Finalizing Actions

You can add finalizing actions to the footer bar.

A message toast is displayed when an operation is successful.

Finalizing actions complete the work on the current screen, by permanently changing the object state. You can also set them to navigate away from the object page.

Note that developers may call these actions determining actions.

For more information, see:

• Footer Toolbar
• Action Placement: Guidelines for the Footer Toolbar
• Footer Toolbar Examples of Action Placement

Save

The action is displayed by default in edit mode.

After saving, the user stays on the object page for applications both with and without draft handling enabled.

You can enable users to automatically navigate back to the list report when they save with SAP Fiori elements for OData V2. To do this, ask your development team to add close logic to the Save action.

When the object page header contains at least one facet:

• On the initial load of the object page, the header is expanded.
• When the user scrolls down the page, the header collapses.
• The Expand/Collapse    button and the Pin/Unpin  button are displayed.

When the object page header contains only a title and a subtitle, the Expand/Collapse    button and the Pin/Unpin  button are not displayed.

With SAP Fiori elements for OData V2, when users scroll on a mobile phone screen, the object page optimizes the screen space by displaying a summary line instead of the collapsed header.

Next to the title, an arrow   button lets the users expand the header.

For more information, see:

• Dynamic Page Header (Mandatory)
• Header Toolbar
• Header Features

Display of Header Content

In display mode, the header content area displays all the header content.

In edit and create modes, when the header is:

• Editable
  • The first dynamic section in the content area, the header section, displays all the fields in the header that can be rendered in a form — both editable and uneditable fields.

The header section is only present in the edit and create modes.

• • The first temporary section will have a section title called “Header” if there is no Anchor Bar available.
  • UI elements in the header that cannot be rendered in a form, such as micro charts, are not shown.

• Not Editable, the header is hidden.

Note that, by default, the header is

• Editable with SAP Fiori elements for OData V4
• Not editable with SAP Fiori elements for OData V2

You can ask the application developers to change the default.

For more information, see Dynamic Page Header (Mandatory).

Header Content Visibility

By default, header content is visible.

You can set the following header components or selected content, fields, or actions in them to be displayed or hidden, according to the object’s state:

• Entire header facets
• Content, such as fields, in a header facet
• Content in quick views

With Fiori elements for OData V2, you can set:

• The header to be displayed in edit mode.
• Header facets to be visible in edit mode.

By default, with:

•  SAP Fiori elements for OData V2, the title area is empty.
•  SAP Fiori elements for OData V4, the title area displays the text: (Unnamed Object).

Menu for Saved Version / Draft

With this menu next to the object page title, users can navigate between the saved version of an object and the draft version that they’ve created. This is a default feature in applications with draft-handling,

Breadcrumbs are displayed above the object title.

The object marker indicates the object is locked by another user in draft-enabled applications.

Image

The image is an avatar control. By default, it has a square shape.

You can set:

• An image to display instead of the avatar. SAP Fiori elements for OData V4 uses the lightbox control to allow a larger view of the image.
• The avatar to a have a circular shape.

When no image is set or found for the avatar, the avatar initials are displayed.

If those are not set or found either, an icon for the avatar is displayed:

• A square avatar for a product
• A circular avatar for a person.

For more information on the logic used for displaying an object, consult the development team and see Using Images, Initials, and Icons.

Paging Buttons

By default, with both SAP Fiori elements for OData V2 and V4, the paging buttons appear in the subobject page of applications that use the dynamic page layout in the following conditions:

• The user has navigated from a table in the object page to the subobject.
• The table in the object page contains at least two items.

With SAP Fiori elements for OData V2, you can:

• Enable the paging buttons to show on the first object page opened from a list report.
• Disable the default display of the paging buttons on the subobject page.

Toolbar Actions

Edit and Delete

Copy

You can place a copy action button in the header to let the user to create a new object with the same data as the current object with SAP Fiori elements for OData V2.

You set the label for the button according to your use case. Otherwise, the default label is Copy.

In the object page, the Copy button is displayed after the Delete button.

You can enable the Related Apps menu button. It displays the actions available on the same object in different applications. Users select the action to open the same object in another application.

You can also:

• Hide specific actions in the menu.
• Change the button name to Open In…  with SAP Fiori elements for OData V4.

Generic Actions

By default, the Share button is displayed for saved objects and hidden for drafts.

It can include the:

• Share in SAP Jam menu item when SAP Jam integration is configured.
• Microsoft Teams > As Chat and As Card options when the required settings have been made by the system administrators of SAP S/4HANA or SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

This feature is part of collaborative ERP (enterprise resource planning), which integrates the best of SAP S/4HANA or SAP S/4HANA Cloud with Microsoft Teams. It’s not available for all users.

When available, the menu item opens a separate window where users can directly share a link to a business application in the SAP S/4HANA or SAP S/4HANA Cloud system with co-workers.

With SAP Fiori elements for OData V4, you can control the visibility in the Share menu of the Send E-mail and Share: Microsoft Teams options at both application level and page level.

For more information, see:

• Share (Generic)
• Collaboration

You can include the actions required for your use case.

The header toolbar displays application-specific actions to the left of the generic actions.

You can also define custom shortcuts for application-defined action buttons and navigation buttons.

Conditional Enablement of Navigation Buttons

With SAP Fiori elements for OData V4, you can enable buttons that navigate the user to another page or application based on the value of a specific field.

With SAP Fiori elements for OData V2, this feature requires extensions.

For example, you can enable the Generate Purchase Order button only for sales orders with the completed status.

The default order — left to right — for actions in the object page toolbar is below:

• Edit
• Delete
• Copy with SAP Fiori elements for OData V2
• Application-specific action buttons
• Related Apps menu button
• Share

You can rearrange the order, for example, by setting an application-specific action that’s the primary action to the leftmost position on the toolbar.

For more information, see:

• Action Placement
• Header Toolbar

Additional Content

Message Strip

You can add a message strip in the header to provide information related to the object as a whole, such as the object status.

The message strip is displayed under the object page title and optional subtitle. When the header is collapsed, the message strip remains visible.

When more than one message is relevant for the object as a whole, the message strip displays the text “The object contains errors / warnings / information.”

The user can find the individual messages via the message popover in the footer bar.

For more information, see:

• Message Strip
• Message Popover Button

With SAP Fiori elements for OData V2:

• You can use a simple header facet to show simple data points that align horizontally across the header.
• When form fields contain no value, they display the empty  state indicator (–).

You can use the plain text facet to display a continuous text in the header.

You can enable a quick view for a contact.

For applications with Microsoft Team integration, the contact card and the quick view card both display options for starting a Microsoft Teams audio call, video call, or chat with the contact.

With SAP Fiori elements for OData V4:

• When a quick view detail contains no value, the empty  state indicator (–) is displayed.
• You can add a quick view to text that’s been set to display in a color to indicate the criticality of its value. The text is displayed underlined as a link, so users know the quick view is available.

You can add a quick view to the form facet.

For more information, see Form Facet (Dataset).

You can display an address such as a shipping address.

You can define fields to display together in a facet. For example, for the product object, in the General Information section, you can include the fields quantity, weight, and supplier.

You can add a rating indicator to the header. It is read-only in both display and edit modes.

By default, the maximum rating is five stars.

You can:

• Change the maximum rating.
• Specify more descriptive text for the subtitle.

With extensions, you can make the rating editable.

Display Mode

The rating indicator shows with the:

• Title
• Subtitle with the total number of ratings
• Rating shown with stars: Both the aggregated and non-aggregated single rating types are supported.

Edit Mode

The rating indicator moves into the header facet and appears with only the title in edit mode.

For an aggregated rating, the number of ratings is shown in parentheses after the stars.

For more information, see:

• Rating Indicator Facet
• Rating Indicator

Progress Indicator Facets

You can add a progress indicator facet to the object header.

For more information, see:

• Progress Indicator Facet
• Progress Indicator

You can add a key value facet to highlight important data or KPIs.

For more information, see Key Value Facet.

By default, page-level view management is enabled and the header displays a page title.

You can disable it.

Share Menu

By default, the header contains the generic Share menu with the global actions Send Email and Save as Tile. It can also include the:

• Share in SAP Jam menu item when SAP Jam integration is configured.
• Microsoft Teams > As Chat and As Card options when the required settings have been made by the system administrators of SAP S/4HANA or SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

This feature is part of collaborative ERP (enterprise resource planning), which integrates the best of SAP S/4HANA or SAP S/4HANA Cloud with Microsoft Teams. It’s not available for all users.

When available, the menu item opens a separate window where users can directly share a link to a business application in the SAP S/4HANA or SAP S/4HANA Cloud system with co-workers.

With SAP Fiori elements for OData V4, you can control the visibility in the Share menu of the Send E-mail and Share: Microsoft Teams options at both application level and page level.

Save as Tile

The tile created opens the list report with the same results shown at the time the tile was saved.

Users can also save a dynamic tile for results shown after the users have filtered for a relative date value, such as today or this year.

Update Mode

By default, the update mode is manual.

You can enable live update mode instead.

Search

By default, the search is disabled.

You can enable it.

The limit for search strings is 1000 characters.

Filter Bar

SAP Fiori elements for OData V2 uses the smart filter bar.

SAP Fiori elements for OData V4 uses the filter bar.

With SAP Fiori elements for OData V4, you can also show a Clear button on the filter bar to let users:

• Remove all filter values

• Reset the value in the Editing Status filter to All

Initial State of Header

The default behavior is shown below:

Pin Button

With SAP Fiori elements for OData V4, the Pin  /Unpin   buttons are displayed under the header when a list report contains at least one responsive table,

The pin option keeps the header collapsed or expanded when the user scrolls.

The grid table and the analytical tables are not scrollable so the Pin  /Unpin  buttons are not displayed when the list report contains only these types of table.

Editing Status Filter

By default, the filter is enabled for draft-enabled applications. You can disable it.

The filter values and corresponding results are as follows:

• All (Default value):

• • All saved (or active) versions of the documents for which the current user has no drafts
  • All the users own drafts of unsaved changes to existing documents. The version last saved before the user began editing the draft is not shown in the results.

• All (Hiding Drafts): Only the saved objects.
• Own Draft: Drafts that the current user can display or edit.
• Locked by Another User: Saved versions that are locked by other users. The current user cannot edit these versions.
• Unsaved Changes by Another User: Saved versions that were edited by another user but are no longer locked. The current user can edit and overwrite these versions, and the previous draft will be overwritten.
• No Changes: Saved versions with no corresponding draft.

For more information, see Draft handling.

Input Controls for Filters

You can decide which filter/input controls to use and set the following for them:

• The properties available as a filter criterion
• The labels for the filter fields
• The default filter values
• Mandatory filters: Marked by an asterisk (*), they always show in the filter bar.
• Type-ahead for values entered
• Value help lists
  By default, a dialog conditions tab is displayed for the value help. Remind application developers to define the right value help options.

You can also:

• Decide on the selection controls for the filters
• Restrict the values accepted in the field. By default, the field accepts multiple values.

For more information, see:

• Filter/Input Controls
• Selection Controls

Adapt Filters

By default, SAP Fiori elements for OData V2 uses the Adapt Filters dialog and SAP Fiori elements for OData V4 uses the Adapt Filters popover.

You can configure the following:

• Filters that are initially visible in the expanded filter bar. When you set filters to be visible by default, they are displayed under the Basic group in the dialog.
• Additional groups for the filters
• Show input fields: Visible by default. You can hide the Hide value/Show value button.

Users can add additional fields through views.

The OK and Cancel buttons are displayed when the application team or the user has chosen manual update mode for the filter bar.

By default, the Reset button is displayed, you cannot change this.

For more information, see: Adapt Filters.