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A generic design template for displaying navigation destinations as hyperlinks.

It is implemented using the Web Dynpro component FPM_LAUNCHPAD_UIBB.

 

You use this design template in the floorplan of an overview page (OVP) to add a launchpad of type FPM_LAUNCHPAD_UIBB and configure how it is displayed.

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Floorplan Manager (FPM) is a framework for the layout of user interfaces of an application; the concrete construction of a launchpad is not carried out in FPM, but in transaction LPD_CUST.

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Structure

In the standard system, the display of a launchpad component on an overview page consists of three configurable areas:

  • Homepage

    The system formats a launchpad on an overview page in four different ways on the home page. Users can switch between these using the toolbar. The following formats are available:

    • Directory

      In this view, the launchpad's folder structure is shown but the individual folders are not initially opened.

    • Map

      In this view, the first level of the folder structure of the launchpad is shown. The system can also show quick-links below each folder. These quick-links are selected items from that folder.

    • Index

      In this view, all navigation destinations are listed alphabetically.

    • Tree

      In this view, navigation destinations are displayed in a tree (hierarchical list) format. The links are grouped together under specific headings. Headings appear as nodes which can be expanded to show the navigation links. The relevant feeder class determines whether individual nodes are shown as expanded or closed at runtime.

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    You can activate navigation via icons in Customizing for the launchpad. To do this, choose   Extras   General Settings   in Customizing for the launchpad and select the Set Icons as Selectable checkbox.

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  • Most Frequently Used

    An area listing navigation destinations that the user uses most frequently in the application.

    In Customizing for the launchpad, you can predefine this area with entries from the existing Customizing settings. This way, the area is displayed with entries even when the user opens the application for the first time.

  • Related Links

    An area where the system shows additional navigation destinations that are not part of the navigation destinations on the homepage. You must also make these navigation destinations available via the launchpad.

At runtime, the user can personalize the launchpad component by moving each of the views around the screen. The panels containing the views can also be stacked on top of each other to form a tabstrip.

Integration

This launchpad component can only be inserted into a configuration of an OVP type floorplan.

You configure this component using the FPM configuration editor, FLUID.

You can configure, amongst others, the following properties of this component:

  • Homepage

    You can determine the default view of the Homepage, the visibility of the individual Homepage views, and the number of columns that the Homepage should contain.

  • Links visibility

    Using the Links Visibility field, you can determine whether links should be displayed only in the Map format of the Homepage or in all views.

  • Role and Instance fields of the Homepage and Related Links areas

    You can also determine which launchpad is added to the Related Links area. It is required that this launchpad already has the launchpad type FPM_UIBB assigned to it in Customizing for the launchpad.

  • Area Pages

    In some of the Homepage views, navigation links are grouped together under so-called area page titles. Under the area page title, there is often information about the area page itself. The First-Level Folder Information field determines whether the title of, and information for an area page appears on the area page itself as you navigate to it from a Homepage view.

For further information on this component, see the field help of the individual fields.

The properties described above are found in the General Settings panel of FLUID. To make changes to the underlying launchpads, choose the individual configurable components in the Preview panel; you are directed away from the FPM framework and into the transaction LPD_CUST (Launchpad Customizing).

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Since changes to launchpad components are primarily made in Customizing, there is no object schema for this component in the configuration editor.

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