Well, today has been a big relearning experience for me. When I originally designed Rapier, I played around with Eclipse. With is a piece of software that has partnered with SAP that allows you to edit your SAP theme for a BSP or WebDynpro application. If you’re not familiar with a SAP theme, it’s basically all of the colors, fonts, and styles for your web page.
Well, the last time I used Eclipse, it was a almost 2 years ago. So today I had to go through and relearn how to install and use it. IN fact, I’m still playing with it as we speak. What I wanted to talk about today is the basic process for editing your SAP theme and testing it.
Step one is get it installed. You’ll need to download a few things to make this all work properly:
SAP Install Files
This link will give you the SAP specific files you need to edit themes.
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/downloads?rid=/library/uuid/b08a05ec-e24a-2d10-189e-f5c6bcbf39a5
This link gives you the how to of installation and how to get started. This guide is good, but most of the Eclipse is trial and error. As far as Rapier is concerned, this is the only time consuming part of the whole installation process. You have infinite colors and a LOT of areas that can be customized.
Finally, once you have something to play with, go back into SAP and execute the program:
BSP_UPLOAD_MIMEREPOS
Then just enter in the path of where you want to upload the theme,
/SAP/PUBLIC/BC/UR/Design2002/themes/
is the default area SAP keeps it’s themes . Select upload, and all the files will be pulled in.
Finally, point your application to the new theme and give it a try. If you are using Rapier, just go to /ZPSE/CONFIG transaction and enter in your new theme.
So, get ready to do a lot of trial and error, but before you know it, your website will look awesome.
Thanks for reading,
Mike
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