Design Layer
The design layer links UI-related settings to design objects, which span several views that implement the same business content. The UI-related settings are field settings that you can adapt to your requirements.
You can use the design layer to do the following:
Rename field labels
Hide fields that are not needed
You must have selected the option
Hidden
orField excluded from field set
in Customizing. This means that the fields are not available in the UI Configuration Tool.Assign existing value helps from the ABAP Dictionary without any customer-specific development
Special getter methods (type V) have been implemented that define the following:
Value help
Search help
Check table
Domain values
Field type
Input field
Checkbox
Dropdown list box
Note
The checkbox Value help from ABAP Dictionary
needs to be selected in the design layer Customizing.
Features
The design layer controls field labels in form views, table columns, and in the search criteria of the advanced search. It also controls the field visibility on the UI at runtime and in the available field set in the UI Configuration Tool.
These settings are determined by design objects, which you define in the design layer Customizing.
To reuse the settings of a design object, the reference design object has been introduced.