Application Frontend Service

🧪 Create SAP BTP Trial Account

1. Visit SAP BTP Trial page.
2. Sign-in or create a new SAP Universal ID user.
3. When prompted, ensure your trial subaccount is created in US East (VA) region.
4. After subaccount is created, click on "Go To Your Trial Account" button.

You'll be assigned to "Global Account Administrator" and "Subaccount Administrator" roles by default.

Cloud Foundry environment will be enabled for initial subaccount by default.

🔔 Subscribe to Cloud Identity Services

To provision IAS tenant for your trial account, subscribe to the Cloud Identity Services application in your subaccount.

1. Go to Instances and Subscriptions.
2. Click Create.
3. Choose
   • Service: Cloud Identity Services
   • Plan: default
4. Click Next.
5. Choose
   • Service type: PRODUCTIVE
6. Click Create.

🔐 Set Up Identity Authentication (IAS)

Configure Trust

1. Navigate to Security > Trust Configuration.
2. Click Establish Trust.
3. Choose your IAS tenant (e.g., auyupsrzi.trial-accounts.ondemand.com) and continue setup.

Activate your IAS account after establishing trust, you will receive an activation email from SAP Identity Authentication

1. Open the email titled "Activate Your Account for Identity Authentication Service".
2. Click Activate your account.
3. Set your password to access the IAS Admin Console.

🔔 Subscribe to Application Frontend service

1. Navigate to Account Explorer.
2. Click on your trial subaccount card.
3. Navigate to Services > Instances and Subscriptions.
4. Click Create.
5. Choose:
   • Service: Application Frontend Service
   • Plan: trial
6. Click Create.

🔐 Grant Permissions

1. Navigate to Security > Role Collections.
2. Click Create.
3. Enter role name: Application Frontend Developer.
4. Click Create.
5. Click on Application Frontend Developer row.
6. Click Edit.
7. Add the role:
   • Application_Frontend_Developer
8. Add users:
   • Users from "Default identity provider" - for managing applications in BTP Cockpit
   • Users from "business users" identity provider - for CLI, API and runtime access
9. Click Save.

👀 Check Access to Application Frontend UI

1. Navigate to Security > Users.
2. Select your user from Default identity provider.
3. Verify that there is an Appication Frontend Developer role in the list of role collections.
4. Sign Out from BTP Cockpit.
5. Sign In to BTP Cockpit.
6. Navigate to your trial subaccount.
7. Verify that there is a new navigation entry HTML5 > Application Frontend.

Install Application Frontend CLI

1. Make sure you have Node.js (≥22.6.0) installed on your local environment.

   node --version

2. Install Application Frontend CLI using command below.

   npm install -g @sap/appfront-cli