Portal doesn’t show loading animation when loading iViews

admin — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:35:10 +0000

Symptom

When an iView is loading you do not see the loading animation. The iView looks like it is collapsed until the iView finishes loading and the content appears.
Other terms

automatic height, loading animation, hourglass, collapse, height type,
Reason and Prerequisites

Prerequisites:
The following version is being used: NW04s- SP17 onward, EhP1, EhP2.
The iView is in URL ‘isolation mode’ and the ‘height type’ is automatic height.
Reasons:
A bug fix was included in SP17 allowing adjustment of the iView`s height when the content is small. When the iView finishes to load, the iView is resized to its content height. Since the height of the iView was initially small, the loading animation is not visible.

Solution

Workaround:
In order to see the loading animation you need to set up a minimum height size for the iView . In this case the iView will be created in this minimum height and will grow to the actual size when the iView finishes loading.
The side effect of this workaround is that the iView will not adjust to height that is lower than the minimum height configured (If the content height is lower than the minimum height the iView will remain in the original height and a gray area will fill the remaining area).
In order to set a minimum automatic height:
1. Open the property editor of the iView (if you wish it to hold for all the iViews from the same type, open the template iView).
2. Open category – “appearance – size”.
3. Set the height of the property “Minimum Automatic Height (Pixels)” to at least 150 .
4. Save.

Force Loading Animation on appintegrator iViewsSymptom Loading Animation doesn’t show while waiting for application integration iView to load. Other terms Loading, Animation, Image, Force, iview, Show, Appear, com.sap.portal.reserved.iview.Redirect, Service, AI, Application Integration, appintegrator Reason and Prerequisites Remote...

Force Loading Animation on appintegrator iViews

admin — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:29:55 +0000

Symptom
Loading Animation doesn’t show while waiting for application integration iView to load.
Other terms
Loading, Animation, Image, Force, iview, Show, Appear, com.sap.portal.reserved.iview.Redirect, Service, AI, Application Integration, appintegrator
Reason and Prerequisites
Remote AI iView(FPN) and WEB Dynpro iView on EP 7.00 and also BSP, Generic and Transaction iView (Web GUI) on EP 7.01/7.02 run inside Page-Builder Request (performance oriented behavior).
This behavior saves request for AI but loading animation does not show on this scenario.
Solution
PLEASE NOTE – The procedure below is not recommended and done on the customer own risk.
You also should be aware that upgrade will overwrite the changes below.
If you want to Force the Loading Animation you need to set the redirect parameter ‘com.sap.portal.reserved.iview.Redirect’ to false.
In order to do so download the PAR file:
com.sap.portal.appintegrator.sap.par
This file can be found with .bak suffix in the folder(via file System):
…\j2ee\cluster\server0\apps\sap.com\irj\servlet_jsp\irj\root\.. …\WEB-INF\deployment\pcd or temp.
Or Via the portal:
../irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.portal.support.browse.default
We strongly suggest backing up the PAR file before applying the change.
After downloading the file open the PORTAL-INF directory and open the portalapp.xml file – find the type of the iView that you want to add loading animation to its flow (for example B S P ) and change the line:
to

If you set the ‘com.sap.portal.reserved.iview.Redirect’ to false under the ‘B S P ‘ category then all the BSP iViews that suppose to run inside page builder request would run in a separate request (less performance but with loading animation). This means that you will have one more roundtrip to the server. You cannot change it for only one specific iView.
Afterwards save the changes and close the PAR file.
Please follow the described steps in order to deploy the PAR:
1. Deploy the attached PARs into your portal using the Archive Uploader:
- Navigate to ‘System Administration’ -> ‘Support’ -> ‘Portal Runtime’
-> in the “Portal Anywhere” Admin Tools section navigate to ‘Administration Console’ -> use the ‘Archive Uploader’ to deploy the PAR.
2. Restart the Application Integration service:
- Navigate to ‘System Administration’ -> ‘Support’ -> ‘Portal Runtime’->
In the “Portal Anywhere” Admin Tools section navigate to
‘Application Console’->In the list choose ‘com.sap.portal.appintegrator’ and click ‘Show’ -> in the table displayed click on ‘refresh’ on the right side.

Portal doesn’t show loading animation when loading iViewsSymptom When an iView is loading you do not see the loading animation. The iView looks like it is collapsed until the iView finishes loading and the content appears. Other terms automatic...

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