Setting Help Links in the Help Center

Prerequisites

The Help Center must be called in your Web Dynpro application. The Help Center is activated for Web Dynpro ABAP applications by default, and can be called with the F1 key. You can find more information about this setting in Activating and Setting the Help Center for SAP Applications.

If you want to put a visible link to the Help Center on the page, the Web Dynpro application must enter the source code below in the action handler of theopen_help_center( ) link, so that when the user clicks on the link, the Help Center opens:

        
data: l_api_componentcontroller type ref to if_wd_component.
        
data l_appl type ref to if_wd_application.
        
l_api_componentcontroller = wd_comp_controller->wd_get_api( )
        
l_appl = l_api_componentcontroller->get_application( ).
        
l_appl->open_help_center( ).
         

Context

Help links in the Help Center in the Worth Knowing area link to a help text in the Knowledge Warehouse system or to another LOIO-based content management system. These help links can be set for a single Web Dynpro application, a window of an application, one or more applications, or for a combination of these.

Example of the Display in the Help Center with Links to Texts in Knowledge Warehouse

Procedure

  • If the help links displayed in the Help Center are valid for your Web Dynpro application or for a window of your Web Dynpro application, set these directly for the application or window.
  • If the help links displayed in the Help Center are valid for multiple applications or application configurations, set these links using a Bade implementation. You can set filters across Web Dynpro applications and application configurations and specify that only specific help links are displayed for groups of application configurations and/or Web Dynpro applications.
  • You can overwrite help links if you want to replace an existing help link.