Table view in EHP1 CRM 7.0

Question

How to create a table view in ehp1 CRM.
Is it the same way by creating a view and adding value node /model node then selecting view as table view with congigurable mode?

Answer 1

Hi Anita,
As per your requirement, AET table enhancement will be best suited to it.
Use the help.sap.com link i gave in earlier reply to know more about  AET table enhancements.
Now to get on to this task ,
1) Use transaction AXTSYS and create an entry for Z component, give a name say ZAET_TBLEXT.
and Save. The AET Table extension, then will use this component by default( if you select the radio button there) to create the views. Remember, just give any name you desire for the component. You dont need to create this componenet. AET extension wizard will create the component automatically.
2) Open the overview page on which you would like to have the tableview as an assignment block. Since its a compititor info, i assume you want to place it on a BP/Account/Prospect. Competitor Overview Page or Opportunity Overview Page. Now chose the config button and once the Assignment blocks are highlighted, select the Header View( Compititor header or Opportunity header view depending on the overview page you are in) and config tool will open. Use the Display Enhancement button or create enhancement button and another popup will open which display the enhancements if any,
3) On this Pop up you will see the AET table extensions assignment block. Use the Add table button. Follow the wizard and create the table, mention fields, translations etc. Also mention it as 1:n relation and so the table view. Chose the Standard buttons so you get all action buttons as well as inser, editlist, delete buttons etc.
Once done, save and generate. This creates the view and also adds the component usage on overviewpage.
Now all you need to do is just configure the overviewpag to pull the new tableview assignment block from Available to Displayed blocks.
Note :
1) this creates a Ztable , name same as mentioned/defaulted while AET table enahncement
2) this create Z BOL entity with 1:n relation with Access Entity of OverviewPage , for example, BuilHeader if account overview page or BTAdminH if Opportunity overview page.
3) creates BOL strucutre, handler class etc on its own.
4) You do not need to do any coding,
Thus in half an hour, you are done with Table view enhancement with Z table based entities.
Before EhP1, we had to extend the BT/BP model with ZBOL and had to do a lot of thigs on our own. Almost 2 days job for an advance developer which is reduced to 15-20 minutes with zero coding required.
If you have a sandbox or IDES system, i would recommand you to try it there frst, get confident and then do development on your development system.
Remember ->
1) AET Enhancement tool has to be started from WEB UI - which is generally runs on Customizing client, but creating AET table and enhancements is Workbench task. So if your customizing client is locked for workbench developments, then You must run the WEBUI on your workbench client ( use transaction wui ). It does not make any difference as far as development is concerned because your development its pure Workbench activity. later, you configure the Overview Page to pull the AET table view on your customizing client.
2) Be confident and have well determined about the table design & about your table view design like the fields you need etc. because once you add the fields and mention the field type like Numeric, indicator,text etc, you can not change it later once the Tableview is generated. You can add more fields later and you can delete fields too but you can not change their type later.
All the best.
Thanks & Regards
Suchiita
Edited by: Suchita Phulkar on Jul 30, 2011 12:16 AM