Basic questions on Collaboration Rooms,TREX and Federated portal

Hi All,
I have some basic doubts related to above topics.
1.In a particular collaboration room,Room admin role check box is disabled(greyed out),that means we can not add anybody as admin.other room roles like member and member admin are ok.How can I again make it enabled again?
2.In room administration under content admin->collaboration content->I can filter out the rooms available ,by giving appropriate filter search.But TREX is not installed with portal.Does this search uses TREX?
3.What is basic definition of federated portal?Is it something to do with the remote interaction of one portal with other?that means one portal iviews and other objects can be accessed through another portal.Is it True?
Thanks in Advance,points are guaranteed
Rani A

Hi,
1. This should only be the case if the user that looks at the room roles is not an administrator in the room. An administrator should be able to givte this role to other users
2. This search can wor with TREX but it is not necessary. Please have a look at this: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/ff/1a9442062bcd6ae10000000a155106/frameset.htm
3. Please read through this http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/67/7e70424edcc553e10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm. It will give some basic introduction to FPN. The re are differen scenarios how to use. In priniciple, a portal can be a producer or a consumer of content or both
Kind reagrds
Karin

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Few basic questions on collaboration

Hi,
I am new to Collaboration, so thought someone could help me with this. I have already gone through documentation and I got some basic questions regarding COllaboration.
a) I want to create a collaboration room. what are the portal roles that will be helpful for me. i.e is it ok if i assign CollaborationRoomCreation Role to the guy who creates a room (he will be admin and room owner, let us say "roomadmin") and a Collaboration Role to members. is it required to assign the content admin and system admin for the collaboration room administrator. Isnt it cumbersome that each time a room owner invites a member, he should also notify user amdinistrator to assign "collaboration" role to the member in question.
Note: We are just using standard templates provided by SAP.
b) and once roomadmin creates the room and includes a memnber for this room, will that particular user be automatically assigned the workset "Collaboration" which is in the Role "Collaboration" or should he contact user admin to assign the Collaboration role to the member that roomadmin has added.
c) afaik, we can create documents, links, discussions, ratings, comments, feedback, reviews on documents in collaboration rooms. arent these KM functions that are being used in Collaboration
e) arent the docs and folders created in collaboration rooms be available in KM content workset, if so where can i find them?
I have anotehr set of questions, but thought that i could seperate into two threads..becuase these questions itself carries 10 points.
Please help me in this regard.
thanks
P.S: would be great if you could just give me atleast oneline answer instead of giving links to help/sdn..as i already gone through documentation and didnt understand the above concepts.

hi,
its not necessary to assign content admin and System admin role. collaboration room creation role contains room directory iveiw thats more than enough for room creation. assign room creation role to ur administrator and for all other user you can assign a role called EU_role.
By assinging that role, u wil get to see a workset called "home" in ur TLN.inside this workset u have a tab called rooms. the end user can see all types of room here.
so its not needed to assign collaboration role to all end users.
Message was edited by: Vasudevan Dharanipathy
Message was edited by: Vasudevan Dharanipathy

Some questions on Collaboration rooms

HI,
In some of the room templates I found an extension BANNER. But how do I configure a Banner for my room I couldnt find.
I want to add a quick poll to my room template which I developed. How do I go about this.
The Search Room functionality: DOes this require TREX set up and if so what do I need to index for it to work.
Now in a collaboration room if i have a documents page which is a navigation page, the end user gets access to Move, Copy, Delete etc etc on the resources. How do I remove such links?
If I need to create any other such iView like a BI iView in my room template, how do I go about this?
Points assured for a Detailed Answer.

thanks vijayakumar kanniah mohan
The room part works once I already have 2-3 created rooms.
Suppose I wish to add a quickpoll to the tenmplate will it reflect fo all the rooms which have been priorly created using this template.
In such a scenario, what can I do?
e.g. My template is MYTEMPLATE out of which I create ROOM 1 and ROOM 2. I can go and add room parts to those 2 rooms. But what if I want to just edit the room template and say add the quick poll to an existing page there. How do I get it reflected in ROOM 1,2.
Also I didnt quite get the answer to the Banner question.
I have the folowing Extensions in the room tempalte:
Banner
cmRoomExtensionSP2FP
ON_CREATE_ROOM
ON_DELETE_ROOM
Contacts
cmRoomExtensionSP2FP
ON_CREATE_ROOM
ON_DELETE_ROOM
Documents of a Department
cmRoomExtensionSP2FP
ON_CREATE_ROOM
ON_DELETE_ROOM
Documents
cmRoomExtensionSP2FP
ON_CREATE_ROOM
ON_DELETE_ROOM
Downloads
cmRoomExtensionSP2FP
ON_CREATE_ROOM
ON_DELETE_ROOM
Events
cmRoomExtensionSP2FP
ON_CREATE_ROOM
ON_DELETE_ROOM
InternalDocuments
cmRoomExtensionSP2FP
ON_CREATE_ROOM
ON_DELETE_ROOM
Links
cmRoomExtensionSP2FP
ON_CREATE_ROOM
ON_DELETE_ROOM
News
cmRoomExtensionSP2FP
ON_CREATE_ROOM
ON_DELETE_ROOM
But how do I put an image as the banner and where.
Thanks agian and waiting in anticipation for your reply.

Collaboration room: Document and links ivew

Hello to all,
i need to do a new workset template for a room. But when i use the standard page documents and link it doesn't work write. It shows that the file which i try to access doesn't exists.
Anybody know how i can solve it?

Hi,
take a look at this
Easy steps to Collaboration Room template creation
Regards
DV

Question on collaboration rooms

Hello all,
I'm trying to activate a collaboration room in Netweaver 2004s. I'm using the SAP Standard templates. When I set up a collab room, no matter what template I base it on, it comes up with the same room parts. For example, I want to see discussion functionality. I choose a template that has discussion capability; as room admin I confirm that the discussion part exists, but no discussion iView comes up in the final room. Could this be some security or configuration issue? Please advise.
PV

make sure that the room role you have, has the right page permissions. e.g. it might be that you have the admin role, but the page access is only permitted for members. maybe this hint helps.

Trex in Federated Portal

Hello All,
We are working on federated portal environment. We want to have Trex search in fpn.
I have two queries on the same:
1)What are the configurations required for Trex in FPN. Do we need any special configuration?
2)If we have users having access to different producers then search should throw documents only from the producer for which the user is having access. It shouldn't throw search results from all the producers of the portal.
Plz revert if anyone can help in this regard. Plz provide any supporting documents for the same.
Thanks,
Saumya

Hello Rohit,
You can configure TREX in the central consumer portal, you might find the following documentation helpful regarding the search configuration which is necessary.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/44/64a254b9da4ddee10000000a1553f7/frameset.htm
Regards,
Lorcan.

Part2: basic questions on collaboration and KM

Hi,
could someone please help by answering my questions...
what is difference between "action item" and "approval" in the listbox while creating a task in "my tasks" workset of Collaboration role?
what is difference between UWL and adhoc workflow.
what are extensions and extension points?
Regards

Hi,
1)
Action item is for any task to be carried out.you mention the work to be done by the user in each step.
Approval : you attach a document and set the approval process, if the document is rejected by a approver it goes back to the author.
2)
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For each extension in a template, certain extension points are defined. In the life-cycle of a room or room part, the system executes the extension at the extension points that are defined in the respective template. For example, when the system creates a room, it can create a folder in accordance with the extension configuration.
Configuring the extension for a template involves creating it for each of the planned extension points and defining the input and output parameters required.
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3)
Ad Hoc Workflow (AWF) is a component accessible through the Universal Worklist (UWL). AWF is integrated with the UWL so that users can create ad-hoc workflows with multiple steps. Users can assign work items to other portal users, and define the work item types, details and due dates. Users define ad hoc workflows using the provided Ad Hoc Workflow Wizard.
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A workflow of this type enables agents to be assigned to workflow steps when the workflow is started. During workflow execution the agent assignment can be changed by authorized users at any time for steps not yet completed.

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Collaboration Rooms, Calendar and Appointments

Hi
I really want to know how can I change the state of an appointment in the calendar room.
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Regards
Rosa

Hi Gracia,
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How to create a collaboration room of the SAP Portal from EJB tier.

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I used the SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio to produce a version of my example using a WebDynPro and a JSPDynPage (PDK). Deployed to my EP6 server and then created iVews to show then in the appropriate theme.
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To use the PDK you need to understand the TAGs and the SAPDesignGuild website helps - but would be better if the Studio presented a graphical interface much like DreamWeaver does.
SAP's direction seems to be with WebDynPro and no longer PDK - wonder if this is truely the case ?. SAP does have a lot of work to do in my opinion to get both products up to scratch from a useability point of view.

Crystal Reports and Federated Portals

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We've got a SAP Portal used to display some BI / BO (Crystal Reports) content. We'd like to federate this portal. The BI / BO portal would be the producer and our global portal would be the consumer. I know how to federate the BI content but what are the SAP guidelines to federate the BO content?
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Hi,
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Basic Question on Copy and Delta link which one to use when?

Hi
Its basic question
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Where as Delta link will have a parent child relation ship between source object bacially its a copy of source and inherits id properties. in case if i change source object does this affect target object, we can delete, add content to delta link target object.
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Murali,
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Collaboration Rooms on Federated Portal

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