Portal Tools for NetWeaver
Consumers
This topic lists the portal tools you will use as a NetWeaver consumer:
Navigation Path |
Tool/Screen |
Functionality |
System Administration ® System Configuration ® Keystore Administration |
Keystore Administration |
Set up trust between your portal and other NetWeaver producer portals (see Setting Up Trust Between You and Producers) |
System Administration ® System Configuration ® Service Configuration |
Service Configuration Editor |
● Configure network proxy settings (see Configuring Proxy Settings) ● Configure general and system ID cache settings for a portal in a federated network (see Configuring the Federated Portal Cache) ● Configure settings to optimize your consumer profile (see Optimizing Your Consumer Profile) |
System Administration ® Federated Portal ® Myself as Content Consumer ® Cache Management |
Content Cache |
● Clear cached role content that you have consumed through remote role assignment. ● Synchronize remote delta link content on the consumer with updates made to its source content on the producer. ● Set the lifetime of content cached in the federated portal cache. (See Configuring Caching for the Federated Portal and Clearing and Synchronizing the Federated Portal Cache) |
System Administration ® Federated Portal ® Myself as Content Consumer ® Cache Management |
Cache Configuration |
Configure cache settings specific to federated portal content (see Configuring Caching for the Federated Portal) |
System Administration ® Federated Portal ® Myself as Content Consumer ® View My Producers |
View My Producers |
● View all the producers on which you are registered (see Viewing Your Producers) ● Block and unblock content producers (see Enabling/Disabling Access to Registered Producers) |
System Administration ® Federated Portal ® Myself as Content Consumer ® Manage My Producers |
Manage My Producers |
Manage the producers you have added to your consumer. In this screen, you access the following editors to perform various tasks: ● Producer Editor ● Permission Editor ● Producer Alias Editor ● Producer Registration Editor ● Connection Tests See the respective entries below for details. |
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Producer Editor1 |
● Modify connection properties and metadata of existing producers (see Editing Connection Properties to Producers). ● Remove producers (see Removing Producers) |
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Producer Alias Editor1 |
Viewing and managing the aliases of a producer instance (see Maintaining Producer Aliases) |
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Connection Tests1 |
Test consumer connectivity to producers (see Testing the Connection to a Producer) |
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Producer Registration Editor1 |
Register and unregister your consumer portal with other producer portals (see Registering and Unregistering Your Consumer Portal) |
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Permission Editor1 |
Set permissions in producer objects for your portal administrators (see Assigning Administrator Permissions to Producer Objects) |
User Administration ® Identity Management |
Role Assignment |
Assign users/groups on the consumer to: ● remote roles2 (see Assigning Users to Remote Roles) ● copied (remote delta link) roles3 (see Working with Remote Delta Link Content) ● local roles3,4 |
Content Administration ® Portal Content |
Portal Content Studio |
● Consume remote content through remote delta link and WSRP application sharing modes (see Copying Remote Content to Your Consumer and Creating Proxy-to-Portlet iViews) ● Manage content (see Portal Content Studio in the Portal Administration Guide) ● Set permissions to portal content objects (see “Permission Editor” below) |
System Administration ® Permissions ® Portal Permissions |
Permission Editor |
Assign permissions to producer objects and portal content (see Assigning Administrator Permissions to Producer Objects and Assigning End-User Permission to Producer Objects and Content) |
1 Editors are available from the Manage My Producers screen. To launch the editors, either select the appropriate option in the right-click context menu in the Portal Catalog or first edit a producer and then choose the appropriate option in the object editor toolbar.
2 Applicable to remote role assignment mode only.
3 Applicable to remote delta link mode only.
4 Applicable to WSRP application sharing mode only.