/SAPDII/DWB - Dealer Workbench

Question

Hi
I’m interested to know whether anyone has made any changes to SAP’s standard BSP’s for the DWB.
I would appreciate any pointers in doing this.
Thanks
Faaiez

Answer 1

Hi Faaiez,
You can check the online documentation for the dealer portal of which DWB is a subcomponent at :
http://kwhelp.sap.com/SAPIKS/S0cfecba46cae4ce68ce31bb75ee4c46d/KW/IWB_STRUCTE8EFB83BEB837443E10000000A11402F/IWB_EXTHLP361B6D3E40753F7CE10000000A114084/?LANGUAGE=EN&RELEASE=50_2003_Q2&IWB_INDUSTRY=EP_CONTENT&IWB_COUNTRY=&TMP_IWB_TASK=DISPLAY
In general though, enhancing the bsp application for dwb and other applications within the dealer portal is hassle free.
1.Copy the application to your own namespace.This copies views, pages with flow logic and controller but points to the the original controller and application classes so the business logic is unchanged and untouched.
2.After this you can make the changes you require to the ui.
3.Naturally if you add new interface elements you will have to ensure that the do_handle_data and do_handle_event menthods of the controllers have the necessary code to receive data and handle events triggered by the new elements. But there are BADI's in place in the respective methods for this.
4. Call the application with the new url in the main controller.You'll notice it contains the new application name in the url.
Footnote:If creating new views in the SAP namespace is an option, its also possbile to replace one view in the application with another using transaction /SAPDII/T_CCOMPID and /SAPDII/T_CCOMPSET.
There is a customizing cookook available which can be made avaiable to you on request. But I would recommend creating a low priority oss message for this on the component IS-A-DP-VMS so that its tracked and picked up by the original developer.
Regards,
Rana