Implementing the Page Layout Using External Tools

You create the basic structure of a BSP application in the Web Application Builder (SE80). Afterwards, you can edit the pages of that application using external tools. This is made possible by a check-out/check-in mechanism. You use external tools primarily for implementing the page layout. It is not possible to edit page parameters and event handlers.

You can use a WebDAV client to perform the following tasks:

• Implement the page layout

• Import MIMEs

• Create new pages

• Check in the pages

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1. Creating the basic structure of the BSP application in transaction SE80.

   For each new BSP application, the system creates an identically named directory in the MIME Repository.

2. Checking out the pages using WebDAV.

   The pages can then be edited in the WebDAV client.

3. Importing the required MIMEs from the file directory of the hard disk into the application directory in the MIME Repository.

   All imported MIMEs are part of the MIME Repository. By default, these MIMEs are assigned the package of the BSP application.

4. Implementing the page layout.

5. Creating and implementing additionally required HTML pages.

6. Checking in the pages.

   All new pages are imported as static pages into the MIME Repository. By default, these MIMEs are assigned the package of the BSP application.

7. Converting the static pages in the MIME Repository into BSPs, if required.

Once you have completed these steps, you implement the event handlers, declare the page parameters, and activate and test your BSP application in transaction SE80.