Hierarchy
SAP_UI (Software Component) User Interface Technology⤷
BC-MUS-LP (Application Component) Launchpad⤷
APB_LAUNCHPAD (Package) Launchpad (generic functions)
IMG Activity
| ID | LPD_CUST | Set Up Launchpads |
| Transaction Code | S_B20_88000165 | (empty) |
| Created on | 20061019 | |
| Customizing Attributes | LPD_CUST | Set Up Launchpads |
| Customizing Activity | LPD_CUST | Set Up Launchpads |
Document
| Document Class | SIMG | Hypertext: Object Class - Class to which a document belongs. |
| Document Name | LPD_CUST |
Use
In this IMG activity, you define the applications (links to reports, transactions, URLs and so on) for the service Launchpad (ABAP).
You can find additional information depending on the ERP release in the SAP library under SAP ERP Central Component -> Business Packages (Portal Content) -> Business Package for Common Parts -> iViews -> Launchpad (ABAP).
Requirements
Standard settings
Activities
You can create, change or delete Launchpads.
To create new launchpads, you can copy launchpads, including those from other systems. To do this, choose Launchpad -> Import from Other System using RFC. If you do not enter an RFC destination, you receive a list of launchpads that exist in this system.
With a Launchpad, you can directly assign all applications to the highest node. Alternatively, you can split up a Launchpad by creating new folders. In the portal, the folders serve as headers for the links to the applications.
Choose New Folder. Enter a text for the new folder and choose Enter. The folder is added below the highest node.
To create applications, select either the highest node or the folder under which you want to create your applications and choose New Application.
Select the Application Category. Depending on this selection, other input fields are displayed with which you can define or select the parameters of the application.
If you want to enter a Description, to be displayed in the portal under the link, choose:
@0Q@ with quick info text Editor for the Description.
For applications of some application categories (for example, transactions), when you start you can transfer parameter values from the calling application (such as a floor plan manager application that uses the launchpad) to the application to be started. If the technical names of the parameters to be transferred are different, you have to enter both names in a mapping table, so that on starting the value from the calling application can be transferred to the correct parameter in the application to be started. When creating this kind of application, choose the pushbutton Parameter Mapping. First enter the technical name of the parameter in the calling application, optionally with a description, and then the technical name of the parameter in the application that you are creating. If, under Extras -> Source Parameters, you have already entered the parameters available for the transfer, then these are made available in the first column of the mapping table as an input help for whenever you create an application.
If the field System Alias is displayed when you choose the application category, you have to enter a System Alias.
Using the Find pushbutton, you can search for all applications in all existing launchpads and transfer them to your launchpad. The prerequisite for this search function is that you have on one occasion executed program APB_LPD_UPDATE_SEARCH_TABLE.
The folder Inactive Applications is used to collect the applications that are to be available in the portal, but are not to be displayed. These applications are displayed in the portal in a table that the user can view when changing the launchpad settings.
If you transport the launchpad, you receive two transport requests:
- Customizing request: contains all of the launchpad settings.
- Workbench request: contains all of the launchpad texts (folder names, link texts and descriptions that are to be displayed in the portal under the relevant links).
You have to transport both requests.
If you want to translate the launchpad texts (folder names, link texts and descriptions for the applications), choose first Launchpad -> Text Key. The system displays an information message with the prefix of the technical name under which it stores the texts. You can find additional information on how you translate these texts in the long text of the message displayed.
The launchpad you created is stored in the customer name space. If you have changed a launchpad delivered by SAP, you can display the original SAP version of this launchpad located in the SAP namespace, by choosing Extras -> SAP Version on/off. This means the structure of the SAP launchpad is displayed in addition, and you can drag applications from this structure to your structure.
Under Extras -> General Settings you can choose whether the user can call all iViews with object-based navigation that are in the roles assigned to him, or only those iViews that are available in the role in which he is working when he calls them up.
Example
Business Attributes
| ASAP Roadmap ID | 207 | Establish Reporting |
| Mandatory / Optional | 2 | Optional activity |
| Critical / Non-Critical | 2 | Non-critical |
| Country-Dependency | A | Valid for all countries |
Assigned Application Components
| Documentation Object Class | Documentation Object Name | Current line number | Application Component | Application Component Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SIMG | LPD_CUST | 0 | WX60000002 | Portal Content |
Maintenance Objects
| Maintenance object type | C | Customizing Object |
| Assigned objects | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Customizing Object | Object Type | Transaction Code | Sub-object | Do not Summarize | Skip Subset Dialog Box | Description for multiple selections |
| APB_LPD_GEN | T - Individual transaction object | LPD_CUST |
History
| Last changed by/on | SAP | 20061019 |
| SAP Release Created in | 710 |
