Side Panel

The overall structure of the screen areas of NWBC for Desktop consists of the shell, the content area with the main application, and the side panel application.

You can use the side panel to display additional context-sensitive information related to the main application in a separate screen area (a container by the side of the content area of NWBC). The role definition determines which side panel application is shown for a certain application.

The screen areas of NWBC for Desktop described above are depicted in the following figure:

You can open and close the side panel by choosing . This menu option shows which side panel applications are available and which side panel application is currently displayed.

The following types of side panel applications are available:

• Side panel applications defined by the administrator

  Side panel applications that are defined for your roles are content-sensitive. Therefore, only for the specific transaction a side panel application is available.

• Side panel applications defined by the end user

  You can also configure side panel applications yourself. The side panel applications that you have configured in NWBC are the same for all applications in your roles.

  Note

  You can configure side panel applications yourself only if the administrator has set the parameter ShowSidePanelMenu in the admin configuration file to True.

You can switch between multiple side panel applications by choosing .

If you choose , the side panel applications are informed about changes in the application. Usually, this happens automatically, except in special cases, for example when selecting table lines in SAP List Viewer (ALV) tables.

If you choose , the side panel application does not react to changes within the current main application. It is frozen and remains unchanged even if other main applications are started that do not have this side panel application assigned.