How to Customize Standard

Development Components with

WebDynpro Java and Portal

Applies to:
SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal 7.0, WebDynpro for Java.
For more information, visit the Portal and Collaboration homepage.
For more information, visit the WebDynpro Java homepage.

Summary
This is an end-to-end article describing how to customize the standard DC.
After going through the article you will be able to:1. Customize the standard DC
2. Add the FPM applications to the Self Service Administrator.
Author:

Gouri Manohar

Company: Yash Technologies Pvt Ltd.

Created on: 18 August 2009

Author Bio
Gouri Manohar is Consultant for Yash Technologies Pvt.Ltd based in India. He has more than four years of
IT experience. He has good knowledge in Java, WebDynpro Java, EP and Mobile Infrastructure 7.0.

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Table of Contents
Customizing the standard DC (Development Components................................................................................ 3
Documentation for customizing the standard DC ............................................................................................... 4
Procedure: .......................................................................................................................................................... 5
Self Service Administrator Role ........................................................................................................................ 15
Related Content ................................................................................................................................................ 19
Disclaimer and Liability Notice .......................................................................................................................... 20

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Customizing the standard DC (Development Components

And the requirement is the standard DC Overview roadmap step contains First Name, Last name, Employee
ID as the following screen contains

And the client requires displaying the data that is available in Edit tab in Overview tab as follows.

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Documentation for customizing the standard DC

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Procedure:
Initially log in to dtr perspective.

Right click on OFFLINE and enter the credentials to login

Once you login go to Development Configurations perspective

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And import the required track.

Now according to the requirement create a project with respect to the required DC from Inactive DCs.

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When you click on Create Project the following screen appears and click on Select all and then click on OK
Now go to WebDynpro perspective and make the required modifications.
When you try to make the modifications in the project it asks you to check out the application and asks you to
create an activity.
Required modifications:
1. Rename all the WebDynpro components.
Old

New

CcPerPersonal

CcPerPersonal_new

FcPerPersonalIN

FcPerPersonalIN_new

VcPerPersonalINDetail

VcPerPersonalINDetail_new

VcperPersonalINOverview

VcperPersonalINOverview_new

VcperPersonalINReview

VcperPersonalINReview_new

You can Right click on the component and rename them.

2. Rename the application.
To rename the application copy and paste it and delete the original one.
Old Application Name
Per_Personal_IN

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New Application Name

Per_Personal_IN_new

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When you click on Check Out the following screen appears

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Now click on New and create a new activity.

So when you create an activity the following screens appears and selects the activity that you have created

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Click on OK
Then the following screen appears and click on Add

Then click Ok.

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Now create a custom DC in the same track

Right click on the SC and click on Create New DC

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Check the Local Development Component.

Click on next

Click on Finish.
Now copy _comp from the location
C:\Documents and Settings\gouri.gadhamsetty\.dtc\2\DCs\sap.com\ess\in\pdata

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And paste it to
C:\Documents and Settings\gouri.gadhamsetty\.dtc\2\DCs\sap.com\pdatanew

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And now got WebDynpro and Rebuild the Project

Self Service Administrator Role

Now Login to Portal and go to Top Level Navigation and select Self-Service Administration and select the
standard PDATA FPM application in the following location.
Content Provided by SAP srvconfig com.sap.pct.erp.srvconfig.in Per_Personal_In FPM
ApplicationPer_Personal_IN
And for FPM Views
Portal Content Content Provided by SAP srvconfig com.sap.pct.erp.srvconfig.in
Per_Personal_InFPM Views and here you find the 3 Vcs views like BizCardsView, DetailView and
ReviewView.

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Now copy the FPM Applications and FPM views and paste them into your custom folder.

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Initially open the views.

Now change the Development Component and WebDynpro Component according to your requirement.
For each and every view.

Now open the FPM Application and make the required modifications.

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Now go to Define Event Links and set the values according to the standard FPM application.
Now finally go to NWDS and open the application properties and change the PCD location of the FPM
application.
Copy the PCD location from the following location

Paste the PCD location in the following location of the following application.

Finally the new copy of the Standard Application is created.

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Related Content
For more information, visit the Portal and Collaboration homepage.
For more information, visit the WebDynpro Java homepage.

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