Tables in ESS iView

Question

In ESS, there are tables in a lot of iView. In webDynpro , normally these tables are just a element defined as table/grid without anything shown in layout. I wonder where the layout, columns and datas are defined and retrieved, can anyone give me a direction?

Answer 1

Hi,
Most of the ESS applications are WD Java applications.
If you want to know where to do the changes you need to go to NWDS and the component it is using which you can find in iView properties. 
If you look at the code you can see most of the coding is dynamic. The Data in the tables will be populated dynamically.
So if you want to do any changes
1. See the backend config for the possibility to add the fields (if you find any do the changes there and see whether it is reflecting in the Portal screen)
2. Once added to populate either you need to enhance the FM that is been called when executing the iView. (to find which FM is called go to ECC system and t.code ST05 and activate the trace for that user and then run the iView from Portal after that deactivate the trace and display trace to see what FM are called)
3. If you haven't solved the issue then you need to look at Java code for additional changes.
Hope this helps.
Cheers-
Pramod