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Use

You can create portal objects in a number of ways:

  • By copying-and-pasting objects that already exist in the Portal Catalog and then modifying their content

  • By uploading objects from remote sources and modifying them as needed

  • By creating new objects based on a standard portal template, using the object-creation wizards

For more information about the types of available portal content objects, see What Are Portal Content Objects? and What Are Workcenter Roles and Freestyle Roles?

For more information about creating portal objects, see:

Prerequisites

To view a template in an object-creation wizard, you must have access permissions to the template.

For more information, see Permission Levels .

Procedure

Creating a Folder

You use folders to store and organize portal objects in the Portal Catalog. Assigning access permissions to folders is a convenient means of allocating authorizations and content to portal administrators in your organization.

  1. In the Portal Catalog, in the context menu of the folder that will contain the new folder, choose Start of the navigation path New Next navigation step Folder End of the navigation path. The New Folder wizard appears.

  2. In the Folder Properties step, enter the properties to define the new folder. The following table lists important notes about some of the folder properties:

    Property

    Description and Notes

    Folder ID

    May contain upper-case and lower-case alphanumeric characters (a-z; A-Z; 0-9), underscores (_), dashes (-), tilde (~) and parentheses. Do not include other special characters or spaces. The ID must not exceed 100 characters.

    Folder ID Prefix

    Facilitates locating folders by naming them according to a specific naming convention.

    Master Language

    The original language in which the properties of the object are generated and maintained. When creating content objects, decide on a master language that is common to most users in your environment, and which serves a the initial maintenance language.

    Typically, when creating content packages - such as assigning iViews to pages - you should use objects defined with the same master language.

    This property cannot be changed once the wizard creates the object.

  3. Complete the wizard.

A new folder inherits the permissions of its parent folder. For more information, see How Are Object Properties Inherited? .

Creating an Object

In the Portal Catalog, in the context menu of the folder that will contain the new object, use the New option as follows:

Menu Option

More Information

Start of the navigation path Role Next navigation step Workcenter Role End of the navigation path

Creating Workcenter Roles

Start of the navigation path Role Next navigation step Freestyle Role End of the navigation path

Creating Freestyle Roles and Worksets

Start of the navigation path Role Next navigation step Role from Back End End of the navigation path

Uploading Roles from Back-End Systems

Start of the navigation path Role Next navigation step Role from Package End of the navigation path

Uploading Roles from Packages

Folder

Creating a Folder section above

Start of the navigation path iView Next navigation step iView from Template End of the navigation path

Launching the iView Wizard and General Information

Note

In the baseline configuration of SAP NetWeaver Portal, you create iViews within the workcenter role.

Start of the navigation path iView Next navigation step iView from Remote Source End of the navigation path

Creating iViews from Remote Sources

Page

Creating Portal Pages

Note

In the baseline configuration of SAP NetWeaver Portal, you create pages within the workcenter role.

Workset

Creating Freestyle Roles and Worksets

Layout

Editing Page Content and Layout

Transport Package

Creating a Transport Package

Business Object

Creating a New Business Object

Creating a Template

You can create standardized templates from existing portal objects. Templates are used to create other portal objects using the same iView, page, and system wizards. They serve as the base for creating units of content assigned to portal pages, roles, and worksets.

  1. In the Properties editor, edit the object that is to serve as the basis of the template.

  2. Locate the Is a Template property and select the checkbox. This converts the non-template object to a template.