An SAP Consultant: SAP Web Dynpro ABAP Layouts

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

SAP Web Dynpro ABAP Layouts

The layout is used to arrange the UI elementss within the parent container. The node ROOTUIELEMENTCONTAINER is the root UI element and all the UI elements within a view are children of this root container. It is of TransparentContainer type and has initially assigned to it the FlowLayout layout.

Flow Layout

Left to right, across the screen

Grid Layout

Arranged by number of columns (e.g.colCount = 4)

Matrix Layout

Number of columns not fixed. Eachelement can be specified for which rowand which column.Need to specify new row items.(MatrixHeadData)

Row Layout

Row by row.Need to specify new row items.(RowHeadData)

Frame Layout