UI5 - VBox is not valid for aggregation footer of ObjectPageLayout - sapui5

I have an application with a footer which is same for all pages. Until now, I used separate view for this which I attached to the bottoms of the pages. However, now I created two fragments for item details page (Display/Add modes), using the ObjectPageLayout and want to add my footer into both of those. As I understand, I should use fragment instead of View so I rewrote my footer view into fragment so it looks like this:
<core:FragmentDefinition xmlns="sap.m"
xmlns:f="sap.f"
xmlns:core="sap.ui.core"
>
<VBox>
<Text text=""/>
<Text text=""/>
<f:Card class="sapUiTinyMargin" height="100px" width="1144px">
<f:content>
<VBox width="100%" alignItems="Center">
<Text text=""/>
<HBox>
<Label text="{i18n>needHelp}" />
<ToolbarSpacer width="20px" />
<Link text="{i18n>contactUs}" href="mailto:xxx.xxx#xxx.com"/>
</HBox>
</VBox>
</f:content>
</f:Card>
</VBox>
</core:FragmentDefinition>
And then I put this fragment into the footer of the ObjectPageLayout, like this
<footer>
<core:Fragment fragmentName="xxx.portal.view.Footer" type="XML"/>
</footer>
However, when I try to load the page, I get the error "Assertion failed: "Element sap.m.VBox#__vbox1" is not valid for aggregation "footer" of Element sap.uxap.ObjectPageLayout#nav---connection--ObjectPageLayout"
Any idea why is it showing up and what I am doing wrong? I would also like to note that if I use some simpler elements in the footer (such as Toolbar), there is no error and it gets displayed correctly.
Thank you

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I'm currently building a dynamic table within a sapui5 application. Therefore I'm implementing an editing mode, which is triggered through the click of a button. To change the table cells between view- and edit mode, I defined the following cells:
<items>
<ColumnListItem>
<cells>
<Text text="{Name}" visible="{= !${/editMode}}"/>
<Input value="{Name}" visible="{= ${/editMode}}" change="onChangeName"/>
<Text .../>
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...
</cells>
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</items>
Unfortunately, my code does not work as intended. For example, instead of column 1 switching between the "Text" and "Input" nodes, the text node is displayed in one column and the input node in the following column. How do I get the two nodes in the same column?
View mode (Text text...)
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Solved it using SAPUI5's <HBox> tag (Click here for documentation)
The code now looks like that:
<items>
<ColumnListItem>
<cells>
<HBox>
<Text text="{Name}" visible="{= !${/editMode}}"/>
<Input value="{Name}" visible="{= ${/editMode}}" change="onChangeName"/>
</HBox>
<HBox>
<Text .../>
<Input .../>
</HBox>
...
</cells>
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</items>

How to increase the size of input and button

I have a simple form, that looks as follows:
On the large screen, it looks pretty small. I would like to increase the size and width.
This is the code:
<Page title="{i18n>authorization}">
<content>
<VBox alignItems="Center">
<f:SimpleForm id="registration" editable="true" layout="ResponsiveGridLayout" labelSpanXL="3" labelSpanL="3" labelSpanM="3" labelSpanS="12"
adjustLabelSpan="true" emptySpanXL="3" emptySpanL="3" emptySpanM="3" emptySpanS="0" columnsXL="1" columnsL="1" columnsM="1"
singleContainerFullSize="true">
<f:content>
<Label text=""/>
<Text text="{i18n>userAuthorize}"/>
<Label text=""/>
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<Label text=""/>
<Button type="Accept" enabled="{confirm>/enable}" text="{i18n>confirm}" press="handlePressAuthorization"
ariaDescribedBy="acceptButtonDescription genericButtonDescription">
<layoutData>
<FlexItemData growFactor="1"/>
</layoutData>
</Button>
</f:content>
</f:SimpleForm>
</VBox>
</content>
</Page>
Update
I have removed simple form and placed the controls in VBOX.
<Page title="{i18n>authorization}">
<content>
<VBox alignItems="Center">
<Label text=""/>
<Text text="{i18n>userAuthorize}"/>
<Label text=""/>
<Input placeholder="Enter your email address" id="email" type="Email" value="{confirm>/email}" liveChange="onHandleLiveChangeEmail"/>
<Label text=""/>
<Button type="Accept" enabled="{confirm>/enable}" text="{i18n>confirm}" press="handlePressAuthorization"
ariaDescribedBy="acceptButtonDescription genericButtonDescription">
<layoutData>
<FlexItemData growFactor="1"/>
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</VBox>
</content>
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The controls still looks very small:
How can I increase the size of controls?
The properties labelSpan<ScreenSize> and emptySpan<ScreenSize> are the one which control the width of the actual elements within a "row" of the form.
More info here: https://sapui5.hana.ondemand.com/#/api/sap.ui.layout.form.SimpleForm
For example, for M you have label span of 3 and empty span of 3 => leaving 6 out of total 12 for the actual elements. Try reducing labelSpanM and emptySpanM to increase the width taken by the element Text, Button and Input
That being said, I don't think the choice of simple Form was a wise choice here - why don't you put the three elements directly into the VBox?
That also being said, in case you are implementing an authentication screen inside an application, you should rethink this and let authentication layers take care of that (wherever your app is running)
Update after Question update: depending on what you want to achieve, you could simply add a css class to the control and add some css. that is the "manual" way. you could add a custom theme and style the buttons there. you could add custom extensions of the standard controls, e.g. a custom button as extension of standard button. and completely change the rendering there. I think, this are more or less the possibilities

SAPUI5: ObjectAttribute Wrap Text

I am attempting to display a wrapped long text in an ObjectAttribute in an SAP UI5 application:
<List id="__listObjectAttributes" noDataText="Drop list items here" headerText="Shipping Information" items="{Shipments}">
<items>
<ObjectListItem id="__listItemShipments" title="{ShipmentTxt}">
<attributes>
<ObjectAttribute id="__attributeShipmentId" title="Shipment #" text="{Id}"/>
<ObjectAttribute id="__attributeShipmentCode" title="Shipment Code" text="{ShipCd}"/>
<ObjectAttribute id="__attributeShipmentLongText" title="Long Text" text="{LongText}" binding="{ShipmentLongText}"/>
</attributes>
</ObjectListItem>
</items>
</List>
The problem is, when the list is displayed the text is truncated instead of wrapped. I've been looking for ways to wrap the text in an ObjectAttribute, but to no avail.
I have found articles that say both "you can do it" and "you can't do it".
Possible: https://archive.sap.com/discussions/thread/3589475
Not possible: https://experience.sap.com/fiori-design-web/object-list-item/
If it is not possible to add this information to an ObjectAttribute, does anyone know a way to display the same information in a list that will accept wrapped text?
Solution
#Ran Hassid's answer was correct! Using a CustomListItem in combination with a SimpleForm was the best solution. Here is the code I ended up going with:
<List id="__listObjectAttributes" noDataText="Drop list items here" headerText="Shipping Information" items="{Shipments}">
<items>
<CustomListItem id="__listItemShipments">
<content>
<form:SimpleForm id="__formShipmentList" editable="true" layout="GridLayout" labelMinWidth="100">
<form:content>
<!--Id-->
<Label id="__labelShipmentId" text="Id"/>
<Text id="__textShipmentId" text="{Id}"/>
<!--Shipment Code-->
<Label id="__labelShipmentCode" text="Shipment Code"/>
<Text id="__textShipmentCode" text="{ShipCd}"/>
<!--Long text-->
<Label id="__labelShipmentLongText" text="LongText"/>
<Text id="__textShipmentLongText" text="{Longtext}" binding="{ShipmentLongText}"/>
</form:content>
</form:SimpleForm>
</content>
</CustomListItem>
</items>
</List>
Then I added the sap.ui.layout.form to the mvc:View to simplify the code:
<mvc:View xmlns="sap.m" xmlns:mvc="sap.ui.core.mvc" xmlns:semantic="sap.m.semantic" xmlns:form="sap.ui.layout.form" controllerName="shipments.controller.ShipmentDetail">
I think that even if it is possible (I assume via css changes and so on) it is not recommended because it is not part of the ObjectAttribute interface. In order to achieve the same effect you can do one of the following:
Use CustomListItem instead of ObjectListItem and inside the content of it wrap a SimpleForm. The simple form layout should be grid layout because you want to position text next to the title in the same row. In the Text control you can put as longest string as you want and also control on the wrapping of it. So your code should look something like that (I didn't use binding but I assume you will know what to do in your code)
<List noDataText="Drop list items here" id="__list0">
<items>
<CustomListItem type="Navigation" id="__item1">
<content>
<sap.ui.layout.form:SimpleForm xmlns:sap.ui.layout.form="sap.ui.layout.form" xmlns:sap.ui.core="sap.ui.core" editable="true" layout="GridLayout" id="__form0" labelMinWidth="100">
<sap.ui.layout.form:content>
<sap.ui.core:Title text="Title" id="__title0" />
<Label text="Long Text" id="__label1" />
<Text text="Very long text with\nmultiple lines" />
<Label text="Other text" id="__label2" />
<Text text="Some text goes here" />
</sap.ui.layout.form:content>
</sap.ui.layout.form:SimpleForm>
</content>
</CustomListItem>
</items>
</List>
The second option is to use CustomListItem but with VBOX + HBOX. so you have a VBOX which wrap HBOX's and inside each HBOX you put title next to the text.
I recommend to go with the first approach because it's much more clear and responsive.
Good luck.
I would recommend using basic CSS to solve this issue.
XML-View:
...
<ObjectAttribute text="{aVeryLongText}" class="objectAttributeWrapper" />
...
CSS:
.objectAttributeWrapper * {
white-space: pre-line !important;
word-wrap: break-word !important;
}
This will even work if there are changes on the sap.m.ObjectAttribute Interface, since this CSS-Selector grabs all children of the element which we assigned the CSS class to.
Speaking from my experience this was a quick and stable solution. I had to extend a legacy app, where replacing the whole control would result in me needing to rewrite a whole controller.
Works like a charm and didnt break since 1.71.50

Which SAPUI5 control can be used to display dynamic content in form of Labels or lists?

I am developing a Online Questionnaire application. In this I am using Checkbox and Labels inside a VBox and Hbox control to display the options for my answers. These answer options I am getting them from my questionnaire.json model.
Following is my App.view.xml showing the answers layout:
<VBox id="multipleChoices">
<items>
<HBox backgroundDesign="Solid" alignItems="Center">
<items>
<CheckBox id="mCheckBox0"/>
<Label text="" id="multipleChoice0" width="500px"/>
<CheckBox id="mCheckBox1"/>
<Label text="" id="multipleChoice1" width="500px"/>
</items>
</HBox>
<HBox backgroundDesign="Solid" alignItems="Center">
<items>
<CheckBox id="mCheckBox2"/>
<Label text="" id="multipleChoice2" width="500px"/>
<CheckBox id="mCheckBox3"/>
<Label text="" id="multipleChoice3" width="500px"/>
</items>
</HBox>
</items>
</VBox>
It gets applied in front end as follows:
Q1.png
Q2.png
Problem:
You can see in Q2.png 4 Labels and 4 radio buttons are being displayed even though there are only two answer options. How do I achieve the scenario where the labels's and radio buttons/ check boxes appear in same number as the answer choices and extra ones are hidden?
Is there a dynamic control which can help me with this one?
you should bind your question from your model to a List and a ListItem can have a template with Labels and checkboxs, so you don't need to care about the size of your answers. The way you are doing it at the moment is way too static.
Checkbox has a text property, therefore you could remove the labels and do a binding inside that property
<CheckBox id="mCheckBox1" text="{model/textOption1}"/>
<CheckBox id="mCheckBox2" text="{model/textOption1}"/>

ZK layout issue

I have issue with making below layout. Please provide me some code example how to create below layout. As the screenshot depict I need two part equally sized. Left part containing the latin text and right side the radio buttons and rest. The "From" teksts should be left aligned and the amounts and icons should be right alligned. How do I construct this layout best way in ZK and in ZK way ?
Screenshot Example
You can see below code for demo purpose and adjust component according to your requirments
<zk>
<window border="normal" title="hello" apply="pkg$.TestComposer" width="100%" height="100%">
<hbox heights="40%,20%,40%" width="100%" height="100%">
<borderlayout width="100%" height="100%">
<center>
Here is My Content
</center>
</borderlayout>
<borderlayout width="100%" height="100%">
<center>
<vbox widths="30%,30%,30%" width="100%" height="100%">
<checkbox />
<checkbox />
<checkbox />
</vbox>
</center>
</borderlayout>
<splitter width="100%"/>
<borderlayout width="100%" height="100%">
<center>
<vbox widths="30%,30%,30%" width="100%" height="100%">
<label value = "hariom123"/>
<label value = "hariom123"/>
<label value = "hariom123"/>
</vbox>
</center>
</borderlayout>
</hbox>
</window>
</zk>
You can run above code in Zk Fiddle
It kills me to respond to this answer given the level of detail you provided. In the future please do post some code showing what you've tried and why it doesn't work. With that, we can quickly get you back on track. Your question here is just fishing for code =/
<hlayout hflex="1">
<!--
size/flex on labels doesn't work, wrap label in a div to control size
-->
<div hflex="1">
<label value="lorem ipsum.."/>
</div>
<grid hflex="1">
<columns>
<!--
Last column is small, first two share available space.
-->
<column>
<column>
<column width="30px">
</columns>
<rows>
<row>
<radio label="This is a radio button"/>
<label value="From: 100,00 $"/>
<image src="info.png"/>
<row>
<row>
<radio label="This is a radio button 2"/>
<label value="From: 200,00 $"/>
<image src="info.png"/>
<row>
<row>
<radio label="This is a radio button 3"/>
<label value="0,00 $"/>
<image src="info.png"/>
<row>
</rows>
</grid>
</hlayout>
There are many other ways to get this layout. I chose a grid next to a div so the radio buttons, labels, and icons on the right are guaranteed to line up. You have other options though.
PS: of course you will need to apply CSS to make the ZK grid less gaudy.