OTR VS Assistant Class

[younghwan_kim]

Hi, experts.

I'm having a hard time which one to use for text of UI element between OTR or Assistant Class.

Bounding text elements of Assistant class to context and mapping it to the text doesn't sound

good to me.

So OTR is better than Assistant class for UI element's text?

Thanks for your help in advance.

[alejandro_bindi · Accepted solution]

The best you can do is to reuse the Data element description from the dictionary, which happens automatically when you set a label as a descriptor for a UI element bound to an attribute with a DDIC Dataelement type.

Otherwise, the decission as whether to use OTR or Assistance class text elements lies in the need of the texts being dynamic or not. You have more details in this link: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/EN/0a/784941bb75f623e10000000a155106/content.htm

Generally, OTR is the way to go. It doesn't involve any coding, just a simple UI element property setting at design time.

Regards

[younghwan_kim]

Thanks for all your answers.

[uday_gubbala2]

Hi Kim,

I guess that you would generally go for OTR texts but the texts which you define using assistance class can have placeholders. This is something which isn't possible with the OTR texts. I guess that this would be the only special area where you would want to go for assistance class over OTR. This is what I had came up on myself, experts please excuse & correct me if I am wrong.

Regards,

Uday

[Former Member]

yes for text you can use the OTR, its maintained centerllaly so once you have defined you can use it anywhere. You can map it to ur UI elements and u can programtically get it in ur abap code also irrespective of where you are, i mean whether u r using the assistance class or not ..etc..