This blog summarizes some of the new and changed features of SAP Fiori launchpad in User Interface Add-On SPS10 for SAP NetWeaver.
End User Experience
Personalizing the Home Page on Smartphones
Smartphone personalization of the homepage is now supported and is behaving the same as on tablets. You can now:
Hiding and Showing groups on the Homepage
You can hide groups on the home page, according to your needs. A hidden group does not display on the home page, in the group panel, and in the "Add Tile to Groups" dialog in the tile catalog. For more details check out the Help Portal documentation.
On this image you see, that a new "Hide Groups" entry was added to the action sheet on the homepage:
When users click on "Hide Groups", they will see a list of groups. The users can choose, if a group is hidden or visible (please click on image for better reading):
The hiding of groups can be enabled or disabled via the launchpad configuration. By default it is disabled.
Saving a Tile to a Specific Group
Users are now able - when saving an app as a tile - to select the group on the home page, to which to add the tile. The default group is My Home.
User Preferences
In the Options menu, the "login details" item has been renamed to User Preferences. The User Preferences dialog displays the theme that is in use.
When this option is enabled, it is possible to change the theme by selecting a different one from the list. For more details on the procedure, check out the Help Portal documentation.
Configuration
Dynamic Launchpad Configuration
Launchpad configuration files allow you to configure the launchpad in various ways, like:
The configuration is defined in a JSON file that is loaded on startup of the launchpad. For more details, check out the Help Portal documentation.
Translating Custom Tiles, Catalogs, and Groups
Administrators can update or delete tile catalogs and groups that are available in several languages only in one language. This is to ensure that an administrator does not delete a translation by mistake. For more details check out the Help Portal documentation.
Running the Launchpad in Headerless Mode
It is now possible to run the launchpad in headerless mode. In this mode homepage personalization options are either not available or disabled. This mode can be used, for example, when integrating the launchpad with SAP Enterprise Portal or with the SAP NetWeaver Business Client.
Performance
Performance was improved in the following areas:
Extensibility
APIs are provided to extend the SAP Fiori launchpad.
Add a Custom Tile Type
In the Fiori Launchpad Designer there are four standard tile types available: static and dynamic app launcher, news tile and target mapping. It is now possible to add custom tile types. As prerequisites the chip.xml needs to be registered per custom tile type in the chip repository via the SAPGUI transaction /UI2/CHIP. And the Fiori catalog containing the standard tile types needs to be enhanced (click on image for better reading):
Implementing a Custom Launchpad UI
You can implement a custom user interface for the launchpad. You create a custom UI that extends sap.ui.core.UIComponent and includes a SAPUI5 view. For more information about the procedure, check out the Help Portal documentation.
For more information see:
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