Navigation between different views is enabled by plugs. These can be divided into inbound and outbound plugs. While inbound plugs define the possible starting points of a view, the outbound plugs of a view can be used to call a subsequent view. Plugs are part of the controller of a view. They are always assigned to exactly one view.

Several views are generally embedded in a Web Dynpro window. Therefore, it is necessary to qualify one view as the view that is displayed first of all when a window is called. This view is assigned the Default property. The subsequent navigation structure is then created using this view.

The entering of a view using an inbound plug always causes an event handler method to be called. This is why an event handler method (whose use is optional) is automatically generated for every inbound plug. In this case, the inbound plug itself represents the event to be handled.

To navigate from one view to another, each outbound plug from the first view must be linked with an inbound plug of the second view with the help of a navigation link.

By implementing the navigation you create a static, potential connection between two views of a Web Dynpro application. You thus define the view sequence for when the Web Dynpro application is executed. You must define a navigation link for each possible view change.