Creating View search.htm for the Search (SAP Library

Creating View search.htm for the Search

Use

View search.htm is the part of the page that provides input fields for the book search.

This graphic is explained in the accompanying text

Procedure

The view layout looks as follows:

<%@ page language="abap" %>

<%@ extension name="htmlb" prefix="htmlb" %>

<table>

<tr><td width="180"> <htmlb:label for="author" text="Author (last name)

"/></td>

<tr><td></td><td height="50"><htmlb:button id="searchbutton" onClick="search"

text="search book"/></td></tr>

</table>

The coding is different from the search page in Our First Online Bookshop in that the input fields are HTMLB input fields that have HTMLB labels. These labels are required for input processing and to control event handling.

You must now create these attributes as page attributes of the view.

Choose the Page Attributes tabstrip and then enter your attributes:

Attribute	Type	Reference Type	Description
author	TYPE	STRING	The author specified by the user
isbn	TYPE	STRING	The ISBN specified by the user
keyword	TYPE	STRING	The keyword specified by the user
publisher	TYPE	STRING	The publisher specified by the user
title	TYPE	STRING	The title specified by the user

Result

You have now programmed the view that enables users to search for a book.

If the user chooses Search Book, this triggers the OnClick="search" event. This is processed in controller search.do (see also Creating Controller search.do for the Search).

Now create the controller for the results list result.do: Creating Controller result.do for the Results List.