HOMEPAGE FRAMEWORK

Hi Experts,
We are going to implement the HOMEPAGE FRAMEWORK in ESS and MSS business package. I am absolutely new to this, may I request to kindly send me the link where I can start reading from scrath on how this framework works and how to implement it.
please help
much Thanx
//saurabh

Hi Abhishek,
A couple of questions more
What is IMG ??
What are the steps for it (as refered in the blog)??
Where can I find more litreature on IMG ??
Where can I find <b>XSS Homepage Framework for Employee Self-Service" by Sibylle Borhauer (Product Manager, SAP AG).</b>
Br
//Saurabh

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Homepage framework/Overview iView

Hello All,
I am using ESS 1.0. The overview screen for ESS has various areas such as Personal Info, Benefits and Payments etc.
If I want to have one set of users viewing Personal Info and benefits and payments and the second set of users only viewing personal info do I have to create multiple Overview iViews and do the necessary configure in the backend e.g. create numerous 'area group pages' in the homepage framework.
Or is there a simpler way?
Thanks,
Nick.

Nope...no simpler way. That's it. You can use "proxy services/classes" to show/hide services on an Area page dynamically, but when presenting different Areas in an Area Group, you are pretty much stuck making several "versions" of your ESS config. It is not daunting or difficult...just a bit tedious. I had one client with 6 different ESS Homepage Framework versions.....yes, that's how I got to know HF pretty well. haha

What is the benefit of configuring the XSS Homepage Framework for ESS

What is the benefit of configuring the XSS Homepage Framework for ESS?
Over using standard iViews.

It means you can disable (or enable) the exact functionality your customer needs rather than sticking with the default implementation.
Most customes do not use everything available from ESS or MSS. Switching it off (making it unavailable) is WAY better than leaving potentially unconfigured content to be accessed by users. SAP generally do not handle the error cases and you will get lots of nasty stack traces .....
Haydn

Open external URL from Homepage Framework

Hi,
We are building our new ESS functionality with Homepage Framework and I need to create some links to external URL. I would like them to open in a different window with no portal header at all. They should appear as services listed in the menu area. While this seems easy, I had tried several things with no success.
First, I created an URL iview in portal content. I marked the option "launch in external window" to Open in a separate window.
I create a resource that pointed to this Iview, and linked resource with a "java webdynpro" service, service with subarea and subarea with area. The service link is displayed correctly but it is always opened in the portal page, not in a different one. Have i forgotten any parameter that would make this work?
A second approach was to create a resource that includes the URL and an associated service, marked as "Direct URL launched in separate window".
This succeds in calling the URL in a differeny window but it adds some strange parameters at the end. So instead of calling http://www.google.com it calls something like http://www.google.com?sap-ext-sid=2J*HeTVW7295w3QWBZhQow--
jQDfzgrDHRt*yZ87GlXsgA--%2Fpcd%3Aportal_content%2Fcom.bshg%2Fpct%2Fhcm%
2FEURO%2FES%2FESS%2Froles%2Fcom.bshg.hcm.ess-es%2FESS%
2Fcom.bshg.hcm.infoLinks%2Fsap.com%2Fpcui_gp%7Exssutils%2FXssMenuArea%
2Fbase&sap-wd-arfc-useSys=SAP_R3_SelfServiceGenerics%3AHR0&sap-wd-
cltwndid=WID1325147123879&sap-accessibility&sap-locale=es&sap-rtl&sap-
epcm-guid=validate&sap-wd-renderMode=viewArea&sap-pp-
consumerBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fu3d.bshg.com%3A80&sap-ep-
version=7.0108.20110207041646.0000&sap-wd-tstamp=1325147150353&sap-
cssversion=7.11.7.30.0&sap-pp-producerid=com.bshg.BSHG_HCM_EMEA&sap-wd-
app-namespace=zzzz&sap-cssurl=http%3A%2F%2Fu3d.bshg.com%3A80%2Firj%
2Fportalapps%2Fcom.sap.portal.design.urdesigndata%2Fthemes%2Fportal%
2Fcustomer%2Fbsh%2Fur%2Fur_ie6.css%3F7.1.8.0.1&sap-wd-finish-
rendering=false
While some pages can ignore those extra parameters, in other cases, this causes a "page not found" error.
Any ideas on how to solve this problem?
Many thanks in advance to all.

Hi Daniel,
Define Resource: you have to mention all the below details
1. object name :http:// (url ).
2.window name: "".
3.window Property : target="_blank".
and also check define service:
service type: Direct url launched in a seperate window.
And assign resouce to service -
>
service to sub area--->
sub area to area---->
area to areagroup.
hope it helps............,
Thanks,
cbr.

New ESS config - Homepage Framework (area group, etc) seems to be missing

Hi,
I am installing the new ESS 1.0 for ECC6 (ERP5).
I succsessfully imported with SDM he new:
ESS BP
PCUI_GP
I then created all systems in the portal and all JCo's.
When I try and open Employee Self-Service (any pages) in the Portal I get the following error:
Area group SAPDEFAULTESSERP2005 does not exist._
It seems like the Homepage Framework has not been imported for some reason as there are no default area groups or anything else in homepage framework.
Have I missed something? Is there something else I also had to import?
Many thanks,
Adriaan
Edited by: Adriaan Van der Bank on Jun 23, 2008 11:40 AM

Dear ,
it seems that you are trying to use an ERP2005 ESS package with an
ERP2004 backendsystem. Unfortuanetly this is not working.
You can use
ERP2004 - ECC5 - NW2004 - ESS 100 - ESS BP ERP2004
or
ERP2005 - ECC6 - NW2004s - ESS 600 - ESS1.0 BP ERP2005
However it should be possible to connect the ESS 100 application which
are running on a NW2004 to an EP7.
Hope this should be helpful.
Best Regards,
Deepak...

Homepage Framework - XSS Menu diffrent Systems

Hello,
is it possible to have the application XSSMenu (Homepage framework) from 2 diffrent SAP Systems in one portal?
I´ve tried to use the parameter sap-wd-arfc-useSys and created the additional JCo destinations - but now i get an error
"Accessing System AAA is not possible because RFC Metadata was retrieved using System BBB. Please assure you have configured the RFC Connections properly"
any suggestions?
br franz

Make sure you followed all the instructions in this link
http://help.sap.com/SAPHELP_NW70/helpdata/EN/f4/651741f163f023e10000000a155106/content.htm
and that you have restarted your web server.
I have not tried accessing two ESS systems before, we always end up changing the JCo's when we need the system switched.
Hope it works for you.
Regards,
Tom

E-Learning regarding ESS/MSS & HomePage FrameWork

Hi,
Can Anyone provide me E-Learnings Regarding ESS & MSS packages and HomePage Framework i am unable to find them.
Thanks,
Rahul

Hi Rahul,
Check out this thread
about ESS & MSS Packages
It holds a lot of information. Hope it will be useful to you. Search for similar threads in SDN
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Anand Sekar

Homepage Framework services in Sitemap

Hello Sitemap Gurus,
We used ECC Homepage Framework to setup our ESS pages in Portal. The HF configuration consist of creating the resource link which are attach to area pages.
In turn the area pages are grouped under area group to create the resource which shows on the Portal as page.
The issue we are running into is that we cannot pull the resource services links in the sitemap. Has any one tried pulling the service resource link in the portal sitemap.
Any suggestion on how to do it will be helpfull.
Thanks.

That's correct, work protect mode shouldn't be the problem in your case.
I would probably start from the portal role and drill down through each portal component (i.e. Workset, Page, iView) and check that nothing has a parameter set to open the content in a new browser window.
Doing it this way (as opposed to opening each component) should reveal any delta linked changes to parameters that you may not be able to see when looking directly at the iViews etc.
I am assuming that the right Homepage configuration has been transported to your testing client as well?
Regards,
John

Homepage Framework Cache

Hi,
the initial loading of the homepage framework has turned out to be a major bottleneck for our ESS (600 SP10) implementation on EP 7.0 SP14. Is there anything I can do to speed up the initial loading time of the homepage framework?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
//Elvez

Hi Andy,
no - the portal usually does not crash (it is a multicluster environment). Reboots are done when needed. Any suggestions on how to speed up performance?
FYI, when I speak of very long time, I mean > 10sec initially versus < 2sec after the initial load.
//Elvez

ESS Homepage Framework texts

Suddendly all homepage framework texts for a language disappeared from our development clients. Only client 000, and QA servers "survived".
We are now wondering what may have caused this.....Any ideas?
I'm now trying to individualy retranslate (copy from 000) all customizing but the transalated texts are not appearing in the Portal, only english. Do I have to restart the portal?
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hi
u can try to search customizing the Homepage Framework in sdn it self there are a few documents which you will get good idea .
Regards
Sameer

SPRO- IMG- cross-application components whit no HOMEPAGE Framework

Hello,
I don't have the option HOMEPAGE Framework in:
SPRO->IMG->cross-application components
my system is R/3 4.7C.
do i need any aditional download?
tanks,
Maria

You won't have that option. Not available until ECC5.0. =)

Dynamically hiding the services on homepage framework

Dear All,
Requirement in my case is like for some users some specified links should be visible on the overview page which we configure from SPRO through resources, area pages , services etc
and for others these links shouldnt be visible.
For example : in ESS role one document link is there which should me visible only to one set of users.
To workaround this, we made two ESS roles and replicated all authorizations, with one ESS role having the document link in addition.
But this is very tedious and messy since we need to replicate SPRO config also for the overview page.
Please help if some workaround is possible through portal setting or through service/area page settings.
Thanx

When you say a document link - Is it a service in the homepage framework ?
If your requirement is to provide few extra services (within the same sub area or Area), you can implement a proxy class and implement your custom logic in the proxy class. The proxy class can hide/show the services using it based on your custom logic.
(There is a field for setting a proxy class in the "Define Services" view in the homepage framework).
You can refer to CL_XSS_CAT_1_AREA_PAGE for example implementation which uses interface IF_XSS_SER_PROXY_SERVICE.
Let me know if you have any further questions.
Thanks,
Shanti

Confirmation Link - IMG - Homepage Framework for ABAP WebDynrpo appl.

Hi All
I am working on Confirmation Link under the SPRO -> Cross-Application Components ->Homepage Framework ->Services->Define links on confirmation page
This can be used to add a link to the confirmation page of the self-service application, my doubt is, is there any way to use this service for customized ABAP WebDynrpo application? i mean can we add a link to the ABAP WebDynrpo application, if yes how can i achieve this.
Thanks and Regards
Chaitanya.A

Hi,
I have created a custom web dynpro ABAP app to update a Z Infotype. I have also added it to the ESS Personal Info area page and all works well. We want this application to work EXACTLY as other delivered ESS apps like address etc,, so we also want confirmation links on the confirmation page.
I did go through SPRO through the path mentioned in the chain above and created an entry there ... but I have no CLUE as to how willl my web dynpro app use that information ... I am not too experienced with the Portal, just know how to create i-views, and add them to worksets and do a bit of customizing to make them appear on appropriate area page. Any help, or tutorial link or procedure to do this would be helpful. precisely i am confused on the following points:
1. Do i need to add LinkToAction UI elements on the final view or not ?
2. How does the portal come to know which view in my app is the final confirmation view.
3. Do i need to code anything in the web dynpro app to read the customizing info and display the links?
4. How does the location gets determined where the confirmation links will appear.
I am for the time being using navigation links in my web dynpro abap application. But when I Navigate to a portal page, the portal desktop theme goes for a toss. So i want to see if confirmation links make any difference.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Rajat

Change masthead text away from welcome - homepage framework not working?

Hi,
I've trawled through countless threads without getting a clear understanding on this...
I'd like to change the masthead text from Welcome <username> to Hello <username>
I thought I could do this by changing the text for the Header in the homepage framework (SAPDEFAULT) but someone in a another thread mentioned that this change doesn't work on later versions - not sure if they mean't portal of backend (we're using NW7 and ERP6.0).
Can anyone advise what's the reccomended method for doing this?... or should the homepage framework change work?
Regards
Phil

Hi Jay,
Thanks for this. I've followed your steps through and the Z copy of the class returns the expected result in debug. I've assigned the class to the SAPDEFAULT header but the old text 'welcome' still shows in ESS.
Can you advise?
Also, can you clarify if/why/when the "text" field in the homepage framework header is redundant for ESS changes? The help text isn't helpful in this respect!
Thanks
Phil

Question regarding homepage framework...

Hi guys...
My brain just died on me and I failed trying to achieve the following:
Given:
1. Workset with lots of fancy Portal objects
2. Page_A
3. Page_B
4. Workset_A consisting of deltalinked (2), deltalinked to (1)
5. Portal Role A, consisting of deltalinked (1) <-- this has all but PAGE_B (3)
6. Portal Role B, consisting of deltalinked (1) whereas in the Role I have removed everything down to (4), I also removed the deltalinked Page_A (2) from it. Then I deltalinked Page_B to it (3).
What I try to accomplish with this:
I have an Area where there can be two sub areas. However some users may see only ONE of these subareas, some users may see BOTH of them. So I merged the Second Level Navigation of the two roles.
Up to this point all is good.
Now, we are using HPF, we don't use the Navigation Panel on the left hand side.
HPF(draft for this problem):
Area Group Page A --> Area Page A
Area Page A --> Subarea A
Area Page A --> Subarea B
Service A --> Subarea A
Service B --> Subarea B
Ressource X for area page --> Pointing PCD to generic JAVA xss aregrp
Ressource A --> Pointing to Page A of Portal Role A.
Ressource B --> Pointing to Page B of Portal Role B.
The user which is supposed to see both Portal objects can see them both and can use them both.
The user which is supposed NOT TO SEE PAGE B can still see it in the Area Page, respective Subarea. If he clicks on it, he get's 'page not found' which is of course rirght; I didn't map the R3-Role for him so he's not supposed to see it. But the fact that he can still see the links in HPF messes it all up.
Am I doing something wrong or can this not be accomplished?
This looks to me like Role-based HPF is all void below Second Level navigation.... Eventually I'll just make an own workset and a separate HPF, but I reject to believe I did everything right and it still doesn't work the way I want it :-////
regards...Lukas

My brain was about to die, after reading so many lines , but I am glad that I could survive :-).
Coming back to your problem, This can be achieved.
1. Check in HPF when you are defining a resource your path is pointing to portal_content/folder/Page This should always be configured like portal_content/folder/role/wokset/page. This will ensure that you can access only those pages for which you have the corresponding role assigned. Unfortunately it's not checked while the links are being generated and comes into play only when you click on the link it shows that page couldn't be found.
2. To achieve what you want to achieve you have to use proxy classes. You can hide the links based on whatever criteria you choose to. Unfortunately you can control only this at service level and not on subarea (workset) level .
Refer to this for proxy class implementation
/people/amir.madani/blog/2007/01/05/create-dynamic-xss-homepages-with-static-services-using-a-simple-proxy-class
Thanks
Prashant

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