SAP CRM Web UI: Configuration, Application & Enhancement Tools

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Last Updated: 26 January 2021

Buttons on Web UI page Lets study them below

1. Configurable Area : This highlights the area in screen that are configurable
2. Configure page : This opens the pop-up to configure the current page:

Configuration View for Work Centre page

1. Personalization
   1. With this, user can set own layout of the view
   2. This affects individual user and not applicable to whole application

1. Print Page : To take print out of current page

• In order to create a new layout, it is possible to use "New" button to create a blank form
  • Also you can use copy the existing configuration and then modify it as required
• Web UI Configuration Tool supports drag-n-drop feature to add the fields to the layout
• It also provides ability to set different properties of a field
• In few cases, implementations of these enhancements also include ABAP programming in the Web UI Components

• A configuration is identified with a unique combination of following fields:
  • Role Configuration Key
  • Component Usage
  • Object Type
  • Object Subtype
• Depending upon different combination there can multiple configurations available for a view
• Selecting a row in this assignment block updates the "Current configuration design" to show the layout designed under selected configuration

• Buttons to work on configuration (see above screenshot): These are the buttons to modify the "Current configuration design" for selected configuration in "Available Configurations"
  1. Add Caption: With button it is possible to add the caption on the Form view in an overview page
  2. Add Line: This button appends a row in the "Current configuration design" area
  3. Move Up: This button is to move a selected field one row above its current row
  4. Move Down: This button is to move a selected field one row below its current row
  5. Show Available Fields:(Fig. 3) it shows all the fields that are available to be added to the layout so that it is visible on the application
  6. Show Field Properties:(Fig. 3) it shows you can see and set properties of the field selected on the layout
  7. In edit mode, it is possible to modify some of these properties

Configuration View for Form View in Overview Page – II

• This tool supports addition or removal of fields (available in the data dictionary) from the view layout
• With this tool it is not possible to add the fields into the data dictionary structures and tables such that they reflect in your CRM.
• Configuration screen for table view has a different layout, where user needs to set the available columns and properties of these columns

Configuration View for Table View

Security Concerns

•  End users should not have access to perform these settings in the configuration tool. Only super users or developers are provided with these roles
• Any change made is visible to all the users accessing the application
• On top of the changes implemented in the UI Configuration tool, end users can do settings for personalization of the view. Personalization settings are applicable to the individual user and are not shared among the end users
• As per the requirement, personalization can be controlled within the customizing settings
  • This means that there are customizing settings with which developers can restrict users from personalization of the views
  • After applying this setting, personalization button will not be available for the end users

Application Enhancement Tool (AET)

• Application Enhancement Tool is a comprehensive tool for the enhancement of the SAP standard applications such that the modifications till the database level are implemented by the tool itself and there is almost no coding effort.
• This tool is also integrated with the Web UI Configuration tool.

Configuration area highlighted on clicking the button

• Similar to the UI Configuration tool, first you need to select the configurable area (highlighted in blue) from the application

• This will open UI Configuration tool in the same window as shown below
  We need to select a relevant button for AET enhancements (highlighted above)
  • Display Enhancements: Enables you to see already existing enhancements. It is possible to select an enhancement and to modify it
  • "Create Field" button can be used to create a new field in the select view

  Following is the display of existing field and table enhancements: