Adding Custom Control under ‘App Settings’ of a FIORI/UI5 App

Hi All,

Introduction:

Sometimes there are scenarios when you need to provide a feature in your app, which is only relevant for a small set of End-Users of the App.

Also, this feature could be like a one-time configuration or a switch which means the user will not be using it frequently.

Such kind of feature shouldn’t be directly made available to End-Users of the App as it may not be relevant for everyone because of above reasons & also the real estate could be utilized for something important.

Recently I came across such a situation and have used the below approach 🙂

Preview:

This is how a custom control in App Settings would look like

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Implementation:

You can use ‘onAfterRendering‘ or ‘onInit‘ method of the controller file of your default view, add the below code

onInit: function () {
	var oRenderer = sap.ushell.Container.getRenderer("fiori2"),
                oAddActionButtonProperties = {
                    controlType: "sap.m.Button",
                    oControlProperties: {
                        id: "exampleButton",
                        text: "Blog Example Button",
                        icon: "sap-icon://refresh",
                        press: function () {
                            alert("Example Button was pressed!");
                        }
                    },
                    bIsVisible: true,
                    bCurrentState: true
                };
            oRenderer.addUserAction(oAddActionButtonProperties);
}

Result:

Run the App & you should see the button under ‘App Settings’.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions or feedback.

Thanks,

Shubham