A note from 2026: This article was published in 2016. SAP Commerce Cloud has replaced the hybris branding, and SAP Commerce Cloud in public cloud restricts or changes HAC access compared with classic on-premise installations. The undocumented HAC pages and Growl tray-notification behavior shown here were observed in hybris 6.2-era systems and may be removed or unavailable in current releases.

Today's blog update is about some hidden HAC features.

HAC Interceptors

You won’t find a link to this page in the navigation menu. To launch it, you need to change the URL manually to /development/interceptors. For example, for a local installation:

https://localhost:9002/development/interceptors or https://localhost:9002/hac/development/interceptors

System Tray Notifications

Hybris uses Growl as a global notification system. Currently, Growl is used for two types of notifications in HAC: Init/Update is finished and SQL scripts are generated. Hybris assumes that Growl is available in the system. For Windows, it is a third-party tool that has to be installed separately. For Windows, the console utility must be in PATH to enable notifications.

Growl is capable of forwarding messages to another computer. It may be useful for server installations.

Other Minor Undocumented Features

If you click on the footer message, the popup window will inform you about the server configuration.

Easter Eggs

If you press “J” and “ESC” in any order, your HAC will go crazy:

While on the subject of useless features… For some reason, HAC developers decided to add a hotkey, “Ctrl-Alt-H,” to jump you back to the HAC main page.

You now know more about HAC. Nowhere, nowhere does it describe this stuff. Stay tuned!