Making Services Available 

Purpose

As an administrator, you make services available to the portal users, so that they can work together in the portal. Within the Collaboration component, the system provides users with services in the following iViews:

·        Collaboration Launch Pad (CLP)

·        Member List in Room

·        User Details

·        Other iViews that display users or user groups and for which the context menu with services for collaboration has been activated.

Process Flow

       1.      Copy the relevant configuration objects (see Making Services Available: Standard Configuration) to your own namespace. Note the following information:

¡        LinkCommand (optional, only in the case of any changes)
A link command is the command to launch a service through the corresponding link. If you do not change the delivered link commands, SAP recommends keeping these in the SAP namespace.

¡        Command groups (required)
Copy all command groups delivered to your own namespace.

During every SAP NetWeaver update, the system overwrites all link commands and command groups in the SAP namespace.

       2.      Decide on the scope of the collaboration services that you want to make available in the iViews (see iViews with Collaboration Services).

¡        Decide which services you want to make available in the CLP Collaboration menu and the member list. In the standard system, the same configuration is used for these two iViews.

If you require different services in the member list to those in the CLP, you can create a separate services configuration for the member list. For more information, see point three, configuration of services.

¡        Decide which services you want to make available throughout the portal in the context menu for displayed users or user groups.

¡        Decide which services are particularly important in the User Details iView and should appear directly on the user interface.

¡        Check whether individual services must be limited to particular portal roles. Create the portal roles necessary for this.

To allow only certain users in your company to create rooms from within the CLP, you assign both the relevant users and the services for creating rooms to the Collaboration portal role.

A service that is not limited to a particular portal role is available to all portal users.

       3.      Run the configuration for making services available.