How to create an Iview in BI 7.0?

Question

Hi Experts,
i want to create iviews in Bi 7.0 but can not find how to do that.
I n the older version i could create a query and said save als Iview.
Could you please explain the steps.
1. how to create
2. where to store
3. How to open
4  How to publish in portal or to open als URL?
Many Thanky for the Informations
Cheers
Gilo

Answer 1

Hi Gilo,
In iView defines the integrated view,which is going to give all integrated sourcesystems information to portal.
The Portal Content Studio provides a framework for creating iViews in 3 ways.
1.iView wizards
2.Copy&Paste actions
3.Content mirroring tools.
Creating iView Instances Using Copy-Paste
Use
You can instantaneously create new iViews without a wizard (see Object Creation Wizards) by copying existing iView instances using the portal's Copy, Paste, and Paste as Delta Link actions.
Both paste actions (Paste and Paste as Delta Link) create new iViews that are delta links instances; however, the relation of the new object to the one being copied differs. This difference is illustrated in the figure below.
■       The Content Mirroring tool can also be used to duplicate content. Delta links are generated between the original and copied objects. See Content Mirroring.
■       To view the delta link source objects and dependents of an object, use the delta link tracer. See Tracing Delta Link Dependencies.
Procedure
You use the Copy with the Paste and Paste as Delta Link actions with iViews just as you would other object types in the Portal Catalog.
For general usage instructions and a description of the commands, see Copying an Object or Folder (Copy & Paste).
As the first step you have to navigate to the right Portal Content folder, where you want to add the BI report as Portal iView.
Then you have to create a new iView using the context menu: New -> iView
Now you see the iView Wizard. In the first step you have to choose “iView template – create an iView from an existing iView template” as source type.
In the next step you have to choose the iView template “BEx Web Application iView”.
Then you have to provide an ID (technical name of the Portal Content iView), a description, the iView ID Prefix and the master language of the iView.
Then you have to choose the version of the BEx Web Application. If you created the Web Template using the Web Application Designer based on SAP BW 2.x/3.x, you have to choose the appropriate option. If you have created the Web Template using the new Web Application Designer based on SAP NetWeaver 2004s, you have to choose the option SAP NetWeaver BI 7.x
In the next step you have to type in a prefix (depending on the version of the BEx Web Application) and the technical name of the Web Template. If you have used the SAP BW 2.x/3.x Web Application Designer version you have to use the prefix “TEMPLATE_ID=”. If you have used the Web Application Designer based on SAP NetWeaver BI 7.x, you have to use the prefix “TEMPLATE=” (e.g. TEMPLATE=MYTEMPLATE_ID).
In the last wizard step you can check your entries, you have made before. You can also set the flag “Open for editing, when wizard completes”. Then you can directly work on the BI iView to do some further adjustments.
After pressing the “Finish”-button in the iView wizard the iView properties show up. There you can select the property category “Appearance – Size”. For the property “Height Type” you should select “Automatic” in order to avoid scroll bars on the portal page later on. Save your settings and close your BI iView
In the next step you want to add your newly created BI iView to a page. Therefore you have to first navigate to the page you want to add the new iView (or you can create a new page). Then you have to open the page via the context menu �� Open �� Object
To add the iView to the page you have to navigate again to the newly created iView. Via context menu you can add now the iView to the page: Right-mouse click on the iView �� Add iView to page �� Deltalink. Afterwards you save the page.
Finally you can do a preview to have a look at your new BI iView that is integrated into the portal page. Depending on the result you can adjust the page layout.
As a result you will see the BI iView on your portal page.
Before you can create a BI iView in the Enterprise Portal, the system connection and the alias of the BI system has to be defined. This can be done in the System Administration of the Portal �� System Configuration �� System Landscape
Also the user mapping to the BI system has to be maintained (in order to use single-sign on). This can be done in the user administration �� Identity Management