Well, since I’ve been spending a lot of time lately doing my Web Dynpro conversion, it’s time for another lesson I learned 🙂 Today I want to talk about the Invisible Element (InvisibleElement). It’s a pretty handy little unit that I was always looking for in my BSP design.
Often times, if you are using a grid layout or matrix layout, you need a placeholder. In my case, I had a whole list of input fields to show on a screen, but I wanted to skip some rows between certain elements. In the BSP world, you were stuck using a text field with a period or something, so it took up the space in the row, but was “nearly” invisible. Now Web dynpro provides you an element to do exactly this.
The big trick to remember is if you are using the Matrix Data, make sure that the Invisible Element is Matrix Head Data, so it will skip the entire row. Otherwise, there really isn’t anything fancy, except knowing that it exists. =)
Alright, there’s today’s tip.
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