Monday, April 18, 2011

Combining SAP ABAP and Visual Composer

Wouldn't it be nice to combine the output from the quick design and code free modeling environment of Visual Composer with the output from a full coding environment like Web Dynpro ABAP or BSP? Actually you can do just such a thing thanks to Portal Eventing.

Let's take a look at just such an example.

 < br>Figure 1: Sample Application

What you see in Figure 1 is the final application running within the SAP NetWeaver Portal. There are two separate iViews within this page. The top iView is a Visual Composer created report. It is displaying summarized data from SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence combined with some details from SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management.

If you are interested in the inner workings of this Visual Composer report and how it is accessing SAP NetWeaver MDM via the Java APIs, you can find a break down of this part of the application at - Extending Visual Composer through Web Services Vol. 1.

The second iView is actually a Web Dynpro ABAP Component. The purpose of this iView is to show additional details about the selected record. It reads these details from SAP MDM using the ABAP APIs.

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