Data Provider ? Information (SAP Library

Data Provider – Information

Definition

Web item that you can use for XML generation of query results data or of the navigation state of a query. The Web item is not visualized in the Web application. You can see the generated XML in the source text for the Web application.

Structure

The following is a parameter list for the Web item Data Provider Information arranged according to the various parameter groupings.

Data Connection

Parameter	Description
Data providers (DATA_PROVIDER_REF)	You assign a data provider to the Web item with this parameter. The Web item gets the data and metadata from this data provider that it needs to generate the output and commands. SAP recommends that you keep to the conventions supported by the Web Application Designer when specifying names: The name should be a maximum of 30 characters long and consist of characters “A-Z”, “0-9” and “_”. It cannot start or end with “_”. Adhering to these conventions facilitates the upgrade to future SAP releases.
Output navigational state (NAVIGATIONAL_STATE)	You use this parameter to determine whether the navigational state of the data provider is output as XML in the source text of the Web application.
Output result data (RESULT_SET)	You use this parameter to determine whether the query results of are output as XML in the source text of the Web application.