Decorative UI Elements

You want to display an extra introductory text or individual logo in your Web application, or provide a link to your company intranet. You can use decorative UI elements to do this.

Use

Decorative UI elements are UI elements that can be added at runtime in the framework of Web-Dynpro-Built-In Customizing as extra interface components for Container UI elements (Group, Tray, TransparentContainer, ScrollContainer). This includes:

Caption
Explanation
FormattedTextView
HorizontalGutter
Image

Caution
The property isDecorative, which normally cannot be personalized, can be edited if it concerns a decorative image.

End of the caution.
LinkToURL

Caution
The property reference, which normally cannot be personalized, can be edited if it concerns a decorative LinkToUrl. Here you can specify the URL you want to link to.

End of the caution.
TextView

Procedure

You can add a decorative UI element to any Web Dynpro application (started with sap‑config‑mode=X in administrator mode):

Call up your Web Dynpro application in administrator mode.
Place the cursor on the relevant Container UI element.
In the context menu choose Settings for Current Configuration.
At the required place in the Container UI element choose Add Decorative Element from the context menu.
Select the type of decorative element, and choose OK.
The new decorative element is added to the UI tree on the left-hand side and labeled with a predefined [Decoration].
On the right-hand side specify the properties you want for your decorative UI element.
Save your entries.

Function

The following functions are provided in the normal UI as well as in the context menu:

Create a decorative UI element
Remove a decorative UI element
Sort decorative UI elements
Change properties of decorative UI elements