Setting Up the SAP ERP System for Drag&Relate 

Purpose

By setting up the Drag&Relate navigation mechanism you can link the data of the SAP R/3 system with the data of another application in the portal. You can set up this link from:

·        a non-SAP R/3 system to an SAP R/3 system

·        an SAP R/3 system to a non-SAP R/3 system

·        an SAP R/3 system to a Web target

·        an SAP R/3 system to another SAP R/3 system

·        within an SAP R/3 system

The information in this section relates to SAP ERP applications, which for versions 4.7 and earlier are referred to as SAP R/3 applications or systems. All information described here for SAP R/3 is true also for later SAP ERP versions, except where stated otherwise.

Prerequisites

You must satisfy the following requirements:

These requirements must be satisfied for each logical SAP R/3 system.

·        The SAP R/3 system is registered in the system landscape.

For more information see the help.sap.com ® <language> ® People Integration ® Portal ® Administration Guide ® System Administration ® System Landscape ® Creating Systems.

·        The SAP R/3 system has at least Release 4.0B and a Support Package level containing the necessary corrections to the system for using the Drag&Relate functions.

The following table lists the Support Package levels and their corresponding SAP release (see also SAP Note 211005):

Support Package Level and Corresponding SAP Release for Drag&Relate Functions

SAP Release	Support Package Level
4.0B	42
4.5B	22
4.6A	14
4.6B	06
4.6C	01
as of 4.6D	in the standard system

·        The SAP Enterprise Portal plug-in was imported into the SAP R/3 system.
For more information read SAP Note 655941.

It is not necessary to import the SAP Enterprise Portal plug-in for SAP R/3 Enterprise Systems 4.7 based on 6.40. The objects are already an integral part of the system.

·        The SAP R/3 system is configured for single sign-on with logon tickets.
For more information see User Authentication and Administration ® Integration into Single Sign-On Environments ® Single Sign-On ® Single Sign-On with SAP Logon Tickets in the Portal Security Guide, located at service.sap.com/instguidesNW ® SAP NetWeaver ® Release 04 ® Planning ® Security Guide ® SAP NetWeaver.

Process Flow

The SAP R/3 system is configured in a number of steps:

These configuration steps are required for each logical SAP R/3 system.

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       1.      You import the Drag&Relate metadata.
For more information, see Importing Drag&Relate Metadata.

You only have to perform this step for SAP R/3 systems that contain software component SAP_APPL.

       2.      You activate link generation for the SAP GUI for HTML
For more information see Activating Link Generation for the SAP GUI for HTML.

       3.      You assign the users roles. You can create new roles or edit existing roles.
For more information see Assignment of Users to Roles.

Optional (for advanced users only):

       4.      You define relationships for Drag&Relate. This means that you edit the metadata for the objects in the Business Object Repository (BOR).

You can only perform this step if:

·         you want to continue editing the metadata imported in step 1

·         you want to define Drag&Relate metadata manually
(for example in SAP systems for which SAP does not deliver metadata)

For more information, see Drag&Relate and the Business Object Repository.

Only for SAP R/3 systems with release 4.x and higher:

       5.      You specify that system messages should only be displayed each day the first time the user logs on.
For more information see Configuring System Messages.

No configuration steps are needed in SAP R/3 systems with Release 6.10 or higher.

Result

You have set up the SAP R/3 system for Drag&Relate.