Enabling ALV Personalization

Use

To save personalized settings for ALV lists in a Visual Composer model, you must first enable ALV personalization.

 

Procedure

Maintaining the SLD Connection

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       1.      Log on to the J2EE start page at http://<host>:<port>.

       2.      Choose SAP NetWeaver Administrator.

       3.      Log on with an administrator user.

       4.      Choose Configuration Management -> Infrastructure Management -> SLD Data Supplier Configuration.

       5.      Choose Related Tasks -> Destinations.

       6.      Create two destinations and name them SLD_DataSupplier and SLD_Client. Each of these destinations requires the following parameters:

○       Destination Type: HTTP Destination

○       URL: URL of SLD

○       Authentication: Basic (User ID and Password)

 

Maintaining the JCo Destinations

In the Web Dynpro Content Administrator, create the JCo destinations WD_ALV_METADATA_DEST and WD_ALV_MODELDATA_DEST.

 

       1.      Log on to the J2EE start page at http://<host>:<port>.

       2.      Choose SAP NetWeaver Administrator.

       3.      Log on with an administrator user.

       4.      Choose Web Dynpro -> Content Administrator.

       5.      Click Maintain JCo Destinations. Both JCo destinations already exist but have the status Red. (The JCo destinations appear after the application has been deployed.)

       6.      Click Create in one of the destinations.

       7.      Enter the client of the ABAP back-end system.

       8.      Define the configuration of the JCo pool for the JCo destination.

       9.      Assign the JCo destination to a J2EE Engine cluster.

   10.      Select the data type for the JCo destination and the corresponding connection type. The JCo destination WD_ALV_METADATA_DEST is assigned the connection type Dictionary Metadata; WD_ALV_MODELDATA_DEST is assigned the connection type Application Data.

   11.      Specify the application server or message server.

   12.      Choose the authentication method that you want to use to authenticate users. For the WD_ALV_METADATA_DEST destination, you have to enter User/Password as the authentication method.

   13.      Complete the definition by clicking Finish.

 

For more information, see Web Dynpro Content Administrator.