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This section includes the new features, enhancements, and changes to the portal.

New Features and Enhancements

A description of the new features and enhancements in the portal are available in the following topics:

Changes in Documentation

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Initial Configuration Documentation

The initial configuration documentation has been enhanced and updated.

The initial configuration of the portal includes the tasks you typically need to perform immediately following the installation, and up to, but not including, the creation of content for your portal.

Configuring the Portal for Initial Use

Portal Administration Documentation

The portal administration documentation has been restructured and streamlined to focus on user and administration tasks.

Managing the Portal

Portal Developer's Guide

The portal Developer's Guide has been restructured, updated, streamlined, and enhanced.

Developing Applications for the Portal

In particular:

Supportability

All documentation topics related to supportability and troubleshooting issues have now been restructured and gathered under a single node (Supportability) in Help Portal. This includes documentation about monitoring, reporting, logging, and tracing.

Supportability

Using SAP Business Packages in the Portal

You can augment your portal content by adding predefined content by SAP business packages delivered with other products such as SAP Business Suite. These packages run on SAP NetWeaver Portal, and can access different back-end systems, such as SAP ERP or SAP CRM. Documentation has now been added to explain how to find the packages you need, and how to download and use them on SAP NetWeaver Portal.

Using Business Packages on SAP NetWeaver Portal