There are many things developers and administrators must consider when designing a successful portal application, including how content will be published, how to integrate custom developments, and how to connect to external systems. This book enables you to meet all of these requirements for creating applications for SAP NetWeaver Portal and publishing portal content.

The book first provides a step-by-step introduction to roles, worksets, pages, and iViews. From there it guides you through all essential implementation phases, including user administration, connecting external systems using single sign-on, layout of externally facing portals, and ultimately transporting data to your live system. Two detailed workshops provide hands-on examples showing you exactly how to customize portal components and even create new ones.

Highlights

• User Administration: Users, Roles, Groups, Company Concepts
• Contents: Menu Trees, Content Elements, Folders, Worksets, iViews
• Methods: Single Sign-On, Externally Facing Portal, Transport Mechanisms
• Tools: Developer Studio, Web Page Composer, Web Dynpro, Interactive Forms
• Workshops: Developing and Customizing Design and Application Components

About the Author(s)

Marcus Banner works in the SAP Technology business area at RealCore Consulting GmbH. Berthold Latka is responsible for portal integration in the SAP Technology Services area at EDS Itellium GmbH. Roland Schroth is a developer and consultant at EDS Itellium GmbH and manages the SAP NetWeaver Portal and Web Development area. Dr. Michael Spee is responsible for the SAP Technology Services area for SAP NetWeaver Portal at EDS Itellium GmbH.

Table of Contents

1 ... Introduction ... 15
... 1.1 ... Structure of the Book ... 19
... 1.2 ... Target Audience and Aim of the Book ... 21

2 ... Installation and Basic Setup ... 23
... 2.1 ... Preparation ... 23
... 2.2 ... Installation ... 26
... 2.3 ... Basic Maintenance Functions ... 32
... 2.4 ... Setting Up the SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio ... 43
... 2.5 ... Deployment Tools for the Portal ... 45
... 2.6 ... SAP Communities and Online Help ... 53

3 ... Portal Content ... 59
... 3.1 ... Basic Structure of the Supplier Portal ... 60
... 3.2 ... Content Elements ... 63
... 3.3 ... iViews ... 78
... 3.4 ... Permissions ... 107
... 3.5 ... Translations ... 111
... 3.6 ... Linked Menu Trees ... 115
... 3.7 ... Systems ... 119

4 ... User Administration ... 127
... 4.1 ... Users ... 129
... 4.2 ... Roles ... 132
... 4.3 ... Groups ... 134
... 4.4 ... Users (Import and Export) ... 137
... 4.5 ... Companies ... 140

5 ... Single Sign-On ... 145
... 5.1 ... User Mapping ... 146
... 5.2 ... SAP Logon Ticket (MYSAPSSO2 Cookie) ... 149
... 5.3 ... SAP Certificate ... 155
... 5.4 ... SAP ECC Target System ... 156
... 5.5 ... Portal-to-Portal Connection ... 160
... 5.6 ... Third-Party Systems ... 165

6 ... External Facing Portal ... 169
... 6.1 ... Themes ... 170
... 6.2 ... Framework ... 176
... 6.3 ... Desktop ... 183
... 6.4 ... Main Rule ... 184
... 6.5 ... Short URLs and Quick Links ... 187

7 ... Web Page Composer ... 191
... 7.1 ... Role Assignment ... 192
... 7.2 ... Web Content ... 194
... 7.3 ... Permissions and Details ... 199
... 7.4 ... Web Page ... 203
... 7.5 ... WPC Navigation ... 208
... 7.6 ... Integrating a Web Page into Portal Navigation ... 218
... 7.7 ... WPC Permissions (Security Zones/UME Actions) ... 223

8 ... System Administration ... 229
... 8.1 ... User Management Engine ... 229
... 8.2 ... LDAP Connection and SAP User Administration ... 236
... 8.3 ... URL Encoding ... 238

9 ... Transport ... 241
... 9.1 ... Content ... 242
... 9.2 ... Main Rule, System Alias, and Quick Link ... 247
... 9.3 ... Themes ... 248
... 9.4 ... Users, Groups, and Roles ... 249

10 ... Developing and Customizing Design Components ... 255
... 10.1 ... Overview ... 255
... 10.2 ... Basics ... 260
... 10.3 ... Customizing the Login Page ... 264
... 10.4 ... Creating a Site Map ... 297
... 10.5 ... Creating the Light Framework ... 321
... 10.6 ... Customizing the Header Area ... 324
... 10.7 ... Summary ... 346

11 ... Developing and Implementing Application Components ... 351
... 11.1 ... Building Applications WithinSAP NetWeaver ... 352
... 11.2 ... Creating a Sample Model ... 357
... 11.3 ... Developing a Web Dynpro Application ... 383
... 11.4 ... Using SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe ... 401

Authors ... 417
Index ... 419