Personalizing Your Portal  

Purpose

SAP Enterprise Portal provides each user with a customized work environment. Through the personalization tool, you can determine, among other features, the look of your portal, your logon credentials, and access to all your content sources through one logon procedure.

Clicking Personalize in the header area opens a separate window that displays:

●     The Detailed Navigation iView containing the entire list of customizable portal elements

●     The personalize page of the first item on the list

See Setting Portal Preferences for specific information about the personalization interfaces of all the items below.

Portal Theme

To personalize the look and feel of your portal, choose a theme from a set of predefined designs that specify contrasts and colors.

When you select an option from the theme menu, the page displays a description of every element of the particular theme you select, such as buttons, fields, fonts, and so on. This feature gives the user important visual feedback about how the different portal UI elements will look with any particular theme.

Two of the themes provided by the portal are:

●     High Contrast. A theme specifically designed for those with visual problems such as color blindness.

●     Tradeshow. A theme designed to work effectively with projectors and other equipment generally used during presentations.

Portal Language

Select the language in which the portal strings appear, as long as it is one of the languages supported by the portal.

User Mapping

Your portal may include iViews that access data from secure systems which require your logon credentials.

User mapping enables you to provide logon information for each secure data source from which your portal retrieves information, so that you are not prompted for logon information every time an iView accesses a secure source.

For example, consider an iView that accesses a Hotmail mailbox. You have your own mailbox on the Hotmail server, and your portal administrator has defined the Hotmail server as a data source. In order to retrieve your mailbox data and display it in the iView, without logging on separately to the Hotmail server, you map the logon credentials for your Hotmail account to your portal user credentials.

User Mapping (Remote Content)

Allows you to provide logon information for iViews that deliver content from a remote content provider. This option is relevant only if your organization has set up a global portal environment with syndicated content.

User Password

To assure security for your portal, you may periodically change your assigned default password.

User Profile

You can modify the user profile you created in the New User Registration form when you first logged on, or create it now if you have not yet done so.

Your profile establishes your identity, providing general information, details about your position in the company, and your contact information. A user profile allows other portal users to locate and communicate with you, and enables the administrator to better manage portal users.

The New User Registration form also contains the checkbox for activating portal accessibility features; see Accessibility.

WorkProtect Mode

Some iViews and applications contain forms with editable fields for data entry. Navigating away from the active window of such an application to another page in the portal would cause the loss of any data you may have entered or work you may have performed in these iViews.

WorkProtect Mode prevents unsaved data from being lost as a result of navigation. When you activate this feature, all navigation links are launched in a new window, keeping the active window with the unsaved data intact.

By default, this property is activated for all users who do not define a default value in their personalization. If your administrator deactivates the feature, but still allows personalization of it, each user can then decide individually whether or not to use WorkProtect Mode.