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Selection of UI element

When an UI element is selected, View Designer indicates the selection with a dotted border and anchor tags. The selected element also gets highlighted in the Outline view. The selected element has a specific selection pattern (dotted border and anchor tags).

Multiple selection of UI elements

Allows you to select multiple UI elements from the preview area (outline view)

Inline Editing in Views

Enables edit of the view properties (text or value property) through an inplace cell editor directly in the View Designer browser area

UI element specific context menus

Displays the corresponding UI element's context menu similar to that of outline view with certain menu items such as, wrap with, replace with, cut, copy, paste and so on with the exception of move up, move down, expand actions.

Resizing of certain UI elements

Allows resize (by using a mouse) of the UI elements for which the width property is available. As you drag the border, dimensions of an element change and it gets resized on releasing the mouse. The properties of the UI element get updated accordingly.

Positional Drag and drop of UI elements

Enable you to position the UI elements on the view designer for a drag and drop operation

Lightspeed rendering in View Designer

Provides application developers a richer user experience, better look and feel for all Web Dynpro based applications

Availability of tradeshow plus theme

View Designer now supports the new standard tradeshow plus theme which can be enabled from the toolbar