Object Based Navigation (OBN) 

Purpose

With the standard portal navigation you define a constant URL. With the OBN you can define an “operation” of a business object.

Example:

You define that you want to trigger the “Display” operation of a “Customer” business object. The specific iView or page that is used to realize or implement this operation is configured within the portal platform and could be role- specific or even user-specific.

For more information about OBN, please refer to the portal OBN documentation.

 

Like the portal navigation, the Web Dynpro integration of the OBN feature is very similar to the portal eventing integration. The Web Dynpro runtime offers a specific WDPortalNavigation service to define the necessary parameters.