How to Add Custom Tabs to Display Associated Entities

This how-to provides an extensibility scenario, adding custom tabs in Microsoft Outlook to display the associated entites defined in the service.

Context

This document describes how the Custom Tabs can be enhanced to contextually display EPM Sales Orders and EPM Contact Person data for the EPM Account.

Note The document assumes that a project with name “EPM Account” is created and ready for use. See Creating and Working with Contact Template section for more information.

There are five steps involved when adding the custom tabs to display associated entities:

Add DataGrid for Sales Order Header & Sales Order Item. See Adding DataGrid.
Add Columns to the Sales Order Header Grid. See Adding Columns to the Sales Order Header Grid.
Add Columns to the Sales Order Item Grid. See Adding Columns to the Sales Order Item Grid
Bind the Sales Order Header with SAP data. See Binding the Sales Order Header with SAP Data.
Bind the Sales Order Line Item with SAP data. See Binding the Sales Order Line Item with SAP Data

Note In all the sections of this chapter, the GWDEMO service (shipped by SAP along with SAP Gateway system for demo purposes) is used.