Adding or Removing Tiles or Target Mappings

Context

The tiles and target mappings are visualized as tabs in the catalogs view. You can use these tabs for viewing, adding, removing, configuring, or copying tiles or target mappings. The table views for tiles and target mappings also allow you to sort and filter table entries in the columns. The tabs display the number of tiles or target mappings of the selected catalog.

Tiles Tiles

You can choose the tile templates from the Universal Fiori Launchpad Catalog, /UI2/FLPD_CATALOG. The following are the standard tile templates stored in the Universal Fiori Launchpad Catalog:

Dynamic AppLauncher
Static AppLauncher
News

You can enhance the standard tile template list by adding a new tile template to the Universal Fiori Launchpad Catalog in the back end. For more information, see Assigning a CHIP to the Universal Fiori Launchpad Catalog.

Adding Tiles

Choose any catalog from the catalog list.
The tile or tiles associated with the selected catalog appear in the content area on the screen.
Choose Add Tile icon.
The Select a Tile Template screen appears with various tile templates. Tiles contain a title and a description for the tile.
Choose the tile template that you want to use.
An instance of the tile template is created in the selected catalog along with the other tiles. The count of the tiles for the selected catalog on the left panel increases by 1.

Deleting Tiles

Choose the tile that you want to delete from the selected catalog.
Drag and drop the selected tile into the trash zone.

Note

You can also delete a tile by choosing Delete in the tiles list view.

The selected tile is deleted and removed from the catalog.

Further Tasks

You can also do the following for a tile:

Configure tiles

You can open the configuration screen for the tile and add the required data.
Create a reference

You can create a reference tile in another catalog.

Sorting and filtering can be done by right-clicking the column titles in the table.

Target Mappings

You can view the target mappings inside the Target Mappings tab on the screen. You can also view the number of target mappings displayed on the tab for a selected catalog. When you choose the Target Mappings tab, a table appears on the screen. The target mapping table contains a number of columns, such as:

Parameter	Description
Semantic Object	Displays the semantic object of the target mapping
Action	Displays the action of the target mapping
Navigation Type	Displays whether the navigation target application is either an SAPUI5-based Fiori application or any other SAP Fiori application
Device Types Desktop Phone Tablet	Displays a (tick) icon if the application is compatible for that particular device type or displays a (decline) icon if it is not compatible
Outdated	Displays a (tick) icon if the target mapping is outdated or displays a (decline) icon if the target mapping is not outdated
Reference	Displays a (tick) icon if the target mapping is copied or displays a (decline) icon if the target mapping is not copied
Create Target Mapping	Adds target mappings to the catalog. On choosing any table entry, the following action buttons are displayed at the footer of the target mappings screen: Create Reference You can create a reference for the selected target mapping and add it to a different catalog. Configure You can open the configuration screen for the target mapping and add the required data. Delete You can delete the selected target mapping. Where-Used You can perform a where-used check.

Adding Target Mappings

Choose Create Target Mapping button present below the target mapping table. A Configure: ‘Target Mapping’ screen appears.

Note

A target mapping is created irrespective of whether you save or cancel the configuration changes of the target mapping.
Enter the details and choose the Save button. A Confirmation dialog box appears.
Choose the OK button.
A target mapping is added to the tile.

Removing Target Mappings

Choose the entry from the table for which you want to delete the target mapping.
Choose the Delete button. A Confirmation dialog box appears.
Choose the OK button.
The target mapping for the selected catalog is deleted.

Note

A where-used check is performed when you try to delete a target mapping. If the target mapping is still referenced by another target mapping, a warning appears that it is not recommended to continue without checking the referencing object first.

The check can also be performed by simply choosing Where-Used.