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ChandraPrakash1
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What is more convenient than sharing or accessing the report as per the desired format we designed?! Often I've seen business users asking ways to share the reports or how to make their created reports (filters, dimensions, measures included as per the need) a sharable landing page. In today's blog I'm going to discuss on what is a bookmark and its capability with how to create them and share with other users as well. Further we will be also diving in what all controls we will be having in terms of bookmarks.

 

So, what is a bookmark?! We all have came across this word very often in our day to day lives that a bookmark is a save point from where you can resume your activity. In general this name strike down our memory of having a fancy marker placed in between the pages to mark the reader's place. In Fiori or SAC reports we have a similar concept of bookmark which allows users to resume their analysis from the last saved point. This functionality has been introduced by SAP from S/4HANA 2021 for on-premise customers.

In other words, as per the SAP definition of bookmarks A Users can use the bookmark function via the Share button to make list reports, object pages, or analytical list pages directly accessible from the SAP Fiori launchpad while preserving all filter values they have set before. The bookmark is added as a tile to the SAP Fiori launchpad.

Now with the above definition, lets see how to create a bookmark.

  • We can share apps or search result with colleagues
  • We can create our own tiles with access to specific app or search data
  • Sharing app or saving app or searching app can be done via below steps:
    • Send an e-mail with a link to the search or app and your currently selected data to a colleague.
    • Save the app or search as a new tile in your launchpad.
  • Bookmark help with save the selected data as a new tile that then directly opens the selected data in the app or performs the saved search.
  • Bookmark functionality is available for only WebDynpro apps.
  • Below steps to be followed for creating and sharing bookmark:
    • Open a WebDynpro app. Example – Journal Entry Analyzer app
    • Bookmark loaded tag will appear (refer the screenshot)
    • Click the bookmark loaded tag

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Click Save as option and name your bookmarkPicture12.png

  •  With this, you'll now have a bookmark created and will be displayed in the bookmark area as per the first screenshot.

Now let's see how to share them across with our colleague and invite them to collaborate.

  • If you want to share your bookmark, use Shared option.
  • If bookmark has variable values, use with variable value option while saving.
  • Once save, bookmark is created.

 

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Now our bookmark is available for future use.

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 A point to remember in case you are facing issue with locating a bookmark. 

Note: This feature is cross-application component type. If you want to share bookmarks in Web Dynpro apps, you need to have the SAP_CORE_BC_UI_SHARE_PC (User Interface - View Sharing) business catalogue assigned to your role.

We will discuss on the bookmark feature in SAC Stories in next blog. Till then stay tunned and happy learning! 🙂

Some helpful links:

Extending a bookmark

How to create a bookmark- MicroLearning 

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