GUI design tips

Hi,
I have a web dynpro component consisting of two views. Each of the two views have several transparaent containers that are set to visible/not visible depending on useraction.
One of the transparent containers contains a roadmap, with four roadmap steps, which shows/highlights exactly where the user has navigated to. (placed on top of each view)
This roadmap should be the same in both views, and always be visisble. Instead of defining the roadmap in both views, is there any way to define this once, without having to change the two views into one view?
Regards
Arne Jakob

Hi,
You can have one Main view, with a Road map and Have a viewcontainer UI element.
Embed this Main view in the window Now under this embed the other 2 views inside this view container and have all the navigations..
Regards,
Lekha.

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