Creating Customer-Specific Areas with Services 

Use

You can create a customer-specific area in which you can integrate services delivered as standard and customer-specific services. You might want to do this if the areas delivered as standard do not fulfill your requirements or if you want to tailor particular areas to suit your needs. To create a customer-specific area, you must make settings in the SAP back-end system and in the portal.

Procedure

Settings in the Portal

Define Portal Content Directory Objects

Create the following objects in the Portal Content Directory (PCD):

●     A workset with the name of the customer-specific area

●     Two pages (one for displaying the menu and one for displaying the services)

●     An SAP Web Dynpro iView that calls the XSSMenuArea application

You create this iView on the page that is to display the menu.

You enter the parameters for the XSSMenuArea in the PCD Studio under Application Parameters. When you assign these parameters, you can use the iViews in the standard SAP system as a guideline. The parameter sap.xss.menuarea, must contain the area key you define in the “Define Area” activity (see below).

●     An SAP Web Dynpro iView

You create this iView on the page that is to display the services.

You must enter a system ID for this iView. The system ID must refer to the J2EE server on which the Web Dynpro services are executed.

Settings in the SAP System

Define Resource for Area Page

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       1.      Access the following IMG activity: Cross-Application Components ® Homepage Framework ® Resources ® Define Resources.

       2.      Choose Define Resources (Add Entries).

       3.      Enter a resource object key and a description for the area page.

       4.      Choose Details.

       5.      Enter a URL for the PCD page you have defined for displaying services.

       6.      Enter the other required properties of the resource.

       7.      Save your entries.

Define Resource for Pictogram

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       1.      Access the following IMG activity: Cross-Application Components ® Homepage Framework ® Resources ® Define Resources.

       2.      Choose Define Resources (Add Entries).

       3.      Enter a resource object key and a description for the pictogram.

       4.      Choose Details.

       5.      Specify where the graphic file containing the pictogram is stored.

       6.      Save your entries.

Define Area

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       1.      Access the following IMG activity: Cross-Application Components ® Homepage Framework ® Areas ® Define Areas.

       2.      Choose Define Areas (Add Entries).

       3.      Enter an area key and a description of the area. The description of the area should match the title of the workset you previously defined in the portal.

       4.      Choose Details.

       5.      Enter the resource you defined previously for the area page.

       6.      Enter the resource you defined previously for the pictogram.

       7.      Enter the other required properties of the area.

       8.      Save your entries.

Assign Area to an Area Group Page

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       1.      Access the following IMG activity: Cross-Application Components ® Homepage Framework ® Areas ® Areas ® Assign Areas to Area Group Pages .

       2.      Choose Assign Areas to Area Group Pages (Add and Change Entries).

       3.      Enter the area group key of the required area group page and the previously defined area.

       4.      Assign the required position to the area

       5.      Save your entries.

Result

The customer-specific area and services are displayed on an area group page.