Floor Plan Manager Learning & Exercises

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Floor Plan Manager
Date: 21st July 2013 (Optional client

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Introductions
Vijay Chaitanya Raju P.

IBM Hyderabad
Senior Technical Consultant - SAP
6.2 years with SAP , ABAP.Webui

Course Objectives
Upon completing this course, you should be able to:

Use Floor plan manager (FPM)
Enhance standard FPM applications
Use FLUID (Flexible UI Designer)
Use Generic User Interface Building Blocs (GUIBBs)
Enhance & Extend FPM toolbars

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Course Content Duration
Module 1: Introduction to FPM
Module 2: Enhancing FPM Toolbar
Module 3: Generic user interface building blocks (GUIBBs) with Feeder Class
Module 4: Navigation in FPM & Sharing data using Wiring
Module 5: Advanced FPM

Course Title
Course Title:
Module 1 : Introduction to FPM
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Module Objectives
At the completion of this chapter you

should be able to:
Use Floor plan manager (FPM)
Complete the case study 1 at the end of
the module

Module 1: Introduction to FPM
Knowledge of ABAP OO and Web Dynpro for ABAP is assumed.

Floor Plan Manager
Floorplan Manager (FPM) is a Web Dynpro ABAP standard application that

provides an architecture for developing new Web Dynpro ABAP application
interfaces consistent with SAP UI guidelines. FPM currently provides an
architecture for creating and configuring user interfaces with the following
floorplans:
Object Instance Floorplan (OIF) -- Tabbed structure

Overview Page Floorplan (OVP) -- Complete overview
Guided Activity Floorplan (GAF) -- Roadmap
Quick Activity Floorplan (QAF) -- Flavor of OIF

Floor Plan Manager : Advantages

Floor Plan Manager
The following floorplan areas can be configured using the FPM configuration
editor:
Identification Region (IDR)
Message Region (MR)
Context Navigation Region (CNR)
Application specific user interface building blocks(UIBBs) which are

component dependent can be enhanced by the FPM framework as well as
freestyle UIBBs which are referred to as Generic user interface building
blocks(GUIBBs)
FPM allows for modification-free customer adaptations. modification-free
customer adaptations.

Floor Plan Manager : Sample screen

IF_FPM_UI_BUILDING_BLOCK Interface
IF_FPM_UI_BUILDING_BLOCK Interface
This interface enables the Web Dynpro application implementing it to register
itself for FPM actions and events.
The important methods of this interface are mentioned below:

FLUSH
NEEDS_CONFIRMATION
PROCESS_EVENT
PROCESS_BEFORE_OUTPUT

IF_FPM_UI_BUILDING_BLOCK Interface methods & use
FLUSH
The foremost method called after the FPM processing has been started.
Used to pass runtime modified data between views and components that are
involved in the FPM event sequence.
Generally no specific implementation of this is required unless we are looking
to pass data that is already not passed automatically.

NEEDS_CONFIRMATION
An important standard FPM feature is to avoid data loss on navigation from

current UIBB.
FPM uses this method from the building block interface to any such data loss
danger by stopping the next in line event triggering.
Based on the follow up action taken by the user on the data loss popup,
subsequent event processing is either continued or terminated.

PROCESS_EVENT
In this method we can handle the event that has been triggered on the UIBB or
GUIBB.
The importing parameter IO_EVENT of type ref to CL_FPM_EVENT captures

the event id.


PROCESS_BEFORE_OUTPUT
This is the last method that is called before the view metadata is shown to the user .
We can perform various tasks like changing toolbar dynamically etc. in this one to effect
frontend changes before the view is rendered.

Floor Plan Manager
Case Study 1
Microsoft Word
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Course Title
Course Title:
Module 2 : Enhancing FPM Toolbar
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Module Objectives

should be able to:
Enhance FPM Toolbar.
this module.

FPM Toolbar
FPM allows you to construct toolbars according to the latest SAP conventions
and standards.
FPM allows you to configure the following toolbar elements:
Standard function buttons
Buttons / Button Choices
UIBB / GUIBB specific buttons

FPM Toolbar : Using FLUID screen to enhance std. FPM
FLUID is the configuration editing tool for FPM application configurations and
their application specific components i.e UIBBs and also GUIBBs.
FLUID can be used to edit application specific UIBBs and GUIBBs through
their component configurations.

FPM Toolbar : Structure of FLUID
Navigation &
Repositories Work Area
Attributes Panel

FPM Toolbar
Case Study 2
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Course Title
Course Title:
Module 3 : Generic User Interface
Building Blocks(GUIBBs) with Feeder
class
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Module Objectives

should be able to:
Work with & enhance GUIBBs
this module.

Generic User Interface Buiding Blocks(GUIBBs)
Generic user interface building blocks that are skeletal templates for data to
be shown based on the type of GUIBB chosen. Data building in a GUIBB is
only done at runtime i.e while working statically on a GUIBB view one would
not be able to view any UI information.
Some of the most commonly used GUIBBs are :
Form components (WD component: FPM_FORM_UIBB_GL2 )
List components (WD component: FPM_LIST_UIBB)
Hierarchical List (Tree) component (WD component: FPM_TREE_UIBB)
POWL component (WD component: FPM_POWL_UIBB)

Feeder Classes used in GUIBBs
A feeder class can be defined as a information / data providing template for the
underlying GUIBB.
The field catalogue of a GUIBB is defined in the GET_DEFINITION method of a
feeder class.
The GET_DATA method reads from the model to accumulate all information that
needs to be displayed in a GUIBB.
All feeder classes should inherit one of the following interfaces to communicate with
their assigned GUIBB :
IF_FPM_GUIBB_FORM
IF_FPM_GUIBB_LIST
IF_FPM_GUIBB_SEARCH
IF_FPM_GUIBB_TREE etc.

Generic User Interface Buiding Blocks(GUIBBs)
Case Study 3
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Module 4: Navigation in FPM & Sharing
data using Wiring
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Module Objectives

should be able to:
Work with custom navigation tasks
Work with sharing data between UIBBs
via Wiring concept.

Navigation in FPM
Navigation in FPM based applications can be handled via the event loop in
the method : IF_FPM_UI_BUILDING_BLOCK~Process_Event.
For example in a GAF FPM environment these are the navigation events that
are triggered on click of the standard GAF buttons Previous & Next:
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Navigation in FPM
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Navigation in FPM
Case Study 4
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Sharing data using Wiring

Wiring :
The purpose of a wiring is to transfer data from one UIBB to another UIBB.
It also ensures a PROCESS_BEFORE_OUTPUT sequence according to this hierarchy.
While working with GUIBBs the only thing the FPM application has to perform is to create the wires in the
Floorplan configuration.
Unlike its GUIBB counterpart when it comes to UIBBs we need to perform the following steps to successfully
execute wiring:
* The component hosting the UIBB must implement the Interface : IF_FPM_UIBB_MODEL .
* This action will in turn add the method GET_MODEL_API to the component method list.
* Now this method needs to be implemented so that it can be picked up by the factory class
/PLMU/CL_FRW_FACTORY.


A wire consists of the following parts:
Source UIBB : This is a webdynpro component that acts as the origin of the wiring process.
Target UIBB: The final target of a source/origin wire UIBB.
Connector Class: Is the interface between the source and the target UIBB.
Outport Specification
Outport Type : Again sub-divided based on the outport types:
Collection : Passes information from the source UIBB to the connector class.
Lead Selection : Passes information about the entry that has been selected in the source UIBB to the connector
class.
Selection : Passes information about complete data selected in the source UIBB to the connector class.

Case Study 5
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Course Title
Course Title:
Module 3 : Advanced FPM
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Module Objectives

should be able to:
Work with Personl Object
worklist(POWL)
this module.

Powerlist (POWL)
A generic design template for displaying data in a STANDARD POWL format.

It is implemented using the Web Dynpro component FPM_POWL_UIBB.
The information displayed in a Personal Object Worklist at runtime is determined by the settings in
the POWL interface, IF_POWL_FEEDER.
You use this design template in application-specific views (UIBB) when you want to display data in a
worklist format. You determine the concrete display of the data in a worklist when you configure the
Web Dynpro componentFPM_POWL_UIBB.
A POWLcomponent is comprised of the following objects:
Master List
The POWL component, FPM_POWL_UIBB, can be configured as a master list within any floorplan.
Detail View
All FPM UIBBs and GUIBBs can be configured as a detail view.
The detail view participates seamlessly in the FPM event loop.
You can configure a POWL component using the FPM configuration editor, FLUID.

Advanced FPM
Case Study 6
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