Gap in roadmap steps.

[Former Member]

Hi all,

I am using a roadmap , and it has 4 steps in it.

The problem is , I am asked to change the "name" property of each step with some long texts .

I was successful in doing that , but as a result , the gap b/w each step is almost 0.(since the texts are long , about 10-20 characters)

How can I increase the gap b/w steps?

I tried "width" property of roadmap , but that did not work .

Has any one of you come across such a issue . Please give me some suggestions.

Cheers,

Aditya.

[ChrisPaine]

Hi,

I can only suggest that you explain that the roadmap step titles should be short if you want to fit with SAP standard design practices. Having lots of text for a roadmap step just doesn't make functional sense for me. You want short sharp simple text - or even sequence numbers. The descriptions under the boxes can be much longer...

If you look at standard SAP roadmaps (eg FPM)they put the text underneath the box (description) - not in the box (name) - and just put a number in the box - the gap does expand to fit the text in this case.

Is there any reason why you have been asked to deviate so much from this standard design?

Cheers,

Chris

[Former Member]

Hi Chris ,

I agree with what you said . Road map step "name" is supposed to be short and we did follow that way by assigning just numbers to the steps(say 1,2,3 etc) . But client has come back asking for the descriptive steps in "name" of step.So just figuring out the way to go.:)

And yes , thanks for your reply.

Aditya.

[ChrisPaine]

>figuring out the way to go.

point out to the client the additional training costs incurred from varying so significantly from SAP standard and how their custom solution will not look like any SAP standard one - leading to user acceptance issues. If you use the FPM GAF it only allows numerics in the roadmap step names.

If that fails just go with the old favourite - it can be done but it's unsupported and will take ages to build (because you could build a road-map using a flash island that would resize however they liked!) And then if that fails get a large hammer and try to hammer some common sense into them

Client's eh? - can't live with them, but don't get paid without them

Good luck,

Chris

[Former Member]

Hi,

Bingo..very true ...clients are clients..:)

Aditya.