Can I retreive user parameter from SolMan to use in Portal?

Question

Hi gurus!
Is there a way to use paramters from Solution Manager (SolMan) in portal? To explain further here is our scenario: we are going to use the portal as an interface for Retail Store in R3. We use SolMan as authentication database for the portal instead of the portals internal one and that works nicely. Further more we have an Application Integrator iview that shows/connect to an external index engine. As of now we logon with ONE user in each store and this Id, which actually is the store number, is sent as an parameter through the URL AppInt iview to the index engine. It's in the form of <LogonUserID> or <User.UserID>, either works fine.
Now for the problem: we have faced the need to use a separate logon Id for every computer instead of one for each store. This means we no longer can't send the parameter LogonUserId since this no longer is the store number. But we connect the parameter Werks (technical name WRK) to the users in SolMan, the question now is if it's possible to reach this parameter from SolMan "through" User or in another way, if it's possible whatsoever... Does anyone have any suggestions? It will be immencely appriciated.
Best regards
Benny Lange

Answer 1

For my SSM this code works,
public java.lang.String getPortalContactState( )
          String portalState = "";
          String epUserName = "";
          try {
               IWDClientUser wdClientUser = WDClientUser.forceLoggedInClientUser();
               com.sap.security.api.IUser sapUser = wdClientUser.getSAPUser();
               if (sapUser.getName() != null) {
                    epUserName = sapUser.getName();
               if (sapUser.getState() != null) {
                    portalState = sapUser.getState();
               } else {
                    wdComponentAPI.getMessageManager().reportException(
                         "State hasn't set for "
                              + epUserName
                              + " Please Contact Your System Administrator ",
                         true);
          } catch (Exception ex) {
               wdComponentAPI.getMessageManager().reportSuccess(
                    "Exception=" + ex.getMessage());
          return portalState;
Regards,
Nitin