SAP Work Zone Standard Edition – New Site Experience in 2023

SAP Build Work Zone, Standard Edition primarily offers features that affect structure and content in the latest version as of July 27, 2023.

Once the Spaces and Pages - New Experience view mode is enabled in the site settings, administrators can now create two new object types, Spaces and Pages, in addition to the previous ones. Spaces are standalone menu items that have one or more pages associated with them. Pages are then used to add UI integration cards or tiles via WYSIWYG editor. Creating and editing areas and pages is a job reserved for site administrators only in design mode (designtime). The administrators are also responsible for configuring the site settings or properties.

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Users can consume the redesigned pages and the content on the pages at runtime and switch between the pages by selecting the desired page in the new menu structure. With the first generation of SAP Build Work Zone, Standard Edition this was not possible, there was only one big "SAP Fiori Page" as a landing page where the apps could be found sorted into groups by sections. These sections were also the previous menu items, which could be seen as headings at the top. SAP customers are familiar with this (old) user experience from the classic SAP Fiori Launchpad.

In the showcase presented here, the logged-in user Bettina Hildebrand also has administrator permissions at the same time. She can therefore easily switch to the "Manage Site" editing mode. This function is available at the top right of the user profile menu, provided she has the authorization to do so. After selecting the "Manage Site" function, she is first taken to the website settings, where all parameters can be configured at a central place.

From the properties page, use the arrow navigation (<) to continue to the Content Manager, where you can now find the new object types Areas and Pages. For the main menu items of the SAP Build Work Zone, Standard Edition, the areas are responsible, to which one or more pages are assigned. The areas can either be taken directly from a S/4HANA system automatically (via content provider mechanism, with all associated pages) or just now new, via areas created manually by the administrator, to which also manually one or more pages are assigned.

The following figure shows the new WYSIWYG page editor, which offers a very similar functionality as in the Advanced Edition to design any page layouts and to fill the pages with widgets (currently app tiles and UI Integration Cards are supported).

So with the latest version of SAP Build Work Zone Standard Edition, it is now possible to create and edit pages using a flexible grid-based page layout. This also leads to a closer alignment with the page/workspace editing in SAP Build Work Zone, Advanced Edition. UI integration cards can be added to pages (UI integration cards are similar to SAP NetWeaver Portal iViews and are flexible to use on pages.

A personalization function on the UI integration cards, as known from the Advanced Edition, is not yet available, but is on the roadmap.

The Advanced Edition of SAP Build Work Zone offers additional advanced functionality for content management, web content, interactive and engaging workspaces, an enhanced menu structure, and integration with third-party solutions compared to the Standard Edition featured here on the blog. The Advanced Edition is an all-encompassing platform with significantly more functionality and customizability options. It offers a modern and practical user interface that enables consistent and efficient work in the context of SAP processes: with the help of the SAPUI5 and SAP Fiori design, as well as new technologies such as chatbots and feed conversations, users can easily interact, collaborate, and share information and documents. If you would like to learn more about the capabilities of the Advanced Edition and how it differs from the standard version, please contact us.