BEx Web Application or Query As iView in the Portal (SAP Library

BEx Web Application or Query As iView in the Portal

Use

BEx Web Applications and Queries that are displayed on the Web can be displayed as iViews in the portal.

Features

A BEx Web application or query as an iView can, together with other iViews, be part of a portal page or can take up the complete content area. There is then a direct call of the BEx Web application or query in the BI system with which the current data is displayed. When using the portal cache, data updates can appear with a delay. For more information on setting up the portal cache, see Integration Using the Portal Content Studio.

An iView with a BEx Web application can be generated using the BEx Web Application Designer, BEx Query Designer or Portal Content Studio. For more information, see Creating BI Content for the Portal.

The iViews are of type BEx Web Application iView and have the code link com.sap.portal.appintegrator.sap.BWReport. You must choose the required version of BEx Web: SAP BW 2.x/3.x or SAP NetWeaver BI (valid for SAP NetWeaver 2004s and higher).

The two most important properties, System and BEx Web Application Query String are automatically set on the BEx Web Application Designer and BEx Query Designer. You need to enter these properties manually in the Portal Content Studio.

● The System property includes the alias on the BI system (see SAP Reference IMG ® SAP Customizing Implementation Guide ® SAP NetWeaver ® Business Intelligence ® Reporting-Relevant Settings ® BEx Web ® Integration into the Portal ® Create a BI System in the Portal).

● The BEx Web Application Query String property must have the following values for the SAP NetWeaver BIversion:

BI Object	Value
Web Template	template=<TEMPLATE>
Query	query=<QUERY>
Query View	initial_state=VIEW&initial_state-view=<VIEW>
InfoProvider	initial_state=INFOPROVIDER&initial_state-infoprovider=<INFOPROVIDER>
Report	report=<REPORT>

● The BEx Web Application Query String property must have the following values for the SAP BW2.x/3.xversion:

BI Object	Value
BEx Web Application	template_id=<TEMPLATE_ID>
BEx Query	infocube=<INFOCUBE>&query=<QUERY>
Bookmark	bookmark_id=<BOOKMARK_ID>

Note

The <…> are placeholders that are to be replaced with the name of the required object.

You are able to add further URL parameters for BI to the BEx Web Application Query String property, for example to set filter values. The URL parameters are separated by an ampersand &.

You can use the Application Parameters property for transferring further BI URL parameters.

For more information about other iView properties, see Structure link iView Properties.