Portal Books

Can you please suggest some books for enterprise portal sap:
For configuration
For use
For pdf forms
etc

Hi Stilianos,
For book, check sappress
http://www.sappress.com/product.cfm?account=&product=H966
1) SAP NetWeaver Portal: by Valentin Nicolescu, Katharina Klappert, and Helmut Krcmar
A must-read for SAP Professionals who are looking to take their SAP NetWeaver Portal implementations to the next level. Using this book as your exclusive guide, explore the various architectural and developmental impacts of implementing NetWeaver Portal content for several SAP applications, including Composite Applications and Business Packages. Readers will learn the intricate details of Federated Portals and where it makes sense to use them related to portal content integration scenarios such as Business Intelligence, Employee & Manager Self Service, SRM, and more. In addition, readers can leverage the book's examples as a basis for their own specific requirements.
2) Succeeding with your SAP NetWeaver Portal Project - Best Practices for Design, Composition, and Operation
by Boris Otto, Sven Winkler, and Jörg Wolter
Enterprise portals are one of the most important IT developments in recent times. Although they represent an innovative class of information systems, which can address the needs of the majority of employees within an organization, new technical and organizational requirements must be met in order to effectively implement and utilize their vast capabilities.
This exclusive technical guide helps you avoid typical pitfalls when implementing SAP NetWeaver Portal across various departments in your company. Readers uncover proven techniques for developing successful portal strategies and business cases, delve deeply into the details of portal governance, and learn how to design their own processes and structures, based on tried and tested organizational models. Equipped with key insights and exclusive best practices you're able to optimally tailor your portal to meet user requirements and thus set the course towards leveraging optimal change management processes in your company. Using the information in this invaluable guide, you can turn any SAP NetWeaver Portal project into a sure-fire success.
3) Content Integration with SAP NetWeaver Portal:by Marty McCormick and Matt Stratford
This book is a must-read for SAP professionals who are looking to take their SAP NetWeaver Portal implementation to the next level.
First, the authors introduce you to fundamental portal concepts and the challenges facing project teams today. Then, you'll explore the various architectural and developmental impacts of implementing SAP NetWeaver Portal content for several SAP applications, including Composite Applications and Business Packages. You'll familiarize yourself with the intricate details of Federated Portals and where it makes sense to use them in relation to portal content integration scenarios such as SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence, Manager & Employee Self Service, SRM, and more. In addition, you'll benefit immediately from best practices for using Adobe Document Services, the System Landscape Directory, and SAP NetWeaver Development Infrastructure, and from the book's detailed examples, which show you how best to configure your SAP system to integrate content for multiple SAP products.
4) The Developer's Guide to SAP NetWeaver Portal: by Marcus Banner, Berthold Latka, Roland Schroth and Michael Spee
From a strategic perspective, SAP NetWeaver Portal is perhaps the most important product of the SAP NetWeaver family. The Portal is essential to all processes within SAP NetWeaver, serving as the fundamental platform that provides a condensed overview of all information and enabling central access to all applications in the enterprise. In addition, the Portal provides the infrastructure for cooperation within and across company borders. This book provides the highly advanced functional knowledge required to correctly set up, operate, administer, and program the SAP NetWeaver Portal.
5) Maximizing Web Dynpro for Java: by Bertram Ganz, Jochen Gürtler, and Timo Lakner
This book has it all - everything you need to know in order to get the very most from your Web Dynpro applications - straight from the developers at SAP.
Based on interesting (and surprising) sample applications, such as GameStation, Google Search, and MusicBox, this unique reference helps you easily memorize the vast array of Web Dynpro for Java capabilities in an engaging and entertaining manner. Readers learn about the dynamic creation of UI components and how to access web services and get details on the integration of Web Dynpro applications into SAP NetWeaver Portal, the componentization of applications, navigation options between different Web Dynpro applications, display techniques, and much more. An entire chapter is devoted to the installation, configuration, and administration of the Web Dynpro runtime. In addition, this comprehensive book provides you with many tips and tricks to increase the speed, security, and structure of your Web Dynpro applications, as well as key insights on troubleshooting and performance optimization.
6) SAP Authorization System - Design and Implementation of Authorization Concepts for SAP R/3 and SAP Enterprise Portals
by IBM Business Consulting GmbH
This practical guide offers you a detailed introduction to all the essential aspects of SAP Authorization management. Take advantage of a proven Phase Model to help you navigate through all of the stages leading up to the implementation and deployment of an authorization concept, from the procedural steps, to the production phase, and lastly, to the supervision phase. In addition, you'll quickly learn how to set up authorization via the SAP R/3 Profile Generator, and benefit from in-depth coverage of the special security requirements of the SAP Enterprise Portal as well as the SAP R/3 standards and infrastructure, which serve as a framework to develop and support SAP Authorization concepts.
There are also "The SAP NetWeaver Portal Collection", which offers special pricing on this collection to get all the information you need to plan, execute, and succeed with your most important SAP NetWeaver Portal projects.
There are more books when you click teh link provided above about Portal.
Hope that helps and award p[oints for helpful suggestions.
Ray

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"Sameer Dalal" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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With these approaches when you get a search result node you need to retrieve either the metadata item or the folder hierarchy or the mapping layer translation and then set up a page change event to take the user to the proper page.
One of the many issues with these approaches is that when you move content display portlets around you need to update stuff elsewhere (CMS or mapping layer). Depending on your content display portlet mechanism you can also consider setting a portlet preference that points to a cms folder or node. You can then traverse the desktop hierarchy using presentation contexts while extracting the cms contexts from the portlet properties. This way you can semi-automatically create a cms-to-portal mapping which serves as a lookup table for the search results. Obviously, this time around the challenge is keeping the portlet preferences in synch when stuff is moved around on the cms side :) To overcome this, you would probably need to hook into the content events inside the repository and modify the portlet preferences on the fly when stuff is moved around. This would be quite hard core in my opinion and I've never gone that far in a real world project....
Summa summarum: there are no low-hanging fruits here, but what you describe can (and has been) achieved to a certain degree with some serious admin/management headaches. Sometimes the business requirement is set in concrete and it overrides the admin concerns :)
Hope this helps, I'll be happy to elaborate on the thoughts above since this is one of my pet peeves when doing architectural design for a new portal project :D
Best regards,
Petri
Edited by: Petri Pellinen on Nov 5, 2008 10:32 PM

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