Dynamic Fiori Launchpad Tile Explained
I came across a number of resources that explain Dynamic Fiori Launchpad Tile creation. They are missing some details or provide simplistic examples. In my blog I added clarity focusing on important aspects of implementation and provided more realistic example.
In my example the same OData Service is used to feed two dynamic tile and calculating values dynamically using CDS views.
As you can see from snapshot above there are two dynamic tiles. Left tile displays stock value and right one average product rating. Color coding is used for the values, for example, stock value ranged from 100 to 200 millions CAD is considered as good.
Lets see how it is implemented. To begin with, I defined ZDYN_TILE DDIC structure to provide information for dynamic tiles.
Next I used the above structure to define DYN_TILE entity of ZDYN_TILE_SRV_01 OData Service
I also implemented GetEntity method of DYN_TILESet Entity Set
Next created CDS views used in the method above
ZSNWD_PD_VALUE CDS View:
ZSNWD_PD_STOCK CDS View:
ZSNWD_PD CDS View:
ZSNWD_PD_RATING CDS View:
Tested ZDYN_TILE_SRV_01 OData Service for DYN_TILESet EntitySet GetEntity method for both keys: EPM Products Value and EPM Products Rating
And finally maintained EPM Products Value and EPM Products Rating Dynamic Tiles in Fiori Launchpad Designer
Service URLs for EPM Products Value Dynamic Tile:
/sap/opu/odata/SAP/ZDYN_TILE_SRV_01/DYN_TILESet(‘EPM Products Value’)/?$format=json
Service URL for EPM Products Rating Dynamic Tile:
/sap/opu/odata/SAP/ZDYN_TILE_SRV_01/DYN_TILESet(‘EPM Products Rating’)/?$format=json
Source code for this example can be downloaded from here:
Super blog . Very much useful .
Nice blog! I have tried this and have a few differences in what I see.
Firstly, when I debug the GET_ENTITY code I find that IT_KEY_TAB is sending through ‘Icon’ as the name field and not ‘Title’ as was contained in the above code. Would like to understand if I am missing something in the setup for this to happen.
Additionally, is there any other code that needs to be put in place for the GET_ENTITYSET method to support this?
I have carried out the above however I still have an error appearing and there is no number. I get a HTTP request 404 error. The scenario I have is from SAP Cloud Platform (not using Gateway) so wondering if there is something different required. You can see in below screenshot that the number does come through to the entity no problems so I am thinking it is the actual tile set up itself.
I have entered the following in the tile config -
https://gwaas-*/odata/SAP/ZGWS_TPP_POCONF_DYNAM_SRV/DynamicDataSet('PO CONFIRMATION TEST')/?$format=json
This is the error in the console.
ONFIRMATION TEST')/?$format=json: HTTP request failed - 404 Not Found - sap.ushell.components.tiles.applauncherdynamic.DynamicTile
Thanks
Phil
Thank you very much for the article. I can not manage this parameter to change the color of the tile.
The color of the tile is adapted according to the value of this property. The precise color depends on the theme that you have selected in UI theme designer.
Allowed values: Negative, Neutral, Positive, Critical
Vitaliy, please check that your system up to date on support packs. It should work.
SAP Fiori launchpad for software component SAP_UI 751, Fiori 2.0, SAPUI5 version: 1.44.1
Dear Uladzislau,
thank you for this great example. Maybe you can update your Git repository and use the abapGit format. It supports also DDLS.
Best regards
Gregor
Why doesn’t it work?
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Hi Mykola,
please check your entity key.
Regards, Uladzislau
I'm so sorry, but what do you mean?
I've chosen the key in my structure.
Mykola,
on your pic.1 OData Service Title property is equal to "EDMS (Empty)", but on pic. 2. you pass entity key "1" instead.
Regards, Uladzislau
HI Mykola Chekalov
the fields should be camelCase so Change the field name from “Numberstate” to “numberState”
“Tile” to “title” . it should work after that .
Regards,
Appu John
I have the same problem. We are also on UI5 version 1.44. Aditionally, if the Infostate is not ‘Neutral’ the tile doesn’t show any content value, only three dots ‘…’.
Hi Thomas Schreiber,
please check if the field names are same . it should be camelCase.
regards,
Appu John
Super useful blog, even after 4 years.
One question though, what's a safe refresh interval to use for updating dynamic tiles? I've set it to 2 seconds as per your example, but is that not going to put a lot of performance grind on the Launchpad if you have multiple dynamic tiles?
Thanks
Hi Ramin,
I usually take a conservative approach to keep performance impact at minimum setting refresh time something like every 1 hour (definitely longer then timeout). Users can refresh Fiori Launchpad at any time anyway.
Regards, Uladzislau
Thank you very much for the publication. My question is the following: Is it possible to bring a lot of dynamic tiles from the GET_ENTITYSET method?
The URI: /sap/opu/odata/sap/ZGWART_RESURTIDOV1_SRV/EnTyTileSet?$filter=Title eq 'Zona'
this brings me a lot of logs, but on the launchpad it only brings me a single tile
Hi Gianmarco,
it is possible to fill with data multiple dynamic tile using the same OData Service. See my blog for details.
Regards, Uladzislau
Hi Uladzislau,
thanks for this nice blog post. Today I have implemented your solution from your book with the more generic get_entity method and it worked like a charm. I had the little hope, that the dynamic tile also works in combination with a variant which is safed as a tile.
For example I have created an OVP on quality notifications with a dynamic tile with the key figure for number of notifications with status open. Now I create a variant with plant = 4711 and safe the variant as a new tile. Is there any way that the filter values of the saved variant are considered for the key figure of the new tile?
Kind regards,
Stefan
Hi Stefan,
I tried to fulfill similar requirements, but could not figured out a solution so far.
Regards, Uladzislau