Subject: SAP-Fiori-Elements
SAP Fiori Elements provides a highly efficient way to develop SAP Fiori apps by leveraging metadata-driven UI templates. These templates help deliver consistent and standardized user experiences with minimal manual coding. However, business needs often demand customizations beyond the standard templates.
To address these needs without losing the benefits of Fiori Elements, SAP offers several flexibility options that allow developers and key users to extend and adapt applications while maintaining upgrade compatibility.
This article explores the various flexibility options available within SAP Fiori Elements, enabling tailored yet maintainable app experiences.
Flexibility in Fiori Elements refers to the capability to customize UI behavior, appearance, and logic without modifying the core template code. This ensures:
Annotations are the primary means to influence the UI layout and behavior declaratively. These are metadata extensions that:
Annotations can be:
SAP Fiori provides tools for end users or key users to personalize apps at runtime without developer intervention. This includes:
This empowers users to tailor apps to their workflows dynamically.
For scenarios where annotations and runtime adaptations are insufficient, SAP Fiori Elements offers extension points:
These extensions maintain the core template intact while enabling complex custom logic.
Smart controls in Fiori Elements are dynamic UI components driven by annotations but allow customization:
Developers can control many aspects of the Fiori Elements app via the manifest.json file, such as routing, data sources, and UI settings. Modifying this file offers a flexible way to adapt app behavior at design time.
SAP Fiori Elements combines the benefits of standardized, metadata-driven UI development with powerful flexibility options to address diverse business requirements. Whether through annotations, runtime adaptations, or extensions, these flexibility mechanisms allow organizations to deliver tailored, user-friendly applications while ensuring long-term maintainability and SAP compatibility.
Understanding and leveraging these options enables developers and business users alike to strike the perfect balance between standardization and customization in SAP Fiori Elements apps.