Question Re: Fiori Elements List - View Settings Filter Tab in Technology Q&A

Fiori Elements List - View Settings Filter Tab

robinvandenbrandt — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 15:32:21 GMT

We created a Fiori Elements List with some Smart Filters in the filter bar.

However we do NOT see the filter tab in the view settings... according to the documentation (and from what I've seen in other systems) a Filter tab should be displayed in the view setting dialog

Anyone any idea what we're missing?

Re: Fiori Elements List - View Settings Filter Tab

maheshpalavalli — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 15:41:13 GMT

Hi rvandenbrandt,

You can check the Table Toolbar section in the below link:

https://experience.sap.com/fiori-design-web/list-report-floorplan-sap-fiori-element/

They clearly mention not to use filters in view settings dialog. and this is probably is the reason why it is not shown the Fiori element app that you have developed.

Think about this, if there are filters applied both in the filterbar and in the table view settigns dialog, users will get confused later when they try to remove one or more filters as they have to find it at both places.

Thanks,
Mahesh

Re: Fiori Elements List - View Settings Filter Tab

maheshpalavalli — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 15:42:33 GMT

and one more thing, The documentation url you pasted is for view settings which is used only if there is table and not with fiori elements.

Re: Fiori Elements List - View Settings Filter Tab

robinvandenbrandt — Fri, 23 Oct 2020 10:34:54 GMT

Solution found: If you have enabled harmonized variant management, by default, you cannot set a filter in the table personalization settings. To enable filtering, set the enableTableFilterInPageVariant property in the manifest.

https://help.sap.com/viewer/468a97775123488ab3345a0c48cadd8f/1809BW.001/en-US/33c2b0d5bce24b30b1f05dbfe791f125.html

Re: Fiori Elements List - View Settings Filter Tab

robinvandenbrandt — Fri, 23 Oct 2020 10:37:00 GMT

thanks for looking into this matter. Solution found, see post below.

Re: Fiori Elements List - View Settings Filter Tab

maheshpalavalli — Sat, 24 Oct 2020 08:07:13 GMT

rvandenbrandt thanks for letting me know.. I feel dumb now that I had suggested that it's the reason why its not coming :D.

But I would still recommend you to follow the guidelines of the list report for a better user experience, if you don't have filterbar then better to go with the table level filterbar, but if you have filterbar, then better not to give that option as it will become hard for users ro understand what filters they had applied..