Tile

A tile is a container that represents an application on the launchpad. With Tile, you can create, assign, and maintain tiles. All applications on the launchpad have at least one corresponding tile. To be displayed on the launchpad, tiles must be grouped in tile groups.

Depending on the application, a tile can show the following content:

  • Icon

  • Title

  • Informative text

  • Numbers

  • Charts

  • Links

The following image shows an example of a launchpad with tiles.

tiles example3

Below the tile area, tiles can include a link to other tiles. Links consist of a title and an optional subtitle and are displayed below the tile are. Most tile types can be converted to links while links can be converted to tiles at any time. Users can personalize their launchpad by selecting the tiles for the applications they want to use from the store.

Types of tiles

In Neptune DXP - SAP Edition, there are different types of tiles:

Default

Plain tile with static information.

Integration card

Display data and layout directly from an ABAP backend. SAP UI5 integration cards are based on a JSON manifest where properties and content are defined. These will be generated from special ABAP classes based on the API Factory.

Live application

Run a standalone application in the tile. Send in static start parameters as JSON to the application running in the tile. If you are using the same application to show dynamic content, the start parameters can be used to read content specific data in the application.

Dynamic

Display dynamic data using classic micro-charts. You can choose between 7 different types:

  • Numeric Content

  • Bullet Micro Chart

  • Comparison Micro Chart

  • Column Micro Chart

  • Delta Micro Chart

  • Harvey Ball Micro Chart

  • Radial Micro Chart

Data can be provided from different sources:

  • Update dynamic content directly in the frontend with the sap.n.Launchpad.UpdateTileInfo function.

  • Update dynamic content from OData Source.

  • Update dynamic content based on ABAP

Slidetile/RSS Feed

Display content from an RSS feed. The content will change each 4 seconds, sliding from right to left with the content delivered in the RSS feed.

Responsiveness

The number of tiles that a launchpad shows depends on the screen resolution. If tiles in a group do not fit next to each other, the launchpad moves them to the next row.

Tiles are not responsive. For mobile devices, Neptune provides a different tile size. The Launchpad automatically renders the tile size for mobile devices. Tiles for smartphones do not need to be adjusted by the application. The tile size for tablets and desktop devices is the same.

The example below shows how the tiles rendered for smaller screen size.

tiles example2

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