FormLayoutAdvanced

FormLayoutAdvanced has the following properties:

It supports the alignment of UI elements across container boundaries. It is also possible to arrange UI elements cascaded in different rows.

The figure below shows an example of this:
The layout data for a UI element in a container, which a FormLayoutAdvanced is assigned to, is provided by FormDataAdvanced.
To create a newspaper page layout like with FormLayout, we recommend you use a LayoutContainer. This reduces the nesting depth.
The height of the FormLayoutAdvanced in the form of rowSpan must be specified for each UI element.

Note

The height of the layout cell does not adjust itself automatically to the height of your UI element. If it is too big, it is truncated.

Other layouts do adjust themselves to the height. For more information, see MatrixLayout and GridLayout.

Implementation Details

Runtime Class

CL_WD_FORM_LAYOUT_ADV

Name	Type	Initial Value	Bindable
id	STRING	(automatic)	No
colCount	I	8	Yes
legendId	WDY_MD_UI_ELEMENT_REFERENCE		Yes

Other properties that can be inherited are defined in the related higher-level classes. The related UI elements are:

Dynamic Programming

For dynamic programming, the same properties, events, and aggregations as in the View Designer are available. But note that the spelling format and use of upper/lower case is different.

View Designer Name	Runtime Name	Type
colCount	COL_COUNT	I
legendId	LEGEND_ID	WDY_MD_UI_ELEMENT_REFERENCE

More Information

For more information about FormLayout and its functions, see FormLayout.