IView certification

Hi Guys,
I have an application that runs on IIS server which takes in a flat file and displays the orgStructure grahically.
This flat file is produced by running a ABAP report in SAP by logging through the SAP GUI.
I am trying to put the application in an iView and get it certified for the portal certification.
So the user first logs in the SAP GUI runs the report, the file then gets written down to the IIS server directly. The user then logs into the portal and access the application from inside the portal.
My question is that does this application will qualify for the iView certification even though the data is coming from R/3 by logging into the SAP GUI?
I would appreciate any comments on that. I have read through the requirements but couldn't find a definitive answer for this.
Regards,
~Mark

Hi Prashant,
Please see Documentation on How to certify portal content at the URL:
https://www.sdn.sap.com/sdn/icc.sdn?page=ep_business_package.htm
OR
Contact your nearest ICC:
ICC Asia Pacific: [email protected]
ICC EMEA: [email protected]
ICC Americas: [email protected]
regards, Imran

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B. Java Server Pages
C. Enterprise Portal Plug-In (WP-PI)
D. SAP Unification Server
1. 8 .________ assembles the pages that are displayed in the Enterprise Portal.
A. Content Server
B. Unification Server
C. iViewServer
D. Page Builder
1. 13 .True or false: Enterprise portal 6.0 SP2 supports only software based load
balancing.
A. True
B. False
Scenario
The operating system collector SAPOsCol is a stand-alone program that runs in the
operating system background. It runs independently of SAP instances exactly once per
monitored host.
1. 9 .Which of the following data about operating system resources are collected by
SAPOsCol? (Choose all that apply.)
A. IP filtering of the packets leaving the interface
B. Ile tie-out and gateway ping
C. Utilization of physical disks and file systems
D. Usage of virtual and physical memory
E. Process monitoring
F. Resource usage of running processes
G. CPU utilization
1. 10 .User access to content is determined by ________________.
A. content management
B. The top-level navigation bar
C. iViews in the channels
D. Role definitions
1. 11 .What are the two types of nodes that the J2EE Engine cluster consists of?
A. dispatchers
B. clients
C. gateway
D. servers
1. 12 .The first time you log on to the portal as __________ (Choose two.)
A. default password, sap
B. default password, admin
C. predefined user, called administrator
D. predefined user, called admin
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A. Channels
B. Roles
C. iViews
D. The navigation tree
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you perform a Drag&Relate action in the front end?
A. SSL
B. TCP
C. HRNP
D. UDP
E. HSRP
1. 16 .True or false: If you are using basic authentication, SAP recommends that you set
up the browser and portal Web server to communicate using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).
A. True
B. False
1. 17 .Your organization has the SAP System Release 3.1H and you have a tough time to
accept and verify SAP Logon Tickets in your portal server. What could be the problem?
A. Portal Servers digital signature is missing
B. SAP logon tickets are not supported in releases lower than 4.0B
C. Access control list (ACL) is denying access
D. SAP System Release 3.1H has a bug
1. 18 .What does the reverse proxy filter enables the portal to do? (Choose all that apply.)
A. Distinguish between the HTTP requests
B. replaces your existing firewall in the DMZ
C. Replace the scheme, host, and port number in an HTTP request.
D. Respond to more than one domain name using different proxy servers.
E. Check all HTTP requests coming to the portal platform.
1. 19 .Which of the following are true regarding iViews when it is invoked from an
Internet Explorer or Netscape browser?
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A. In Internet Explorer, each iView is contained in an HTML table
B. In Netscape, each iView is contained in an HTML table
C. In Internet Explorer, each iView in a portal page is contained in an iFrame
D. In Netscape, each iView in a portal page is contained in an iFrame
1. 20 .Portal Admin tab provides the tools for creating Web components. (True or False)
A. True
B. False
1. 21 .You want to set the log levels of your new EP 6.0 installation in production
environment to ERROR. Which file do you edit to accomplish this task?
A. config.xml
B. logger.xml
C. logger.csv
D. logadmin.xml
1. 22 .Which of the following is a middleware component that enables the development of
SAP-compatible components and applications in Java?
A. SAP JCo
B. SDM
C. J2EE Engine
D. SAP Web AS
1. 23 .Which of the following cryptography tool is used to configure secure
communication between the TREX preprocessor and the portal Web server and between
the TREX Web server and the TREX ISAPI Register?
A. SAPCAR
B. SAPSECPI
C. SAPSSLC
D. SAPGENPSE
1. 24 .The standard delivery of SAP Enterprise Portal 6.0 contains four administration
roles, all of which subdivide the existing administration tasks into four groups. Which of
the following deals with the administration roles? (Choose four.)
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A. Security Administration
B. User Administration
C. System Administration
D. Content Administration
E. Super Administration (containing all administration tasks)
F. Network Administration
1. 25 .Which of the following Enterprise Portal platform enables unstructured content
management, and sophisticated search and retrieval functionality over unstructured
content in disparate information repositories?
A. Unification Server
B. Portal Server
C. Page Builder
D. Knowledge Management (KM)
Scenario
The Knowledge Management platform (KM) provides functions that support the
management of information in the form of unstructured data and partly structured data
in SAP Enterprise Portal.
1. 26 .What are the three elements of the KM platform that have different tasks?
A. Collaboration
B. TREX
C. Portal Content Directory (PCD)
D. Content Management
1. 27 .Drag-and-Drop the iView interface with the matching numbers as shown in the following
figure.
Click here to view the figure
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A
B
C
D
1. 28 .Which component of the Enterprise Portal provides authentication of portal users
against user repository ?
A. Portal server
B. User management
C. Portal LDAP directory server
D. Corporate LDAP directory
server
1. 29 .What are the two variants in Enterprise Portal SSO mechanism available depending
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on security requirements and the supported external applications?
A. SSO with SAP logon tickets
B. SSO with user ID and password
C. SSO with Digital Certificates
D. SSO with LDAP server
1. 30 .Which of the following is used to organize iViews into logical groups, are also
assigned to roles?
A. Channels
B. iPanel
C. iViews
D. Roles
1. 31 .True or false: The SAP Enterprise Portal 6.0 permissions mainly define the access
rights of portal administrators to portal objects in the Portal Catalog. The access
permissions are implemented with the Access Control List (ACL) method.
A. False
B. True
1. 32 .What is the TCP/IP port number that the lock server use to identify the specific
process request coming from each middleware client?
A. 3299
B. 1080
C. 80
D. 443
1. 33 .True or false: Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) is a browser-based, device-independent
technology which provides a runtime and a development environment for professional
business Web applications.
A. False
B. True
1. 34 .What are the two user management master iViews that you can modify to suit your
companys requirements and integrate in the portal?
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A. Self registration master iView
B. Anonymous Logon with Named Guest Users master iView
C. Change password master iView
D. Microsoft Active Directory Server master iView
1. 35 .True or false: All machines in a portal cluster are covered by a license installed on
any of them. However, for high availability purposes, you should install a license on at
least two portal machines, although a license on each machine is recommended. In this
case, if the machine with the single license is stopped for more than an hour (the period
of time during which the license is cached), portal operation will not be interrupted.
A. False
B. True
1. 36 .Which tab contains the default Welcome page plus the pages assigned to all of the
roles to which the logged on user is assigned?
A. Portal Admin
B. My Pages
C. System Configuration
D. Content Admin
1. 37 .When will you use a corporate LDAP directory as a primary store for central user
data? (Choose two.)
A. if the system landscape consists of Novell NetWare clients
B. if there is a mixed system landscape including both SAP and non-SAP systems
C. if there are large number of users in the system landscape
D. if there are large number of Windows XP users in the network
1. 38 .Which technology relate business data across applications and/or databases for
which you have installed a unifier on your Unification Server?
A. Drag&Relate
B. iView
C. Drag&Drop
D. Unifiers
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1. 39 .You want to tune your system database. How do you enable high load and avoid
errors when running SAP Enterprise Portal with an Oracle database?
A. by decreasing the maximum number of processes and sessions in the database.
B. by using the Oracle Enterprise Manager (or DBA Studio), decrease the process
numbers
C. by increasing the maximum number of threads and logs in the database.
D. by increasing the maximum number of processes and sessions in the database.
1. 40 .Why is it not recommended to implement Single Sign-On with user ID and
password?
A. the user ID and password are transmitted in plain text using HTTP POST
B. it takes longer hours to update the LDAP server
C. it requires additional configuration steps to enable CHAP
D. SAP does not support Single Sign-On with user ID and password
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For SAP Enterprise Portal, the load-balancing solution should ensure session persistence,
or stickiness. This means that all requests of a specific user in a single session are
forwarded to the same server. Stickiness is achieved at initial logon, by linking to the IP
address and local port of the load-balancing system. If one node fails, the other servers
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Question 4 Explanation:
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content objects to roles. In EP 5.0, the Role Editor is a central tool which can be used to
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in the Enterprise Portal using Single Sign-On. Since many of these applications may
contain sensitive data, it is imperative that the user in question can be identified and this
identity authenticated.
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gaining access. For example, with user ID and password authentication, the
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credentials stored in a data repository. If the credentials match, the user is granted access
to the Enterprise Portal. Otherwise, the authentication fails and portal access is denied.
The Enterprise Portal 5.0 offers the following integrated authentication mechanisms:
Authentication with User ID and Password
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Authentication using external mechanisms
¡ Windows 2000 authentication
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¡ External Web access management tools, such as Netegrity SiteMinder
¡ COM interface allowing you to use any kind of external authentication service
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authentication with digital certificates. Digital certificates can be used as an additional
method of authentication. This means that users that have a client certificate use it to log
on while other users have to provide credentials using a different authentication
mechanism.
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The recommendation is that do not place more than fifty (50) objects in a single folder.
Question 7 Explanation:
The Enterprise Portal Plug-In (WP-PI) enables the exchange of data between SAP
Enterprise Portal and the mySAP.com components, for example SAP R/3 and SAP BW.
It is a prerequisite to enable Drag&Relate and Single Sign-
Question 8 Explanation:
The Page Builder assembles the pages that are displayed in the Enterprise Portal. It gets
information about the navigation between pages and the layout of the pages from the
roles assigned to a user. Information about which roles are assigned to which users is
stored in the portal LDAP directory.
Question 9 Explanation:
The operating system collector SAPOsCol is a stand-alone program that runs in the
operating system background. It runs independently of SAP instances exactly once per
monitored host. SAPOsCol collects data about operating system resources, including:
Usage of virtual and physical memory
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CPU utilization
Utilization of physical disks and file systems
Resource usage of running processes
Process monitoring
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User access to content is determined by Role definitions. A portal role is a collection of
content. While portal content is developed to enable access to information relevant to the
organization in which the portal is deployed, roles define the subset of content available
to each functional role within the organization. Users are assigned to the role or roles that
provide content relevant to them. A user has access to the content that has been assigned
to all of his or her roles.
Question 11 Explanation:
J2EE Engine cluster is a set of independent nodes that are addressed and managed as a
single system. The cluster consists of two types of nodes: dispatchers and servers. The
administrator of the system determines the number of dispatchers and servers in a cluster.
Each dispatcher node is connected to all server nodes in the cluster and each server node
maintains connections to all other cluster nodes. Clustering enables dynamic load
balancing by distributing client requests among the server nodes in the cluster, thereby
providing higher scalability and improved system performance
Question 12 Explanation:
Users and passwords are defined in the directory server. To enable those users and
passwords for portal logon, you must define a security configuration, using the portal
tools. However, in order to do so, you need to log on to the portal. The first time you log
on to the portal, you log on as a default, predefined user, called admin, using the default
password, admin. After you have defined a security configuration, you may continue to
log on as user admin, or you may log on with the user information defined in the
directory server.
The admin/admin logon provides you with access to the portal as a fully qualified superadministrator.
Note that administrator access is enabled via Microsoft Internet Explorer browsers only.
There is no administrator access via Netscape browsers.
Question 13 Explanation:
Load balancing is dividing the work of one computer among several computers so that
more work gets done in the same amount of time and all users get served faster. You can
implement a hardware or a software load balancing solution.
Question 14 Explanation:
The role definition determines the navigation structure within the portal. The navigation
structure consists of the top-level navigation bar, and the detailed navigation tree. The
top-level navigation bar is a series of tabs in the title area of the portal header. A user
navigates portal pages and services by clicking tabs in the top-level navigation bar.
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When the user performs a Drag&Relate action in the front end, the client sends a HRNP
(hyperrelational navigation protocol) request to the Unification Server through HTTP.
The Unification Server resolves the relationship between the drag source and the drop
target, and queries the database and/or applications to determine the record set. Then it
redirects the result set to the Portal Server and launches the screen which appears in the
browser.
Question 16 Explanation:
If you are using basic authentication, we strongly recommended that you set up the
browser and portal Web server to communicate using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).
Otherwise users credentials will be transmitted in clear text.
Question 17 Explanation:
The SAP System has Release 4.0B or higher. SAP logon tickets are not supported in
releases lower than 4.0B.
Question 18 Explanation:
Reverse Proxy Filter enables the portal to do the following:
Check all HTTP requests coming to the portal platform.
Distinguish between the following HTTP requests to the portal: those coming from
external sources, such as the Internet and outside the firewall of an enterprise, and those
coming from internal sources, such as the intranet within the firewall.
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from an Internet Explorer or Netscape browser. In Internet Explorer, each iView in a
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multiple iViews are displayed in a portal page in Netscape, you are actually viewing a
single HTML page formatted into HTML tables.
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portal applications place information into different log files. SAP recommend that you set
log levels in production environments to WARNING or ERROR.
Question 22 Explanation:
SAP JCo is a middleware component that enables the development of SAP-compatible
components and applications in Java. SAP JCo supports communication with the SAP
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calls Java). So, SAP JCo realizes communication between the ABAP and the J2EE
environments that can be used in SAP Web AS.
Question 23 Explanation:
You use the cryptographic tool SAPGENPSE to generate a keystore in which you can
store a certificate. You only need this keystore for storing the root certificate of the portal
Web server. It is therefore not necessary that you send the generated certificate request to
your CA.
Question 24 Explanation:
The entire portal administration is performed using administration roles contained in the
standard content of the portal. The administration roles contain all the functions possible
for portal administration.
The standard delivery of SAP Enterprise Portal 6.0 contains four administration roles, all
of which subdivide the existing administration tasks into the following four groups:
Super Administration (containing all administration tasks)
Content Administration
System Administration
User Administration
Question 25 Explanation:
You implement the Knowledge Management (KM) platform of the Enterprise Portal to
enable unstructured content management, and sophisticated search and retrieval
functionality over unstructured content in disparate information repositories. The
knowledge management platform also provides collaboration functionality, such as
sending messages, annotating documents, and setting up discussion groups.
Question 26 Explanation:
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Question 27 Explanation:
The Enterprise Portal iView interface enables you to create and manage portal channels
and iViews. When you open the interface, a list of iViews and channels is displayed,
along with a set of tools that let you create and maintain channels and iViews. In this
section, we describe the main functions of this interface.
iView Editor screen: (1) Search Tool, (2) Toolbar, (3) Channel List, (4) iView List
Question 28 Explanation:
The user management component of the Enterprise Portal is an extensive application
programming interface (API) that allows iViews to read data from the corporate LDAP
directory and to read and write data to the portal LDAP directory. It also provides Single
Sign-On functions and Authentication of portal users against user repository.
Question 29 Explanation:
Single Sign-On (SSO) is a key feature of the Enterprise Portal that eases user interaction
with the many component systems available to the user in a portal environment. Once the
user is authenticated to the enterprise portal, he or she can use the portal to access
external applications. With SSO in the Enterprise Portal, the user can access different
systems and applications without having to repeatedly enter his or her user information
for authentication.
The Enterprise Portal SSO mechanism is available in two variants depending on security
requirements and the supported external applications:
SSO with SAP logon tickets
SSO with user ID and password
Both variants eliminate the need for repeated logons to individual applications after the
initial authentication at the enterprise portal. Whereas SSO with SAP logon tickets is
based on a secure ticketing mechanism, SSO with user ID and password forwards the
users logon data (user ID and password) to the systems that a user wants to call.
Question 30 Explanation:
Channels, used to organize iViews into logical groups, are also assigned to roles. While every iView
must be assigned to a channel, not every iView is associated with a page. A user has access to the
iViews displayed on the pages in his or her portal. When personalizing portal pages, the user will also
have access to the iViews in the channels assigned to his or her roles.
Question 31 Explanation:
There is a permissions concept for portal objects in SAP Enterprise Portal 6.0. It is valid for all objects
of the Portal Content Directory that can be maintained with a special editor (Permission Editor) in the
portal. Portal permissions mainly define the access rights of portal administrators to portal objects in
the Portal Catalog. The access permissions are implemented with the Access Control List (ACL)
method.
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Question 32 Explanation:
In a load balanced landscape with multiple portal server installations the lock server is the portal
component that enables the components of the middleware layer to work concurrently with the
persistence layer, notably with the Portal Content Directory (PCD) and the database server.
The middleware layer is installed as clients that access the persistence layer and the shared resources.
Each middleware client must not interfere with other clients accessing and modifying the same
resources, therefore there is the need to implement a concurrent control mechanism.
The control mechanism is a synchronization process over TCP/IP at port 3299. Through the port, the
lock server identifies the specific process request coming from each middleware client. It then allows
access to the shared resources and the persistence layer. By so doing, each portal works with a
consistent view of the shared resources. Portals communicating with the lock server become the lock
clients.
Question 33 Explanation:
Web Dynpro is a browser-based, device-independent technology which provides a runtime and a
development environment for professional business Web applications. Web Dynpro delivers a
declarative meta-model to minimize the need to write programming code. From this abstract definition,
Web Dynpro generates code to create a ready-to-run Web application.
Question 34 Explanation:
The Enterprise Portal includes two user management master iViews that you can modify to suit your
companys requirements and integrate in the portal. These are:
Self registration master iView: Allows users, for example, external users that do not exist in the
corporate LDAP directory, to register themselves as portal users.
Change password master iView: Allows users to change their password and optionally other user
data.
Question 35 Explanation:
For the portal cluster:
To guarantee proper portal functionality, external load-balancing solutions must always
implement stickiness, using either a source-IP or cookie-based distribution policy.
All machines in a portal cluster are covered by a license installed on any of them. However, for
high availability purposes, you should install a license on at least two portal machines,
although a license on each machine is recommended. In this case, if the machine with the
single license is stopped for more than an hour (the period of time during which the license is
cached), portal operation will not be interrupted.
Question 36 Explanation:
My Pages tab contains the default Welcome page plus the pages assigned to all of the roles to which
the logged on user is assigned. My Pages display iViews, small applications designed to retrieve
information from various information resources.
Question 37 Explanation:
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If you have a mixed system landscape including both SAP and non-SAP systems, we recommend
that you use a corporate LDAP directory as a primary store for central user data. Also use this
option if you have a large number of users in your system landscape.
In the above figure, a system running CUA is used to administer user data from several SAP
ABAP systems centrally. The user data from the CUA is synchronized with a corporate LDAP
directory. The UMEs of any standalone J2EE Engines are configured to use the corporate LDAP
directory as data source. Third-party systems can also access user data on the LDAP directory.
Question 38 Explanation:
The Unification Server enables your Portal for Drag&Relate (hyperrelational navigation). This means
that you can relate business data across applications and/or databases for which you have installed a
unifier on your Unification Server. Moreover the Unification Server provides functions to display data
from the installed database unifiers.
Question 39 Explanation:
To enable high load and avoid errors when running SAP Enterprise Portal with an Oracle database,
increase the maximum number of processes and sessions in the database.
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Make sure no one is currently using the database, as you must restart the database server.
To change the number of processes on an Oracle database server:
1. From the Oracle program group in the Windows Start menu, go to Database Administration >DBA
Studio, and log on to your Oracle database using DBA Studio as user SYSDBA.
2. Open the Database branch and choose: Instances > Database.
3. Choose All Initialization Parameters.
4. Scroll down the list of parameters to the processes property and increase its value (e.g. 150).
5. Verify the increase with your DBA.
6. Scroll down to the sessions property and increase its value to 1.2 multiplied by the number of
processes.
7. Choose OK and then Apply. You are prompted to restart the database server.
8. Restart the IIS and the Oracle server.
Question 40 Explanation:
When Single Sign-On with user ID and password is used, the user ID and password are transmitted in
plain text using HTTP POST. We strongly recommend that you protect the connections to the SAP
System using HTTPS or SNC to prevent the user ID and password being eavesdropped by an external
party.
I hope it will help you.
Dont forget to award points if it looks useful.
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Murthy.

New Iview creation

HI,
I have requiremnt that i should display a Finance Report ( different system) in ESS portal.The Page should be displayed without entering userid SSO.
That is ABAP webdynpro Object that should be displayed in ESS.
They have provided the url. whch contains the component nae also.
Now should i create webdynpro abap iview or url iview
My workaround.
1. I have creted url iview ,its working while preview but everytime it is asking user id,even i tried with SSO user id.
2. I have created webdynpro abap iview,I have ,mapped the system and application name.
But im getting page cannot be displayed.
do i need to do some other settings to display in webdynpro abap iview.
Kindly provide your inputs ,
Thanks,
Nachy

Hi Nachy,
Are you sure the SSO is configured properly or not?
please see below for creating the system
https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/EP/How%20to%20Connect%20to%20SAP%20R3%20System%20through%20Enterprise%20Portal%207.0%20Using%20an%20iView.
Have you tested the connection after creating the system are everything showing in green?
and once done make sure you are exporting the certificate between both the systems.
From Portal: System Admin - System Config - Keystore Administration and export the certification
Import the certificate into the R/3 System using the t.code STRUSTSSO2 and vice versa.
Hope this helps.
Cheers-
Pramod

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After creting Quick poll
Next, you should modify the Quick Poll iView to show this Quick Poll.
.In the portal, choose Content Administration  Portal Content  Content Provided by SAP - End-User Content  Standard Portal Users  iViews  com.sap.km.iviews  Quick Poll.
Double-click on the iView and Property Editor will open on the right panel.
In the Property Category field, choose Show All.
Modify the value in the property Campaign To Be Used to quick poll name u creted
Save and choose Preview button

What kind of certification is suitable for our product

We have a J2EE product which focus on supply chain. Now I would like it to run on netweaver and exchange data with SAP (e.g. material master, purchasing doc) so that it can be seen as extenstion of SAP.
What certification process is suitable in this case? Power by netweaver or Xapps cert?
I looked at power by netweaver but it's merely deploying application on SAP J2EE application server and exporting some iview.
For Xapps certification, it requires the combination of services from more than 1components whereas our application only need to communicate with SAP.
Please help tell us the way to go.
Thanks
Giang

Hi Giang,
Your application can still qualify for a Packaged Composite Application (PCA) (The name xApp is reserved for SAP applications and PCA is an equivalent for 3rd-party developed xApps). For example, if you use one or more SAP composition tools such as, Composite Application Framework, Guided Procedure or Visual Composer to develop your PCA.
I suggest that you apply for a PCA certification by using the <a href="http://www.sap.com/partners/howtopartner/application/">link</a> so that we can better help you.
Regards,
Mustafa.

Coding standards for developing java iviews

Hi All,
Are there any coding standards to be explicitly followed to develop Java iviews in SAP Enterprise Portal ? Does SAP has any specific java coding standards to get the SAP certification for the developed iviews ?
regards,
sreeram

Hi Sreeram,
> Are there any coding standards to be explicitly
> followed to develop Java iviews in SAP Enterprise
> Portal ?
No. What you can find (for example within the PDK doc or partially created by wizards) are templates for the different kind of iViews, especially for JSPDynPages. But you have to care - even these templates are not really "clean" - there are objects used to store data which shouldn't...
> Does SAP has any specific java coding standards to get
> the SAP certification for the developed iviews ?
No. What is needed is the proper use of namespaces, but this primarily concerns portal objects within the PCD. Some implementation things are to be considered, for example if i18n is offered, it really has to work. But SAP does not care about the source code of the iViews.
Hope it helps
Detlev
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Can not view ABC iView on tablet

I am unable to get ABC iView to work on a 10 inch tablet with Android 4. iView works perfectly with the 'Dolphin' browser but I only get a blank screen after iView says to "Tap here to activate plugin".

I have tried that and now I just get a blank screen instead of the "Tap here to activate plugin" message. I have also tried disabling plugins and then get ABC's opening screen with the warning "Your browser does not seem to be supported. iView requires Adobe Flash Player 10 and Javascript to be enabled". There are no such add-ons for android in the Mobile Add-ons page.
I was assuming they are built in to the Android version of FireFox because many web sites require them.

Open iView in new WINDOW for CATW

HI All,
We are on Netweaver2004s and the browser used is either Internet Explorer 7 (Microsoft Vista) or Mozilla Firefox.
Now what I need help on is that I have a link on my page that says "Report Your Time", this link calls the Internet Service CATW via the ITS from my R/3 and opens the TIMESHEET (which is an iView) to be filled in by the user in a new window.
On this TIMESHEET I have a link called as "EXIT" , now after the timesheet is filled and saved, the user should use this "EXIT" link to leave the window. The code behind "EXIT" is so written by SAP that it kills the user's session. But not always and all user's use this "EXIT" link, they generally close the window by browser's (X) close button. This causes the user to get locked in the backend.
So far I have been able to trap the browser's (X) close button and kill the session by using "setOKCode('/nex')". This works fine in I.E 6 (which has no tabs) and if the user closes Mozilla Firefox from the top (X) close button of the browser.
BUT, in I.E 7 and mozilla firefox, when the user clicks on "Report Your Time" link on my page, a new tab opens and the TIMESHEET is displayed on this tab within the same browser window, so after filling and saving the timesheet when the user closes the (TIMESHEET) tab, the session does not get killed and the user gets locked in the backend. Here, if the user had closed the entire browser window by using the the top (X) close button of the browser, instead of just closing the tab containing the TIMESHEET, then his session would have been killed by my code.
This is the code that identifies if the user has clicked on top (X) close button of the browser. But this code does not identify if a browser's tab is closed.
<BODY onbeforeunload="HandleOnClose()">
<script language="javascript">
<!--
function HandleOnClose() {
if (event.clientY < 0) {
event.returnValue = 'Are you sure you want to leave the page?';
In the above I check clientY property of the event object, which is used to set or retrieve the y-coordinate of the mouse pointer's position relative to the client area of the window, excluding window decorations and scroll bars.
Is there a way to capture the closing of a browser's tab. A way by which I can trap the event raised when the browser window's tab is closed.
This has to be done via "Java Script" since the code will be placed in the HTML template in SE80.
Kindly help with your expert suggestions
Regards
Saurabh

Hi Aviad,
You could set "fullscreen=yes" (without quotes) for the property called "Window Features" (technical name: "com.sapportals.portal.navigation.WinFeatures") on the navigation element in question (iView or, if existent, surrounding page). Take care, this opens the window without frame and toolbar (closable by ALT-F4).
To get a 100% screen (with toolbar, frame etc), you have to calculate the clients resolution before, using JS for example. So you would need to build a workaround, for example an iView with no output but opening a new window with a certain NavURL as target.
Hope it helps
Detlev

How can I use ONE Text search iView to event/affect mutliple Result Sets?

hello everyone,
i have a special situation in which i have 6 flat tables in my repository which all have a common field called Location ID (which is a lookup flat to the Locations table).
i am trying to build a page with a free-form text search iView on Table #1 (search field = Location ID). when I execute the search, the result set for Table #1 is properly updated, but how do I also get Result Set iViews for Tables #2-6 to also react to the event from Text Search for Table #1 so that they are updated?
i don't want to have to build 6 different text search iViews (one for each table). i just want to use ONE text search iView for all the different result set tables. but, in the documentation and iView properties, the text search iView doesn't have any eventing.
if you have any suggestions, please help.
many thanks in advance,
mm

hello Donna,
that should not be a problem, since you are detailw with result sets and detail iviews because custom eventing can be defined for those iviews.
Yes, it says "no records" found because an active search and record selection havent' been performed for it (only your main table does).
So, yes, define a custom event, and pass the appropriate parameters and you should be fine.
Creating a custom event between a Result Set iView and an Item Details iView is easy and works. I have done it.
See page 35 of the Portal Content Development Guide for a step-by-step example, which is what I used.
For my particular situation, the problem I'm having is that I want the Search Text iView's event (i.e., when the Submit button is pressed) to be published to multiple iViews, all with different tables. Those tables all share some common fields, which is what the Search iView has, so I'd like to pass the search critera to all of the iViews.
-mm

Error while accessing a BI iView from the federated portal to the BI portal

Hi,
We got an issue when we execute BI report from our federated SAP Portal.
The user can navigate into the portal, but when he executes an BI iView, sometime he gets the following error message:
"500 Internal Server Error
blabla...
Root Cause
The initial exception that caused the request to fail was:
BEx Web application "xxxxx" does not exist. The application was either ended by a timeout or an error occurred, which was entered into the trace log. See SAP Notes 937697 and 948490"
He can then refresh the page and execute the report again, and it will works.
Here is our lanscape :
Federated Portal EP6 SP18
BI Portal SP20
Iview are created on the Federated Portal and consume BI web template.
I don't think about a timeout issue, since sometime we got the selection screen and once we click on a button (after some seconds) we got the error.
Any ideas ?
rgds,
Sebastien

Hello,
Please could you remove the proxy setting and check whether it will give you same error or not.
Even we have faced the similar similar issue and once we have removed the proxy setting and cross checked it , it worked fine and later we came to know that the problem is in network proxy setting application.Check with the net working team for the same.
Thanks
Geeta

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