Solving one of the biggest issues in in SAP Fiori

I have been on multiple Fiori implementation projects and some of the feedback I often ran into was “Why do I have to scroll so much” (on the Launchpad). For many powerusers, they easily access between 20 – 40 transactions or maybe even more in their daily work. In the Fiori Launchpad today, depending on your screen resolution, you would be able to view between 15 – 25 tiles. Because of this, the user has to scroll to see more tiles. This issue is only becoming more apparent if you are using a tablet or a smartphone. SAP has made some attempts to solve the issue. In HCM they have created two “navigational” apps called my team and my services.

However these are only applicable for HCM and they are not reusing the Fiori Launchpad approach with tiles. Also you could go for the overview page, which looks great.

However it needs to be configured or developed for each app and the aim is not really just to have a simple navigational app, but more a quick overview of various KPI’s within a certain area. Addressing this issue we set out to develop a “Navigational” tile that will give the user a possibility to navigate to a sub folder from the main Launchpad. This approach has been used with great success in SAP Business Client on the index page. Imagine a user having a Launchpad with three tiles •Sales •Deliveries •Invoices They click on Sales and will now see tiles •Quotations •Sales Documents •Prices •Check Prices and availability If they click on Sales document they will see •Sales Order Worklist •Create Sales Order •Change Sales Order •Display Sales Order This was simply not possible before. However with Plaut’s new application for Navigation it is! We are reusing the Fiori catalogs from the Launchpad designer to filter which tiles needs to be shown in a particular folder. Also the user is able to use the back button to navigate back to a previous folder. As a customer you aren’t limited to just Fiori apps in the Fiori Launchpad with our approach, you can easily include SAP Gui Transactions, Web Dynpro, Screen Personas flavors and even external content from SAP. The application is a single application, so it is very simply to use and setup. See the animated gif for a demo on how you can experience a more navigable Fiori Launchpad tomorrow.