Checkbox appearing as Dropdown after upgrade to 7.4

[former_member223763]

Hi,

We upgraded our portal from 7.01 to 7.4 version. While testing a web dynpro application we noticed that in the OVS popup we have a boolean field which appears as a checkbox UI on the 7.0 portal which is correct.

However, this same field now appears as a dropdown list UI with values true and false after the upgrade to 7.4.

Any idea as to why the checkbox field got converted to a dropdown list post upgrade? Any suggestions on how to ensure that it appears as checkbox in 7.4 portal as well?

Regards,

Melwyn

[Former Member]

Hi Melwyn,

This issue is a known issue. You can apply following note in order to fix it:

2118155 - Checkboxes Disappear

Regards,

Mahmoud

[former_member223763]

Hi Mahmoud,

Thanks for the info. I went through the note and it mentions of checkboxes disappearing on mouse hover.

However, in my case the checkbox completely changes to a dropdown as shown in the screenshots.

Any idea why does this happen?

Regards,

Melwyn

[Former Member]

Hi Melwyn,

I discuss your issue with ur colleagues, and you are right the above note is not relevant on your case.

This is not a known issue so we recommending to open an incident on this issue and putting it to following component: BC-WD-UR.

can you open the incident and provide me with the number of the incident?

Regards,

Mahmoud

[former_member223763]

Hi,

We are still facing this issue and have raised an OSS message (8100003094) to SAP for the same.

Haven't been able to resolve it yet. Does anyone have any information on what could be the possible cause and how to resolve it?

Regards,

Melwyn

[Former Member]

Hi Melwyn,

Is the issue reproduced with sap themes? or custom themes? is the theme is taken from portal or from backend(you can check that by httpwatch trace)?

can you attach a screenshot of the issue?

Regards,

Mahmoud

[former_member223763]

Hi Mahmoud,

The issue is with custom themes. The same theme is on 7.0 portal and it appears as a checkbox there. The theme was migrated from 7.0 portal and used now in 7.4.

Refer the attachments for the look and feel of the field in both 7.4 and 7.0 portal.

Regards,

Melwyn

[Former Member]

Hi Melwyn,

If you are facing the same issue in standard theme then it could be a standard issue but you are facing issue in custom theme only.

So its theme related issue only.

Try to assign AFP and any of standard theme. Then check. As per my past experience, your custom theme of 7.0 is creating issues in 7.4.

Regards,

[former_member223763]

Hi Krunal,

I switched to a standard theme and we still get the dropdown box instead of checbox. Here is a screenshot of the output in standard theme.

In 7.4, I noticed that this field in the OVS is tied to a Dictionary Simple Type whose built-in type is "boolean". If I create a new Simple Type of boolean, in the Enumeration tab it shows two values as 'true' and 'false' by default. I was assuming that this enumeration was causing the field to appear as a dropdown.

However, if I delete these enumeration values and deploy the code it does not change the behaviour and still shows as a dropdown.

In 7.0, there is no such enumeration for this boolean Simple Type and it shows a checkbox correctly at runtime.

Any clue on this?

Regards,

Melwyn

[Former Member]

Hi Melwyn,

Could you please share software component list of 7.4?

Regards,