This is your reference when you're building CDS views in ABAP, whether you're on 7.4 SP8 or working in ABAP Cloud. It covers the practical stuff: defining views and view entities, setting up associations with proper cardinality, handling currency and quantity fields with the right semantic annotations to avoid SD_CDS_ENTITY105 errors, writing access control with DCL, and consuming views from ABAP with SALV IDA. The version compatibility table is genuinely useful since CDS syntax changed significantly between releases. It includes 50+ annotation references and templates for both classic DEFINE VIEW and newer DEFINE VIEW ENTITY syntax. Good for both building new data models and troubleshooting why your existing views won't activate.

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$ npx -y skills add secondsky/sap-skills --skill sap-abap-cds --agent claude-code

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SAP ABAP CDS (Core Data Services)

Related Skills

  • sap-abap: Use for ABAP programming patterns used with CDS or when implementing EML statements in ABAP
  • sap-btp-cloud-platform: Use for CDS deployment scenarios on BTP or ABAP Environment configurations
  • sap-fiori-tools: Use when building Fiori Elements applications that consume CDS views or working with UI annotations
  • sap-cap-capire: Use for comparing CDS syntax between ABAP and CAP or when integrating ABAP CDS with CAP services
  • sap-api-style: Use when documenting CDS-based OData services or following API documentation standards

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when creating ABAP CDS views or view entities, defining associations and cardinalities, adding UI or semantic annotations, implementing DCL access control, handling currency/unit fields, troubleshooting CDS compiler errors, or comparing classic CDS views with newer view entities.

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Repository
github.com/secondsky/sap-skills
Categories
Documentation, Debugging, Cloud & Infrastructure
First seen
Jun 3, 2026

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