Setting Background Color

[Former Member]

I need to display the following news item in a grey background

BoardMeeting to be held in Nov <More>

More is a link, clicking on which opens the news in detail.

The following is the code i have written to do this. However i am not able to set the background to grey.

Also the group has a gridlayout with colcount 2. So the More link is not displayed immediately after the news. It is displayed in the second column.

Can someone tell me how to do this?

IWDTransparentContainer rootContainer = (IWDTransparentContainer)view.getElement("RootUIElementContainer");
IWDGroup group = (IWDGroup)view.getElement("link_group");	

IWDTextView textView = (IWDTextView)			 view.createElement(IWDTextView.class, null);
textView.setText(abstractValue.getValueAsString());
textView.setWrapping(true);					
IWDLinkToURL linkToURL1 = (IWDLinkToURL)view.createElement(IWDLinkToURL.class,null);
linkToURL1.setText("More");
linkToURL1.setReference(tempRes.getAccessURI().toString());	
						
group.addChild(textView);
group.addChild(linkToURL1);

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

You can change the background color of a group using the "design"-property.

To get the link directly after the text, put both UI elements in a container with flow layout. Generally, prefer the MatrixLayout over GridLayout.

Armin

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Armin,

If i set it to flow layout, all the news items are displayed continuously.

I want one news item below the other

<newsitem1><more>

<newsitem2><more>

Thanks

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

OK, then put them into a container with RowLayout, assign to each news item a "RowHeadData" such that they start a new row.

Armin

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Armin,

I have created a gorup with rowlayout.

How do I assign each news item a rowheaddata programatically?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks Armin, it solved my problem and u get points too:-)

[Former Member]

hi sameer,

you can change the background color by making using of themes in portal.

regards

rahul

[Former Member]

How to associate a custom theme with a webdynpro application?

[Former Member]

Hi,

Refer to Lishas weblog on applying application specific themes in webdynpro

/people/lisha.peter/blog/2005/07/07/make-your-webdynpro-application-theme-specific

Also refer to bharaths article

https://sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/library/webas/webdynpro/colour... webdynpro applications.pdf

Regards

Rohit

Message was edited by: Rohit Radhakrishnan

[Former Member]

Hi Sameer,

Look at the following link:

There are two ways to achieve this.

This will set theme for all webdynpro application.

If you want to set for perticular one application then

append one parameter for theme to the url of your application.

Regards,

Bhavik

[Former Member]

Hi Sameer,

Webdynpro provides only limited options for changing the color.In the following code change the primarycolor to secondary or some other suitable color

create the attribute .Select the type from dictionary simple type .Expand com.sap.ide....uielementdefinitions and chose group color

Write the following code to change color

IWDAttributeInfo info = wdContext.getNodeInfo().getAttribute("test");

group.bindDesign(info);

wdContext.currentContextElement().setTest(WDGroupDesign.PRIMARYCOLOR);

Hope this helps you.Kindly reward points if this is found usefull

Regards

Rohit

[Former Member]

Hi Sameer,

I feel wedon't have much choice in selecting the background. You need to choose the one from available like PRIMARY,SAP,SECONDARY,SECONDARYBOX etc.

Regards, Anilkumar

[Former Member]

Hi,

You can bind the design to a context attribute

IWDGroup group =

(IWDGroup) view.getElement("Group1");

group.bindDesign()

Hope this helps u

Regards

Rohit

[Former Member]

Rohit,

Where do we specify the color as grey?

thanks

[Former Member]

try using

Group.setDesign() method.

Regards, Anilkumar

[Former Member]

Anilkumar,

Do you have a sample code which does this?

group.getDesign takes WDGroupDesign as parameter.

Anyidea how to set grey as the color in this?

Thanks