Linking Your Own List Forms into iViews (SAP Library

Linking Your Own List Forms into iViews

Purpose

This section describes the steps required to create a list in which you present the contents of XML documents in a different manner than with the RenderListItem form.

Process Flow

Carry out the following steps:

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1. Create a new form, for example RenderListItem2, in the XML Forms Builder.

You define the elements to be displayed (for example, only titles of news items) in this form. For more information, see Custom Forms.

2. In the configuration of the KM user interface, create a new set of XML forms resource renderer settings.

Choose Content-Management ® User Interface ® Settings ® Resource Renderer Settings ® XML Resource Renderer Settings ® New from the Configuration iView.

Example of XML Resource Renderer Settings

Parameters	Value
XML Forms Transformation	Name of the form that you created in step 1.
Command Display	For example, link.
Folder Command Group	For example, NewsDisplayGroup.
Link Command Group	For example, NewsDisplayGroup.
Resource Command Group	For example, NewsDisplayGroup.
Resource Renderer	NewsRenderer

For more information, see Resource Renderers in the administration guide.

3. In the KM user interface configuration, create a new layout set.

Example of Layout Set Settings

Parameters	Value
Collection Renderer	For example, NewsDisplayCollectionRenderer.
Resource Renderer	Name of the set of resource renderer settings that you created in step 2.
Commands for the details menu	For example, DetailsGroup.
Layout Controller	For example, SimpleLayoutController.

Note

You can duplicate an existing layout set, for example, NewBrowser, and then change the selection of resource renderer for the duplicate.

For more information, see Layout Sets in the administration guide.

4. You create an iView to display the list.

You use the iView template KM Navigation iView.

iView Properties for Your Own List Forms

Property	Value
Layout Set	Name of the layout set that you created in step 3.
Layout Set Mode	Exclusive
Path to initially displayed folder	Path to the folder in which the XML documents are stored. Example: /documents/myNews
Path to root folder for navigation	Path to the folder in which the XML documents are stored, or to subordinate folders. Example: /documents/myNews

Note

If a folder contains XML documents that you created from different projects with data entry forms, make sure that there is a form with the same name in each project.

For example, if you create news items as well as FAQs in the folder /documents/myNews, create a form with the same name (for example, RenderListItem2) in both XML Forms Builder projects.