Embedding the Side Panel

Context

Once you have prepared your Web Dynpro application, you can select a side panel and configure it. To do this, you need Customizing authorization (authorization object S_WDR_P13N)

For more information, see Authorization Checks for Personlization and Customizing

Procedure

  1. To start the Web Dynpro application you want to enhance with a side panel in customizing mode, choose Test from the context menu of the application, and add URL parameter sap-config-mode=X.
  2. Click on Set Additional Information in the page header. The side panel is opened in customizing mode.

    You now have the following options:

    • You can select a side panel:

      1. Choose Use Side Panel.

      2. Use F4 help to select a side panel, and save it.

      3. With the Preview button you can check that you have selected the right side panel.

    • You can specify whether the side panel can be used. If you choose Do Not Use Side Panel, the link Additional Information, which the user uses to open the side panel, will not be displayed.

    • You can decide whether the side panel is opened when the application is started.

    • You can specify whether the user can change the size of the side panel, that is, whether the splitter is active or not.

    • With Create/Edit you can create a new side panel, or change an existing one.

      • To edit an existing side panel, select the configuration name, and choose Create/Edit.

      • To create a new side panel, enter the name in the Configuration Name field, and choose Create/Edit.

      The side panel editor is started in the mode you have just been working in.

      For more information, see Creating Side Panels