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The function Menu Options on the Menu tab contains several special additional attributes for a given role. A role can also have additional attributes that are only relevant for NWBC. However, these attributes are required for NWBC only for very specific use cases. For example, you can assign a role to a specific cockpit using the additional attributes.

Menu Options (Menu Options)

You can use the additional attributes on this popup for a role in customer systems. These attributes are used to associate specific information with the role, so that the NWBC runtime can make the relevant rendering decisions.

Menu Options popup (Menu Options popup)

Runtime Filter

You can specify that a given role will be filtered out of the menu either in the SAP Easy Access menu or in the NWBC.

  • Hide Menu in SAP Easy Access: By selecting this check box you specify that this role will be removed from the SAP Easy Access menu.

  • Hide Menu in NWBC: Flag which causes this specific role to not be made visible in NWBC. It is filtered out.

Cockpit Filter

This attribute is used only together with cockpits. If NWBC is accessed in the default mode, all roles are made visible. If NWBC is accessed via a cockpit, only those roles that belong to the cockpit specified via Cockpit are made visible. This enables building small mini-scenarios, giving the user a very specific view onto the system. However, it could be that the roles that belong to a cockpit, are very specific only for this scenario, and should not be made available in general. Nevertheless, even if a role is flagged to belong to a specific cockpit, it will still be made visible when NWBC is accessed without a cockpit filter. Here the Cockpit-exclusive flag comes into the game.

  • Cockpit:

    If a user should access NWBC via a cockpit (which is defined in ICF as a child node to the NWBC node), then only those roles that “belong” to the cockpit, in this case that are flagged with the cockpit attribute, are displayed. Note that the cockpit name must match the relevant entry in the ICF service tree.

    This attribute tags a role to explicitly belong to a specific cockpit. Or differently seen, the cockpit is a filter on all roles, returning only those roles that are actively flagged to belong to the cockpit.

    It is theoretically possible to use this attribute more than once per role, to indicate that the role belongs to more than one cockpit.

  • Cockpit-exclusive:

    Set this flag to indicate that this role must only be made visible within the context of the cockpit specified above and not when NWBC is accessed without filter. In other words, this role may only be used in the tagged cockpits and not generally.

Relative Sorting

If you want to specify the order in which the roles should be positioned in the NWBC shell, use the following functions:

  • Sort Index:

    Allows roles to be sorted relative to one another. These numbers do not have to be in sequence. It is recommended to use large steps of 100 to just give the roles a sort index relative to one another.

  • Home Role:

    This tag flags the role as being special, in that it should be mapped onto the home position, which is the first position on the shell. Effectively, this is equivalent to a Sort Index of 1.