Order of portal roles in navigation menu

Hi portal experts,
Do you know that how the portal chooses that in which order the roles are in the portal navigation menu/area?
I have a role which I would like to always display as the last entry in the navigation area? So e.g. first I would have ESS, then MSS, and then custom rule A and then custom rule B. Now B comes before A.
Is there a way to have an effect to the order of the roles?
Regards,
Pa

Hi,
locate the entry point of the role (role itself or a folder, workset, etc). There is a property called Sort Priority. Give it the highest value from the other entry points.
SAP Help:
Entry Points: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/4e/3e703e632c7937e10000000a114084/content.htm
Sorting: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/92/3e703e632c7937e10000000a114084/content.htm
br,
Tobias

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Regards,
Praveen Gudapati

Can anyone help me understanding the links between Launchpad roles, PFCG roles, and portal roles!?!

Hi experts,
I am looking at the newer EhP5 and EhP6 functionality for ESS and MSS, specifically the WD ABAP portal applications. I've turned on all the business functions and services I think our team wants, however I'm confused on how to move forward in using them. For a little tech info, we are on EhP6 for the backend, but our portal is 7.02.
My first step was to assign the com.sap.pct.erp.ess.wda.Employee_Self_Service_WDA portal role to our test ESS user group in our sandbox environment. The ESS user got a new ESS tab in the portal and it's linked to the Launchpad role ESS, Instance MENU. I'm comfortable with ESS at this point, still need to learn more about customizing the menu for different employee groups without creating additional Launchpad or SAP roles.
Question 1: Correct me if I'm wrong, but is the Launchpad roll ESS, instance menu linked to the PFCG role SAP_EMPLOYEE_ESS_WDA_2?
Next, I was looking to see if there was a similar portal role for MSS, but it seems I can't find one. I implemented the MSS Addon 1.0 for ABAP and the portal and got a new MSS portal addon role, but it doesn't seem to be connected to any MSS Launchpad role.
Question 2: Is there a portal role to assign to users/groups that is linked to one of the MSS Launchpad roles? If yes, what business function or service is it a part of?
I'd like to use of the existing MSS Launchpad role to test some of the new portal functionality, but I'm not sure how to do it.
Question 3: How is a Launchpad role assigned to a SAP role in PFCG? Anyone have some documentation they can point me too?
Kind regards,
Garrett Meredith

Thank you Samuli, this was very helpful in connecting many of the pieces.
For now I have a very good understanding of how the new ESS is controlled and modified.
It appears that FPM_LAUNCHPAD_UIBB could be used to develop a similar component to call a custom launchpad role for MSS containing a customized list of WDA applications.
Is a MSS Launchpad a good way to pursue since we use a SAP enterprise portal?
I found a PAOC_MSS package containing other MSS embedded packages.
Could I use one of the embedded packages in there and by creating a Component configuration in the FPM_LAUNCHPAD_UIBB for one of the MSS WD applications?
Based on the documentation link above, PFCG roles are for NWBC HTML or Desktop versions.
Kind regards,
Garrett

Portal Roles added to the LDAP group is not showing up for users

Hello expert,
I have implemented SSO for Enterprise Portal and MS LDAP. It is working fine but when I assigned roles to the LDAP group instead of UME group, they are not taking effect when I refresh the browser. My service account that I set up in the keytab file is a read only account for the LDAP. Is there some permission issue that I have to do to be able to add Portal roles or groups to LDAP groups?

Hi,
By default the LDAP integration configuration file is readonly.
In this case, is not possible to modify data in LDAP.
You must to connect in read-write mode; and I think that, furthermore, you need to configure SSL between Portal and LDAP in order to use read-write mode.
regards,

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