The mid-year conference season is upon us with many opportunities for you to meet our development teams and have conversations with your peers about the topics you care about most. Some of our upcoming events include:
- SAP Sapphire in Orlando on May 11-13
- SAP UX Innovation Day in Palo Alto on June 11
- UI5con in St. Leon-Rot on July 14
Join us to learn about using AI to accelerate development, MCP servers, and the latest UX strategy updates from SAP
If you want to join other developers to discuss various traditional and AI-powered Fiori development-related topics from the comfort of your office or home, I encourage you to join our monthly SAP Fiori development roundtable. Register online or email me for an invitation.
Development News
SAP Fiori elements feature map: what is available in each SAPUI5 version
If you work with SAP Fiori elements, you have probably run into the problem where it is hard to see in which UI5 version a specific feature was introduced. Marian Zeis created a feature map that shows when a feature first appears. It’s updated automatically whenever new versions are released. Explore the feature map.
Key User Adaptation: powerful new features and seamless transition to Developer Extensibility
With key user adaptation, you can change the user interface of SAP Fiori apps directly in the Fiori launchpad. The goal of key user extensibility is to empower business users to be able to adapt their working environment to suit their needs, without having to rely on system administrators. Learn more.
SAP Fiori tools 2603 update: RAP Project Accelerator, walkthrough, adaptation improvements, and more
SAP Fiori tools 2603 delivers improvements across development transparency, onboarding, AI-supported development, and extensibility. Highlights include Project Accelerator support for RAP, a change in navigation from properties to its source, a new walkthrough in Visual Studio Code, and the ability to import existing key user changes into an SAPUI5 Adaptation Project. See details.
Introducing UI5 plugins for Claude: AI-powered development for SAPUI5 and OpenUI5
UI5 plugins for Claude enhance UI5 development workflows with AI assistance by embedding current, maintained guidelines directly into the development workflow. The result is that Claude Code provides UI5-accurate suggestions without you having to paste documentation into every conversation. Learn more.
How to migrate UI5 projects to the latest UI5 best practices
This blog post focuses on how UI5 MCP server can support you in migrating your UI5 project easily to the latest best practices with the help of GitHub Copilot Coding Agent. Migrate your project.
Declarative UI Integration Cards – A consistent framework with flexible content
UI Integration Cards are utilized in many SAP solutions. A new blog post shows key qualities of declarative Integration Cards: They offer a range of display options and minimalist interactions, including List Card, Table Card, Timeline, Calendar, Analytical, and Object Card with input elements. Read more.
More power, new name: The UI Flexibility Service explained
SAPUI5 flexibility allows developers, key users, and end users to adapt standard apps with simple drag-and-drop tools. Since it’s not only for key users, we renamed this capability to UI flexibility service instead of the older, potentially confusing name UI5 flexibility for key users. Learn more.
Navigating from an SAP Fiori elements application to another application
While the SAPUI5 documentation explains how to navigate to other applications in detail, the code snippets sometimes make it difficult to visualize how each navigation pattern behaves in the UI. Mio Yasutake created a sample repository that demonstrates various Fiori elements navigation patterns along with their actual UI behavior. See how.
Events
SAP UX Innovation Days are back for 2026
SAP UX Innovation Day Silicon Valley – Thursday, June 11
Join us at SAP UX Innovation Day Silicon Valley to learn about the intersection between AI and user experience. Our goal is to empower you with knowledge on how to build SAP Fiori apps for SAP S/4HANA Cloud and all the new AI functionality that we are building into the SAP Fiori elements framework. We will cover AI for business users and AI-powered tools for application developers.
Mark your calendar for other SAP UX Innovation Days in your region:
Dublin, Ireland – Wednesday, September 30
Walldorf, Germany – Thursday, December 10
Other Events
Sapphire – lots of great UX sessions
UI5con – A vibrant gathering for UI5 enthusiasts to connect, learn, and innovate
Back issues from the past year
SAP Fiori Development newsletter March 2026 (issue #39)
SAP Fiori development newsletter January 2026 (issue #38)
SAP Fiori development newsletter November 2025 (issue #37)
SAP Fiori development newsletter September 2025 (issue #36)
SAP Fiori development newsletter July 2025 (issue #35)
SAP FIori development newsletter May 2025 (Issue #34)
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