Floorplan Manager for Web Dynpro ABAP

Floorplan Manager (FPM) is a highly configurable user interface (UI) framework for easy and efficient application development and adaptation based on Web Dynpro ABAP.

With the help of predefined elements such as floorplans, toolbars and generic user interface building blocks, FPM provides you with consistency across applications and compliance with SAP UI design guidelines, as well as greatly reducing the time required to create such applications.

Central functions such as navigation, messaging, and personalization are embedded in the framework, and can be easily defined by application programming interfaces (APIs).

FPM allows you to easily adapt delivered Web Dynpro ABAP UIs to your specific needs modification-free by simple UI configuration, and to combine application-specific views of one or more business applications into new Floorplan Manager applications.

FPM is a Web Dynpro ABAP application that is integrated into the Web Dynpro ABAP development environment.

FPM supports you in creating and configuring UIs by providing you with, amongst other things, the following components:

• SAP-Defined Floorplans

  Combinations of UI patterns arranged in a specific order in an application, allowing the user to accomplish a certain activity, such as searching for, identifying, and maintaining data for an object.

  The areas of a floorplan such as a message area, navigation area, and content area are automatically implemented by the FPM framework.

• Generic UI Building Blocks

  SAP UI-compliant templates for displaying content. Examples include templates for displaying data in a form or list view.

• FPM Configuration Editor (FLUID-Flexible User Interface Designer)

  Editor allowing you to configure the application composition as a whole as well as the individual floorplan and generic UI building blocks within it.

See also Floorplan Manager for Web Dynpro ABAP in the SAP Community Network (SCN). Here you will find other useful information such as FPM tutorials, and documentation relating to adapting your FPM applications.