Adapt the UI of a Business Object
- How to adapt a UI for all users in a system
Peter PersielSeptember 12, 2025
Prerequisites
- Authorizations: Your user needs a business role with business catalogs Extensibility - Custom Business Objects (ID:
SAP_CORE_BC_EXT_CBO) and Extensibility - Key User Adaptation Customizing (ID:SAP_CORE_BC_EXT_FLX_CUS_PC) in your SAP S/4HANA Cloud system
Additional Info
- 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.
- The UI Generation done in a previous tutorial and the UI Adaptation shown in this tutorial are so called In-App Extensibility features done completely inside a S/4HANA Cloud system. They are key user functionality with limited possibilities. In contrast to UI Generation and Adaptation, a UI with all SAPUI5 options can be developed with SAP Business Application Studio (see tutorial group Create an SAP Fiori App and Deploy it to SAP S/4HANA Cloud).
- Tutorial last checked for feasibility with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Release 2508
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 used to save employee specific rules for bonus entitlement.
- Step 1
Start typing Bonus Plan in the Launchpad search and open the App from the results.
Press Go to get the list of all Bonus Plans. Open a bonus plan’s detail view by clicking its list item.
This is the screen that will be adapted.
- Step 2
- Open User Profile via the corresponding application’s menu action
- Open the adaptation mode via Adapt UI.
Hint: If you’re using Key User Adaptation for the first time, a message may appear introducing the General UI Adaptation Tour. You can start the tour by selecting
Yes, or chooseNoto take it later. - Step 3
Editable UI elements can be recognized by getting a border when hovering over them.
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 border and open the context menu via Right Click.
Create Group and give it the title “Bonus Data”.
- Step 4
Editable fields can simply be dragged and dropped as well. Drag the Validity Start Date field.
Drop it to the Bonus Data group.
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
- Step 5
Last you make the UI adaptations available to all users in the system.
Click the activation button (wand icon).
In the opening pop up give a name for the new version and Confirm that.
Click the Publishing button (truck icon) to make the last activated layout version available to all users in the system.
Finally exit adaptation mode (cross icon).
