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Adapt the UI of a Business Object

Ulrike Liebherr

2019-04-17

Beginner
10 min.
ABAP Extensibility, SAP S/4HANA, Tutorial, Beginner, Cloud
Adapt the UI of a business object inside SAP S/4Hana Cloud, shown at the generated UI of a Custom Business Object

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You will learn

In the preceding tutorials you created a custom business object with a simple data structure and its persistence. Afterwards you generated an UI for this business object and exposed it as a Fiori Launchpad application.

As the generated User Interfaces only lists all fields of a business object node, adapting the UI might be necessary to improve usability of it.

Before done UI Generation and here shown UI Adaptation are so called In-App Extensibility features done completely inside a S/4HANA system. They are key user functionality with limited possibilities. UI Adaptation has effect on all users in the system.

Alternatively to UI Generation and Adaptation the more powerful Side-By-Side Extensibility via SAP Cloud Platform could be done to develop an UI with all SAPUI5 options (see tutorial group Create Custom UI for S/4HANA Cloud).

Our Example

A several tutorials spanning example will show extensibility along custom Bonus Management applications.

In the first parts a Manager wants to define business objects “Bonus Plan” for employees. A Bonus Plan is there to save employee specific rules for bonus entitlement.

Additional Information

  • SAP S/4HANA Cloud Release (tutorial’s last update): 1808
Step 1: Open the UI to be adapted

Open the Bonus Plans application in Fiori Launchpad group Extensibility.

Bonus Plans application tile

Press Go to get the list of all Bonus Plans. Open a bonus plan’s detail view.

Open Bonus Plan’s detail view

This is the screen that will be adapted.

Bonus Plan’s detail view before adaptation
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Step 2: Switch to Adaptation mode

Open User Settings via the corresponding application’s menu action

Open User Settings

Open the adaptation mode via Adapt UI.

Go to UI Adaptation mode
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Step 3: Create an UI group

Editable UI elements can be recognized by getting a dashed border and the movement cursor when hovering over them.

Editable UI element

By right clicking onto them you get options to adapt the UI. As these options are partly type dependent you might need to find the right element first to get the option you need.

Hover over the General Information area until it gets the dashed border and open the context menu via Right Click.

Create UI Group

Create Group and name it “Bonus Data”.

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Step 4: Move UI elements

Editable fields can simply be dragged and dropped as well. Drag the Validity Start Date field.

Movable UI Element

Drop it to the Bonus Data group.

Drop dragged UI Element

Repeat Drag & Drop into Bonus Data group for the fields:

  • Validity End Date
  • Target Amount
  • Low Bonus Assignment Factor
  • High Bonus Assignment Factor
  • Low Bonus Percentage
  • High Bonus Percentage
  • Employee ID
  • Employee Name
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Step 5: Apply UI changes

Publish the UI adaptations.

Finally you only need to Exit adaptation mode to work with the new layout.

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Step 6: Test yourself
On which user(s) will the UI Adaptation have effect?
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Next Steps

Prerequisites

  • Authorizations: Your user needs a business role with business catalog Extensibility (ID: SAP_CORE_BC_EXT) in your S/4HANA Cloud system
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