portal integration

Unit 12Integrating with SAP Enterprise Portal

Unit Overview

Unit ObjectivesAfter completing this unit you will be able to

bull Understand the most important functionalities for creating portal contentlike iViews Pages their layout etc

bull Tasks necessary to be realized for creating new roles and content for end usersbull Understand the procedure to follow in order to integrate SAP Business

Objects in an Enterprise Portal Installationbull Enable you to configure the templates for proper working within a Enterprise

Portal

Unit ContentsLesson Integrating BI Platform Content into SAP Enterprise Portal 492Lesson Integration of SAP Business Objects with Enterprise Portal 500Lesson Comparing Document Viewer and Document List PortalComponent 507

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Unit 12 Integrating with SAP Enterprise Portal TBI30

Lesson Integrating BI Platform Content into SAPEnterprise Portal

Lesson OverviewThe Enterprise Portal of SAP Netweaver allows to unify the access to resourcesand functionality of different systems in one single point This lesson willintroduce you to the most important objects and concepts of the Enterprise Portalfor integrating objects from the SAP BI Platform into SAP EP

Lesson ObjectivesAfter completing this lesson you will be able to


bull Tasks necessary to be realized for creating new roles and content for end users

Business ExampleIt is your task to setup roles composed of different iViews pages and worksetsin order to give the user an access to BOE reporting objects via the SAP NWEnterprise Portal in order to use the existing EP infrastructure as a unifying accessto different functionalities including BOE reporting objects like Webi ReportsCrystal Reports or Dashboard designed with the Dashboard Designer

Basic Concepts of SAP EP

Figure 178 Basic Concepts of SAP EP


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Using SAP NetWeaver Portal organizations can give their employees customerspartners and suppliers a single point of access to the company applicationsservices and information needed for conducting daily work In addition the portaloffers business users the capability to easily create and manage portal pages andto generate their own portal content

Two usage types are associated with SAP NetWeaver Portal

bull EP Core ndash Application Portal (EPC) is a lean portal installation applicablewhen full enterprise portal capabilities are not required

bull Enterprise Portal (EP) includes the Collaboration and KnowledgeManagement add-on capabilities The prerequisite for EP is EPC

The following use cases are available with SAP NetWeaver Portal

bull Providing Unified Access to Applications and Processes

ndash SAP NetWeaver Portal (usage types EPC and EP) provides the coreportal capabilities required to standard content to both internal andexternal portal users The portal offers a single point of access througha Web front end to both SAP and non-SAP information sourcesenterprise applications information repositories databases and servicesacross organizational and technical boundaries

bull Managing and Mashing up Portal Pages with Web Page Composer

ndash Web Page Composer is an integral part of SAP NetWeaver Portal Itenables business users to easily create and manage enriched portal pagesthat blend business applications and user-generated content Web PageComposer also allows professionals to create interactive portal pages

bull Building Communities with Wikis and Forums

ndash Portal users can create and build communities by establishing wikisand forums as the means to easily share and contribute knowledgeand information Forums provide the ability to share knowledge bycommunicating and delivering information to people with similarinterests Wikis provides a framework for collaborative writing andposting ideas and feedback in order to share and manage knowledgeand information

Running Content Management Scenarios

bull Knowledge Management (KM) is one of the basic content services providedby SAP NetWeaver portal It enables customers to run basic KM scenariosand to use an extension framework for customizing implementations



SAP Netweaver Portal Desktop

Figure 179 SAP Netweaver Portal Desktop

For portal users a portal desktop defines the structural layout and design of theportal workspace displayed on the screen It is a structured collection of iViewspages themes and layouts which can be personalized at runtime

In the design time environment a portal desktop is a collection of frameworkpages and portal themes which is defined and customized by content and systemadministrators and ultimately assigned to portal users through portal display rules

Framework page Defines the layout of navigational and structural elements inthe portal desktop

A portal desktop may contain more than one framework page The administratorresponsible for configuring the portal desktop object sets the active frameworkpage

Portal theme Defines the overall look-and-feel of user interface elements in aportal desktop such as color contrast and font usage

A portal desktop may contain more than one portal theme The administratorresponsible for configuring the portal desktop object sets the default portal theme

Portal desktops combine personalization and scenario-based options for portalusers at runtime



The flexibility of framework pages enables administrators to design custom-madenavigation layouts that suit various portal user experiences For example thindesktops can support dial-up connections while customized framework pagessupport different navigational needs for a companys employee intranet andcustomer-based extranet

Portal users automatically receive the appropriate framework page based ontransparent display rules which are predefined by the portal administrator

Administrators assign multiple themes to a desktop to provide portal users withthe freedom to choose a portal theme to personalize the look and feel of theirportal desktop

The System Landscape Directory

Figure 180 The System Landscape Directory

The System Landscape Overview appears upon navigation to SystemAdministration System Configuration It is a multipurpose system managementtool encompassing two primary purposes

bull Displaying all the systems comprising the system landscapebull Associating systems with system aliases to provide back-end connectivitybull The System Landscape Overview also provides alternative access to the

system editors and utilities available from the Portal Catalog context menu

Activities to be realized in the System Landscape Directory (SLD)



The System Landscape Overview is a table listing all the systems in the systemlandscape The overview also provides the following capabilities

bull Associate system aliases and systems

ndash Systems appear by their system aliases Since a system can havemultiple aliases the same system can appear in multiple records

ndash You can assign unassigned system aliases to systems by choosing analias from the dropdown list in the System Name field

ndash You can assign unassigned systems to system aliases by choosing analias from a system from the dropdown list in the System Alias field

bull Full sorting and filtering

ndash You can filter the system landscape list by using the dropdown lists orfree text for any column and for multiple columns You can sort thecolumns as well by clicking the column headings

bull Checking system connections

ndash Selecting a system or multiple systems and choosing Test Connectionverifies the system connection to its back end

ndash The system landscape overview provides information about theprevious connection test including details in the event of failure

bull Locating a system in the Portal Catalog

ndash Selecting a system and choosing Locate in Portal Catalog highlightsthe selected system in its location under in the Portal Catalog

ndash Selecting a system and choosing Edit System displays the Propertieseditor of the selected system

bull Identifying the user management type

ndash The system landscape overview shows the user management typeconfigured for the system such use of a logon ticket or user ID andpassword this indicates how the system is authorized to access data

ndash Since systems typically access data from a back-end source theconnector to the back end may require user mapping For moreinformation see Editing System Properties The user mapping type isdefined in the system properties

bull From the Properties editor you can access the System Alias editor

ndash Viewing and checking the connectivity of roles uploaded to the portalfrom SAP Business Suite packages



The Portal Content Administration

Figure 181 The Portal Content Administration

The content administrator is responsible for all tasks that are relevant to thecreation and management of content objects in the portal

Portal users can gain access to portal content that resides in document repositoriesinternal and external services reports and analytics and business transactionsin enterprise applications Content should be developed in a way that enablesmembers of the organization to connect to their information repositories from theportal retrieve data and interact with this data through a usable interface

Portal Content Objects

Portal content consists primarily of iViews Each iView brings specified data tothe portal desktop from an information resource such as a relational database ERPsystem CRM system enterprise application collaboration tool e-mail exchangesystem intranet or the Internet iViews return up-to-the-minute information eachtime they are launched

You can import ready-made iViews into your portal environment from the PortalContent Portfolio on SAP Developer Network you can create iViews fromtemplates provided with the portal or you can develop custom-made iViews usingthe content-creation tools in the portal or other content development kits

iViews are generally displayed through portal pages You can import predefinedpages or you can create your own pages The page definition includes a list ofassociated iViews and layout specifications Also available for import from thePortal Content Portfolio on SAP Developer Network are worksets and businesspackages Worksets bundle related pages iViews and roles while businesspackages are generally groups of related worksets



User access to content is determined by role definitions A portal role is acollection of task-oriented content While portal content is developed to enableaccess to information relevant to the organization in which the portal is deployedroles define the subset of content available to each function within the organizationUsers are assigned to the role or roles that provide content relevant to them Auser has access to the content that has been assigned to all of his or her roles

The role definition determines the navigation structure within the portal Thenavigation structure consists of the top-level navigation bar and the detailednavigation tree A user navigates portal content by clicking tabs in the top-levelnavigation and detailed navigation

Portal Content Studio

The Portal Content Studio is the content administrators main environment fordeveloping and managing portal content The range of functionality that you havein managing portal content depends on the configuration of your portal



Lesson Integration of SAP Business Objects withEnterprise Portal

Lesson OverviewThis lessen explains the files and objects that are necessary to integrate SAPBusiness Objects with the Enterprise Portal as well as the procedures necessaryto follow


bull Understand the procedure to follow in order to integrate SAP BusinessObjects in an Enterprise Portal Installation

Business Example

Procedure of Integrating SAP BI Platform Objects1 Install the files of the portal integration kit which you can find in the

installation directory of the SAP BI platform installation

bull First install the comsapbusinessobjectsiviewspar file via the JSPM orNWDI

bull Transport the comsapbusinessobjectsiviewstemplatesepa files2 Configure the source system in the SLD3 Create your role with the corresponding pages and iViews that reference the

objects in the BOE repository


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Transporting the EPA File to the Portal

Figure 182 Transporting the EPA File to the Portal

In order to transport an EPA file into the portal please proceed as follows

1 Navigate to System Administration rarr Transport rarr Transport packages rarrImport

2 Select the EPA file from the directory where you put the file before wellfrom the server or from the workstationclient

3 Upload the file A summary of the objects contained in the transport willappear

4 Import the objects to the portal



Figure 183 Confirming the Correct Transport and Finding the Templates inthe Portal Content Directory

You can find two iView templates after the import in the Portal Content Directory(PCD)

bull SAP Business Objects Document List Template The document listiView will provide users with many of the same features BI launch padprovides Users can navigate all reports they have permissions to view viewpersonal folders and browse categories They can also edit reports schedulereport refreshes or manually refresh reports search BI content and set userpreferences (if they have appropriate permissions)

SAP Business Objects Document Viewer Template This is the simplest type ofportal component you can create This iView displays a single report selected bythe portal administrator at the time they deploy it Users will see the report whenthe iView portal page is displayed They can navigate within the report normallybut cannot navigate to any other reports unless the default report contains linkedreports The portal page designer or administrator configures the content that isdisplayed in the iView



Configuring a Source System in the System LandscapeDirectory

Figure 184 Configuring a Source System in the System Landscape Directory



Procedure to configure a source system connection to be realized in the ldquoSystemLandscape Directoryrdquo

1 Create a source system using the source system template SAP BusinessObjects System which can be found in Portal Content rarr Content providedby SAP rarr SAP Business Objects rarr iViews

2 Fill in the values of the fields System Name System ID and IDPrefix (egTraining BIP Default System BIP_DEF_SYS comsap)

3 In the next screen type in an system alias (eg BIP_DEF_SYS_ALIAS)4 Finish the creation and open the source system properties via right click on

the newly created entry for the source system Click on All and then Modifyproperties You will need to provide the following information for this step

bull Under the SAP BusinessObjects property category enter the fullyqualified URL for the SAP BusinessObjects BI platform for examplehttpltServer_Namegtwdfsapcorp8080BOE

bull Under the User Management property category set theAuthentication Ticket Type to SAP Assertion Ticket and the LogonMethod to SAPLOGONTICKET

bull Under the Connector property category configure Group LogicalSystem Name Message Server Remote Host Type SAP ClientSAP System ID (SID) System Type and any other applicable fieldswith the appropriate information for your system Configure the fieldsSNC Library Path SNC Mode and SNCName if you use SecureNetwork Communication

bull Save the settings and test the connection



Connector Properties for a BI platform Source Systemin Enterprise Portal

Figure 185 Connector Properties for a BI platform Source System inEnterprise Portal

In the above slide you can see sample settings for a successful connection to aserver using the BW system for authentication


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Lesson Comparing Document Viewer and DocumentList Portal Component

Lesson OverviewThe two main templates for iViews that come with the Portal Integration Kitare the document viewer and the document list portal component This lessendescribes how to configure the templates


bull Enable you to configure the templates for proper working within a EnterprisePortal

Business Example

Comparing Document Viewer and Document list PortalComponentTwo main iView Templates are Available

1 SAP BO Document Viewer

bull For visualizing single BO Reporting objects in the Enterprise Portalbull Both CUIDs (Unique character String) or IDs (unique numeric value)

can be used to identify the object2 SAP BO Document List

bull Encapsulates most of the functionality of the BI Launchpad withina single iView

bull The navigation to the requested object is realized via the navigationoffered by the BI Launchpad

SAP Business Objects Document List Template The document list iView willprovide users with many of the same features BI launch pad provides Userscan navigate all reports they have permissions to view view personal foldersand browse categories They can also edit reports schedule report refreshes ormanually refresh reports search BI content and set user preferences (if they haveappropriate permissions)

SAP Business Objects Document Viewer Template This is the simplest type ofportal component you can create This iView displays a single report selected bythe portal administrator at the time they deploy it Users will see the report when



the iView portal page is displayed They can navigate within the report normallybut cannot navigate to any other reports unless the default report contains linkedreports The portal page designer or administrator configures the content that isdisplayed in the iView

SAP Business Objects KM Integration SAP NetWeaver provides KnowledgeManagement amp Collaboration (KMC) capabilities via the SAP Netweaver Portal(SAP EP) While this feature is currently available it is no longer being activelydeveloped meaning that no new features or upgrades are planned for the futureUsers currently using this solution are recommended to consider moving to theSAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI iViews Document List portal component Formore information check the Portal Integration Kit Installation Guide

Figure 186 The SAP Business Objects Document Viewer ndash Setup Step 1

In order to configure the iView Template SAP Business Objects Document Viewerstart by creating a new iView based on the template SAP Business ObjectsDocument Viewer You can start this process by right-clicking on the PCD Folderwhere you want to store the iView Choose New rarr iView rarr iView based ontemplate Later on choose the template SAP Business Objects Document viewer

Give the iView a name ID and a ID prefix Afterwards open the properties forfurther configuration (see next slide)




Set the source system and the type of document ID Choose then the BOE objectto be called when opening the iView




Figure 189 The SAP Business Objects List Component ndash Setup Step 1

Setting up the document list viewer iView is very easy Define the system toconnect to and specify the BI Launch Pad path (default = ldquoBIrdquo) Preview youraccess to the BI Launchpad



Lesson Summary

You should now be able tobull Enable you to configure the templates for proper working within a Enterprise

Portal



Lesson Integrating BI Platform Content into SAPEnterprise Portal

Lesson OverviewThe Enterprise Portal of SAP Netweaver allows to unify the access to resourcesand functionality of different systems in one single point This lesson willintroduce you to the most important objects and concepts of the Enterprise Portalfor integrating objects from the SAP BI Platform into SAP EP



bull Tasks necessary to be realized for creating new roles and content for end users

Business ExampleIt is your task to setup roles composed of different iViews pages and worksetsin order to give the user an access to BOE reporting objects via the SAP NWEnterprise Portal in order to use the existing EP infrastructure as a unifying accessto different functionalities including BOE reporting objects like Webi ReportsCrystal Reports or Dashboard designed with the Dashboard Designer

Basic Concepts of SAP EP

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