Creating Mashups with the Page Builder

The Web Dynpro ABAP Page Builder is a framework that enables administrators to put together Web Dynpro applications with no, or hardly any, programming required.

Typically, you use the Page Builder to design home pages that enable users to access their main tasks and that provide the option to adapt the page, for instance by adding CHIPs to it in which their favorite Web pages are embedded.

The figure below shows a page with examples of how CHIPs are presented to the end user:

• You use the runtime authoring environment of the Page Builder to select CHIPs (abbreviation for Collaborative Human Interface Parts) - comparable with a gadget - from a CHIP catalog and to arrange them on a Page in a flexible layout. In a CHIP you can call, for example, an enhanced Web Dynpro component, display Web pages or lists of links to different applications.

  For more information, see Creating Pages with the Page Builder

• As well as designing your own pages, with the Page Builder you can define the content of side panels (technically also defined as pages). A side panel can be created as an enhancement of a Web Dynpro application or you can use the side panel of the SAP Business Client (NWBC).

  For more information, see Implementing Side Panels

• A selection of SAP NetWeaver CHIPS is available in the CHIP catalog, which you can configure for many application cases. You can also create your own CHIPS, these are known as Web Dynpro CHIPs.

  For more information, see Creating Web Dynpro CHIPs