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Background documentation Portal Tools for NetWeaver Consumers  Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

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.

 

Producer Editor1

   Modify connection properties and metadata of existing producers (see Editing Connection Properties to Producers).

   Remove producers (see Removing Producers)

 

Producer Alias Editor1

Viewing and managing the aliases of a producer instance (see Maintaining Producer Aliases)

 

Connection Tests1

Test consumer connectivity to producers (see Testing the Connection to a Producer)

 

Producer Registration Editor1

Register and unregister your consumer portal with other producer portals (see Registering and Unregistering Your Consumer Portal)

 

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.

 

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