SAP iView Guidelines for Java

Preliminary edition - content is subject to change, images may not yet reflect the final design

This edition of the iView Guidelines comprises guidelines for the interaction design of Java-based iViews. Technical information and information on visual design can be found elsewhere, for example the iView Community pages, and the Recommendations for Charts and Graphics in the SAP Design Guild.

These guidelines address a diverse audience:

• First, there are the SAP developers: They create iViews using tools and techniques provided by SAP. These readers want to know what is available and how they can use it. Here they find the look and feel information and guidelines on how to design user-friendly iViews. Technical issues are covered by other SAP information sources for developers.
• A second important group of readers are developers outside SAP who want to become part of the iView community and who also want to develop iViews for the mySAP.com Workplace. These developers often cannot use the tools and techniques that SAP developers have at their disposal. These guidelines show them how iViews should look like, that is, which screen elements can be used in iViews, and how iViews should be designed using such building blocks. Thus, though the technical basis and approach may be quite different from that of the SAP developers, these guidelines help this audience to achieve the same look and feel for iViews.
• Of course there are also developers outside SAP who can use the SAP tools and techniques; for these readers most of the information applies that is relevant to SAP developers.
• Finally, there are developers inside SAP who want to go beyond the possibilities provided by SAP tools and techniques. These SAP developers are in a similar situation as outside developers without connection to SAP tools. They also use these guidelines as source of information on how screen elements - available or not - should look like and be interacted with.

Note: The design examples in these guidelines tell developers how iViews should be designed - they do not mean that ready-made SAP solutions already exist for these examples; often, you may have to write the HTML code yourself.

Status

The SAP iView Guidelines for Java are outdated.

Version 0.91 as of July 4th, 2001

Got questions and feedback? Write to Udo Arend.

This guideline can be found in Resources on the SAP Design Guild Website (www.sapdesignguild.org).

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