Add Rich Enterprise Controls to the User Interface

1. To import smart controls to the view, add new XML namespaces to the uimodule/webapp/view/Products.view.xml file.
2. Replace in the same view with a page that contains the smart controls smartFilterBar and smartList

<mvc:View controllerName="tutorial.products.controller.Products" displayBlock="true"
xmlns="sap.m"
xmlns:smartFilterBar="sap.ui.comp.smartfilterbar"
xmlns:smartList="sap.ui.comp.smartlist"
xmlns:smartTable="sap.ui.comp.smarttable"
xmlns:mvc="sap.ui.core.mvc">
<Page id="Products">
  <smartFilterBar:SmartFilterBar id="smartFilterBar" persistencyKey="UniqueAndStablePersistencyKey" entitySet="Products" considerSelectionVariants="true" />
  <smartList:SmartList id="smartProductList" smartFilter="smartFilterBar" entitySet="Products" expandFields="Category" header="Products List" showRowCount="true" showFullScreenButton="true" enableAutoBinding="true">
    <smartList:listItemTemplate>
      <StandardListItem id="listTemplate" type="Navigation" press="handleListItemPress" title="{ProductName}" info="{= ${UnitPrice} + ' €' }" description="{Category/CategoryName}" />
    </smartList:listItemTemplate>
  </smartList:SmartList>
</Page>
</mvc:View>

Your page should now display product names and contain a smart header.

Did you notice that the list items display the category names, even though the selected entity set Products doesn’t contain these values. We can still see it because we defined the property expandFields="Category" which expands the CategoryID to a full, nested entity. There is nothing we need to do, expect to define the field names to expand. All magic happens behind the scenes in the OData protocol.
Feel free to remove this property from the view to see how the displayed data changes.

1. Similar to step 1, include new XML namespaces to the uimodule/webapp/view/ProductDetail.view.xml view to allow the usage of new controls.
2. Replace the current page of the view with this smart ObjectPage.

<mvc:View controllerName="tutorial.products.controller.ProductDetail" displayBlock="true"
  xmlns="sap.m"
  xmlns:uxap="sap.uxap"
  xmlns:layout="sap.ui.layout"
  xmlns:form="sap.ui.layout.form"
  xmlns:mvc="sap.ui.core.mvc">
  <uxap:ObjectPageLayout id="ProductDetail">
    <uxap:headerTitle>
      <uxap:ObjectPageHeader id="headerForTest" objectTitle="{ProductName}" objectSubtitle="{ProductID}">
        <uxap:actions>
          <uxap:ObjectPageHeaderActionButton id="buttonCart" icon="sap-icon://cart-4" press="addToCart" tooltip="Add to cart" />
          <uxap:ObjectPageHeaderActionButton id="buttonFav" icon="sap-icon://unfavorite" press="markAsFav" tooltip="Mark as favorite" />
        </uxap:actions>
      </uxap:ObjectPageHeader>
    </uxap:headerTitle>
    <uxap:headerContent>
      <layout:VerticalLayout>
        <Label id="labelUnits" text="Units in Stock" />
        <ObjectAttribute id="attrUnits" text="{UnitsInStock}" />
      </layout:VerticalLayout>
      <layout:VerticalLayout>
        <Label id="labelOrder" text="Units on Order" />
        <ObjectAttribute id="attrOrder" text="{UnitsOnOrder}" />
      </layout:VerticalLayout>
      <layout:VerticalLayout>
        <Label id="labelState" text="Discontinued" />
        <ObjectAttribute id="attrState" text="{= ${discontinued} ? 'Yes' : 'No' }" />
      </layout:VerticalLayout>
    </uxap:headerContent>
  </uxap:ObjectPageLayout>
</mvc:View>

As of now, this page only consists of a header that leverages data binding to display data. Note the control attrState uses a special type of binding, the so-called expression binding to display “Yes” or “No” depending on the state of the boolean variable discontinued.

1. The header of the view also contains two buttons. In the next sub-steps, you’ll implement the event listener for these buttons. Replace the existing file header with this one to import another library during the controller-initialization in file uimodule/webapp/controller/ProductDetail.controller.js.

   sap.ui.define([
     "tutorial/products/controller/BaseController",
     "sap/m/MessageToast"
   ], function (Controller, MessageToast) {
     "use strict";
   

2. Add the following methods to the body of the controller (after the _onRouteMatched method).

   addToCart: function () {
     MessageToast.show("Added to cart");
   },
   
   markAsFav: function (evt) {
     const oButton = evt.getSource();
     if (oButton.getIcon() === "sap-icon://unfavorite") {
       oButton.setIcon("sap-icon://favorite");
       MessageToast.show("Added to favorites");
       return;
     }
   
     oButton.setIcon("sap-icon://unfavorite");
     MessageToast.show("Removed from favorites");
   },
   

   

3. Mark the page as a favorite via the button in the header of the page to make sure the event handlers work as expected.

Note that the icon is not supposed to do anything but being a toggle button (as there is no real controller logic associated with the control). It won’t store the state in the data model.

The following snippet defines the content of the ObjectPage. It’s mostly basic code, outstanding sections are another usage of expression binding for the link control linkWebsite, property binding to the navigation entities “Supplier” and “Category”, and the usage of a custom formatter for the image control imageCategory.

Insert the snippet after the closing tag </uxap:headerContent> in the view.

<mvc:View controllerName="tutorial.products.controller.ProductDetail" displayBlock="true"
  xmlns="sap.m"
  xmlns:uxap="sap.uxap"
  xmlns:layout="sap.ui.layout"
  xmlns:form="sap.ui.layout.form"
  xmlns:mvc="sap.ui.core.mvc">
  <uxap:ObjectPageLayout id="ProductDetail">
    <uxap:headerTitle>
      <uxap:ObjectPageHeader id="headerForTest" objectTitle="{ProductName}" objectSubtitle="{ProductID}">
        <uxap:actions>
          <uxap:ObjectPageHeaderActionButton id="buttonCart" icon="sap-icon://cart-4" press="addToCart" tooltip="Add to cart" />
          <uxap:ObjectPageHeaderActionButton id="buttonFav" icon="sap-icon://unfavorite" press="markAsFav" tooltip="Mark as favorite" />
        </uxap:actions>
      </uxap:ObjectPageHeader>
    </uxap:headerTitle>
    <uxap:headerContent>
      <layout:VerticalLayout>
        <Label id="labelUnits" text="Units in Stock" />
        <ObjectAttribute id="attrUnits" text="{UnitsInStock}" />
      </layout:VerticalLayout>
      <layout:VerticalLayout>
        <Label id="labelOrder" text="Units on Order" />
        <ObjectAttribute id="attrOrder" text="{UnitsOnOrder}" />
      </layout:VerticalLayout>
      <layout:VerticalLayout>
        <Label id="labelState" text="Discontinued" />
        <ObjectAttribute id="attrState" text="{= ${discontinued} ? 'Yes' : 'No' }" />
      </layout:VerticalLayout>
    </uxap:headerContent>
    <uxap:sections>
      <uxap:ObjectPageSection id="pageSectionSupplier" title="Supplier">
        <uxap:subSections>
          <uxap:ObjectPageSubSection id="subSectionInfo" title="">
            <uxap:blocks>
              <form:SimpleForm id="formInfo" title="Info" editable="false" layout="ResponsiveGridLayout">
                <form:content>
                  <Label id="labelCName" text="Company Name" />
                  <Text id="textCName" text="{Supplier/CompanyName}" />
                  <Label id="labelWebsite" text="Website" />
                  <Link id="linkWebsite" text="{= ${Supplier/HomePage}.split('#')[0] }" href="{= ${Supplier/HomePage}.split('#')[1] }" target="_blank" />
                </form:content>
              </form:SimpleForm>
              <form:SimpleForm id="formAddress" title="Address" editable="false" layout="ResponsiveGridLayout">
                <form:content>
                  <Label id="labelStreet" text="Street" />
                  <Text id="textStreet" text="{Supplier/Address}" />
                  <Label id="labelCity" text="City" />
                  <Text id="textCity" text="{Supplier/City}" />
                  <Label id="labelRegion" text="Region" />
                  <Text id="textRegion" text="{Supplier/Region}" />
                  <Label id="labelCountry" text="Country" />
                  <Text id="textCountry" text="{Supplier/Country}" />
                  <Label id="labelCode" text="Postal Code" />
                  <Text id="textCode" text="{Supplier/PostalCode}" />
                </form:content>
              </form:SimpleForm>
              <form:SimpleForm id="formContact" title="Contact" editable="false" layout="ResponsiveGridLayout">
                <form:content>
                  <Label id="labelTitle" text="Title" />
                  <Text id="textTitle" text="{Supplier/ContactTitle}" />
                  <Label id="labelContactName" text="Name" />
                  <Text id="textContactName" text="{Supplier/ContactName}" />
                  <Label id="labelPhone" text="Phone" />
                  <Text id="textPhone" text="{Supplier/Phone}" />
                  <Label id="labelFax" text="Fax" />
                  <Text id="textFax" text="{Supplier/Fax}" />
                </form:content>
              </form:SimpleForm>
            </uxap:blocks>
          </uxap:ObjectPageSubSection>
        </uxap:subSections>
      </uxap:ObjectPageSection>
      <uxap:ObjectPageSection id="pageSesctionCategory" title="Category">
        <uxap:subSections>
          <uxap:ObjectPageSubSection id="subSectionCategory" title="">
            <uxap:blocks>
              <form:SimpleForm id="formCategory" editable="false" layout="ResponsiveGridLayout">
                <form:content>
                  <Label id="labelCategoryName" text="Name" />
                  <Text id="textCategoryName" text="{Category/CategoryName}" />
                  <Label id="labelCategoryDescription" text="Description" />
                  <Text id="textCategoryDescription" text="{Category/Description}" />
                  <Label id="labelPicture" text="Picture" />
                  <Image id="imageCategory" src="{ path : 'Category/Picture', formatter : '.trimSuperfluousBytes' }" width="150px" height="150px" />
                </form:content>
              </form:SimpleForm>
            </uxap:blocks>
          </uxap:ObjectPageSubSection>
        </uxap:subSections>
      </uxap:ObjectPageSection>
    </uxap:sections>
  </uxap:ObjectPageLayout>
</mvc:View>

You probably noticed empty fields that do not show data yet.

1. Most of the fields are empty because they are bound to properties of navigation entities like the “Supplier”. The data is missing because you didn’t specify that these entities should be expanded during the binding of the view.

   Update the binding definition, to expand the suppliers and categories, in the _onRouteMatched method of the controller uimodule/webapp/controller/ProductDetail.controller.js.

   _onRouteMatched: function (oEvent) {
     const iProductId = oEvent.getParameter("arguments").productId;
     const oView = this.getView();
     oView.bindElement({
       path: "/Products(" + iProductId + ")",
       parameters: {
         expand: "Supplier,Category"
       },
       events: {
         dataRequested: function () {
           oView.setBusy(true);
         },
         dataReceived: function () {
           oView.setBusy(false);
         }
       }
     });
   },
   

2. Now the only “picture” field should be the empty one. The field is still empty, as we need to add a custom formatter, to deal with a quirk of the Northwind image encoding.

   Add this formatter after the markAsFav method to complete the controller.

   trimSuperfluousBytes: function (sVal) { // background info https://blogs.sap.com/2017/02/08/displaying-images-in-sapui5-received-from-the-northwind-odata-service/
     if (typeof sVal === "string") {
       const sTrimmed = sVal.substr(104);
       return "data:image/bmp;base64," + sTrimmed;
     }
     return sVal;
   },
   

3. The view should now look like displayed here.

   

In this step, we add hierarchy information to the Shellbar to enable fast navigation shortcuts.

1. Add a method to the uimodule/webapp/controller/BaseController.js which we’ll use to interface the hierarchy feature of the Shellbar. Note that we use a JavaScript closure to store the history. Add this method after the onNavBack method.

   addHistoryEntry: (function() {
     let aHistoryEntries = [];
   
     return function(oEntry, bReset) {
       if (bReset) {
         aHistoryEntries = [];
       }
   
       var bInHistory = aHistoryEntries.some(function(oHistoryEntry) {
         return oHistoryEntry.intent === oEntry.intent;
       });
   
       if (!bInHistory) {
         aHistoryEntries.unshift(oEntry);
         this.getOwnerComponent().getService("ShellUIService").then(function(oService) {
           oService.setHierarchy(aHistoryEntries);
         });
       }
     };
   })(),
   

   Note that this implementation is used to display the history instead of the hierarchy of pages.

2. In the previous sub-step we used the ShellUIService which is not loaded by default. Change this in the uimodule/webapp/manifest.json and add a new configuration in the sap.ui5 property after the models section.

   {
     "sap.app": {},
     "sap.ui": {},
     "sap.ui5": {
       "models": {},
       "services": {
         "ShellUIService": {
           "factoryName": "sap.ushell.ui5service.ShellUIService",
           "lazy": false,
           "settings": {
             "setTitle": "auto"
           }
         }
       },
     }
   }
   

3. Add a new history item when the controller of the list view (uimodule/webapp/controller/Products.controller.js) is initialized.

   onInit : function () {
     this.addHistoryEntry({
       title: "All Products",
       icon: "sap-icon://product",
       intent: "#display-uimodule"
     }, true);
   },
   

4. Add a new history item when the product detail page has been loaded. Change the dataReceived hook inside the _onRouteMatched method.

   _onRouteMatched: function (oEvent) {
     const iProductId = oEvent.getParameter("arguments").productId;
     const oView = this.getView();
     oView.bindElement({
       path: "/Products(" + iProductId + ")",
       parameters: {
         expand: "Supplier,Category"
       },
       events: {
         dataRequested: function () {
           oView.setBusy(true);
         },
         dataReceived: function () {
           oView.setBusy(false);
           this.addHistoryEntry({
             title: "Product - " + oView.getBindingContext().getProperty("ProductName"),
             icon: "sap-icon://product",
             intent: "#display-uimodule&/Product/" + iProductId
           });
         }.bind(this)
       }
     });
   },
   

Click on the name of the Fiori App to see the hierarchy menu in action.