Agentry Editor Tutorial

[Former Member]

Hi,

I am new to Agentry Editor.

Is there good article or tutorial about this?

Thanks

[Jitendra_Kansal · Accepted solution]

there are many docs available at SCN.

http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/SAPMOB/Agentry+-+Syclo

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Jitendra

Thank you for informing me the available site.

It is good for me though

I want to step by step Agentry development tutorial from scratch.

I will create a different thread for step by step tutorial.

Thanks

[midhun_vp · Accepted solution]

Tutorial is here,

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-47550

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-47651

[Jitendra_Kansal · Accepted solution]

ok..cool !!!

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Midhun

Thank you very much.

This is greater than I though.

Do you know more basic tutorial which connect to database as backend.

Thanks

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

The class MOB300 teaches you how to build the Northwind Application.  Northwind is a demo Database that you can get for MS SQL

Stephen Streeter

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Stephen

I understand it.

Thanks

[mark_pe · Accepted solution]

Takayoshi,

First of all you need the database client (whatever you will be using) installed in the machine you will run the Agentry Editor (or at least know where all the drivers are located). Once you verify this then you can let the Agentry Editor create the connection for you. The Agentry Editor is also known to edit the needed server configuration file to add your named database after a Agentry Server Restart (as far as I can remember). I can't remember if it is after publish from the Agentry Editor or after publish + restart of the Agentry server where it modifies the agentry.ini configuration file.

But in short you simply need to do this if you want the Agentry Editor to connect directly to your backend for debugging against your database. Some people do it manually but the steps below is for integrating both the Editor and the backend for ease of development.

After you plug in your connection to your back end, eventually your Agentry Server configuration file ->  agentry.ini will have the needed configuration that looks like:

~~~~~~~agentry.ini~~~~~~

..

..

[SQL-1]

allowUserToChangePassword=True

autoDequote=True

disconnectFromDB=False

dbConnectionType=ODBC

dbConnectionName=

dbConnectionUserID=

dbConnectionPassword=

enableAuthentication=False

enablePreviousUserAuthentication=False

name=SQL Back End

queryConstantFiles=sqlserver_sd.ini

queryInitFile=SqlBE.ini

useUserDBAuthConnection=True

timeZoneName=

~~~~~~~~~end~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

In theory whatever you specified during the creation for loggin and password should be listed in the dbConnectionName and Password above.  If it did not do it then you may have to modify the agentry.ini to add it in.  As far as I remember, the adding on to the agentry.ini is created during creation of your system backend.  Let us say you are designing your application from scratch and you need to identify a backend that you want to connect (Ex: Java, SQL or File). Whatvever you specified in the Agentry editor, it will automatically try to enter it in the agentry.ini file as the numbered backend you selected.  In my example above I have it as my first connection (1).  This is why it is named [SQL-1].  This is how it looks in the editor.

The picture above shows that I have 2 backends - SQL + Java.  Due to I created the SQL connection first then my Agentry.ini will specify [SQL-1] and [Java-2]. The proper connection is needed like login and password or dbconnection name for SQL. 

As listed by Steve, all of this is taught in the Agentry MOB300 class (Agentry Essential - at least for SQL backend - for Java + SAP backend you need MOB310 class for SQL + IBM Java backend you need MOB320):

http://training.sap.com/v2/course/mob300-sap-agentry-essentials-class (we ask all our SAP consultants to take it then take the certification test after it).  We also ask all our partners to be certfied in Agentry prior to taking in projects for their customers.  If you are a customer you want to only be served by mobility consultants who are certified (but of course there are exception to this - especially if they worked with Agentry for several years and have proven record).

The information above is what I can get right now but I think the lab excersises in the MOB300 class may be more specific and detailed than what I provided above (or have it in their lab exercises hand outs). The training is actually cool the way they did it. They will use the wizard on designing a mobility from scratch. I am old school so I do it manually but if you can practice using the wizard that will be awesome.  They change and update the class all the time and I am not sure if it is SMP 2.3 now or not or if they are changing it to SMP 3.0 soon. If I see any of those guys in our building (Agentry dedicated class instructors) I may ask them what's new with Agentry training or one of this days I'll email them.

Hope this help.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Mark

Thank you very much for your step by step guide.

I will try to create Agentry client.

Thanks

[midhun_vp · Accepted solution]

This might help you,

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-47882

- Midhun VP

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks Midhun for sharing these links. Author has explained step by step of how to create an Agentary based mobile app.