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FileDownload UI Element

Posted on Oct 29, 2004 at 11:23 AM 125 Views

Hy all,

i want to implement the Function of the FileDownload UIElement to a normal Button. If the Button was pressed the download of the file should be starts.

What is the best way to implement this scenario ?

First i have implemented the "normal" FileDownload with the UI Element and it works fine !

My question is, on which place(wdDoInit, wdDoModifyView) i must create ("dynamicly" ?) a FileDownload Element and how ?

Is there a Methode to combine a Button with a FileDownload UI Element ?

Thanks for help.

Regards

J. Berndt

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    Posted on Nov 19, 2004 at 09:40 PM
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    Hello.

    Use the IWDFileDownload UI element itself for this task. If you want to change its visual design, you could change the stylesheet/theme. There are articles on how to do this in the SDN Developer Area section for Web Dynpro.

    To create a IWDFileDownload or any other UI element programmatically, you have to write code in method wdDoModifyView():

    IWDFileDownload fd = (IWDFileDownload) view.createElement(IWDFileDownload.class, <id>);
/* bind it's properties to context attributes... */
fd.bindXYZ(<context path>);
/* add it to some container... */
container.addChild(fd);

    Armin

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    Posted on Nov 20, 2004 at 03:51 AM
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    Hi Jurgen

    The File Download element can use an image instead of link to action a download.

    You can make this image look like a Web Dynpro button or just a symbolic image (to bypass multilingual requirements if you have any)

    ;-B

    Regards

    Pran

    Message was edited by: Pran Bhas

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    • Former Member Jürgen Berndt
      Nov 23, 2004 at 08:33 PM

      Hello Jürgen,

      we faced the same problem. I wanna share my experience: We had a table of FileDownload Elements and it would not be feasible to load all of them just because a user might click them. This is way to slow and memory consuming.

      First solution was to have two controls, a "download" button and a FileDownload control which becomes active only after downloading the file.

      People were not understanding this, no usability at all.

      Our current approach to workaround this issue is to have a link which just opens up a webdynpro popup window which than loads the specific file and provides it via a download link (and possibly some more information on the file). Not the best solution also but it leads the user better... this works pretty good now

      Regards

      Bruno

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