Layouts and floorplans

Keeping in mind the philosophy of making simple, responsive, and task-oriented applications, while keeping them visually consistent and appealing, the SAP team delivered a bundle of several predefined and preconfigured templates and frameworks with SAP Fiori. Depending on the use case and complexity level, the bundle can be described in three categories—SAP Fiori elements, layouts, and floorplans. The first of these is a purpose-oriented set of ready-to-use templates, whereas layouts and floorplans are simple designs that comply with the Fiori guidelines, simultaneously allowing freedom of development.

 

SAP Fiori elements

The increased need for more and more SAPUI5 applications, which accompanied the introduction of the S/4 HANA suite, eventually led to the conclusion that most of them share some similar parts and concepts. Thus, it seemed inevitable that a set of predefined templates should be developed, which can be used almost without any major changes, to speed up...