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Within the portal layer, the user interfaces and processes are provided to the user in a role-based way. We recommend that you only use the portal installed with usage type Composition Environment Platform only for development and testing of the portal content and applications. For production, use usage type EP Core - Application Portal of SAP NetWeaver 7.3 or use the federated portal network capabilities of SAP NetWeaver to expose applications seamlessly to an existing SAP NetWeaver 7.0 or SAP NetWeaver 7.3 production portal.

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Portal Usage in SAP NetWeaver CE

In SAP NetWeaver CE, the portal can be used as frontend to run composite applications in a development and test environment:

  • After the development of your composite application you use iViews to integrate it into the portal pages.

    More information: Integrating Applications into the Portal

  • Using the portal content modeling tools of Visual Composer you can model and deploy portal content objects, such as roles, worksets, iViews, and pages. Additionally, Visual Composer enables the integration of composite applications as well as the ability to include advanced portal navigation technology, such as object-based navigation (OBN).

    More information: Modeling Portal Content with Visual Composer

  • If your composite application includes processes with human activities to which tasks are assigned, end users will use the universal worklist (UWL) to manage their tasks from different systems. The UWL provides a central access not only to tasks also to alerts and notifications. The UWL is accessed by the end user through the portal.

    More information: Managing Tasks and Alerts in the Universal Worklist

The portal provides a set of tools to administer, manage, and monitor the portal (more information: Managing the SAP NetWeaver CE Portal ).

Other Portal Capabilities

In addition to the portal capabilities used for SAP NetWeaver CE, application developers can use the APIs provided by the portal to create applications that take advantage of the portal functionality and services. Application developers can also access portal content and objects from within a Web Dynpro or Java EE application, or customize the portal user interface. Both of these portal capabilities are part of usage type EP Core - Application Portal and usage type Composition Environment Platform .

More information: Developing Applications for the Portal

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