CDS: Semantic Annotations – Currency Unit and Measure Unit
Annotations enrich the CDS views but can be confusing as well. These series of blogs have my simplified explanation.
There are a lot of Semantic Annotations and proper use of Semantic Annotations can improve UI tremendously. They are also easy to use and understand. For example, if we need to show the “Amount” of any item or “Quantity” of any material – we can use the following Semantics to show the unit right beside the numeric value without using any separate column.
For Amount: We need to specify first which column has the currency code and then we need to specify which currency code to used for any particular amount. Example – PriceUnit is the currency code and Price has the amount. Now in Fiori App, the currency code will come beside the Price automatically.
@Semantics.amount.currencyCode: 'PriceUnit'
Price,
@Semantics.currencyCode: true
PriceUnit,
Similarly for Quantity:
@Semantics.unitOfMeasure: true
Uom,
@Semantics.quantity.unitOfMeasure: 'Uom'
Quantity,
Please note, same unit can be used for multiple columns. Also one column can have more than one annotations.
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