Defining Portal Systems and Aliases 

In the portal, be sure that you have created each system required for application modeling, and assigned it a system alias accordingly.

For information about creating systems and aliases, see the Portal Administration Guide on SAP Help Portal at help.sap.com/nw70 ® SAP Library ® SAP NetWeaver Library® SAP NetWeaver by Key Capability  ®  People Integration by Key Capability  ®  Portal  ®  Portal Administration Guide  ®  System Administration  ®  System Configuration  ®  System Landscape  ®  Creating Systems.

Map users with VC Role to a user with read permissions to the required back-end system.

Business Intelligence Systems

The Visual Composer installation includes the Business Intelligence (BI) extension kit for accessing and building queries against a wide range of data sources created with the BI Java Connectors and SAP BI Connector. These include SAP BI systems as well as non-SAP data sources. The BI functionality available in Visual Composer differs depending on which type of connector you use to define your system:

·        Systems created with a BI Java Connector can access the BI Integration Wizard and the SQL or MDX Editors, or can be used as data services with a default relational or OLAP query.

·        Systems created with the SAP BI Connector provide access to SAP BI queries, query views, and characteristics in Visual Composer. For more information on configuring a connection to an SAP BI system, see the following path in the SAP Customizing Implementation Guide: SAP NetWeaver   ®  Business Intelligence  ®  Reporting-relevant Settings   ®  BEx Web   ®  Integration into the Portal   ®  Create BI System in the Portal.

See Appendix: Visual Composer Connectivity for details on the full range of systems you can create for use in Visual Composer.