1. In the menu bar for the Web Application Designer, choose View → Reusable Web Items if you have not opened the Reusable Web Items window.
2. Choose <context menu> → Open Reusable Web Item in the Reusable Web Items screen area. This brings you to theOpen Reusable Web Item dialog box.
3. Select the Web item you want to open in the history view, favorites view, or role view and choose Open. The Web item appears in the Reusable Web Items screen area.
4. Move the Web item using Drag&Drop into your Web template.
Additional Context Menu Functions
The following additional functions are available from the context menu of a reusable Web item:
● Open Reusable Web Item
If you choose Open Reusable Web Item, you can show the additional reusable Web items in the screen area.
● Close Reusable Web Item
If you choose Close Reusable Web Item, the selected Web Item is hidden in the Reusable Web Items screen area.
● Change Web Item
If you choose Change Web Item, the Maintain Reusable Web Item <Name of Web Item> dialog box appears. Here you can change the parameter settings for the selected Web item. See also: “Change Reusable Web Items” section.
● Delete Web Item
If you choose Delete Web Item, the selected Web item is deleted as a reusable Web item and cannot be recovered. You are only able to delete reusable Web items if these Web items are not already being used in Web templates.
Changing Reusable Web Items
Any changes that you make to settings of the reusable Web item (as described above) have a global effect. This means that the changes are effective in all saved Web templates, in which you use the Web item concerned. This does not apply to Web templates in which you
changed the parameters of a reusable Web item locally. In this case, the settings that you make locally are effective.
If you want to change the settings in a reusable Web item locally, (that is, in a specific Web template in which you are using this Web item), proceed as follows:
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1. Open the Web template.
2. Select the reusable Web item in the Web template.
3. Change the parameters of this Web item on the Web Item Parameters tab page in the Properties screen area.
4. Save the Web template.
The changes that you have made to the reusable Web item apply only in this Web template.
The parameter settings of the reusable Web item are not affected by the changes.
Special Features for the Web Item Chart
If you try to overwrite the parameters of a Chart Web item that you have saved as a reusable Web item locally, the Create Local Chart Settings? dialog box appears. Here you are told that you are about to overwrite the settings for a reusable Web item locally.
● If you choose Yes, the Edit Graphic dialog box appears.
To change the parameters for the chart locally, reset the chart parameters and close the Edit Graphic dialog box by choosing OK.
If you close the Edit Graphic dialog box by choosing Cancel, no local chart parameter settings are created. The reusable Web items settings are still effective.
● If you choose No or Cancel, no changes to the saved chart parameter settings are made.
4.1.1.4 Web Design API Purpose
The Business Explorer Web Application Design allows you to apply generic OLAP navigation to BI data in Web applications and Business Intelligence cockpits. You can implement this for all scenarios, from simple scenarios to highly specialized scenarios. You can use standard markup languages and Web Design APIs to implement highly individual scenarios with user-defined interface elements. Web application design comprises a broad spectrum of interactive Web-based business intelligence scenarios that you can adjust to meet your requirements using standard Web technologies.
This document is intended for Web designers who want to create highly-specialized applications on the basis of Web application design.
Integration
You can access BI data in Web applications using a Web browser. This is usually installed with the operating system . No additional software installation is required.
Features
The Web Design API provides the following functions:
● Creating commands for data providers, planning applications, Web items and Web templates.
● Parameterization of Web items
● The main tool for generating the commands is the command wizard [Page 222] of the BEx Web Application Designer The command wizard enables you to easily create commands using a step-by-step procedure.
4.1.1.4.1 Web Items
Definition
Web items are objects that either display data in a Web application or are used to design Web applications. These objects are replaced by generated HTML at runtime.
Web items that display data must be connected to a data provider.
All Web items have parameters such as header, width, and height, which can be used to define the appearance of the Web items, as well as their behavior in the Web application. You can change the parameters as follows:
● At design time, in the Web Application Designer using the parameter settings
● At runtime, in Web applications using the property dialogs for the Web item, or using commands from the Web Design API
If the data, the navigational state, or the parameters change, the HTML for the Web item is regenerated.
Structure
The following section lists the Web items available in the BEx Web Application Designer, separated into different groups:
Web Item Grouping: Standard
● Analysis [Page 56]
● Chart [Page 61]
● Report [Page 66]
● Navigation Pane [Page 68]
● Filter Pane [Page 70]
● Button Group [Page 72]
● Dropdown Box [Page 75]
● Radio Button Group [Page 83]
● Checkbox Group [Page 85]
● Listbox [Page 88]
● Hierarchical Filter Selection [Page 90]
Web Item Grouping: Advanced
● Web Template [Page 94]
● Container Layout [Page 94]
● Container [Page 97]
● Tab Pages [Page 98]
● Group [Page 101]
● Single Document [Page 103]
● Document List [Page 106]
● Map [Page 109]
● System Messages [Page 145]
● Information Field [Page 146]
Web Item Grouping: Miscellaneous
● Data Provider - Information [Page 150]
● Text [Page 151]
● Link [Page 154]
● List of Exceptions [Page 155]
● List of Conditions [Page 157]
● Menu Bar [Page 159]
● Properties Pane [Page 165]
● Ticker [Page 164]
● Context Menu [Page 170]
● Script [Page 173]
Integration
The Web items above are available as master Web items [External] in the Web Items window in the BEx Web Application Designer. You choose a master Web item from the list, assign a data provider to the Web item, if necessary, and set the parameters. You have now created your own Web item, which you can add to your Web template or save for later use.