Custom Component in WebUI as aWork center

Hello All ,
I am Working on 7.0 WebUI (in Marketing module )I have requirment to Create a Work Center When I click on this Work Center I Need to Display the Views Search ,create and report views to a component. Which looking similar to Market Work Centre where we can find all the Reports links under Report View . Here iam able to create these View i.e Search Create and Report but iam not able to display the logical links on it.I have assigned the Logical link to the WC followed the Standard procedure for adding a Logical link to the WC .Can anyone guide me in this regards.
Thanks in Advance.
Regards,
Kiran Posanapalli

Hi,
Create the Inbound Plugs for the Windows/Views of the custom component, and create the Target Ids for your components in
CRMC_UI_CMP_IP_T table. Now in SPRO, maintain the entries in the Work Area component repository. Create new logical link with new Target ID for your component and use the logical in the work center.
Regards,
S Reddy

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Hi,
Create the Inbound Plugs for the Windows/Views of the custom component, and create the Target Ids for your components in
CRMC_UI_CMP_IP_T table. Now in SPRO, maintain the entries in the Work Area component repository. Create new logical link with new Target ID for your component and use the logical in the work center.
Regards,
S Reddy

Custom component doesnt draw itself

Hey
Im relatively new to java, and especially to swing, heres the problem.
Im trying to make a custom component (extends JComponent).Ive overwridden the paintComponent() method. But when i make a new component and add it to JPanel, it isnt drawn, although i can see that the paintComponent() method of the component is indeed invoked: heres the short code:
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.event.MouseInputAdapter;
import javax.swing.*;
public class Test extends JFrame {
     static Test window;
     MouseOps mListener;
     JPanel drawingArea;
    public Test() {
          addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter() {
              public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) {
               System.exit(0);
          drawingArea = new JPanel();
          drawingArea.setBackground(Color.white);
          getContentPane().add(drawingArea, BorderLayout.CENTER);
          mListener = new MouseOps();
          drawingArea.addMouseListener(mListener);
          drawingArea.addMouseMotionListener(mListener);
     class MouseOps extends MouseInputAdapter{
          public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {
               int x = e.getX();
               int y = e.getY();
               TestComp comp = new TestComp(x, y);
               drawingArea.add(comp);
               drawingArea.validate();
               repaint();
     public static void main(String[] args) {
          window = new Test();
          window.setTitle("Test");
          window.setSize(450, 260);
          window.setVisible(true);
class TestComp extends JComponent {
     int x, y;
     TestComp(int x, int y){
          this.x = x;
          this.y = y;
     public void paintComponent (Graphics g) {
          super.paintComponent(g);
          g.setColor(Color.blue);
          g.drawRect(x, y, 30, 30);
          System.out.println("Should be drawn at: " + x + " " + y);
}

Your component has zero size. The passed in graphics instance has its clip set
to the components size, so you will never be able to draw anything.
So you have two choices:
* set the bounds of your component manually. To do this you will have to use
a null LayoutManager: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/layout/index.html
* or else do not use a separate component for each graphics object at all.
Use a single container that overrides paintComponent() and iterates itself
over the graphics objects and calls paint on them. Because the graphics
objects are much more lightweight this approach scales better and is usually
taken in graphics frameworks.
Stephen

Show a custom component on button click in a view stack`

Hello folks
I have a view stack in which i have some custom components.
Now there is one custom component in which there is one button. On the button click, i want to show another custom component but i dont know how to do it. Should i write the inline mxml click event in custom component?? If yes then how??
Currently i am doing it as
click="{customcomponent}"

As you know, ViewStack has containers, lilke VBox for its views.
Assuming one of your views VBox has an id of myVBox, and that VBox has the Button that when clicked will display the component, just have the component in the view already, but you can make it invisible with visible=false and includeInLayout=false, and then upon button click set those two variables to true.
You will probably want a show handler for the view VBox to make those properties false each time that view is displayed.
Here is some simple sample code.
If this post answers your question or helps, please mark it as such.
---------- MySimpleComponent.mxml ----------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:VBox xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
width="100%" height="100%" horizontalAlign="center">
<mx:Label text="My Custom Component"/>
</mx:VBox>
---------- MainApp.mxml ----------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
xmlns:comp="*" horizontalAlign="center" verticalAlign="middle">
<mx:Script>
    <![CDATA[
    ]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:LinkBar dataProvider="{vs}"/>
<mx:ViewStack id="vs" width="100%" height="100%">
    <mx:VBox label="view1" width="100%" height="100%"
      horizontalAlign="center">
      <mx:Label text="View One"/>
    </mx:VBox>
    <mx:VBox label="view2" width="100%" height="100%"
      show="myComp.visible=false;myComp.includeInLayout=true;"
      horizontalAlign="center">
      <mx:Label text="View Two"/>
      <mx:Button label="Make myComp Visible" click="myComp.visible=true;myComp.includeInLayout=true;"/>
      <comp:MySimpleComponent id="myComp" visible="false" includeInLayout="false"/>
    </mx:VBox>
</mx:ViewStack>
</mx:Application>

Resizing custom component with fixed aspect ratio in designer

Hello,
   I have a custom component that can have a fixed aspect ratio depending on certain property settings and I would like to know if there is any way to make the component resize in the designer in the same manner that the XCelcius built-in spreadsheet table component does?
It is possible to workaround this somewhat by correcting the width or height of the component after resize, XCelsius sees the change and stores it correctly but sometimes the IDE "remembers" the old value. For example if the component changings its own height programmatically in response to a property and then, while keeping the current component selected, the user resizes the width XCelsius sometimes tries to put the old height back even through it has the correct height saved in the XLF and works fine when compiled.
Is there a way to properly notify XCelsius IDE of a programmatic width/height change in the component itself in response to a property change?
Thanks

The SDK does not support reszing a component using a fixed aspect ratio.
Do not set the width and height of your component directly. You can set the initial size when dropped onto the canvas using the measure function...
A better approach is to let the user size the component on the Xcelsius canvas.
And instead of rendering directly in your add-on, move that code into a child renderer. Then use your aspect ratio to calculate the max size the child renderer can be to fit in the component. Then center your child renderer in the component. That is what I did when I created AnyMap.
|--------------------------------|
| component on canvas            |
|--------------------------------|
| |--------------------------| |
| | centered child renderer | |
| |--------------------------| |
| |                          | |
| |                          | |
| |                          | |
| |--------------------------| |
|--------------------------------|
Regards
Matt

Mxml elements inside custom component

Hi all, i'm a flex newbie but i know AS3, i've encountered a problem during the development of a custom component: my custom component is a panel with some buttons, but i want that anyone can insert mxml elements (especially form elements) inside this panel in this way:
ActionScript Code:
<custom:myDialogBox >
   <mx:Form ...>
        <mx:TextInput ...>
</custom:myDialogBox>
So i created myDialogBox component:
ActionScript Code:
<mx:Panel xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml">
    <mx:Metadata>
             [DefaultProperty("hboxFirstLine")]
        </mx:Metadata>
    <mx:Script>
        <![CDATA[
            import mx.containers.HBox;
            import mx.containers.Panel;
            import mx.controls.Button;
            import mx.controls.Text;
            import mx.core.UIComponent;
        ]]>
    </mx:Script>
    <mx:HBox id="hboxFirstLine" width="100%">
    </mx:HBox>
    <mx:HBox id="hboxSecondLine" width="100%" horizontalAlign="center">
                <mx:Button label="Conferma" />
        <mx:Button label="Annulla" />
    </mx:HBox>
    <mx:ControlBar id="controllBar" horizontalAlign="right">
        <mx:Label id="alertFooter" text="sFooter" />
        </mx:ControlBar>
</mx:Panel>
I expect that the form goes inside hboxFirstLine... but instead i get this error:
Error: In initializer for 'hboxFirstLine': type mx.controls.Form is not assignable to target type mx.containers.HBox.
Any idea?

hboxFirstLine has to be a Form, not an HBox.
Also, if that is all the code of your component, you don't need import statements.
HTH.

Problem with inputText in my custom component

Hi, I have a custom dataTable component that I'm trying to get to work. It has to be a custom component because dataTable doesn't support rowspan, colspan, multi line headers, and a rendered attribute for rows. The problem is, that when I wrap the column tag inside my row tag then the method for the inputText tag never gets called in the UPDATE_MODEL_VALUES phase.
I'm starting to think that JSF doesn't support 2 levels of tags between the inputText and dataTable. I'm hoping that someone can tell me what I have wrong with my components.
Here is the JSP snippet.
<cjsf:rptTable>
     <cjsf:data id="dataTable1" value="#{allAuthUser.tableRows}" var="myTableRow1">
          <cjsf:row>
               <cjsf:col>
                    <h:inputText id="tableTestFld" value="#{myTableRow1.testFld}" size="5" maxlength="5"/>
               </cjsf:col>
          </cjsf:row>
     </cjsf:data>
</cjsf:rptTable>Here is what it renders. It looks to me like everything renders fine. So I'm guessing that there is something in a component that is causing JSF during the life cycle to not be able to process correctly.
<table>
     <tbody>
          <tr>
               <td><input id="tblmaintForm:body:dataTable1_0:tableTestFld" name="tblmaintForm:body:dataTable1_0:tableTestFld" type="text" value="" maxlength="5" size="5"/></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
               <td><input id="tblmaintForm:body:dataTable1_1:tableTestFld" name="tblmaintForm:body:dataTable1_1:tableTestFld" type="text" value="" maxlength="5" size="5"/></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
               <td><input id="tblmaintForm:body:dataTable1_2:tableTestFld" name="tblmaintForm:body:dataTable1_2:tableTestFld" type="text" value="" maxlength="5" size="5"/></td>
          </tr>
     </tbody>
</table>Note: If I leave off the row tag it renders the same way except of course the <tr> and </tr> tags are missing. If I do this, then the backing method for the inputText tag is called and everything works fine. Why doesn't it work with the row tag in place?
Here are the components:
public class UIRptTable extends UIComponentBase {
     public UIRptTable() {
          setRendererType("tblmaint.rptTableRenderer");
     public String getFamily() {
          return "javax.faces.Output";
public class UIRptTableData extends HtmlDataTable {
     public UIRptTableData() {
          setRendererType("tblmaint.rptTableDataRenderer");
     public String getFamily() {
          return "javax.faces.Data";
public class UIRptTableRow extends UIOutput {
     public UIRptTableRow() {
          setRendererType("tblmaint.rptTableRowRenderer");
     public String getFamily() {
          return "javax.faces.Output";
public class UIRptTableCol extends UIColumn {
     public UIRptTableCol() {
          setRendererType("tblmaint.rptTableColRenderer");
     public String getFamily() {
          return "javax.faces.Column";
}Here is part of the faces-config file in case you need it.

<component>
     <component-type>tblmaint.rptTable</component-type>
     <component-class>com.monsanto.ag_it.fieldops.aim.tblmaint.component.UIRptTable</component-class>
</component>
<component>
     <component-type>tblmaint.rptTableData</component-type>
     <component-class>com.monsanto.ag_it.fieldops.aim.tblmaint.component.UIRptTableData</component-class>
</component>
<component>
     <component-type>tblmaint.rptTableRow</component-type>
     <component-class>com.monsanto.ag_it.fieldops.aim.tblmaint.component.UIRptTableRow</component-class>
</component>
<component>
     <component-type>tblmaint.rptTableCol</component-type>
     <component-class>com.monsanto.ag_it.fieldops.aim.tblmaint.component.UIRptTableCol</component-class>
</component>

<render-kit>
     <renderer>
          <component-family>javax.faces.Output</component-family>
          <renderer-type>tblmaint.rptTableRenderer</renderer-type>
          <renderer-class>com.monsanto.ag_it.fieldops.aim.tblmaint.renderer.RptTableRenderer</renderer-class>
     </renderer>
</render-kit>
<render-kit>
     <renderer>
          <component-family>javax.faces.Data</component-family>
          <renderer-type>tblmaint.rptTableDataRenderer</renderer-type>
          <renderer-class>com.monsanto.ag_it.fieldops.aim.tblmaint.renderer.RptTableDataRenderer</renderer-class>
     </renderer>
</render-kit>
<render-kit>
     <renderer>
          <component-family>javax.faces.Output</component-family>
          <renderer-type>tblmaint.rptTableRowRenderer</renderer-type>
          <renderer-class>com.monsanto.ag_it.fieldops.aim.tblmaint.renderer.RptTableRowRenderer</renderer-class>
     </renderer>
</render-kit>
<render-kit>
     <renderer>
          <component-family>javax.faces.Column</component-family>
          <renderer-type>tblmaint.rptTableColRenderer</renderer-type>
          <renderer-class>com.monsanto.ag_it.fieldops.aim.tblmaint.renderer.RptTableColRenderer</renderer-class>
     </renderer>
</render-kit>I sure hope that someone can help me out. Please let me know if you need any additional information.
Thanks,
Ray

Hi, Ray!
1) I was trying to put a button in the column header (for sorting) and I couldn't get that to work. That involved the >colhdr tag. I got that to work but I don't remember the fix. I'll look it up and reply back with that when I can.Dealing the first part of your trouble, you need NOT a custom component.
I have looked through the implementation of RepeaterRenderer, as you advised me, and found that the multi-header possibility is included in the implementation of dataTable control.
The code below is the part of source of repeater.jsp with only change:
<d:data_repeater>  <h:dataTable>
And it works fine.
<h:dataTable id="table"
binding="#{RepeaterBean.data}"
     rows="5"
value="#{RepeaterBean.customers}"
var="customer">
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText value="Customer List"/>               <!� First Header row -- >
</f:facet>
<h:column>
<%-- Visible checkbox for selection --%>
<h:selectBooleanCheckbox
id="checked"
binding="#{RepeaterBean.checked}"/>
<%-- Invisible checkbox for "created" flag --%>
<h:selectBooleanCheckbox
id="created"
binding="#{RepeaterBean.created}"
rendered="false"/>
</h:column>
<h:column>
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText value="Account Id"/>               <!�Second Header row -- >
</f:facet>
<h:inputText id="accountId"
binding="#{RepeaterBean.accountId}"
required="true"
size="6"
value="#{customer.accountId}">
</h:inputText>
<h:message for="accountId"/>
</h:column>
<h:column>
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText value="Customer Name"/>               <!�Second Header row -- >
</f:facet>
<h:inputText id="name"
required="true"
size="50"
value="#{customer.name}">
</h:inputText>
<h:message for="name"/>
</h:column>
<h:column>
<f:facet name="header">                    <!�Second Header row -- >
<h:outputText value="Symbol"/>
</f:facet>
<h:inputText id="symbol"
required="true"
size="6"
value="#{customer.symbol}">
<f:validateLength
maximum="6"
minimum="2"/>
</h:inputText>
<h:message for="symbol"/>
</h:column>
<h:column>
<f:facet name="header">                    <!�Second Header row -- >
<h:outputText value="Total Sales"/>
</f:facet>
<h:outputText id="totalSales"
value="#{customer.totalSales}">
<f:convertNumber
type="currency"/>
</h:outputText>
</h:column>
<h:column>
<f:facet name="header">                    <!�Second Header row -- >
<h:outputText value="Commands"/>
</f:facet>
<h:commandButton id="press"
action="#{RepeaterBean.press}"
immediate="true"
value="#{RepeaterBean.pressLabel}"
type="SUBMIT"/>
<h:commandLink id="click"
action="#{RepeaterBean.click}"
immediate="true">
<h:outputText
value="Click"/>
</h:commandLink>
</h:column>
</h:dataTable>
You may have a look at HTML source to prove that dataTable is already what you need:
<table id="myform:table">
<thead>
<tr><th colspan="6" scope="colgroup">Customer List</th></tr>
<tr>
<th scope="col"></th>
<th scope="col">Account Id</th>
<th scope="col">Customer Name</th>
<th scope="col">Symbol</th>
<th scope="col">Total Sales</th>
<th scope="col">Commands</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
2.) The second trouble is still unsettled as previously. Right now I have different task at my job, and I can�t continue investigation of this problem.
But when you find smth., please let me know. I�ll be very grateful.
Regards,
Oleksa Stelmakh

Unable to Edit the View in Custom Component

Hi Experts,
Please help me to resolve this issue !
I am unable to lock the BOL Entity in my custom component using BTAdminH. I have written the below code in the Edit event Handler for Edit Button. The lr_entity->lock( ) condition statement is getting false and it is skipping the "set_view_editable( me )." code statement. Why??
This is code excerpt that I have taken from edit button of the BP_HEAD/AccountViewSet and altered to my component/View
DATA: lr_entity     TYPE REF TO cl_crm_bol_entity,
        lr_controller TYPE REF TO cl_ZVKH8_bspwdcomponent_impl.
TRY.
      lr_controller ?= me->comp_controller.
      lr_entity ?= lr_controller->typed_context->btadminh->collection_wrapper->get_current( ).
IF lr_entity IS BOUND.
IF lr_entity->IS_LOCKED EQ abap_false.
    IF le_entity->IS_CHANGEABLE EQ abap_true.
       IF lr_entity->lock( ) EQ abap_true.
        me->view_group_context->set_view_editable( me ).
       ENDIF.
    ENDIF.
ENDIF.
ENDIF.
and when I directly executed the below code in the Edit event Handler for Edit Button I am receiving the dereferencing NULL value exception. Why in my custom component in many places this happening??
me->view_group_context->set_view_editable( me ).
Exception Details
CX_SY_REF_IS_INITIAL - Dereferencing of the NULL reference
Method: ZL_ZVKH8_DETAILSEF_IMPL=>EH_ONBACK
Thanks,
Bujji

Hi Summit & NishaNC,
Thanks for your responses !
As suggested, I have debugged the code for ->lock( ) method and there are exceptions raised from some methods.
Method GET_LOCK () -> Method GET_ROOT () ->Method GET_PARENT ()
At GET_ROOT( ) method i have received an exception
"Root entity BTAdminH could not be determined" and one more "Entity BTAdminH could not be locked"
Later when I have checked in MODEL Browser, I found that the BOL object "BTAdminH" for my view is an Access object and not the Root Object.
Hence, I have a question? Does the locking can be done only for ROOT Objects?
If this is TRUE then I think this is the major problem with my custom component where even the cross component navigation is also not happening and in many places I am receiving "Dereferencing NULL Value" information.
Also I have gone through some of the Threads and one information that I found from Sumit Mittal
1. An access object is an independent entity, has primary keys of its own.
2. A root object is a special access object that is at the top of the hierarchy based on business rules.
3. A dependent object's primary keys are supplied by access objects and it's lifetime is bound to them. If the parent object is destroyed, the dependent object is also destroyed.
4. Search objects are query objects useful for querying root objects
5. Search result objects - Search objects return the results in the form of a result object together with a relation pointing to the root object.
6. View objects - ?
7. Dynamic search objects - Used in advanced search, supports ranges and operators
Could you please specify in which scenarios we have to go for Access Objects and Root Objects
Thanks,
Bujji

How do you reference a valueObject located in main to a custom component created in Catalyst?

Hello,
I have been working with the Catalyst Beta 2 / Flash Builder beta trying to create a photogallery and have hit a little bit of a snag, try as I might I can't seem to find the answer anywhere. I am still new to Flex so please excuse me if this is a basic question, I have been trying to understand more about Flex to make my designs in Catalyst better.
I found this video on Adobe TV: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/rich-internet-applications-101/ria-stepbystep-16-binding-a-data- service-to-flash-builder-components/
It's wonderful and I have the datalist I created in Catalyst working with the XML file I generated but I designed my little photogallery a bit diffrent, I created a Custom Component in Catalyst so that when you click an item on the DataList it pop's up a little screen with a larger photo in on it, rather then having an image in the main application. Now my problem seems to be that I can't refrence the valueObject I created with the wizard as it's in my Main.mxml file, is there a way to refrence it from my Custom Component so the larger image will display? Is there a way to let the component know which item on the dataList in the main application is selected and display the correct image?
I should also say I really enjoy working with the Beta for both Flash Builder / Catalyst, thanks for the hard work!
Thanks for the help,
Chris

I am afraid you cannot bind to static properties in Windows Store Apps. It is simply not supported.
You could create a proxy class that exposes the static command property and bind to this property of an instance of the proxy object:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14186175/bind-to-a-static-field-in-windows-8-xaml
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4708711/how-can-i-use-the-xstatic-extension-for-phone7-silverlight-apps
You will of course have to create an instance of the proxy object. There is no way around this.
Please remember to mark helpful posts as answer to close your threads and then start a new thread if you have a new question.

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