Launchpad inspector

The tab at a glance

Open the app in the launchpad, then the FrontTailor panel in DevTools (F12) or the side panel, and choose the Launchpad tab. The tab only reads the launchpad; it changes no tile, no role and no setting.

1. Pick tile starts pick mode. Next to it, Refresh reads the launchpad again.
2. Copy as Markdown puts the whole state on the clipboard; the Export menu next to it offers Copy as JSON, Download JSON and Download Markdown.
3. The detected variant of the launchpad.
4. The system profile: platform, launchpad version (sap.ushell), UI5 version, theme, language, user, spaces and pages, start intent – depending on the launchpad also system, client, system role, product and content providers.

Below, Shell plugins lists the plugins the launchpad has registered, with their component and – if switched off – the note disabled. When you move to another app or back to the home page, the tab reads the state again by itself; it polls nothing in the background.

Inspect a tile

1. Click Pick tile. The panel says: “Pick mode is on: click a tile in the launchpad to inspect it. The click does not open the app.”
2. Move the mouse over the tiles. A frame shows the tile under the pointer.
3. Click the tile. The app does not open; the tile stays marked for a moment. Esc or Stop picking cancels.
4. The Picked tile card appears with the three sections below.

1. Tile: title, subtitle, target, kind (intent or URL), visualization, visualization type and the control in the launchpad.
2. Placement: space, page and section – in classic launchpads group and catalogs.
3. Target mapping and resolution: intent, source, business app, inbound, parameters, application type, component, component URL and navigation mode.

The source says where the mapping comes from: Inbound of the site (the launchpad ships its inbounds to the browser) or Resolution of the launchpad. An ABAP launchpad keeps target mappings on the server; the tab then shows the note “This launchpad keeps target mappings on the server: only the resolution result is visible in the browser.” If an inbound has parameters, they appear in a table with required, default and filter.

The current app

When an app is open in the launchpad, Current app shows title, app id, version, intent, application type, component, component URL, minimum UI5 version, libraries, reused components and startup parameters. On the home page it says that the launchpad shows its home page instead.

Detected launchpads

If the tab can only infer the variant from the URL, it adds (derived from the URL). If a launchpad version lacks an interface, the tab names what is missing as a result: “Not available in this launchpad version: …” – for example current app, spaces or registered plugins.

Share the result

Copy as Markdown fits into a ticket or a chat; JSON is handy for comparing two systems. Everything is created locally in the browser – FrontTailor sends nothing. The tab masks the user already in the display: initials and e-mail domain; user id and name never leave the page.

With from Pro you get the AI entry Explain intent at the top right – with your own key, see AI assistant.

Typical problems

The launchpad inspector is tested on the demo’s launchpad sandbox. ABAP launchpads with spaces and classic groups and the detection of SAP Build Work Zone and the central launchpad are not yet fully tested on real systems.