Working with the Library for Web Items 

Use

When you integrate a Web item into your Web template from a Standard template and define your settings, you might want to use this Web item again in this form in other Web templates, without having to define the settings over again. The BEx Web Application Designer enables you to use your own version of a Web item as the Web template for other items. You store this Web item as a template and insert it into a library that you can organize yourself. You can then access your Web items from the Web Item window using the Library tab page.

Prerequisites

You have integrated a Web item into your Web template and defined your settings on the Web Item tab page in the Properties window. 

Storing Web Items in the Library

You save the properties that you created on the Web Item tab page in the library. These Web items revert to a template character, which you can alter. In accordance with character of the Web item, data binding is not stored.

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Choose Save in Library in the lower part of the Web Item tab page to store your Web item as a template.

Select a library from the list in the Add Web Item to Library dialog box.

·        To create a new library, choose .

In the Create New Library dialog box, define whether you want to store your library in your favorites or in a role.

Select the folder in which you want to store your library.

Define a meaningful Description that will appear later in your library.

In the Technical Name field, enter a unique name.

Choose Save.

·        To select an existing library choose .

a.       In the BEx Open dialog box, select the place where you stored the library – History, Roles, Workbooks. See also The Open Dialog

b.       Select a library and choose OK.

Define a meaningful Description that will appear later in your library as text for your personal master Web item.

In the Technical Name field, enter a unique name.

Choose Save.

Your Web item is now saved in the library.

Creating Documents for the Web Items Library

You can create documents for your library, and display or edit existing documents.

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Choose the Library tab page from the Web Items window.

Choose the context menu then   ® Open Library.

Select the library that is opened and, using the context menu, choose Documents.

For more information, see Documents and Creating Documents .

You can create documents for each individual Web item in your library and display or edit existing documents. To do this, open the library as described above, select a Web item and, using the context menu of the Web item, choose Documents.

Using Web Items from the Library

You can find the libraries you created containing your personal Web items on the Library tab page in the Web Items window. Your libraries and the Web items assigned to the libraries are displayed here in a tree structure.

·        To place your Web items in Web templates, drag them using Drag&Drop to your Web template in the same way as you do with standard items.

·        To change the settings for your saved Web item, from the Web item library, select the relevant Web item and with the right mouse button choose Change Web Item. All settings for changing the item are offered in the Change Web Item dialog box.

Any changes that you make to settings of the Web item saved in the library (as described above) have a global effect. This means that the changes are effective in all saved Web templates, in which you use the Web item concerned. This does not apply to Web templates in which you changed the properties of a Web item locally. In this case, the settings that you make locally are effective.

If you want to change the settings in a Web item saved in the library locally, that is in a specific Web template, in which you are using this Web item, proceed as follows:

i.         Open the Web template.

ii.       In the Properties: Name of Web Template window, in the Web Item tab page, change the Web item settings.

iii.      Save the Web template. 

The changes that you have made to the Web item apply only in this Web template. The settings for the Web item that is saved in the library remain unchanged.

·        To delete a Web item from the library, select the Web item and, using the right mouse button, choose Delete Web item.

Managing Libraries

If you do not yet have any libraries, proceed as follows: Click on Context Menu and select one of the options.

·        Choose Open Library to add a library.

·        Create New Library to create a new library (in the database).

To manage your existing libraries, select the appropriate library with the right mouse button and choose one of the following options:

·        Open Library to add a library to your collection of libraries in the Web Item window.

·        Close Library to remove a library from your collection of libraries in the Web Item window.

·        Create New Library to create a new library (in the database).

·        Delete Library to delete a library (from the database).

·        Change Description to change the description of the library.

·        Documents to create documents for your library, or to display or edit existing documents. For more information, see Documents and Creating Documents .

·        Publish Library in Role to add your library to a role.

Overwriting Libraries

You can overwrite libraries that you have created and saved.

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In the Web Items window of the Web Application Designer, choose the Library tab page.

Using the context menu, choose  Create New Library. The Create New Library dialog box appears.

In you favorites or roles, select the library that you want to overwrite and choose Save.

You can overwrite item libraries that contain Web items that are not currently in use in Web templates or that are not open in your Web Application Designer. 

Choose Save.  The Overwrite Object dialog box appears.

Choose Yes.