Working with UI Elements
Context
The Outline view displays hierarchy of controller editor pages. For the View controller editor, the Outline view displays hierarchy of UI elements available on the Layout page of the editor.
The various options available on the context menu of a UI element in the Outline view are described in the table below:
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Move Up or Move Down | Choose this option to change the position of the selected UI element on the Layout page |
| Cut | Choose this option to remove a UI element from a container UI element and paste the UI element at a required location in any other container UI element. |
| Copy | Choose this option to copy a UI element from the root container UI element and paste the UI element in any other container UI element within the root container or vice versa. |
| Edit table | This context menu option is available only for the Table and CTable UI elements. Choose this option to display the table wizard. The wizard allows you to:
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You can also drag a UI element to any other container UI element or to any other location under the root container.
Copying of UI elements is possible across Views (within or across components), ABAP projects, and the integrated development environment available within the Web Dynpro ABAP Development tool. You can also use the Cut, Copy or Paste option with multiple UI elements selected at a time. You can copy multiple UI elements and paste them under multiple container UI elements at a time.
Paste option appears disabled if the target UI element container does not support the copied UI element.