ALV Tables are most preferred way to display when you have large amount of data to be displayed in tabular format due its flexibility and numerous features. However developing applications with ALV Tables in Webdynpro are perceived more difficult than the startdard Table element of Web Dynpro ABAP. Let’s see how to create a simple ALV Table with minimum options and code to understand the basics of ALV.

Integrating two different applications in Web Dynpro ABAP is quite a challenging task. Most of the time we choose to integrate applications by making component usage of one component in another. But sometimes this becomes a tedious task, especially when both component are dependent on each other. Here we are going to see an alternative option which is redirecting URL by using Suspend, Resume & Exit plugs.

Text symbols are one of the great and most used feature in ABAP. It is very helpful when it comes to internationalization of your application and also manages all your text at one place. ‘Is this feature available in Web Dynpro?’ Yes indeed, but it seems Web Dynpro has complicated accessing it. So this article is all about creating a simple application that gets the text from Text Symbols and places the text in a caption.

Creating customized menu for right click is always cool and creating such menu’s in Web Dynpro ABAP is quite easy. In this article we are going to see creating context menu for a TextEdit UI element which has to be filled with the text ‘Hello World’ on clicking an action in the menu.

Whenever we want to create a Table UI dynamically, we go to CREATE_TABLE_FROM_NODE method of CL_WD_DYNAMIC_TOOLS (see here. However in some cases we want the Table to be very much customized. For example, you may need to create a Table UI bounded to only three attributes of a node which already has four attributes and you may also want to represent each column with different UI element. ‘Yes, situations like this are there’. If you are making a service call, it will create a set of context nodes in the component controller. Now if you want to create a table dynamically and bind it to an already existing node, where you don’t want all the fields to be bound.

Many a time you come across a situation of creating a Table UI dynamically. Especially, when you want to create Table UI based on certain conditions which will be known only during the run time. However, Table is not a simple element, it comprises of Columns, Cell Editors and Popins. To make our job simple, SAP has provided a built in method to create a simple table which can only display data. In this article we are going to use this method to create a Table UI dynamically.

Google Maps integration with Web Dynpro ABAP is one of the most sought out thing. There are a lot of possible ways to this. Google is providing many ways to access map data and we are going to use static maps for this tutorial.

SAP Web Dynpro ABAP is an excellent tool to create huge data related applications easily and efficiently. However most of the time we create applications that has predefined screen design. So most of the people are quite unaware about manipulating UI elements dynamically. But Web Dynpro indeed has the capability to do anything dynamically. It is a perfect Object Oriented System just like Java Swing or .NET’s Forms. I would like to give a brief introduction on creating UI elements dynamically.

Few days back I wrote the blog Star Rating Display Component which can be used to show the average rating of an item. Now in this document I wish to share you how to create a reusable star rating input component through which we can give rating to items by just clicking on stars.

Most of the time ratings are expressed in terms of stars, which is more appealing and easy to interpret. I came across a similar situation and I developed a reusable component to show star rating.

Web Dynpro has been provided with lots of tools to make the development easier. When we want to create applications in which UI elements has to be created dynamically and processed dynamically, we have to go a little deeper i.e., we have to use the OO classes of the UI elements.

Timer is a very essential UI element in many applications and creating a timer in Web Dynpro ABAP seems to be a little critical task in the versions prior to NetWeaver 7.1 where Island technologies are not allowed and only Iframe is available. Recently, I got an acquaintance with this problem and I ended up at a solution which I wish to share here as it would be useful for many. My solution uses Iframe and Javascript to create a timer. However, there are two of the main problem that one can face. One is the TimedTrigger component itself. It fires an action at every n second from when the previous action was fired but not from the start of execution of the application. Second, refreshing the Iframe will reload the HTML page resulting in resetting the timer. I have tried to provide a solution for both here.