Integration Functions in the Web Application Designer 

Use

The BEx Web Application Designer is a tool authors use to create Web templates. When Web templates are displayed in the browser they are called BEx Web applications.

Using the Publish menu, you can integrate BEx Web applications into the portal. In the Open Dialog, you can call Web templates that you have already published as iViews in portal roles and then edit them in the Web Application Designer.

Features

Publishing to the Enterprise Portal 6.0

The save dialog, which contains various views of the portal that can be stored in a Web template, appears. Depending on view, the system generates either iViews in the portal or links in Knowledge Management.

The following views are available for selection in the save dialog:

·        My Portfolio

·        CM-Repository view

·        Collaboration room

·        Portal content

·        Portal Roles

For more detailed information on the various views, see Publishing BEx Web Applications and Queries.

Publishing to the Enterprise Portal 5.0

The options for integration with SAP EP 5.0 are given in the Publish to Enterprise Portal 5.0 menu.

You can either include the Web template as an iView in a role or you can export it as an iView file. You can find more information about integration into SAP EP 5.0 under Integration of SAP BW 3.5 and SAP EP 5.0.

Both options are only supported in SAP EP 5.0 (see Differences between SAP EP 5.0 and SAP EP 6.0).

If you have not installed SAP EP 5.0 and have set up in SAP BW you can hide the menu entry Publish to Enterprise Portal 5.0. For more information, see Menu Entry "Publishing in Enterprise Portal 5.0".

Publishing with the BEx Broadcaster

In the Web Application Designer, choose Publish ® BEx Broadcaster. You get to the BEx Broadcaster. There you will see a list of the available broadcast settings for the Web template that you have edited in the Web Application Designer.

You can precalculate and distribute the Web template. For more information, see Precalculating and Distributing Queries and Web Templates.

Opening Web templates

When you open Web templates, the open dialog and the Portal Roles view will be displayed, among other things. Using the Portal Role view, you - as the author - can very easily open the Web template associated with the BEx Web application for editing because the hierarchy in the open dialog corresponds to the hierarchy in the portal. The system shows all iView with BEx Web applications and links to BEx Web applications from the BEx system that you logged onto with the BEx Web Application Designer.

The system does not show iViews with BEx Web applications from other BW systems because it is not possible to open these Web templates.

Both the save dialog and the open dialog show all connected portals (see Maintaining Portal-Server Settings for SAP EP 6.0). If only one portal is connected, the node with the portal is hidden.