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Procedure documentationDefining Navigation to an External iView Locate this document in the navigation structure

 

You can create a navigation point that enables the runtime user to exit the source iView and automatically display a target iView. For example, after locating a bank from a list in the source iView, the user can click a button to activate an HTML iView used to display a map of the city in which the bank is located.

Note Note

Note that the use of the Navigate To connector is limited to the Web Dynpro runtime only.

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Procedure

  1. Create the source and target iViews, saving them within the same model. You may do so by creating a package, drilling down and creating the two iViews.

  2. Open the source iView and in the output component, create a button that will activate the display of the target iView. Name the action (event) appropriately. For more information about creating the button, see Creating a Popup iView.

  3. Drag out from the out port of the output component and choose Navigate To from the context menu. The Select Target iView dialog box is displayed. From the list, select the target iView and choose the Select existing iView option (or choose Create new iView if you did not yet create the target iView). Click OK. A placeholder icon is displayed, linked to the output component.

  4. Click on the line connecting the output component and the target iView icon. Rename it according to the action name you defined for the button in step 2.

  5. Drill down into the target iView to check it. Be sure to check its layout. Then save and deploy it.

  6. Return to the source iView, save and deploy it.

Example

The following is the design-time layout of the runtime source-and-target iViews shown in Create Interrelated iViews.

This graphic is explained in the accompanying text.