Creating a Configurable Dropdown Using UI Snippets in Web Dynpro

Use

You use this procedure to create a configurable dropdown using the available UI snippets in Web Dynpro. You can generate values in the dropdown UI element as follows:

• Create a context attribute of Dictionary type that has a default set of enumeration values associated with it.

• Insert your code in the user code area of the Java editor based on your business logic.

Prerequisites

• You have created a Web Dynpro development component (DC).

  For more information, see Creating a Web Dynpro DC

• You have created a Web Dynpro component, window, and views.

  For more information, see Creating Components

• You have created an additional window.

  For more information, see Adding Windows

• You have created a context.

  For more information, see Creating Context Trees Manually

Procedure

1. In the Web Dynpro perspective, choose Windows  Show Views  Snippets .

2. Drag the Configurable Drop Down snippet, and drop it on the View Designer.

3. In the Insert Snippet: Configurable Drop Down , select the suitable attribute from the context tree and choose Insert .

The system creates a dropdown on the View Designer.