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Function documentationFavorites

 

You can add business objects to your favorites, which are displayed on the home page of your business role.

Prerequisites

Enable Favorites

To enable favorites, you need to select the Enable favorites checkbox in the Settings content block on the central personalization page of the WebClient UI. If favorites are enabled, you can add business objects to the favorites list by clicking the corresponding icon in the toolbar.

To enable favorites in your business role, you need to assign parameter FAVORITES_ALLOWED with profile value TRUE via the function profile PARAMETERS to your business role. You do this in Customizing for UI Framework under Start of the navigation path Business Roles Next navigation step Define Business Role End of the navigation path.

You can, however, disable favorites for individual UI object types in Customizing for UI Framework under Start of the navigation path UI Framework Definition Next navigation step Define Settings for Favorites End of the navigation path. These settings apply to all business roles.

Enable Community Sharing

To enable community sharing in your business role, you need to assign parameter FAVORITES_COMMUNITY with profile value TRUE via the function profile PARAMETERS to your business role. You do this in Customizing for UI Framework under Start of the navigation path Business Roles Next navigation step Define Business Role End of the navigation path.

You can, however, disable the community sharing for your business role, if you assign parameter FAVORITES_COMMUNITY with profile value OFF via the function profile PARAMETERS to your business role in the above-mentioned Customizing activity.

Enable Dynamic Navigation Support

To enable navigation support, you need to define the generic outbound settings in Customizing for UI Framework under Start of the navigation path Technical Role Definition Next navigation step Define Navigation Bar Profile End of the navigation path.

Features

If you click the favorites icon in the toolbar on the overview page of a business object, you can add this business object to your favorites list. You can choose to which folder you want to add this favorite. You can also create a new folder, which is then added to the existing folder structure.

If you want to add a business object to your favorites list that has already been added, the path where the favorite is located is displayed under Existing Favorites. To add the business object to your favorites, you can delete the existing favorite.

You can decide whether you want to share your favorites with all users who are logged on to the system with the same business role. In that case, your favorites are displayed in the community favorites list on the home page of your business role.

Your favorites are displayed in your personal favorites list and in the community favorites list, on the home page of your business role. You can see the folder structure of your personal favorites. You can use drag and drop to move your favorites. The community favorites are displayed in a flat list. If you click the favorites that appear as hyperlinks, you navigate to the corresponding item.

You can filter your personal favorites and the community favorites by UI object type. In the standard system, the criterion All Items is displayed in the filter. If you select a criterion in the filter dropdown list box, the favorites are automatically filtered with this criterion.

You can organize your personal favorites by clicking the Personalize icon in the favorites content block header. You can create new folders in the folder structure, rename existing folders and favorites, delete folders and favorites, cut and paste folders and favorites, and move folders and favorites up and down in the folder structure. You can use drag and drop to personalize your favorites.

Activities

To make favorites available on the home page of your business role, proceed as follows:

  1. Add the content block for favorites to the home page

    You need to add UI component WCF_FAVORITES to the component usages in the runtime repository of the UI component workbench. You need to do this in the UI component that contains the home page of your business role.

  2. Enable favorites in your business role.

  3. Enable dynamic navigation support

    You need to make sure that the navigation bar profile of your business role supports dynamic navigation, which is necessary when you click a favorite and directly navigate to the overview page of the business object.