Adapt the UI of a Business Object
Ulrike LiebherrAugust 6, 2021Prerequisites
- Authorizations: Your user needs a business role with business catalog Extensibility - Custom Business Objects (ID:
SAP_CORE_BC_EXT_CBO) in your S/4HANA Cloud system
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 Bonus Plans application in Fiori Launchpad group Extensibility.
Press Go to get the list of all Bonus Plans. Open a bonus plan’s detail view.
This is the screen that will be adapted.
- Step 2
Open User Settings via the corresponding application’s menu action
Open the adaptation mode via Adapt UI.
- Step 3
Editable UI elements can be recognized by getting a dashed border and the movement cursor 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 dashed border and open the context menu via Right Click.
Create Group and name it “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