In this exercise, you will learn how to use some of the new configuration features provided by the SAP Fiori tools Page Map.
When starting the app, per default the user has to press the
Go button in order to trigger the selection.
This allows defining filters before the query is executed.
The default behaviour can be changed in a way that selection is immediately
triggered when the app is started.
In the SAP Business Application Studio, open the SAP Fiori Page Map by clicking on tile (1) of the Application Info tab.
Alternatively, you can open the Page Map via context menu on project's folder app or via View -> Command Palette...Fiori: Show Page Map).
(2) On the tile List Report, click icon Configure Page.
(3) In the page editor, click 
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(4) In the drop-down box Initial Load, select Enabled.
The configuration is automatically saved.
Switch to the preview browser tab. After a couple of seconds, the app should reload automatically.
Data will now be immediately loaded in the List Report page when starting the app.
(5) In the List Report, we can see that in case of small screen resolution, column Travel Status is currently only shown when toolbar button Show Details is pressed.
As status information is considered as being important, let us change its sequence in the next exercise.
(6) Switch back to the Page Editor and expand section Columns.
Drag column Travel Status (7) and drop it in between columns Travel and Agency (8).
It is considered as best practice providing a criticality color for status information displayed on the UI.
For column Travel Status, we will now configure this via the Page Map.
The service model's entity Travel already contains property criticality in file db/schema.cds:
(9) Select column Travel Status in the page editor's section Columns.
(10) In the properties pane, expand drop-down box Criticality.
(11) Select list entry TravelStatus/criticality.
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In the List Report, we can see that column Agency is only showing the identifier, not the agency name.
We will now configure the display text and the text arrangement in order to show the agency name along with the identifier.
(12) Select column Agency in the page editor's section Columns.
(13) In pane Properties, scroll to property Text and expand the drop-down box.
(14) Select entry 
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An additional property Text Arrangement is now shown in the properties pane.
(15) Expand the drop-down box.
(16) Make sure that list entry Text First is selected.
With it, column Agency will show values in format <display text> (<identifier>).
Switch to the preview browser tab.
(17) Column Travel Status is now being displayed with criticality coloring at its new position in the table.
(18) Column Agency is now displayed with the configured text arrangement.
On the object page, in field group Travel we want to exchange the positioning of fields Customer and Agency.
For Field Description, in order to have long descriptions properly displayed in edit mode, we will switch the field's display type by using the SAP Fiori tools Page Map.
(19) In the Page Editor, click on 
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(20) On the Object Page tile, click icon Configure Page 
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(21) Expand section Sections->Travel->Subsections->Travel->Form->Fields.
(22) At field Agency, click icon Move Up 
in order to exchange its position with field Customer.
Alternatively, you can also use drag & drop.
Now let's switch the display type for field Description.
(23) Select field Description.
(24) In pane Properties, open the drop-down box for property Display Type and select list entry Text Area.
Switch to the preview browser tab.
(25) On the object page, click button 
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(26) Field Description is now shown as a text area, and the position of fields Agency and Customer has changed.
Click button 
in order to switch back to display mode.
For a sustainability initiative, the travel service has been extended to provide some additional fields for the new green flight offering which are not yet shown in the UI.
In this exercise, we will add a new subsection Sustainability to section Travel of the object page by using the Add Form Section functionality of the SAP Fiori tools Page Map.
(27) In the SAP Fiori tools Page Map's page editor for the object page,
expand Page Layout - Sections - Travel - Subsections and click icon Add Sections 
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(28) Select list entry 
. This opens up a dialog.
(29) In the dialog, enter label Sustainability and click icon 
in order to substitute it with an i18n text reference.
(30) Confirm text key substitution by clicking 
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(31) Click button Add to complete the Add Form Section dialog.
(32) Expand the form of the the new subsection Sustainability and click icon Add Fields 
(33).
(34) In dialog Add Fields, expand drop-down box Fields.
(35) Select fields GoGreen, GreenFee and TreesPlanted.
(36) Click button Add to complete the Add Fields dialog.
(37) Verify that the fields have been added to the new subsection.
Switch to the preview browser tab. The new subsection Sustainability is shown on the object page.
(38) Click button 
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(39) Select Trees-4-Tickets check box.
(40) Click button .
(41) With Trees-4-Tickets selected, fields Green Flight Fee and Trees Planted show calculated values after having saved changes.
By using the SAP Fiori Page Map, you've now configured initial loading during app start, changed the position of a table column and a form field,
added criticality coloring to a table column, added text and text arrangement to the identifier field, and added a new subsection‚ to section Travel.
Continue to - Exercise 3 - Fine-Tuning the UI