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Definition

Floor Plan Manager (FPM) enables you, to create modification-free Web Dynpro ABAP UI applications composed of discrete UI Building Blocks (UIBBs). The Generic UIBBs (GUIBBs) are centrally provided UIBBs, where the application only provides the data and a layout configuration.

FPM BOPF Integration (FBI) offers configurable and codeless integration of FPM technology and BOPF-based BOs. FBI provides generic GUIBB feeder classes and relevant application configurations that allow you to use the services of BOPF-based BOs in FPM applications. This enables you to create UI layouts as Web Dynpro configurations for standard GUIBBs and assemble such discrete GUIBB configurations in an application configuration.

The GUIBB configurations are reusable objects. These configurations can be used in more than one application. FBI configuration objects (FBI View) are reusable objects. These design time configurations can be used in more than one application.

The following figure shows an overview of FBI and its components:

Features

FBI supports service calls to BOPF-based BOs, including the following:

  • Editing data from BO node instances in a list, form, or tree GUIBB

  • Accepting action parameter values and invoking actions on BO node instances

  • Overviews based on BO node queries

  • Entering alternative key on an initial screen and subsequently converting alternative key to internal IDs, also known as alternate key conversions

In addition, FBI supports the following UI-specific services:

  • Navigating to multiple targets

  • Calling dialogs and the editing application data in dialogs

  • Supporting UI-specific nonBOPF actions