In this part of the Tutorial to Create and Register Dashboard Apps, you create a simple dashboard for your apps. You can display your apps in your dashboard, and make a dashboard available which shows the desired apps for all users. This part of the tutorial shows you how to create a dashboard as an app container, as well as creating apps.
To create a dashboard, use the Dashboard Management (see Creating and Editing Dashboards).
In the SAP Easy Acess menu, choose Dashboard Management Tool
. The entry is in the folder SAP_SM_DASHBOARDS_ADMIN
in your user menu, if you have this role.
Note
To put this entry in your SAP Easy Acess menu Favorites manually, proceed as follows:
In the SAP Easy Access menu, call
.From the list in the Restrictions
screen, choose Web-Dynpro Applications
.
On the Web Dynpro Application
screen, in the Web Dynpro Application
field, enter the name dashboard_management.
Enter a description, for example Dashboard Management Tool, and complete the creation of the new entry.
To create a new dashboard, choose Create Dashboard
.
Enter the following details for your new dashboard:
Input field | Entry | Comments |
---|---|---|
| Z_TUTORIAL | The technical name of the dashboard must begin with Z, to be in customer namespace. |
| Tutorial Apps | This title is displayed in the dashboard |
| This dashboard contains apps which were created in a tutorial. | The description states the topic and the planned use of the dashboard. |
|
| You can specify whether the authorization is to be checked when the dashboard is called, via the authorization group . No authorization check is performed for this dashboard |
|
| The category determines the user topic to which the dashboard belongs. You can only put apps of the same category in the dashboard. As you have selected the category Note If you have not performed the previous parts of the tutorial, the apps are not available. In this case, choose the category End of the note. |
|
| A general dashboard has only one instance, so when a user changes it (e.g. add or remove an app), this is visible to all users. |
|
| This function ensures that a BAdI is also called for a dashboard without apps, which is typically the case the first time the dashboard is called. This BAdI can, for example, ensure that the dashboard is then filled with its apps. This is not necessary here. |
|
| You use the default design for dashboards. |
| Not selected | The dashboard is not suitable for mobile devices. |
Save your dashboard.
To put apps in the new dashboard, call the dashboard. The Dashboard Management (see above) outputs a link when you save the dashboard under Link to Dashboard
.
Call the dashboard with the Dashboard Management link, as specified above.
Choose Configure
, to put apps in the dashboard.
Choose Add New App
. The apps in the category Not Assigned
assigned to the dashboard, are displayed.
Add apps to the dashboard by selecting them and confirming with OK
. Configure apps with configuration apps.
Save the assignment of apps to your dashboard, with Save Dashboard
.
You have created your dashboard and put apps in it. You can call the dashboard in two ways:
Via SAP Easy Access
To put your dashboard in your Favorites in the SAP Easy Access
screen, proceed as follows:
In the SAP Easy Access menu, call
.From the list in the Restrictions
screen, choose Web-Dynpro Applications
.
On the Web Dynpro Application
screen, in the Web Dynpro Application
field, enter the name generic_dashboard_viewer.
Enter a description, for example Tutorial Dashboard.
Insert a row in the table Parameter
, in the Name
column, enter ALIAS, and in the Value
column, enter Z_TUTORIAL.
Via a link.
Dashboard Management outputs a link to the dashboard, under Link to Dashboard
, as described above. As you assigned the dashboard to the type General
, you can also send the link. If he has a user in the system, the recipient can call the dashboard, and finds the same apps.
You have completed this part of the tutorial, and created a dashboard with the tutorial apps.