Web dynpro Selectoption: upload from clipboard

Question

Hi Experts,
can you please help me with the following topic:
I have a select option in my ABAP Webdynpro. It's very important that the endusers can use the "upload from clipboard" functionality for this select option (as it is possible in the select options within "normal" ABAP Dynpros). How can I manage to get this functionality?
Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Hi Thomas,
I hope that SAP is looking into implementing the import from the clipboard for select-options. I understand that there are security concerns for giving the browser access to the clipboard, but that's what we have security policies for...
E.g. it is clearly possible to access the clipboard from the browser; not sure if that applies for all possible browsers, but it should be possible to check it for the ones that SAP supports (e.g. here's an article for [Mozilla|http://kb.mozillazine.org/Granting_JavaScript_access_to_the_clipboard] and here for [Internet Explorer|http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb250473%28VS.85%29.aspx]).
Also, I suspect the web experts may have better comments on this topic, but what about the example Google Docs? There I can clearly copy/paste from/to the clipboard (without changing any security settings).
I suspect that many users will list the feature to fill select-options from the clipboard as a very important feature. So if it's really not possible to make it work for all users (security concerns), why not have instructions on how to enable it (might have to be platform/application specific). Probably not a good example, but even SAPgui allows me to store passwords (obviously a very big security risk) on my computer with the right registry hack...
Cheers, harald