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To facilitate the creation of content for SAP NetWeaver Portal, Visual Composer provides the portal content modeling tools. These tools enable visual modeling, deployment and maintenance of portal content objects, such as iViews, pages, roles and worksets.

The following sections contain conceptual and background information about these tools, as well as detailed instructions how to use them.

  • Getting Started

    Introduces the portal modeling terminology, architecture and working environment, and guides you through creating your first portal content model

  • Concepts

    Provides conceptual and background information about portal content modeling

  • Tasks

    Provides detailed instructions for tasks you need to perform when modeling portal content

Note Note

Since the portal content modeling tools extend Visual Composer, most of the tasks you perform, such as creating, managing and deploying models, rely on the core Visual Composer capabilities. Therefore this documentation in many cases does not provide full descriptions of certain tasks, but rather refers to the corresponding Visual Composer topics in Modeling Composite Views with Visual Composer.

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Caution Caution

Be sure to read SAP Note 1081909 for the latest information about limitations, known issues, and workarounds for the portal modeling. You can find the note at SAP Service Marketplace: service.sap.com/notes.

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Modeling from SAP NetWeaver Development Studio

You can also model portal content from NetWeaver Development Studio by installing the Portal Content Modeling feature bundled with NWDS. More information: Working with Visual Composer in SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio.

Note Note

When accessing the portal while using portal content modeling from NWDS, an additional log-on dialog box may appear requesting you to log to the portal.

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