Creating Users for Non-SAP Consumers 

Applicable to: WSRP application sharing (for non-SAP consumers only)

Use

Before a non-SAP consumer portal can register with your producer portal, you need to create a unique portal user for the consumer. Creating a portal user for each consumer has the following security-related benefits:

●      Upon registration, the consumer portal will be required to enter the login ID and password of its corresponding portal user. An administrator on the producer portal is responsible for generating the password.

●      Through the use of portal permissions, the system administrator or content administrator on the producer portal can assign pre-selected iViews and folders in the Portal Catalog per consumer through the use of portal permissions.

Each portal user represents its corresponding consumer portal as a single entity, including all its users; there is no need for you to create a portal login user for each user in the consumer's user base.

Prerequisites

You have access to Identity Management tool on the producer portal. By default, it is available in the standard User Admin or Delegated User Admin roles.

Procedure

On the consumer portal, navigate to User Administration ® Identity Management....

       1.      On the producer portal, navigate to User Administration ® Identity Management.

       2.      Create a new user. The important fields are:

¡        Login ID: Enter a name that clearly represents the consumer portal.

¡        Define Password: Enter an initial password for the user. Note that you will be prompted to change the initial password before sending it to the consumer (see following steps).

       3.      Save the user.

       4.      Before sending the login ID and password to the consumer, log in to the portal at least once with the credentials of the new portal user.

       5.      Change the initial password when requested.

       6.      Send your portal URL with the login ID and password of the portal user you generated.

You may want to send the registration information to the consumer only after you have assigned portal permissions to the content you want exposed to the consumer (see Exposing WSRP iViews on the Producer for Non-SAP Consumers).

Result

You have generated a portal user that can be used by a non-SAP consumer portal to log on to your producer portal and to register itself.