Copying Remote Content to Your Consumer 

Applicable to: remote delta links

Use

This topic describes how you can use the Portal Content Studio to browse the Portal Catalog of a remote NetWeaver portal (the producer) and to create remote delta links to its content on your NetWeaver portal (the consumer).

Alternatively, you can bypass the Portal Content Studio by using an XML script to perform remote role assignments from the consumer. For more information, see Using XML to Automate Federated Portal Network Tasks.

Prerequisites

●      You have added the producer, tested the connection, and registered your portal.

●      You have administrator read permission on the producer object from which you want to retrieve content. For more information, see Assigning Administrator Permissions to Producer Objects.

●      You have at least administrator readpermission on the remote content on the producer. For more information, see Exposing Content on the Producer for 'Remote Delta Link' Usage.

●      You have access to the standard Content Admin role on the consumer portal.

Procedure

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       1.      On the consumer portal, navigate to Content Administration ® Portal Content. The Portal Content Studio is launched.

       2.      In the Portal Catalog, locate the relevant remote producer listed in the root folder: NetWeaver Content Producers

To improve portal performance by reducing roundtrips between the producer and consumer portals, your consumer portal caches at preset intervals the Portal Catalog structure exposed by a remote producer portal (see Configuring the Federated Portal Cache). Therefore, to ensure that you a viewing the most up-to-date Portal Catalog of a producer, first choose Refresh in the content menu of the producer's Portal Content folder.

       3.      Browse the Portal Catalog of the remote producer.

       4.      Right-click a folder or object (role, workset, page, iView, or business objects) in the producer's Portal Catalog. Then, choose Copy.

■       You cannot preview content in a remote Portal Catalog. To preview remote content, first copy the content to your portal and then preview the local objects.

■       For information about using business objects in a federated portal network scenario, see Using Object-Based Navigation.

       5.      Right-click a folder in your own Portal Catalog (in the Portal Content root folder) and then choose Paste as Local Content.

Note the following when copying a folder:

■       You can copy a folder to copy more than one object at once. The new folder on the consumer is not a mirror image of the source folder on the producer. This means that when a content administrator adds or deletes an object in the folder on the producer, those changes are not made in the corresponding folder on the consumer. The content administrator on the consumer needs to manually copy the new object from producer and delete the obsolete object in the Portal Catalog on the consumer.

■       When you copy a folder, any sub-folders and content in them is also copied.

■       A delta link object can have only one source object. Therefore, if you copy a folder from the producer portal and the folder contains objects that have delta links between them, the delta link is not regenerated between the objects created on the consumer portal. Instead, each object created on the consumer has a delta link that points to its corresponding source object on the producer portal. For more information, see 'Remote Delta Link' Mode.

       6.      Perform the on-screen steps in the wizard to copy the content as remote delta links to your portal.

Result

You have created remote delta link objects on your consumer portal. You now manage these copied objects as you would with any other local delta link objects. For more information, see Working with Copied Content.

For information about the relationship between remote delta link objects on the consumer and their source objects on the producer, see 'Remote Delta Link' Mode.