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A remote catalog contains a collection of tiles provided from the remote server.

From the front-end ABAP server, you want to access the tiles from other servers such as HANA KPI tiles, Social Media Catalog containing social medial tiles. The other servers, from which you want to access the tiles or catalogs, are the remote servers. The tiles are located in the catalog of the remote servers. These tiles are not defined in the front-end server and the configuration exists in the remote servers.

To render these tiles from the remote server, you create a catalog (remote catalog) in the front-end server, using either a configuration scope or a customization scope. This remote catalog contains a collection of tiles provided from the remote server. The front-end server does not load the tiles but only provides a reference to the catalog in the remote server.
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You may need to authenticate to the remote server. The authentication mechanism used depends on the system landscape setup. Only those tiles that the end user has access to are displayed. For remote catalog, the SAP Web dispatcher configuration for the corresponding catalog should be in place.

Once you have created a remote catalog, you can perform the following:

  • View tiles of a remote catalog
  • Assign tiles from remote catalogs to groups
  • Edit title of a remote catalog
  • Delete or copy a remote catalog

You can connect to the remote catalogs and assign remote catalogs to a user’s PFCG role. For more information, see Assigning Catalogs to Roles.

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