Entry point property in roles

Hi Experts,
Can anybody tell me what is Entry point property in roles ?
Thanks a lot .

Hi,
As mentioned, Entry point defines if the role needs to be displayed for navigation. E.g., Consider role -> workset -> page -> iView, here if you set all entry points to false, nothing will appear in portal. If you set role entry point true, then role and workset appears in TLN while page and iVIew occupies DTN. If role entry point is false but workset is true, then level starts from workset. Workset and page displays in TLN while iView alone in DTN and so on. Higher the hierarchy, higher the preference which means since role holds higher hierarchy than iVIew, if both entry points are set to true, role is considered first. Hope that answers the question.
Regards,
Harini S

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Is it possible to change the attributes "Entry Point" of a role through codes.
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Please let me know.
Thank & Regards,
H.K.Hayath Basha.

Hi,
Check out the following blogs for assigning and unassigning roles dynamically:
<a href="https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/3365">Restricting usage of iViews and Pages</a>
<a href="https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/4164">Dynamic portal role assignment</a>
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Hi,
First of all you want to distinguish the pcd roles from the LDAP roles. To do that you use a IRoleSearchFilter like this:
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try {
searchFilter = roleFact.getRoleSearchFilter();
searchFilter.setDisplayName("*", SearchAttribute.LIKE_OPERATOR, false);
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if (result.getState() == ISearchResult.SEARCH_RESULT_OK) {
while (result.hasNext()) {
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You also need to check if the role is assigned to the user, so get the user's roles and compare them to the ones you got from the search result.
In order to get name correctly use:
role.getDescription();
To see if Entry Point = True you do something like this:
IPcdContext targetobject =(IPcdContext) initialContext.lookup(role.getUniqueName());
Object object = targetobject.getAttributes("").get("com.sap.portal.pcd.role.EntryPoint");
if (object instanceof IPcdAttribute) {
IPcdAttribute att = (IPcdAttribute) object;
boolean b = att.getBoolean();
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Hi Otto,
You use the following environment:
env.put(com.sap.portal.directory.Constants.REQUESTED_ASPECT, PcmConstants.ASPECT_SEMANTICS);
This means when you lookup you will get a semantic object and not PCDContext.
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import com.sapportals.portal.pcd.pcm.roles.IPortalRole;
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For more information you can read in:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/DE/44/726396278212d0e10000000a422035/frameset.htm
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I'm at wit's end with this. I've spent most of last night, and this morning trying to track this down. It all started with the iTunes 7.7 update, but it didn't happen until I started syncing Outlook with MobileMe. I get two error messages, about every 15-20 minutes. MobileMe is set to sync "automatically." At one point, I was getting and error message stating that MobileMe couldn't sync and to check my settings. The settings were right, and apparently in my troubleshooting steps I've made that error go away.
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Message was edited by: supradave

UPDATE - (Made a second post so it'd be clearer)
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Hi Steve,
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Hello,
we have a strange behaviour in the portal. We created a role and assigned Worksets, Pages and iViews to the role. The role is defined as an entry point.
So long everything worked fine.
We transported the whole package to an other system. On this system we assigned the role to a group xxx-all. nearly every portal user is member of this group. Now the following behaviour occured:
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Kind regards,
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Hello,
thanks for your help...
in the link above the following is described:
<i>The availability of roles at runtime in the navigation iViews (top-level navigation and detailed navigation) is determined by the users, groups, and roles assigned to a role principle in the Role Assignment tool. <b>The end user permission setting on role objects has no effect on the runtime availability of roles in the portal navigation.</b></i>
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Kind regards,
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Hello,
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Thanks for your help

Christophe,
Could you be more clear ?
Entry point for what ? roles, entrypoints repository so on.
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Steffen,
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Is it posible to override the default landing page being the entry point of the leftmost tab?

Hi John,
Why cant a "quick link" be established.
When logging into portal use the quick link to login. I think using this concept you role can be opened by default when logged in.
Check this link
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/97/b0ef8b24a64ae884f0ab246e54cae5/frameset.htm
Search for quick link in help.sap.com
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Hi Vishal,
Thanks for your replies.
I am able to see the my folder
in Content Administration -> KM Content ->
pcd>portal content>Test
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When I tried to create entry point in Web Page Composer, I click the browse to find the Test folder.
I can't see the Test folder.
How do I create entry point for the Test folder?
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Thruna Shanmuga
Thanks
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Edited by: Thruna Shanmuga on Apr 6, 2009 10:34 PM
Edited by: Thruna Shanmuga on Apr 6, 2009 10:42 PM
Edited by: Thruna Shanmuga on Apr 6, 2009 10:42 PM

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