Question Re: ABAP CDS VIEW list report - Optimizing column width in Technology Q&A

ABAP CDS VIEW list report - Optimizing column width

former_member700233 — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 10:58:30 GMT

Hey guys,

I am building a fiori list report app with ABAP CDS VIEW. The cds view uses sorting, grouping and aggregation annotations, therefore the type of the table is Analytical.

When running the app from SAP WEB IDE I have this result:

I would like to know if there is a way we can optimize the column width, so that the width depends on the content of each field? A functionality that for now, I have it only if I double click on each column separator.

My manifest.json file of the app looks like this:

manifest.png

Thanks 🙂

Re: ABAP CDS VIEW list report - Optimizing column width

raya_hemanth — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 05:47:28 GMT

Hi,

Use different table type in manifest.json file. Below is an example.

"list": true,

"settings": {

"tableType": "ResponsiveTable",

"smartVariantManagement": true,

"condensedTableLayout": true

}

table type can be as below. Responsive table type adjusts column width accordingly.

ResponsiveTable
GridTable
AnalyticalTable
TreeTable

Re: ABAP CDS VIEW list report - Optimizing column width

former_member700233 — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 06:27:25 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for your reply!

I tried your suggestion but when changing the table type to "ResponsiveTable" I am allowed a single level grouping only. I need to group the data by more than one field, therefore I cannot use the Responsive table.

Re: ABAP CDS VIEW list report - Optimizing column width

former_member714630 — Mon, 24 May 2021 05:08:09 GMT

Raya - thank you; your post was very helpful.

Re: ABAP CDS VIEW list report - Optimizing column width

Bricar — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 13:00:20 GMT

This didn't appear to work for me when I changed the table type to ResponsiveTable.

Re: ABAP CDS VIEW list report - Optimizing column width

abhishekanand12 — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 07:00:33 GMT

Hello Bleona,

Please refer to the following documention related to table column width: https://sapui5.hana.ondemand.com/#/topic/a76525362b754354a85981a7389ca7af

Regards,

Abhishek

Re: ABAP CDS VIEW list report - Optimizing column width

RaminS — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 12:51:21 GMT

Abhishek,

I don't want to set the width of each column individually, I want all the columns to be optimized. Shouldn't that be the default behaviour?

It really makes for bad usability for Grid-table, when you don't see some of the columns, instead you see a lot of empty spaces in the first couple of columns.

Looping through each column and setting them optimized in an extension to a List Report template is not really ideal.