Creating Portal Objects

Use

You can create portal objects in a number of ways:

By copying-and-pasting objects that already exist in the Portal Catalog and then modifying their content
By uploading objects from remote sources and modifying them as needed
By creating new objects based on a standard portal template, using the object-creation wizards

For more information about the types of available portal content objects, see What Are Portal Content Objects? and What Are Workcenter Roles and Freestyle Roles?

For more information about creating portal objects, see:

Prerequisites

To view a template in an object-creation wizard, you must have access permissions to the template.

For more information, see Permission Levels .

Procedure

Creating a Folder

You use folders to store and organize portal objects in the Portal Catalog. Assigning access permissions to folders is a convenient means of allocating authorizations and content to portal administrators in your organization.

In the Portal Catalog, in the context menu of the folder that will contain the new folder, choose New Folder. The New Folder wizard appears.

In the Folder Properties step, enter the properties to define the new folder. The following table lists important notes about some of the folder properties:

Property	Description and Notes
Folder ID	May contain upper-case and lower-case alphanumeric characters (a-z; A-Z; 0-9), underscores (_), dashes (-), tilde (~) and parentheses. Do not include other special characters or spaces. The ID must not exceed 100 characters.
Folder ID Prefix	Facilitates locating folders by naming them according to a specific naming convention.
Master Language	The original language in which the properties of the object are generated and maintained. When creating content objects, decide on a master language that is common to most users in your environment, and which serves a the initial maintenance language. Typically, when creating content packages - such as assigning iViews to pages - you should use objects defined with the same master language. This property cannot be changed once the wizard creates the object.

Property

Description and Notes

Folder ID

May contain upper-case and lower-case alphanumeric characters (a-z; A-Z; 0-9), underscores (_), dashes (-), tilde (~) and parentheses. Do not include other special characters or spaces. The ID must not exceed 100 characters.

Folder ID Prefix

Facilitates locating folders by naming them according to a specific naming convention.

Master Language

The original language in which the properties of the object are generated and maintained. When creating content objects, decide on a master language that is common to most users in your environment, and which serves a the initial maintenance language.

Typically, when creating content packages - such as assigning iViews to pages - you should use objects defined with the same master language.

This property cannot be changed once the wizard creates the object.

Complete the wizard.

A new folder inherits the permissions of its parent folder. For more information, see How Are Object Properties Inherited? .

Creating an Object

In the Portal Catalog, in the context menu of the folder that will contain the new object, use the New option as follows:

Menu Option	More Information
Role Workcenter Role	Creating Workcenter Roles
Role Freestyle Role	Creating Freestyle Roles and Worksets
Role Role from Back End	Uploading Roles from Back-End Systems
Role Role from Package	Uploading Roles from Packages
Folder	Creating a Folder section above
iView iView from Template	Launching the iView Wizard and General Information Note In the baseline configuration of SAP Enterprise Portal, you create iViews within the workcenter role.
iView iView from Remote Source	Creating iViews from Remote Sources
Page	Creating Portal Pages Note In the baseline configuration of SAP Enterprise Portal, you create pages within the workcenter role.
Workset	Creating Freestyle Roles and Worksets
Layout	Editing Page Content and Layout
Transport Package	Creating a Transport Package
Business Object	Creating a New Business Object

Creating a Template

You can create standardized templates from existing portal objects. Templates are used to create other portal objects using the same iView, page, and system wizards. They serve as the base for creating units of content assigned to portal pages, roles, and worksets.

In the Properties editor, edit the object that is to serve as the basis of the template.
Locate the Is a Template property and select the checkbox. This converts the non-template object to a template.