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The Floorplan Manager (FPM) Runtime Analysis Tool (RAT) helps you understand how the current UI of your application was created.

For example, you can determine how FPM UI elements such as generic UI building blocks (GUIBBs), buttons, fields, roadmap steps, table columns, and titles came to appear on the UI. Were these elements implemented by the FPM Configuration Application Controller (AppCC) dynamically? Were these elements created by a user personalizing the application, or were these elements introduced in a customizing or enhancement of the application? The RAT helps you to answer these types of question.

Structure

The RAT exists as a tab page divided into different sections, each containing information related to the selected UI element. Each section has a header, and you can expand the section to show a more detailed display.

Depending on the type of element you have selected, you may see the following sections:

  • Feeder Class

    The name of the GUIBB's feeder class is shown. This section appears only if a GUIBB component is selected.

  • Configuration

    Displays the details, in tabular form, of an element as it was configured originally at design time. Separate rows in the table are created for any customizing or enhancement that has taken place. Therefore, a table displaying only one row of data means that no customizing or enhancement exists for this configuration; that is, the UI element you selected was created on the configuration level. You can select a row to display further details.

  • <UI Element> <action> by API

    Indicates if the change to a UI element has occurred dynamically, that is by the Application Configuration Controller (AppCC). Appears only for the floorplan component of an application.

  • Field Catalog Related Information

    Appears only if a GUIBB component is selected.

  • Field Description

    Appears only if a GUIBB component is selected.

  • Action Definition

    This section displays details about an action or event associated with, for example, a button.

  • Deletions

    Indicates what has been deleted.

Note Note

The RAT is available for only a limited number of floorplans, GUIBBs and other FPM UI elements.

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Accessing the Runtime Analysis Tool (RAT)