After you create or update an SAP BAPI connection, you can save and publish the connection. You can view the connection metadata on the Metadata tab.
The following image shows the published metadata of an SAP BAPI connection:
When you publish an SAP BAPI connection, the Metadata tab is refreshed by default. You can click Publish - Skip Metadata Refresh to skip the metadata refresh and reduce the publishing time.
Best practices for metadata refresh
•When you create an SAP BAPI connection for the first time, click Publish to download the metadata. Subsequently, you can click Publish - Skip Metadata Refresh if there are no metadata changes.
•If you want to change credentials in an SAP BAPI connection but you know that the metadata has not changed, skip the metadata refresh while publishing the connection to apply just the credential changes.
•If you know that the metadata has changed, you must click Publish to retrieve the metadata changes.
