WDA Table element - scroll buttons missing

[Former Member]

Hi !

Being a relative newbie in WDA, I am trying out the table control [tutorial|http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/cb243c45-0801-0010-eb9c-88669007f130] for web dynpro ABAP. Even though I get the results on a browser screen from table SFLIGHT, I cannot see the next screen scroll buttons of 'next page' / 'last page' in NW 7.0 EHP2. I tried inserting the 'toolbar' element and still am not able to see the buttons. Is it a separate setting ?

The tutorial is all pre NW7.0 EHP2 and seems to come automatically along with the table element.

Oogway.

[ChandraMahajan]

Hi,

Navigation in Webdynpro ABAP UI element TABLE can be using PAGINATOR or SCROLLBAR where PAGINATOR is default

Scroll bars can be displayed on the right-hand side of each table, provided you have set Application Parameter WDTABLENAVIGATION to SCROLLBAR.

Refer http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/b5/ac884118aa1709e10000000a155106/content.htm

and

Thanks,

Chandra

Edited by: Chandrashekhar Mahajan on Nov 14, 2011 6:01 PM

[Former Member]

Hi Chandra,

I am interested in getting the Footer (for accessible mode) buttons at the bottom of the page displayed. Setting the parameter of WDTABLENAVIGATION to PAGINATOR or SCROLLBAR doesn't show any difference as the scrollbar is still visible. However, for tables containing many columns, it is difficult to use the browser scrollbar to get the edge of the table control to use the table scrollbar. It is for this case that the accessble mode buttons at the footer would be really helpful.

BTW, we are on 7.02.

Oogway.

[ChandraMahajan]

 I am interested in getting the Footer (for accessible mode) buttons at the bottom of the page displayed. Setting the parameter of WDTABLENAVIGATION to PAGINATOR or SCROLLBAR doesn't show any difference as the scrollbar is still visible. However, for tables containing many columns, it is difficult to use the browser scrollbar to get the edge of the table control to use the table scrollbar. It is for this case that the accessble mode buttons at the footer would be really helpful.

Hi,

your question should be paginator is missing.

as per your requirement, you want paginator (footer with buttons) for your table. from NW 7.01 and onwards, srollbar is the default value for table and in lightspeed rendering only scrollbar is used.

There are still some ways to get back paginator as discussed in thread

and

But shifting to pagintor may cause performance issue as well.

I hope this will solve your problem.

Thanks,

Chandra

Edited by: Chandrashekhar Mahajan on Nov 15, 2011 11:41 AM

[Former Member]

Hi Chandra,

Following your suggestion, the parameters show the paginator buttons as part of the scrollbar itself.

However, I'll take your / Thomas Jung's point that going forward only the scrollbar is to be used for the table UI.

Thanks,

Oogway.

[thomas_jung]

It is true that in NetWeaver 7.01 and 7.02 the paginator was pretty much forcibly replaced by the scroll bar. However we listened to customer feedback and in 7.03 there is a new table UI element called the cTable. This UI element supports both the scroll bar and the paginator and the switch between the two can be controlled by a property of the UI element itself instead of a global system setting.

Scrollbar:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tjung/6347488550/in/photostream

Paginator:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tjung/6346738421/in/photostream/