Determining Web Template Properties (SAP Library

Determining Web Template Properties

Use

You can specify the properties for your Web application in each Web template.

Procedure

Select the Web template from the dropdown box in the header of the Properties window.

Tabstrip: General

Under Description, you can give the template a description of your choice.

Under Stylesheet, the stylesheet that is to display the Web application is shown. Choose the button with the three dots (Select Stylesheet) to select another for your Web application.

The list of stylesheets is given on the left-hand side of the Select Stylesheet dialog box. Select a stylesheet to see it in the preview window on the right-hand side.
To select a stylesheet for your Web application, select the required stylesheet and choose OK.

Only those stylesheets stored on the BW server are displayed in the selection list. If you want to use a stylesheet that is not in the list, for example one that is stored on your Web server, select the checkbox beneath the selection list and enter the URL. Choose OK.

Tabstrip: Web Items

Under General, you can give the Web application the following properties:

Status-Free Navigation

By selecting Status-Free Navigation, the status on the server is removed after every navigation step in the Web application. This is only recommended for Web applications in which you rarely navigate.

Use Personalized Template, if Available

Do Not Display System Messages

Do Not Display Warning Messages

Always Display Variable Screen

If Always Display Variable Screen is not selected, the variable screen is only displayed when the mandatory variables are not filled. By selecting the Always Display Variable Screen, the variable screen is displayed at all times.

Reset Variable Values to Default Values

Display Same Variables Only Once

This ensures that the same variables for different queries are displayed only once.

Open Dialogs in New Windows

Read Mode for Data

Output Optimization (Device-Dependent)

By selecting Output Optimization (Device-Dependent), you arrive at an automatic, device-specific optimization of item settings for the runtime (for example, chart size for PDAs).

In the Entries in the Context Menu column, all possible context menu entries are listed. You can decide whether each context menu entry is

Not displayed (No Display)

Always displayed in the basic context menu (Always Display)

Or displayed in the enhanced menu (Enhanced Menu)

See also Modifying the Context Menu. The letters X (for Always Display) and E (for Enhanced Menu) describe the values for the corresponding parameters for modifying the context menu.

Storing Settings in the Library

As well as saving the settings you determine for Web items, you can also save the properties of a template in a library. Choose Save in Library in the lower area of the Web Item tabstrip. For details of how to save your properties and for creating new libraries, see Working with the Library for Web Items.

The saved Web template properties are treated in the same way as the Web items you saved in the library, meaning that you can find your saved Web template properties in the Web Items window on the Library tabstrip. Once you have saved your Web template properties, you have created a model for further Web templates.

Applying Settings to the Current Web Template

To copy properties to other Web templates, proceed as follows:

In the Web Items window, on the Library tabstrip, with the right mouse button choose the Web template property that you want to copy.
Choose Transfer Properties for Current Template.

The properties for the Web template are transferred. You can see this in the changed settings for the Web template in the Properties window.

To reassign the standard settings to the current Web template, choose Web Template ® Reset Properties

In the Properties window, the standard settings are now reset.