Integrating BW Services Using the iView Wizard (SAP Library

Integrating BW Services Using the iView Wizard

Use

In addition to the integration of iViews using role migration, you can also use the iView wizard in the portal to integrate iViews into the portal.

Procedure

Call up the iView wizard using Content-Admin ® iViews.

As the type, choose Java.

Choose New iView.

On the Info tab page, specify a Unique Name and an iView Title.

On the Load tab page, choose the iView Load Method Bypass iView Server.

On the Java tab page, choose BW Web Application as the application type.

Choose Next.

Select the BW system from the dropdown box.

Specify the BW Query String.

Choose Finish.

Choose Add.

Note

The BW Query String is the part of the BEx Web application URL that is found after the question mark, for example, ?cmd=ldoc&template=0Query_template.

You obtain the query string.

in the BEx Web application designer:

Choose Web Template ® Open to open the Web template for the BEx Web application you want.
Select the Web template from your history, your favorites, or your rolls by double clicking on it.
In the Web application designer, choose Publish ® Copy URL in Clipboard.

in the Web application executed on the Web

Note that the Web application has to be in its initial status. That means that you have not yet navigated there, but rather that you only displayed the Web application on the Web.

In the context menu for Internet Explorer, choose Properties.
Select the Address (URL) and choose Copy in the context menu.

You now have the URL on the clipboard and can then use the query string for entry in the iView wizard.

Caution

Note that you have to specify the correct stylesheet when creating iViews manually.

Choose under Content-Admin ® iViews next to the Edit iView.
On the Java tab page, select the BIReports30 stylesheet under Look and Feel Theme Part for BW Reports.

Using System Configuration ® Styles, you can edit stylesheets that each user can then select themselves using Personalize: Portal.

The style editor also contains entries for BEx Web applications under Elements ® Complex Elements.

The modified stylesheets are transferred automatically to the BW system so that the BEx Web Applications are suitably displayed in the stylesheet for the portal.

Check

Under Content Admin ® iViews, you will find next to each iView a Preview link that enables the execution of an iView.

Result

You have now integrated a Web application as an iView into the portal. Before you can display the iView in the portal, you have to assign the iView to a page. The page has to be assigned to your role. See also Integrating Using iViews.