Image Assignment

We talk about the image assignment when images are assigned to individual objects. Information about the assigned image is read from ‘imageAttribute’ of the business object. Any string attribute of the object type can be used. Calculations can be used to set this attribute.

Furthermore, the image can be drawn either from global resources (GLOBAL:<image name>), or from attachments (ATTACHMENT:<image name> or ATTACHMENT:#<image number>).

Refer to these topics for examples of different types of dynamic image assignments:

• Assign Images to Specific Objects

  Example task: Assign a specific image for each Component Class. This way a Component Class Keyboard will be displayed with the image of a keyboard, LCD Monitor Component Class will be displayed with the image of an LCD etc.

• Assign Images to Object Categories

  Example task: We want each Component Type to be displayed with the image assigned to its Component Class. This way all Component Types of the Keyboard Component Class will be displayed with the image of a keyboard, all Component Types of the LCD Monitor Component Class will be displayed with the image of an LCD, etc.

• Assign Images From Attachments

  Example task: We want to have a specific image displayed with each person. These images should be drawn from the attachments of the Persons objects.