Show or Hide Context-Sensitive Columns in a Table Layout

You can select which context-sensitive columns you want to display for a polymorphic business object, using the Polymorphic Information tab of the Business Object Field Editor.

All context-sensitive columns are shown by default. You may want to use this task to hide columns in a layout. For example, in the case of a Region polymorphic business object, you may choose to show regional information only for U.S. employees and hide it for all others.

Note:

These instructions show or hide all context-sensitive columns for a particular discriminator value for Table layouts only. To show or hide individual global or context-sensitive polymorphic segments in all layout types, see the "Hide in layouts" property in Configure the Behavior of Polymorphic Segments.

To show or hide context-sensitive columns:

  1. Open the worksheet with the layout that you want to modify.
  2. From the Layout Designer, click the Edit icon (Edit) next to the Business Object field.
  3. From the Business Object Editor, click the Fields tab and then select the business object's field.
  4. Click the Edit icon (Edit) in the Business Object Editor to open the Business Object Field Editor.
  5. From the Polymorphic Information tab, select Limit discriminator values.
  6. To ensure you see all available discriminator values, click the Refresh icon (Refresh) to fetch the latest polymorphic metadata from the service.
    This icon may be disabled if a refresh has already been performed during the current session.
  7. From the Discriminator Values list, select the discriminator values for the context-sensitive segment columns that you want to display. For example, to show Flight Class and Flight Type columns, select the AIRFARE check box and deselect all others.
  8. After you select or deselect discriminator values, close the open editors.

The layout displays the context-sensitive segment columns you selected.


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