org/image/faubokz5b/ SAPUI5 is good, finally they can replace the outdated Netweavers Web UI with its horrible JS code.

It's probably defaulting to the 4-4-5 calendar used in finance or something.

Re: SAP open sources UI development toolkit "SAPUI5"

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post #9

The amount of different controls is impressive. The design, not so much. Look at those emphasized buttons, for example.

Not so long ago, SAP released a suite of applications under the brand "Fiori" - these apps are responsivea, have a uniform look and feel and are much more pleasing to the eye.

Here is an example from the Demokit: https://openui5.hana.ondemand.com/test-resources/sap/m/demok...

Re: SAP open sources UI development toolkit "SAPUI5"

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post #11
post #6

The date-picker has a bug, it shows calendar week "53" instead of 1 (first week of 2014): http://postimg.org/image/faubokz5b/ SAPUI5 is good, finally they can replace the outdated Netweavers Web UI with its horrible JS code.

It's probably defaulting to the 4-4-5 calendar used in finance or something.

maybe.

I think they coded it for European style calendar format "Monday" = first day of week, as SAP is a german company. I wrote a datepicker in JavaScript and it had similar bugs in one of the calendar formats too.

Re: SAP open sources UI development toolkit "SAPUI5"

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SAP Hana is actually a pretty interesting technology for developing data analysis website. It's a DB integrated with a web server and it automatically builds web services that let you query the data. It also provides a html/js framework to easily display and drill down (i think SAPUI5 is tied to that framework, or even is that framework).

They even got an amazon AMI to start developping quickly without paying the license upfront. Unfortunately the IDE which you use to build the webapp requires Windows.

hint : i don't work for SAP at all. I just discovered that technology a few weeks ago and it was pretty weird for me since i've always associated SAP to big, bloated, clumsy, and hyper expensive tools, for the enterprise only.

Re: SAP open sources UI development toolkit "SAPUI5"

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Oh my, that "Delphi mentality" in 2013..) ExtJS, if I remember correctly, is 5 or 6 years old already?) But we, no doubt, will read about ground-breaking innovations from their PR machine.)

Is there any info which "startup" they have acquired or in what third-world country it was outsourced?)

Re: SAP open sources UI development toolkit "SAPUI5"

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Am I the only one this isn't working for? I see comments in here describing all sorts of things but the demo and doc pages only give me JS errors:

> Uncaught TypeError: Cannot set property 'OS' of null sap-ui-core.js:152

> Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'getUriParameters' of undefined openui5.hana.ondemand.com/:35

I just see a blank page.

Re: SAP open sources UI development toolkit "SAPUI5"

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post #12
post #9

The amount of different controls is impressive. The design, not so much. Look at those emphasized buttons, for example.

Not so long ago, SAP released a suite of applications under the brand "Fiori" - these apps are responsivea, have a uniform look and feel and are much more pleasing to the eye. Here is an example from the Demokit: https://openui5.hana.ondemand.com/test-resources/sap/m/demok...

This looks really good, but doesn't seem to be part of the open sourced UI? If it is, i can't find it.

Re: SAP open sources UI development toolkit "SAPUI5"

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Oh my, that "Delphi mentality" in 2013..) ExtJS, if I remember correctly, is 5 or 6 years old already?) But we, no doubt, will read about ground-breaking innovations from their PR machine.) Is there any info which "startup" they have acquired or in what third-world country it was outsourced?)

What does "Delphi mentality" mean?

I'm genuinely curious, not having been exposed to that ecosystem at all.

Re: SAP open sources UI development toolkit "SAPUI5"

#19
I liked the UI because it is compact. I know they are not the only alternative, but I hate default padding and margin values of Bootstrap. Not everyone has retina or 4K displays. It is more suitable for desktop application where you need many components to be displayed, and you have a mouse to navigate. Bootstrap is good in the other way around.

Re: SAP open sources UI development toolkit "SAPUI5"

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post #18

Oh my, that "Delphi mentality" in 2013..) ExtJS, if I remember correctly, is 5 or 6 years old already?) But we, no doubt, will read about ground-breaking innovations from their PR machine.) Is there any info which "startup" they have acquired or in what third-world country it was outsourced?)

What does "Delphi mentality" mean? I'm genuinely curious, not having been exposed to that ecosystem at all.

Well, Delphi was very interesting phenomena. I fought (and lost) a great fight trying to convince coworkers that it is a dead end and that no one will support future development or adapt it to modern versions of Windows, because no one would pay to this huge effort which must be done right on time. In other words, it was a naive blind faith in so-called desktop apps (built on top of a wired third-party toolkit), while it was obvious that a browser is the proper way of visualizing an information. This is the Delphi mentality. Now they have a dead codebase and whole project is in ruins. The irony was that it was some in-house a-la ERP system.)
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