Assigning a CHIP to the Universal Fiori Launchpad Catalog

You can enhance the standard tile template list of the launchpad designer by adding a new tile template to the Universal Fiori Launchpad Catalog in the back end.

Prerequisites

The desired custom tile type has been implemented.
See Implementing a Custom Tile Type.
You have registered the corresponding CHIP in the universal catalog with transaction /UI2/CHIP.
See Registering a CSR CHIP in a Catalog.

Context

Before you can configure custom tile types, the new tile types have to be exposed in the SAP Fiori launchpad designer.

For this, the catalog /UI2/FLPD_CATALOG must be enhanced. The catalog is stored as a Web Dynpro configuration of the Web Dynpro component /UI2/CHIP_CATALOG_CONFIG called /UI2/FLPD_CATALOG.

Proceed as follows to enhance this catalog:

Procedure

Start Repository Info System (transaction SE84) in the back-end ABAP system.
Open the node Web Dynpro WD application.
Enter CUSTOMIZE_COMPONENT and choose Test / Execute.
CUSTOMIZE_COMPONENT changes the catalog on the Customizing (client-specific) layer. Do not change the configuration layer as this is the UI add-on standard delivered version.
In the browser window, enter /UI2/FLPD_CATALOG as the Configuration ID.
Choose New when you enhance an existing configuration for the first time. Afterwards, continue in change mode.
In the node tree of the configuration, enter the value of your CHIP as a new value in the list.
Make sure that you start the name of the CHIP with the prefix X-SAP-UI2-CHIP. For example, if you registered a CHIP MYCHIP in transaction /UI2/CHIP, the value of the node tree must be X-SAP-UI2-CHIP:MYCHIP.