Use Case:

• You want to open a web page inside your BI Application without opening in a new window or overwriting your BI App state in your current page

Approach:

I wrote a small Browser Popup Component to help.

Design-Time Properties:

• URL: URL of Site.  Can also be set at runtime with setURL()
• Open Method:
  • Modal Browser Dialog – Opens up URL in an embedded IFRAME contained in a modal sap.m.Dialog window.
  • New Window – Does basically the same thing that APPLICATION.newWindow does.
• Show Button (true/false): By default, you will get a button for this component to launch the URL, however if you’d rather use BIAL to open it via a different component, you can hide it.
• Button Icon: Icon of Button (optional)
• Button Text: Text of Button (optional)
• Button Type: Different styles of sap.m buttons – Details here: (JsDoc Report – SAP UI development Toolkit for HTML5 – API Reference – sap.m.ButtonType)
• Modal Browser Title: Title of Modal Dialog Box (optional)
• Modal Browser Icon: Icon for the Modal Dialog Box (optional)
• Show Modal Browser Title (true/false): Save some screen real-estate by hiding, if you wish.
• Show Modal Browser Close Button (true/false): Show Close Button to close modal window (Escape key will also close) – Perhaps useful to leave on for Mobile devices (I have NOT tested this in BI Mobile, FYI)
• Modal Browser Width (CSS px or %): Width of Modal Browser
• Modal Browser Height (CSS px or %): Height of Modal Browser

BIAL Methods:

• click() – Used to invoke click method of the button if it’s been set as invisible.  Useful if you want to open the URL from say another component.  (e.g. BUTTON_1 click event could be as follows:)

  BROWSERPOPUP_1.click();

• setURL(url) – Sets the URL to be used.
• getURL() – Gets the URL

And, now some pictures:

Design-Time example:

At runtime, after clicking.  I threw in a link to w3schools.com just to demonstrate how you could link in-app help that may reside elsewhere on a different corporate intranet site:

Also as a second example of how you could potentially use this within your BI Platform, you could possibly use an OpenDocument link and embed/change it depending on the report you want to drill into.  Example BIAL on my LaunchPad tile select event:

And at runtime upon clicking a tile (Real report, enjoy some trippy gaussian blur effect instead 🙂 ):

This has been updated in my Utility Pack that you can download and get source code here:

Design Studio 1.2/1.3 SDK – Design Studio Utility Pack

Have fun!