Local WebIDE - Cannot extend default CRM app

[Former Member]

I am trying to get started with Fiori development, and wanted to extend the standard CRM_MYACCOUNTS app. I set up a local WebIDE (1.12), and can import apps from my CRM system. I guess that means I did not screw it up too badly if the connection between WebIDE and backend system works. When I try to follow the next steps in the HowTo guide(s), I hit a brick wall - the extensibility pane stays empty. Running the application via the "run as" menu works, just the extensibility pane stays blank. Any idea what I did wrong?

[michal_keidar]

Hi Thomas,

Can you please attach a screen shot of the errors you get in the browser's console?

My guess is that this app is loading more resources such as sandbox.js and it only gets loaded when executing its Component.js or its localIndex.html if exists.

The Extensibility Pane executes the extension project's index.html.

If this is the case, try replacing the content of the index.html and the localIndex.html and execute the pane again.

By the way I recommend using the cloud version of Web IDE, as it gets updated more frequently (current version is 1.16).

Regards,
Michal.

[Former Member]

Hi Michal,

thank you. I deleted everything local in WebIDE and recreated the extension project and let it open the extensibility pane automatically. I cleared the console before I did that.

The cloud version is in consideration here, for the moment I will have to make do with the local version though, it seems. Will check it out again though.

Regards

Thomas

[michal_keidar]

Have you tried my suggestion of replacing the content of the index.html and the localIndex.html and execute the pane again?

There's no need to create a new extension project.

Michal.

[Former Member]

I created a new extension project just to make sure I had not made any additional errors just by poking around in it, so I just deleted everything and started fresh, so you could see what kind of console output a fresh extension project generates.

I am not sure with what I should replace the content of the two files. As I said, I am trying to get started with Fiori development, and this is basically my first steps. Not new as a developer, but I don't yet understand how the framework works, I was just following the how-to guide, when suddenly it didn't work...

[michal_keidar]

Like I said, my guess is that this app is loading more resources such as sandbox.js and it only gets loaded when executing its Component.js or its localIndex.html if exists.

The Extensibility Pane executes the extension project's index.html.

Try to put the content of localIndex.html, in index.html.