Scaling a Custom Component? (pressing a button)

"To resize a custom component, edit the components content"
Does that mean edit in Photoshop?? I can't find anywhere to scale the object. I have a button and I want it to scale down as I press it...
I basically want an easy way to make an image into a button that looks depressed or something when you click it...

It means to edit the component in Catalyst.
For example:
1) Draw a Rectangle
2) Choose the Arrow tool. Right-clck on Rectangle and choose Convert Artwork to Component > Button
3) With the Button selected, notice that the HUD displays "Edit Button Appearance" with Up, Down, Over, and Disabled choices. Choose one.
Or, you can double-click on the Button.
4) In either case, you will enter what is called Edit-in-Place mode, where you are now editing the definition of the Button.
5) You can use the Catalyst drawing tools to change the Button so that it looks different in the Up and Down states.
6) Use the bread crumb bar above the ArtBoard to exit Edit-in-Place mode, or double-click outside the Button.
Hope this helps,
-- Greg

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Adding this back here to share my wireframe with the community.
Have put a quick .fxp together based on the 'product' section of your project.
Take a look at how the product lists are linking into the product detail pages within their custom components.
Using this model you should be able to expand out to infinite product detail states. If a particular product area has more than the maximum allowed states, just start a new custom component (part 2 for that product section).
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Hi ADAM...
It seems that a lot of us are asking the same question: Scrollbar Navigation-Make Actionable
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BOTTOM LINE
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public class TestComponent extends BorderPane {
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    @FXML
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?import java.lang.*?>
<?import javafx.scene.control.*?>
<?import javafx.scene.layout.HBox?>
<fx:root type="javafx.scene.layout.BorderPane" xmlns:fx="http://javafx.com/fxml/1"
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@Override
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        TestComponent c = new TestComponent();
        box.getChildren().addAll(a, b, c);
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        primaryStage.setScene(scene);
        primaryStage.show();
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The issue is with the bind definition in the FXML, if you remove that definition, the buttons will display.
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I think the binding is working, but when there is some kind of error (bug) in the layout process such that the scene is not automatically laid out correctly when the binding occurs.
You can get exactly the same behaviour by removing the binding definition in FXML and placing it in code after the load.
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When the scene is initially displayed, the height of all of the text fields is 0, as they have not been laid out yet, and the browser button prefHeight gets set to 0 through the binding.
That's OK and expected.
Then the scene is shown and a layout pass occurs, which sets the height of the text fields to 26 and the prefHeight of all of the browser buttons adjust correctly.
That's also OK and expected.
Next the height of one of the buttons is adjusted via a layout pass.
That's also OK and expected.
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You can file a bug against the Runtime project at:
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You will need to sign up at the link on the login page, but anybody can sign up and log a bug.
Here is some sample code.
import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.geometry.Insets;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.layout.VBox;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
public class ComponentTestApp extends Application {
@Override
public void start(Stage primaryStage) {
    VBox box = new VBox(5);
    box.setPadding(new Insets(5));
    TestComponent a = new TestComponent();
    TestComponent b = new TestComponent();
    TestComponent c = new TestComponent();
    box.getChildren().addAll(a, b, c);
    Scene scene = new Scene(box);
    primaryStage.setScene(scene);
    primaryStage.show();
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public static void main(String[] args) {
    launch(args);
import javafx.beans.value.ChangeListener;
import javafx.beans.value.ObservableValue;
import javafx.fxml.FXML;
import javafx.fxml.FXMLLoader;
import javafx.scene.control.Button;
import javafx.scene.control.TextField;
import javafx.scene.layout.BorderPane;
import java.io.IOException;
public class TestComponent extends BorderPane {
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    private final int componentNum = nextComponentNum;
    @FXML
    private TextField textField;
    @FXML
    private Button browseButton;
    public TestComponent() {
      nextComponentNum++;
        FXMLLoader fxmlLoader = new FXMLLoader(getClass().getResource("TestComponent.fxml"));
        fxmlLoader.setRoot(this);
        fxmlLoader.setController(this);
        try {
            fxmlLoader.load();
            browseButton.prefHeightProperty().bind(textField.heightProperty());
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            textField.heightProperty().addListener(new ChangeListener<Number>() {
              @Override
              public void changed(ObservableValue<? extends Number> observable, Number oldValue, Number newValue) {
                System.out.println(componentNum + " " + textField + " height " + newValue);
            browseButton.prefHeightProperty().addListener(new ChangeListener<Number>() {
              @Override
              public void changed(ObservableValue<? extends Number> observable, Number oldValue, Number newValue) {
                System.out.println(componentNum + " " + browseButton + " prefHeight " + newValue);
            browseButton.heightProperty().addListener(new ChangeListener<Number>() {
              @Override
              public void changed(ObservableValue<? extends Number> observable, Number oldValue, Number newValue) {
                System.out.println(componentNum + " " + browseButton + " height " + newValue);
                new Exception("Not a real exception - just a debugging stack trace").printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException exception) {
            throw new RuntimeException(exception);
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?import java.lang.*?>
<?import javafx.scene.control.*?>
<?import javafx.scene.layout.HBox?>
<fx:root type="javafx.scene.layout.BorderPane" xmlns:fx="http://javafx.com/fxml/1"
         xmlns="http://javafx.com/javafx/2.2">
    <center>
        <TextField fx:id="textField" prefWidth="200.0" />
    </center>
    <right>
        <Button fx:id="browseButton" mnemonicParsing="false" maxHeight="-Infinity"
                minHeight="-Infinity" text="Browse"
                textAlignment="CENTER" />
        
                
                
    </right>
</fx:root>
Here is the output of the sample code:
1 Button[id=browseButton, styleClass=button]'Browse' prefHeight 0.0
2 Button[id=browseButton, styleClass=button]'Browse' prefHeight 0.0
3 Button[id=browseButton, styleClass=button]'Browse' prefHeight 0.0
1 Button[id=browseButton, styleClass=button]'Browse' prefHeight 26.0
1 TextField[id=textField, styleClass=text-input text-field] height 26.0
2 Button[id=browseButton, styleClass=button]'Browse' prefHeight 26.0
2 TextField[id=textField, styleClass=text-input text-field] height 26.0
3 Button[id=browseButton, styleClass=button]'Browse' prefHeight 26.0
3 TextField[id=textField, styleClass=text-input text-field] height 26.0
2 Button[id=browseButton, styleClass=button]'Browse' height 26.0
java.lang.Exception: Not a real exception - just a debugging stack trace
at testcomponent.TestComponent$3.changed(TestComponent.java:69)
at testcomponent.TestComponent$3.changed(TestComponent.java:65)
at com.sun.javafx.binding.ExpressionHelper$Generic.fireValueChangedEvent(ExpressionHelper.java:347)
at com.sun.javafx.binding.ExpressionHelper.fireValueChangedEvent(ExpressionHelper.java:80)
at javafx.beans.property.ReadOnlyDoubleWrapper$ReadOnlyPropertyImpl.fireValueChangedEvent(ReadOnlyDoubleWrapper.java:177)
at javafx.beans.property.ReadOnlyDoubleWrapper.fireValueChangedEvent(ReadOnlyDoubleWrapper.java:143)
at javafx.beans.property.DoublePropertyBase.markInvalid(DoublePropertyBase.java:113)
at javafx.beans.property.DoublePropertyBase.set(DoublePropertyBase.java:146)
at javafx.scene.layout.Region.setHeight(Region.java:915)
at javafx.scene.layout.Region.resize(Region.java:1362)
at javafx.scene.layout.BorderPane.layoutChildren(BorderPane.java:583)
at javafx.scene.Parent.layout(Parent.java:1063)
at javafx.scene.Parent.layout(Parent.java:1069)
at javafx.scene.Scene.doLayoutPass(Scene.java:564)
at javafx.scene.Scene$ScenePulseListener.pulse(Scene.java:2341)
at com.sun.javafx.tk.Toolkit.firePulse(Toolkit.java:329)
at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.QuantumToolkit.pulse(QuantumToolkit.java:479)
at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.QuantumToolkit.pulse(QuantumToolkit.java:460)
at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.QuantumToolkit$13.run(QuantumToolkit.java:327)
at com.sun.glass.ui.InvokeLaterDispatcher$Future.run(InvokeLaterDispatcher.java:95)
java.lang.Exception: Not a real exception - just a debugging stack trace
at testcomponent.TestComponent$3.changed(TestComponent.java:69)
at testcomponent.TestComponent$3.changed(TestComponent.java:65)
at com.sun.javafx.binding.ExpressionHelper$Generic.fireValueChangedEvent(ExpressionHelper.java:347)
at com.sun.javafx.binding.ExpressionHelper.fireValueChangedEvent(ExpressionHelper.java:80)
at javafx.beans.property.ReadOnlyDoubleWrapper$ReadOnlyPropertyImpl.fireValueChangedEvent(ReadOnlyDoubleWrapper.java:177)
at javafx.beans.property.ReadOnlyDoubleWrapper.fireValueChangedEvent(ReadOnlyDoubleWrapper.java:143)
at javafx.beans.property.DoublePropertyBase.markInvalid(DoublePropertyBase.java:113)
at javafx.beans.property.DoublePropertyBase.set(DoublePropertyBase.java:146)
at javafx.scene.layout.Region.setHeight(Region.java:915)
at javafx.scene.layout.Region.resize(Region.java:1362)
at javafx.scene.layout.BorderPane.layoutChildren(BorderPane.java:583)
at javafx.scene.Parent.layout(Parent.java:1063)
at javafx.scene.Parent.layout(Parent.java:1069)
at javafx.scene.Scene.doLayoutPass(Scene.java:564)
at javafx.scene.Scene$ScenePulseListener.pulse(Scene.java:2341)
at com.sun.javafx.tk.Toolkit.firePulse(Toolkit.java:329)
at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.QuantumToolkit.pulse(QuantumToolkit.java:479)
at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.QuantumToolkit.pulse(QuantumToolkit.java:460)
at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.QuantumToolkit$13.run(QuantumToolkit.java:327)
at com.sun.glass.ui.InvokeLaterDispatcher$Future.run(InvokeLaterDispatcher.java:95)
1 Button[id=browseButton, styleClass=button]'Browse' height 26.0

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Hello folks
I have a view stack in which i have some custom components.
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You will probably want a show handler for the view VBox to make those properties false each time that view is displayed.
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BUT... just cant get a button that leads from a custom component ive made back into the main bulk of pages and states ive created to work.
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Cross component communications are an issue in Flash Catalyst 1.0. Thankfully, in Flash Catalyst 5.5 the team addressed some of those issues.
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public class UIRptTableRow extends UIOutput {
     public UIRptTableRow() {
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     public String getFamily() {
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public class UIRptTableCol extends UIColumn {
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     public String getFamily() {
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}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>
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     <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>
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          <renderer-class>com.monsanto.ag_it.fieldops.aim.tblmaint.renderer.RptTableRenderer</renderer-class>
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<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>
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<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>
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</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>
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</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.
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<h:outputText value="Symbol"/>
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required="true"
size="6"
value="#{customer.symbol}">
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maximum="6"
minimum="2"/>
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<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
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</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

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Hi.
I am new for the CRM 2007 Web UI.
Here we have CRM_UI_FRAME.
Like this so many Components are there.
I want how to create our own component.
I created it as follows.
Open the Transaction code bsp_wd_cmpwb.
Provide Z Name in the Component.
Zcomponent
Press Create button.
Go to Run Time Repository.
Press Change Mode.
Create a MODEL as ALL.
GO to Browser Component Structre.
Select View.
Provide View name.
Create the View.
Go to view Layout.
Provide the code like this.
<%@page language="abap"%>
<%@ extension name="htmlb" prefix="htmlb"%>
<%@ extension name="xhtmlb" prefix="xhtmlb"%>
<%@ extension name="crm_bsp_ic" prefix="crmic"%>
<%@ extension name="bsp" prefix="bsp"%>
<cthmlb:overviewFormConfig/>
Create the context under the context.
Go to Configuration tab.
Assigne the Attributes to the Screen.
GO to the Run Time Repository.
press change mode.
Assigne the view name to the Window.
Save it.
Test the Componet. But it is not diaply anything on the screen.
How i will get the data into the web UI.
Can anybody expalin about this one to me with screen shorts if possible.
I want add some fields into the web UI. Provide some values into that. Capture the values.
Navigate the data from one screen to another screen. How it is possible. I did not understand.
If i am changing any screens in the pre define component it shows dump.
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Please give me proper information regarding this one.
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Hi,
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<thtmlb:inputField id="<field>" maxlength="31" size="20" value="//<context>/<field>"/>
In order to get value, you can write a simple code in the event_handler:
LR_BOL type ref to IF_BOL_BO_PROPERTY_ACCESS
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You are right. It is maintained by SAP.
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Hi ,
I have embedded a custom component inside a standard component. The custom component has two views. The first view is assigned to the item overview page and the second view is assigned to the main window of the standard component.
I have enhanced the BOL model (using EEWB) and created a new entity with z structure.
There is a button in the first view which is used to navigate to the second view. The custom fields are filled up in the second view.
Even though I am able to fill up the custom fields in the second view, these fields are not getting saved when I save the main transaction.
However, If I fill up the fields from the first view ( ie the overview page ) , these are getting saved.
Please let me know if you have any solution. This would be very helpful.
Regards,
Jaydip

Hi Anubhav,
I have created the Custom Component(zso_disclaimer) with the BOL Object BTAdminH. I have used few fields which is available in the BTAdminH(ZZDISC_WAR_ID,ZZACC_EX_CONT,ZZACCEPT_WAR and ZZFLD00004G). I have used this custom component(zso_disclaimer) in the standard conponent BT115H_SLSO as Assignment block. when i enter the values in the fields and press enter the values get disappears. So i am not able to proceed further. Can anyone help me to solve this problem.
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I'm tring to create a custom component that implements browse control.
the component is composed of a input box that holds the browse result a dialog with data table and a button that cause the dialog to open.
I have some implementation issuses :
1. the datatable needs to get it's input from the database, normally I would create a value binding to a managed bean but I don't know where to put it in this case. (there can be more then component in a page so managed bean won't work)
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Hi,
did you find a solution for your "composite" component problem?
I am also trying to create a custom component that contains several standard jsf components such as HtmlCommandLink and HtmlInputText.
I build all the standard components within my component programmatically using things like:
HtmlCommandLink link = (HtmlCommandLink) application.createComponent(HtmlCommandLink.COMPONENT_TYPE);
Also at the beginning of the encodeBegin I clear all children from my custom component using getChildren().clear()
and rerender the component based on my new internal model which I updated during the previous decoding of my component.
As a simple jsf custom tag it works ok, however, I am facing deep problems with action events as soon as I use the component within a jsf HtmlDataTable tag.
Am I missing something here?
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cheers
hans

How to manage focus in custom component

Hallo. As you know some flex components have native focus, like buttons, textinput etc.. I have created a custom component which is a borderContainer.. As you know, by default, if user press TAB my BorderContainer will never receive the focus.. I tryied to set some property like setFocus() and tabFobusEnabled to true but i still have some focus problems with my borderContainer .. It is like my App knows that my Custom component is not a native component.. Is there a way for my component to receive focus without problems??.. Which is the best way for doing that??
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Max

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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.
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      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.
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    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

I want to add DataGrid in my custom component as a child component,

I want to add DataGrid in my custom component as a child component, can we ?? or should i generate HTML for table creation in my custom component's renderer ?

I did that:
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