What's New in Floorplan Manager for Web Dynpro ABAP

• A new configuration option is available, Layout Style in the General Settings panel of FLUID. With this option, the visual appearance of the navigation panel and parts of the toolbar above the grid can be changed. The following options are available:

  • Analysis for Office

    This style is equivalent to the existing layout and is oriented on the plug-in Analysis for Microsoft Office.

  • Fiori

    This style is more streamlined and consumes less space for the navigation panel. The information for dynamic filter values has been moved into a filter section inside the grid toolbar.

    The navigation panel now has the menu option Defer Layout Update that pauses the automatic refresh of the query data after a change made to the layout in the navigation panel. This allows you to make multiple changes in the layout without refreshing the data in the grid for each change. This is particularly useful when working with very large queries with a relatively long execution time.

• This GUIBB now supports the minimize/ maximize feature of the Floorplan Manager framework. This allows users to maximize an Analytics component at runtime for better viewing purposes.

• You can now create new planning rows in planning-enabled queries. A new row can be created empty of data, or with data if an existing row in the current result set is selected before using this function.

• The bookmarks function is enhanced to allow the creation of bookmarks without saving the current variable values into the bookmark. This allows the bookmark to be used as a flexible layout option.

• The Export to Spreadsheet function has been enhanced:

  • An information area is exported on top of the data to include meta information, for example, defined filters, defined variable values, and date of last refresh.
  • The format of the exported data has been adjusted. Numeric values as formatted as numbers, allowing for further calculation inside the spreadsheet.

• The filter function has been extended to support more information about compounded characteristics. Additionally, inside the Search dialog box for a filter value, you can now specify the type of search to be performed (either a search for values only in the current result set or in the master data of the characteristic).

• The filter function now also includes a filter-by-measure feature, allowing users to further refine data displayed in the grid. Customers already familiar with SAP BW will know this as setting conditions.

• This GUIBB is now enabled to process URL parameters, for example, as produced by the report-to-report integration with Target Type Web Dynpro ABAP. As a result of this, navigation from one Analytics component to another Analytics component is possible.

Conditional formatting is now available in this GUIBB. This allows users to quickly highlight important information and variances in data. Using the Personalization dialog box, users can apply different background colors to data that satisfies certain conditions. The Conditional Formatting field in the General Settings panel of FLUID determines the display of the new Conditional Formatting tab in the Personalization dialog box. Conditional formatting is not available as a menu option in the column headers.

• Conditional formatting is now available for end-users. Note, however, that the transfer of conditional formatting with data when using the Export to Spreadsheet function is not yet available for this UIBB. For more information, see the corresponding text in the List ATS UIBB section above.

• End-users can now filter data in a Tree component at runtime. You can configure the filter options in the General Settings panel in FLUID.

• A new field, Suppress Field Merging in FLUID (Display-Type-Dependent Properties section of the Attributes panel) allows you to stop the automatic merging of fields inside a melting group by the FPM framework.

• A form with a 16:2 form layout now responds to changes in the browser width at runtime, ensuring better user readability. When the browser is reduced to a particular width, the information in the column on the right side of the form jumps underneath the column on the left side of the form. The field Minimum Column Width in the General Settings panel of FLUID allows you to set the width at which the form layout changes. For more information, see the Field Help for this field in the system.

• A new attribute, Input Help, is available for Input Field data types. This attribute can be found in the Data-Type-Dependent Properties section of the Attributes panel in FLUID. The following options are available:
  • Calculator

    A calculator icon appears in the input field at runtime allowing the user to calculate the value he or she wants to enter in this field.

  • Auto

    To be used for existing applications.

  • None

    Ensures that no icons appear in the input field at runtime.

  • Search

    A search icon appears in the input field at runtime allowing the user to search for the value he or she wants to enter in this field.

  This field is to be used for string or numeric fields. The FPM framework does not check the data type entered; the developer must ensure these checks.

New chart types are available. There are several new chart types with the prefix Multiple, for example Multiple Donut. These types of chart provide the user with a simplified view of a more sophisticated chart. For example, data visualized using a Multiple Donut chart type provides the user with multiple Donut charts, each chart displaying less detail than would be provided by a single Donut chart. These types of chart are available in the Chart Type field in FLUID only when there are at least three Dimensions and two Measures selected in the Chart UIBB Schema. At least one of the Measures must have a value of 2 in the Axis Index.

Other new chart types available are the Heat Map and Tree Map.

For the Pie, Donut, and Scatter chart types, new fields Auto-Binning Active and No. of Bins are available. These can be found in FLUID in the new Data Transformation tab under General Settings  Settings for Chart Type. Auto-binning refers to clustering more or less continuous data values into groups or bins to be able to visualize the data differently. For example, grouping the ages of a company's employees into just the following three bins: up to and including 20, older than 20 and up to and including 40, older than 40.

Splitter controls have been introduced to allow users to vary column widths at runtime. To accommodate this, the Personalize button has been changed; as well as the option Open Personalization Dialog Box, the option Enable /Disable Column Resizing is now available. Additionally, the option Reset to Default provides a shortcut to resetting changes (instead of resetting changes through the Personalization dialog box). Any changes made to the column widths remain when the application is restarted.

This feature is enabled by default for all existing applications out-of-the-box.

You can enable/disable this feature in FLUID in the General Settings panel using the new Column Width Resizing Mode field.